LG Envoy II - Features, Review, Verdict and Price: A Phone That Ain't Smart
In this article, I try to mention the features, give a review, my personal verdict about LG Envoy II, which happens to be one of the most unknown phones on planet. Though the title seems to speak of my thumbs down for the model, I am writing about it more because of it being a clamshell model. I think that, for me is a change. That's it.
The market is flooding with everything that has a big touchscreen these days. I wonder at times, what exactly will be the scenario few years from now. I wouldn't say I was totally taken aback when I saw a guy holding a phone that was probably some 7 inches on the screen. Obviously it was a phablet, but I wonder what people are going to turn phones into years from now. Maybe a phone that will actually fit it our pockets as a 3 incher phone and may unfold for a lightweight 20 incher screen thing. Who knows?
But I must say, among all these gigantic smartphones nearly boring the ordinary user, I find the clamshell model type a sort of an attraction these days. In this article, I am going to talk about one such clamshell model. It's from LG and is called the LG Envoy II. Though it's also known as the LG UN160, this phone looks beautiful to me.Features of LG Envoy II – A Set of Features That Differentiates It from Mundane Digests
The phone, according to phonearena hit the market just the last month and supposedly, hasn't been able to gather much attention from the crowd. Obviously, with all those colorful 5 incher screens kept there, shacked to blow up your mind, this phone can be a right candidate for the most unpopular mobile phones, especially in the year of 2013. Features of the phone shall follow.Design: LG Envoy II
The LG Envoy II is a very basic kind of phone. The make is clamshell or what is popularly also known as 'flip' kind. All that I've seen, I only saw the black color model of this phone and no variables when it comes to color. The phone on an average weights you 127 grams and is designed to compactly fit in your pocket with its significant dimension of 3.9 x 2 x 0.7 inches or going into millimeters, 99 x 51 x 18. I guess the make is no bad, one of those phones which actually look like a phone, still! After all, with everything going into minds of the Samsung engineers, those bighead smartphones only look like a board with a lot of light and colors.Display: LG Envoy II
What will you do with a phone that doesn't come with a good display? Talking of the contemporary era, rightly, nothing! Since this phone is a clamshell model, it has two screens. The outer screen is a monochrome stuff and is designed to show you the date and the time, whether you have alarms active, the current battery status, the signal reception and the service provider of which you avail the services for yourselves. The outer screen, being a MSTN monochrome, comes with sufficient resolution of 96 x 64 pixels and is sized at almost an inch (0.98 inches precise). At the same time, the inner face of the phone is no wonder either. The 2.2 incher screen has a screen resolution of 176 x 220 pixels as stated by the official LG Envoy II website. It can display 256K colors and is a TFT screen basically, with a dpi of 128.Battery: LG Envoy II
The phone is designed to deliver you not much in terms of multimedia features but the fuelling has been done perfectly. I am talking about the battery performance of the phone. The LG Envoy II boasts an average talktime of 11 hours and a standby time of average 18 days, as stated by Phonearena. And not to jump off your chairs, LG does the magic through a basic 950 mAh battery. Personally, I would have loved if we had a 1200 mAh at least.
Hardware and Camera: LG Envoy II
I don't know what to speak of the hardware. I couldn't obtain details on the chipset and the processor. As much as I'd have loved to share with you details of the RAM and the ROM, all I can tell you as of now about this newly launched phone is that it comes with a 0.129 GB storage. I wonder what for have LG blessed the make with a 1.3 MP camera. The phone has no expandable memory options, so that I could at least shove in a memory chip and do the multimedia things. I hope you've been clever enough to calculate on your own part after this that this phone is really poor at multimedia. It doesn't play MP3, doesn't support playback of videos either as far as my knowledge speaks. No FM or recording, this phone is just a mistake, it seems when it comes to multimedia/hardware/storage. Question is why give me a 140 MB memory? What for? What will I do with it? I hope LG need to exercise some market surveys before releasing their makes out into the real market, but it's their choice. Who knows, which kind of potential buyers they were trying to target.Connectivity: LG Envoy II
The phone doesn't really have too many connectivity features, either. Anyway, it wouldn't seem to be making sense to stuff connectivity features into the phone because of that 0.129 GB memory. But for some unknown reason, LG want you to use the Bluetooth 2.1 version. The phone is CDMA, and features GPS, a feature lost in the middle of nowhere.Review of LG Envoy II
The phone has too many cons to talk about. Well, you see there is to begin with, the absence of microSD slot to increase my storage. I think this is a crime on LG's part or an effort to kill the fate. Then the phone is actually too thick to be carried. It even lacks a simple e-mail client. LG have been too harsh on people who may be considering paying for this phone, as they have not included MP3 playback, and hence there is no 3.5 mm jack present in the phone. To add to everything that I've already mentioned, the phone even lacks a light sensor which usually puts itself into use to automatically adjust the brightness of the screen of the phone, allowing the user to save on his battery.
In short there are no good qualities, basically. But the only reason which I can think of due to which I liked the phone is the model kind. It can attract a buyer's eye in a market of huge touchscreen phablets, as it is a clamshell type. Though I would not ever decide to actually pay for this phone, I think it is an able candidate to be listed for one of the most unpopular phones from LG ever.
Price of LG Envoy II
The phone is priced at $70, as I'd seen on one of the websites online. Converting it taking under consideration the current conversion rates of dollars into rupees, I guess it'll amount to a something like Rs. 4000, which is something more than the double of what I'd ever pay for this phone.
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