Verizon launches latest 'must have' cell phone
By Keith Shaw, NetworkWorld.com, 07/14/05
Verizon Wireless today announced availability of the LG VX8100 phone, a handset designed for the service provider's CDMA EV-DO (Evolution-Data Optimized) wireless network. The VX8100 is optimized for the company's VCast video-on-demand service, and also includes Bluetooth wireless technology (v1.1). The VX8100 will be available on Friday, July 15, for $149.99 after a $50 mail-in rebate and two-year customer agreement, Verizon Wireless says.
The VX8100 also includes miniSD memory card support (cards sold separately), which gives users the ability to store and transfer photos and video clips to and from the phone to compatible PCs.
The flip-phone includes 64M-bytes of Flash memory (32M-bytes of SRAM), has a 262,000-color internal display and 65,000-color external display. Other features include a 1.3 megapixel CMOS digital camera with flash features and up to 8x digital zoom ability, video camera (up to 15 seconds at 15 frames per second), Mobile Web 2.0 browser, voice recognition, voice memo recorder, external USB capabilities and a full-duplex speaker phone.
More details on the phone are available at the Verizon Wireless Web site.
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