Anyone else notice that the Palm, since December 25th, no longer has any handhelds like the Palm TX?? What gives? Even their 800 customer service number had no idea that the new website design sent all the handhelds to a graveyard - without so much as a decent goodbye to our favorites!

Most call center workers I have dealt with are trained to read from a script. They will repeatedly give you the same incorrect answer no matter what you tell them. They all treat customers as if the customers are stupid morons. Most of the time they are non-responsive and then when the customer asks to speak to a manager, they "ignore' these requets and start talking down to the customer. And heaven help you if you speak loud because you are hard of hearing, that means you are "yelling" and are therefore abusive, even if you are trying to be assertive and actually speaking in your normal voice. The automatic voice prompts are horrible, they are completely designed to NOT send you to the right department (a two year old is more likely to transfer the call correctly).

Very cool giveaway!

An LG rep at my local Verizon store told me that synching with outlook will be an option. (not sure if immediately). He said there was a synching plan (per month fee) too. Since I don't plan on using outlook, I was not paying that much attention, I'm sorry.

Since this is a dumbphone, I am not entirely sure I understand this but it is worth finding out if your local store has a LG reps coming who can verify this.

VerizonWireless had an LG rep at my local store today for a few hours. I tried out the Voyager and am still uncertain about it. Still cannot order VPak online in the preorder and like the telephone reps, the local reps seem to be selling different solutions to the "how to pay per kilobyte" problem that is caused by the mandatory Nationwide plan.

The fonts can be changed for icons but changing the fonts for the brower is rather difficult as you need to repeat the process several times to enlarge to 200%. (no drop down option to skip a few levels). (So who ever did not like times roman should be pleased.) The fonts on the various websites were clear but so tiny (about 4 point font or less) that it is very tiring to read them. Anther odd thing is that the web browser defaults to a search page but getting to the point were you can type in a web address takes several steps.

Loading the webpages seemed rather slow. The rep felt that this was due to the battery level. (It had been fully charged when he had arrived but after bluetooth use and other demands was down to about 1/3 charge or less.) He had two really nice bluetooth options - one for handsfree speaker for the car and a very simple earpiece that hung on a lanard. Both can be used with Navagator and a new accessory for mounting the Voyager on a dashboard the proper way is coming out.

The rep felt that the voyager was best for IM, texting messaging, etc. He said that there are more apps planned for Get it now (but again, it is get it now so still would I presume be limited.)

I had some difficulty typing on th touchscreen. (the vibrating haptic touch did not really help but that can be changed.) A stylus would have been been much appreciated.

"Kudos, Creative! We love oranges too!"

Congrats to Creative! Keep up the good work.

I give up...This is pointless...nobody gets it. Foxfire is only a browser..not a Windows management tool. thank you for your suggestion but it was already made.

Oh, and for those who suggested that I buy a new monitor, tried to do that today. Couldn't find a single monitor box in any store that actually told me all of the resolution possible (apparently only maximum (tiny) resolution matters.) So I hereby GIVE UP.

I spoke to VerizonWireless about this yesterday. The rep I spoke to yesterday said that if you have an older plan that predates the "NationWide" plans they have now you will need to switch plans.

They have "Basic", "Select" and Premium" Nationwide plans. With the Basic, you "Pay per Text, Picture, Video & Instant messages and Pay per megabyte when using Mobile Web 2.0. Or, get monthly packages at a reduced rate." (which means unless you add a rather limited messaging plan for least $10, you pay per message.) Select has unlimited text messaging and starts at about $59 per month for individual plans.

The rep spoke to the data team and recommends geting the $15 VPak if you plan to do any web browsing on a regular basis. (Otherwise you will apparently end up with a very large phone bill. I'm still working on getting more info on what exactly the Vpak will provide).

She also said that the Voyager is a hybrid. It is not a smartphone but because it has a HTML browswer it does not use the Verizon "Mobile Web" product either.

Hope this helps.

So, then what D!@#$ size monitor do you suggest I buy so I can actually read the screen??!! My 17 inch CRT and 15 LCD sure are useless at 1920 x 1200! With or without glasses I get tiny icons, tiny fonts, and lots of wasted space!

If they have to program for four other sizes, why can't they program for 800 x 600? Why should I buy a screen reader when they should comply with the Americans With Disabilities Act like they are REQUIRED!!

Grimnir -- I happen to find the comment by PiTT which was "because that makes too much sense! duh!" (referring to the prior comment about fonts and icons to be very rude. I responded. Why are you all ganging up on me?

As your suggestion about the Fixfox is a possible idea if I were on the internet for all applications and never used any other application on my computer. I don't believe Fixfox would solve the font size for other apps. Windows XP Pro doesn't.

Neither of my browers have options for fonts. However, as a practical matter, even if they did it would not help as none of my other business software runs in a browser window. I would have to switch resoltion sizes every time I ran a brower. Many of the software programs I have to use for my industry are one size fits all and don't have useful things like change the font size within the program. Windows XP doesn't do a great job so the best all round solution for all applications is to use 800 x 600. This was the standard pixel resolution for many years and it is clear enough for me.

I am sorry if my use of 800 x 600 offends anyone as being not geeky enough.