The LG Envoy - black (U.S. Cellular) is the best of any other.

LG Envoy - black (U.S. Cellular)

The LG Envoy has a slim and simple design with a roomy keypad. Features include a speakerphone, voice commands, and Bluetooth. It's very affordable, and call quality is fantastic.

Meet the LG Envoy. It has a 2.2-inch QVGA (176 x 220) internal display, a VGA camera, Bluetooth, Cellular’s easyedge service, 24MB internal memory, speakerphone, WAP Web Browser, 1,000 mAh Battery and microSD card support. The LG Envoy measures 3.76" x 1.94" x 0.70" and weights 3.39 oz. LG Cell Phone Previews.

The LG Envoy can be yours for $9.99 with a new contract or $29.99 on a pre-paid plan from the U.S. Cellular. If the above sounds interesting enough to you that you’d like to purchase a LG Envoy, head on over to U.S. Cellular web site right now and do just that.

Not everyone needs a smartphone or even a high-end handset. LG and U.S. Cellular hope so at least, as they have partnered up to introduce the LG Envoy, an entry-level clamshell that’s pretty bare bones when it comes to features. You won’t find a music player on here, and 3G seekers will be out of luck. Yet, the Envoy does satisfy the basic requirements for a decent consumer handheld–it’s slim, compact, and it makes calls. LG also threw Bluetooth and a VGA camera in there to sweeten the deal. As you might expect, one of the Envoy’s biggest attractions is its price, and it doesn’t disappoint at only $9.99 after the usual discounts and agreements. 

Design
The LG Envoy has a very simple clamshell design, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. At 3.75 inches long by 1.94 inches wide by 0.7 inch thick, the Envoy is decidedly compact and pocket-friendly. It has straight sides, rounded corners, and subtle curves along the edges that result in a comfortable feel in the hand. The Envoy is clad in a glossy piano black plastic that makes it feel rather cheap. 

Sitting on the front of the phone is a camera lens at the top plus a 0.98-inch external display underneath it. The display is a grayscale CSTN with 96×64-pixel resolution and is not meant for much more than showing basic information. It displays the date, time, battery life, signal strength, and incoming caller ID. A 2.5mm headset jack, volume rocker, and Micro-USB port sit on the left spine, while a camera button sits on the right.

The phone flips open easily yet firmly thanks to the Envoy’s sturdy hinge. When you do so, you’ll reveal the phone’s 2.2-inch 260,000-color TFT display with a 220×176-pixel resolution. While the screen didn’t exactly dazzle us, we found it perfectly serviceable for a basic phone like this. The screen is bright and colorful, and text is legible enough. Graphics were a bit more pixelated than we would like, but that’s a minor complaint. You can adjust the wallpaper, the banner text, the backlight timer, the menu style, language, the appearance of the clock and calendar, the font type, and the style and size of the dial fonts. You can also have the phone match the number to the name in your phonebook as you’re dialing. 

Features
The LG Envoy has a simple 1,000-entry phone book, with room in each entry for seven numbers, two e-mail addresses, a URL, and a memo. You can also add a photo for caller ID and any of 28 sounds to be used as either a custom ringtone or message tone. If you prefer, you can set your own MP3s as a ringtone. You can organize your contacts into caller groups as well.

The Motorola XPRT (Sprint) is the best of any other.

Motorola XPRT (Sprint)

The Motorola XPRT has both a touch screen and a keyboard in an attractive and usable form factor. Features include enterprise-level security, mobile hot-spot capability, 3G speeds, and a dual-mode CDMA/GSM chipset for world roaming.

Months after it was announced for Verizon Wireless, Sprint has finally gotten its own version of the Motorola Droid Pro. Dubbed the Motorola XPRT, this candy bar handset houses the same enterprise-class security as the Droid Pro, and it also boasts international roaming. Other features include a 3.1-inch HVGA screen, a 1GHz processor, plus it ships with Android 2.2 with Adobe Flash 10 browser support.

Sprint unveiled another Android candy bar smartphone as well: the Motorola Titanium. The Titanium is a successor to the Motorola i1 from last year, except the Titanium now has a full physical QWERTY keyboard. It's an iDEN device that ships with Nextel Direct Connect, and it promises to be just as rugged with resistance against dust, shock, vibration, solar radiation, and more. As intriguing as that might seem, however, the Titanium only ships with Android 2.1. The Motorola XPRT is available for $129.99 starting June 5; the Titanium's pricing and availability are yet to be announced.

 

the new Motorola XPRT on the Sprint network may look familiar and that’s because Verizon gained this Android device back in December 2010 with the handle the Motorola Droid Pro, and has only just come to Sprint, so we have a video review of the Sprint Motorola XPRT for your viewing consideration below.

The Motorola XPRT for Sprint video review comes our way courtesy of the guys over at Daily Mobile and by way of the Mobile Techreview YouTube page, and delivers just over eleven minutes of reacquainting us with the Android 2.2 Froyo handset.

The Motorola XPRT is a candy-bar handset with a portrait QWERTY keyboard, 3.1-inch capacitive touch screen, 5 megapixel auto-focus camera with flash, Adobe Flash Player 10.1, 1GHz processor, MotoBlur, and SIM card holder for GSM roaming overseas.

So I’ll leave it right there so you can head on down to hit that play button and check out the review of the Motorola XPRT for Sprint, and see if you feel the Android smartphone is worth snapping up from Sprint or not in your opinion…enjoy.

Sprint has announced a pair of Android smartphones that mean business only as the Motorola XPRT and Motorola Titanium are packed with more productivity and security tools rather than social networking apps.

Starting with the Motorola XPRT (pictured above), this Android 2.2-based handheld would be ideal for anyone requiring enterprise-class security and 256-bit AES data encryption. So that would include professionals in healthcare, retail, field sales and similar industries. An additional helpful security feature is that IT departments can remotely lock the device, recover the password and even wipe the data clear if the device or the included 2GB microSD card (or expandable up to 32GB) is lost and/or stolen.

The XPRT also an option for businesspeople who travel internationally often as this handheld supports both CDMA (EVDO Rev. A) and GSM/UMTS (HSPA). Additional nitty gritty details include the 3.1-inch HVGA touch screen, 1GHz processor, 5-megapixel camera/camcorder with dual LED flash, Adobe Flash 10 support, Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR, Wi-Fi, and corporate/personal email. The XPRT also doubles as a 3G mobile hotspot that can provide connectivity for up to five Wi-Fi enabled devices.

Moving on to the Motorola Titanium (pictured right), this is a rugged smartphone in case you couldn’t tell by the name. The Titanium shares quite a few of the same specs as the XPRT, including corporate/personal email support, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, an included 2GB microSD card, a 5-megapixel camera/camcorder, and a full QWERTY keyboard.

However, the Titanium runs on Android 2.1 (although Sprint boasts that this device is the company’s first Nextel Direct Connect smartphone with Eclair). To make up for this, the Titanium is ready for nearly any situation with Military Specification 810G for dust, shock, vibration, low pressure, solar radiation, high temperature and low temperature.

The Motorola XPRT will be available first when it is launched on Sunday, June 5 for $129.99 with the signing of a two-year service agreement. However, Sprint won’t be announcing pricing and availability details for Motorola Titanium until “a later date.”