LG enV Touch VX11000 Review
Share this page:
The User Interface has been updated, and incorporates some of the features found on the Dare. You begin by having to unlock the external display, which can be done by sliding up the screen, or by pressing the lock button on the left side of the phone. The Home Screen shows your desired wallpaper and 5 icons across the bottom for Inbox, Dial Pad, Main Menu, Contacts List, and Favorites. Located on the right edge of the screen is a small arrow, which can be placed anywhere from the top to the bottom. Pressing it will open your Shortcuts menu, where you can add 15 items as well as second page for 15 media items (pictures, videos, music, web favorites). You can then drag any of those icons to the top of the screen and it will automatically place it on your desktop. We like being able to do this, as it allows for 1-click access from the Home Screen, but the Versa goes one step further with three separate Home Screens for Shortcuts, Media, and Favorites. We’re not sure why this feature wasn’t added to the LG enV Touch VX11000, but it would be nice to have.
 |  |  |  |
Home screen | Shortcuts | My Media |
 |  |
Modern Retro | Blue Inspiration |
The two themes of the LG enV Touch VX11000 | |
One area that the LG enV Touch VX11000 disappoints is in regards to the themes, as only two are included: Modern Retro and Blue Inspiration. The Modern Retro is selected as default and shows 6 icons that look like postage stamps (media center, messaging, contacts, recent calls, VZ Navigator, my music, browser, and settings & tools). When you select one (such as media center) you are taken into that menu and can slide from side-to-side to go to the next menu. When using the Blue Inspiration theme, it shows three sections for communications, multimedia, and settings & tools, which are divided equally on the screen. Each one of these categories has 6 icons, but only 3 are shown at a time, which means you have to horizontally scroll the icons across the screen to see the hidden items. We didn’t care for this theme, as it is more time consuming to find what you’re looking for. We don’t understand why a device with a two beautifully 3” WVGA displays would be subject to such flaccid themes. Even the enV3 comes with a selection of four themes that show some animation when used. Maybe a future firmware update will bring better themes to the enV Touch, but we doubt it. Other limited user customizations include menu fonts, dial font size, and clock format.
Phonebook:
Just like it’s predecessor, the LG enV Touch VX11000 allows up to 1500 contacts to be stored with their name, 5 phone numbers and 2 email addresses, but you can now input a street address a well. Naturally, you can still select a picture and ringtone for each contact, but the size of the CallerID image when that contact calls is rather small (about 1.25” diagonal). There’s no reason why this could not be larger. After a contact is saved, you can assign them to one of 999 speed-dial locations and also add them to your Favorites menu, which allows you to call or message a person just by clicking on their picture. Finding a person in your contacts list is relatively easy, as you can either scroll through the list or input the beginning letters of their name at the bottom of the screen.
 |  |  |  |
Contacts | Adding a new contact | Favorites | Speed-dial |
Tapping on the Phone icon on the bottom of the Home Screen will bring up the standard numeric dial pad. Due to its larger size and better response, we didn’t encounter the dialing problems that we experienced with the Voyager. Also, when you being to dial a number, it searches the contact list for matching results and will show the matching name at the top of the screen. You can then click on it to dial the number.
 |  |
Dialing screen | |
Organizer:
The Calendar still offers the same features as before, but has undergone a facelift and is more user friendly. It begins by showing the current month with the date highlighted. You can select a specific day on the calendar by pressing on it, as well as moving from month-to-month by sliding your finger across the screen. There is also a month and year drop-down list to go to any date faster. Once the desired date is selected, you can add an event with the subject name, start and end time, repeat frequency, until date, alert time, ringtone and vibrate. When the phone reaches that saved event, it will display the information on the screen and playback the designated alert tone.
 |  |  |  |
The calendar of the LG enV Touch VX11000 | |||
Separate from the calendar are the Alarms, where up to 10 can be added. It is very basic and only allows you to set the alert time, repeat frequency, and ringtone. This is an easy way to setup a daily wake-up alarm, or notification if it takes place within 24 hours.
 |  |  |
Alarms | Voice commands |
The LG enV Touch VX11000 comes with 250MB of internal memory, but 90MB of that is used out of the box. While this isn’t as much other “music” phones, such as the 1GB on the Chocolate 3, you can still add microSDHC cards up to 16GB in size for expanded storage of music, pictures, and videos.
