{"id":5947,"date":"2007-10-03T10:48:23","date_gmt":"2007-10-03T10:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/verizon-voyager-iphone-killer.html"},"modified":"2007-10-03T10:48:23","modified_gmt":"2007-10-03T10:48:23","slug":"verizon-voyager-iphone-killer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/verizon-voyager-iphone-killer.html","title":{"rendered":"Verizon Voyager: iPhone Killer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"3\" align=\"left\" vspace=\"3\" src=\"http:\/\/msnbcmedia.msn.com\/j\/msnbc\/Components\/Photos\/071003\/071003_LGphone2_vsmall_5a.vsmall.jpg\" \/>With all the hoopla surrounding the iPhone it is not surprising that Verizon Wireless is touting a suite of new phones and one &ndash; the LG Electronics Voyager is being touted as an iPhone killer. The device runs on the faster Verizon Wireless data network (Probably EVDO Rev. A) and has a keyboard. These are the two Achilles heels of the current iPhone. The device is similar to Apple&rsquo;s phone in that it has a touch screen and web browser built-in.<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">So will this device be an iPhone killer? No, probably not. But still, this phone could be a look at a solid competitor to the iPhone and if it is successful it may convince Apple to come out with a device that has a keyboard as well.<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">Read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/21111426\/\">more<\/a> on MSNBC.<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">What&rsquo;s your opinion? Be sure to comment below.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: #333333\"><strong>Update<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: #333333\">: I just saw the PC Magazine <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcmag.com\/article2\/0,2704,2219294,00.asp\">review <\/a>of the phone and was both happy and sad that Verizon has a better and worse device than the iPhone. As with all technology, it is all about the tradeoffs you are willing to endure.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><em><font size=\"2\">The author owns shares in Apple and surprisingly has no iPhone. In addition he uses Verizon Wireless <\/font><font size=\"2\">for laptop broadband connectivity and phone service via the <\/font><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/voip\/verizon-xv6700.html\"><font color=\"#800080\" size=\"2\"><em>XV6700<\/em><\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\"><em> phone.<o:p><\/o:p><\/em><\/font><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With all the hoopla surrounding the iPhone it is not surprising that Verizon Wireless is touting a suite of new phones and one &ndash; the LG Electronics Voyager is being touted as an iPhone killer. The device runs on the faster Verizon Wireless data network (Probably EVDO Rev. A) and has a keyboard. These are<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[158,171,179,202,172,160,199,218,188,118,191,175],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5947"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}