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Video: LG Eve Review #1
We’ve been playing around with the LG Eve for a couple weeks now. It’s their first entrance into the Android OS and it’s a great first crack. As I stated earlier the design of the Eve is incredibly simple and clean… with this said this might make the user easily tired of the design as there’s nothing really “standout” about it’s look. You have to think 3-years down the road and see yourself with this and if it’ll last. The good news is that Rogers has this on a promo now for $0.99 on a 3-year.
Overall the dimensions are 109 x 54.5 x 15.9mm and weighs in at a decent 139 grams. It fits great in your hand and Rogers ships this with a 2GB microSD card (can hold up to 16GB). The screen size is 3-inches and has a standard resolution of 320×480. Apart from having Android OS 1.5 there is only one thing that is new and it’s all LG. They have put their new S-class user interface on this and set it apart from other Android devices that are in the market. I personally like the UI as it’s incredibly intuitive and broken down into several categories.
The Eve has a 5 megapixel camera with flash, 4x zoom and video capabilities. The video editor is probably the best part about the Eve as it’s a fun way to play around. Check out the video I captured and you’ll see what I mean. I found the video quality decent, but at times pixelated. Even the day I shot the vid was really windy and the sound quality was OK. The outdoor and indoor pics were solid and the flash worked well in dark areas. When you slide open the device you reveal the 5-row full QWERTY keyboard. These keys are nicely spaced out and have a directional keys with a button that gives you quick access to your main menu.
Check out the video for more info… on our next review we’ll tackle the social media features such as Facebook, Twitter, MySpace. In addition, go over the all the messaging (email, text, and IM)
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Nice review, but sadly there really isn’t any point in getting this device if they aren’t going to update past v1.5, which from the sounds of it they probably aren’t going to.
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FINALLY THANK YOU
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I tried 2 LG Eves from Rogers, and returned both. ALthough the screen is gorgeous and it is feature-packed, I couldn’t deal with the vibration feedback on the dial pad which cannot be disabled, even though the same feature can be disabled for all the rest of the phone’s functionality. My fingers actually felt like they were burning after I dialed a phone #. I also found their T9 implementation very annoying and time-consuming, much less intuitive than a BB. Finally, the word on the street is that Rogers and/or LG will NOT be offering an update to 1.6 or 2.0/2.1 of the Android OS on this unit, which makes it obsolete as soon as you take it out of the box.
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…(cont’d)…I also forgot to mention that the sync with email/contacts/tasks/notes is kludgy. You have to purchase a 3rd party program like Companion link and sync with GMail. there’s no native sync, except with an Exchange server, but what business user would be using a multimedia device like this for everyday business? Finally, you can only sync one Gmail account, which I find ridiculous since Android is a Google OS!
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@theninjasquad I agree. I tried to talk to LG Tech Support (a joke!, I think the guys they put on mobile tech support are the same ones who repair their dishwashers, they have no clue about the phone features) but they had to take out a manual and read to me from the manual. ALso Rogers tech support told me that it was impossible to sync hotmail accounts with this phone (apparently a Microsoft issue, according to them), but the phone mail setup (kludgy as well) states that “ANY POP3 email account can be used”. The wizard did not work for Hotmail or Sympatico but it did work for Yahoo.ca (currently unless you have a paid Yahoo.com account, you cannot access those accounts via a 3rd-party mail client, only through a browser, but Yahoo.ca works fine).
I also found myself accidentally hitting the soft home and back keys next to the middle button on the bottom of the phone’s face, and it would either open another app or bring me to the home page, neither of which I wanted.
This may be a good first attempt for LG but it doesn’t cut the mustard for my purposes.
I’m interested in further reviews on MobileSyrup though… would like to know your thoughts on call and speakerphone quality (this is a PHONE< after all, not an iPod!), as well the upcoming mail/text, etc. reviews.
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Rogers have dropped the ball with the Android phones. Not updating them to the newest OS is the kiss of the death….really sad when you think that my T-Mobile G1 (Dream) got the 1.6 update OTA and there are rumors that 2.0 will also be offered OTA! Rogers really screwed up this “Revolution”
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Do not buy this, or any, Android phone from Rogers. They have admitted they will never upgrade the OS. (Wasn’t that one of the features of Android, to allow easy upgrading?). Rogers is subsidizing the price of its Android phones to try to trick you into signing a 3-year contract. Problem is, within 6 months you’ll be cursing the fact that you are stuck with an old version of the OS, and unable to run more and more apps that require the latest version of the OS.
This phone runs Android 1.5. Android 1.6, 2.0 and even 2.01 are already out, with 2.1 coming in early January. But if you buy this phone, you’ll be forever stuck with 1.5. (Even the hacker community has not been able to upgrade this phone).
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@Stewart Midwinter. Totally agree with you. What irks me to no end is not getting honest answers from them (or LG!) about the O/S upgrades.
There’s a good place to post this too, do you know about http://www.ihaterogers.ca? I use it all the time.
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I ve noticed that you have never made a second review for alot of the new phones…Is one coming for this phone?
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i cant get my phone to work as a modem for my laptop uggh that really frustrates me.
the phone sometimes freezes and gives me a black screen of death and the only way to repair is to take out the battery and put it in again. the phone is a mistake.
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Free program(for 30 days then 25$) from android market. PDA net. This turned my eve into a great modem I use it daily
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are youtube videos and just normal videos full screen?
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