Share this page:
Related phones
44 Comments
1. BigRed83 posted on 20 Oct 2010, 01:55 0 0
I can where my summer is going to be spent, doing phone book transfers for the thousands that will be getting this phone. I played with our launch kit model, and am VERY impressed. I saw no obvious points of failure. It feels solid and well-built. Hats off to LG for this one. I personally am interested in what they come up with when VZW gets their smartphone!
20. behold--me posted on 22 Jun 2009, 15:56 0 0
I AGREE looks way better than the voyager, where as the enV Touch ISNT UGLY
26. Garrison64 posted on 30 Jun 2009, 17:49 0 0
So far I love mine. Terrific functionality and very nice features. I have no complaints.
2. lennydude posted on 06 Jun 2009, 15:00 0 0
Just one simple question.............. Can anyone hear this phone when it rings? Same damn issue with the Voyager :(:(
25. Garrison64 posted on 30 Jun 2009, 17:47 0 0
Yes the ringer is plenty loud. I have no problems hearing mine.
3. lovexlucy posted on 06 Jun 2009, 20:35 0 0
wow i just got this phone and i love it :) the touch screen is pretty good and the features are awesome! whats funny is that it actually comes with some pretty good default ringtones overall i really like it
12. deschats posted on 09 Jun 2009, 21:46 0 0
how much did you pay? was it with an upgrade or did you pay retail?
4. Phoneboy posted on 07 Jun 2009, 12:50 0 0
Hey, I know the Env3 has threaded text messaging but I was wondering if the env touch, the versa, or the dare have threaded texting?? -Thanks
5. mikeaud44 posted on 07 Jun 2009, 14:28 0 0
I have the Dare, and it definately does NOT have threaded text messaging.
9. metalpoet posted on 09 Jun 2009, 14:21 0 0
i have a dare and dont care about threaded messasging
14. deschats posted on 09 Jun 2009, 21:52 0 0
i have the dare. its time for a new one, they need to quit milking money out of this one. i loved it when i got it but i can now think of a million things they could update. heres the list: threaded text messaging, slide out keyboard, bigger screen, bigger touch keyboard if they want complete touch, thinner, sleeker design (it looks like the voyagers touch design), better memory, better internet, MORE DISPLAY OPTIONS/MENU SETTINGS!!!!!!!!!! i hate the stupid black and white things. oh and a diffferentttttttt color scheme. black/metallic/plastic black and gray look stupid.
6. df8579 posted on 07 Jun 2009, 18:31 0 0
Got this phone on Friday and everything about it is awesome!!! Definately reccomend it to anybody looking for something not quite a smartphone, but still has everything and more.
15. E.N. posted on 11 Jun 2009, 20:04 0 0
Although I hate Voyagers (I had one before I switched to the iPhone 3G) I still give this phone a lot of props. They were a little unoriginal with the some things like the cover flow (what a rip!!) but I'm really surprised that they did a lot of cool new things from the last phone. The fact that they have a document viewer is very impressive. Not many (if any) phones that I am familiar with have something like that where you can see a list of all documents visited from websites. (Right now I am guessing that documents in the document viewer are files from the internet and not put on the device through the USB mode.) But I am most impressed with the limited flash support. I know it's limited but it still beats the fact that most phones are still trying to get flash support. I would never buy it but still... they did a pretty good job with this device.
22. Garrison64 posted on 30 Jun 2009, 17:24 0 0
Actually if you have a MicroSD card installed you can move data to it from your PC which would include doc files.
27. treewhopper posted on 06 Jul 2009, 06:24 0 0
Actually, the USB connection is great! In USB mode, (NOT the music sync mode) you can transfer documents to the phone quite easily by dropping them in the 'my documents' folder. This phone really has me surprised.
31. hammertime posted on 14 Aug 2009, 04:30 0 0
If it had Wi-Fi, I would definitely get it, but I don't want an html browser without a way to use it for free. Verizon is pushing up their cheapest data rates too. Enjoy it while you can Verizon. When everyone has Wi-Fi, you'll have to settle for gouging us for text messages ;-)
7. YelloPhase posted on 07 Jun 2009, 20:17 0 0
dang i gotta wait another week before i can get mine. i called and they said they wont have them in until next week =/ cant wait though!!!!!!!!!!
8. gomets15217 posted on 08 Jun 2009, 16:21 0 0
um, no video review? those were the best things on this site =/
