Comments on: If they mated: iPhone + enV = LG Voyager ??? http://rlr.blogsome.com/2007/10/04/vzw-lg-voyager/ We're ALL Rich Rosen, but some of us are more Rich Rosen than others... Thu, 17 Dec 2009 09:16:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: Rich Rosen http://rlr.blogsome.com/2007/10/04/vzw-lg-voyager/#comment-37 Thu, 04 Oct 2007 23:42:38 +0100 http://rlr.blogsome.com/2007/10/04/vzw-lg-voyager/#comment-37 If <a href="http://sorry.engadgetmobile.com/2007/10/03/hands-on-with-verizons-new-fall-lineup/" rel="nofollow">this</a> article from Engadget is any indication, there is reason to worry regarding Verizon's claims about the Voyager's browser. They say that "the HTML browser leaves a little to be desired&mdash;after taking ages to load a fractured form of Engadget, we couldn't hardly scroll down it to save our life." In addition, it's pretty odd that a large gallery filled with images of the Voyager shows not one picture of the browser actually rendering a web page. Makes me wonder if this isn't the same barely passable WAP browser already present in Verizon phones. Hey, Verizon, what makes you think a browser worthy of WebTV circa 1998 is going to fly if you imagine you're going up against the iPhone? If this article from Engadget is any indication, there is reason to worry regarding Verizon's claims about the Voyager's browser. They say that "the HTML browser leaves a little to be desired—after taking ages to load a fractured form of Engadget, we couldn't hardly scroll down it to save our life." In addition, it's pretty odd that a large gallery filled with images of the Voyager shows not one picture of the browser actually rendering a web page.

Makes me wonder if this isn't the same barely passable WAP browser already present in Verizon phones. Hey, Verizon, what makes you think a browser worthy of WebTV circa 1998 is going to fly if you imagine you're going up against the iPhone?

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