Conclusion
4.7
Hardcore texters may lament Dare’s lack of a physical keypad and relatively small onscreen QWERTY, while those looking for the optimal mobile Web experience could also do slightly better elsewhere. And Dare isn’t a true smartphone, so don’t expect support for your custom POP3 Email account or robust PC syncing. But Dare does have plenty of features to appeal to the masses, and a killer camera and great media player to boot. And if size matters to you, you may prefer Dare’s compact body to longer, larger options like Instinct and iPhone. I personally really love Dare’s size and shape, even if a larger screen would make Email and Web browsing a little easier.
Will Dare lure AT&T customers away from iPhone and Sprint devotees from their Instincts? Probably not. But it certainly should help Verizon retain customers who’ve been yearning for an all-touch, media-friendly handset of their own. Verizon’s had a solid network for quite some time. Now they’re starting to fill their shelves with some eye-catching new handsets to take advantage of all that EV-DO goodness. Dare gives VZW their most direct iPhone competitor to date, and a great cameraphone to boot. But it also gives them something else: A handset that’s cool to look at and fun to use. In the fickle eyes of the consumer, sometimes cool and fun are worth more than all the features in the world.
I loved this phone when i got it. But three days later, a whole line of pixels on the screen went out. Verizon gave me another new dare.
I had that phone for five months when the speaker stopped working. Verizon overnighted me another new Dare.
I have had the one i have for a week now and am very fustrated. The new software installed on the new device has glitches in the text messaging interface. I took the phone back down to verizon and they told me i had to wait for a software update. Now how is this fare? I have had to deal with this phone constantly and now i have a device that has defective software and i have to deal with it until a new version comes out. How fair is that?
DO NOT BUY THIS PHONE!
its always nice to have a phone that fits into your hand and is not a little bit bigger its perfect size