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Product Review – LG VX 10000 (Verizon Voyager)

I generally leave my personal laptop at work so that I can get off the Bank Network to check my personal email during the day.  This has worked out swell for the last few gigs I’ve been at, until very recently.  The Quant group I work with was having a “Complience Review”.  Anyone who works at a bank or insurance company knows that this is when company auditors come to your dept. and pick apart anything that they can find wrong.

Apparently my Laptop was not in compliance with company policy because it had the capability to email and send IM’s while I’m in posession of valuable trading information due to my job. I pointed out that the auditors blackberry had the very same capability, but it turns out that they don’t have a policy for that so it’s ok. *sigh* ..
At any rate, being the company man that I am, a agreed to leave my laptop at home. Instead I picked up the LG VX 10000 (Verizon Voyager)

I can now send IM’s, Email, and browse the web from an even smaller device. In many ways I thank the company auditors for introducing me to this device. It’s got a full QWERTY keyboard AND a touch screen (like the i-phone). Sending IM’s and checking email is simple with the full keyboard. When you gotta take care of some insider trading, the Verizon Voyager is the way to go. It’s stelther then a laptop ya know. If I get lost on my way to my broker, it even has a GPS to help get me there. The modem (yup you can hook it up to your laptop and it will give you broadband access for a little more each month) is not supposed to be as fast as the dedicated broadband cards. It’s supposed to deliver about 600kbps (from what I hear), so I’ve decided to keep my broadband card for Internet access from my laptop when I need it.

Overall I’m pleased with my purchase. The product seems to work well and has the option of using the touch screen (which is great for some things) and the keyboard (which I think is better for texting and sending email and IM’s). Web browsing is good and the screen is big enough to use for the most part.

More then anything I’m happy to be in compliance.

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