Mobiledia has a nice review of the LG VX8000, a pedestrian-looking but otherwise very swanky clamshell that works on Verizon’s high-speed EV-DO network. They seem to be pretty impressed with the capabilities that a high-speed cellular network affords, like streaming television and really fast internet (durrr). The VX8000 even has enough oomph to play 3D games, which look sort of awful compared to a PSP, let’s say, but decent enough compared to the last generation of mobile gaming gear. On the flip side, it doesn’t have Bluetooth or memory cards (two things that would challenge Verizon’s ability to sell you content over and over and over again).
https://gizmodo.com/verizon-ev-do-handsets-samsung-a890-and-lg-vx8000-revi-31071
That’s because you’ll be sitting inside Verizon’s walled garden to get any of the high-speed content, paying a monthly subscription fee to play games or watch television. I hope you’re starting to figure out why that’s a bad thing, but if you need a little reminder, Doctorow wrote a great column in this month’s Popular Science about just this very problem. By this time next year, I hope we’re all using unrestricted smartphones on open cellular networks.
LG VX8000 Review – First Look [Mobiledia]
