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Review: LG Vortex

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Is It Your Type? Body The Three S's Touch

Dec 8, 2010, 3:05 PM by Philip Berne

The LG Vortex brings the compact LG Optimus family to Verizon Wireless. Is this compact smartphone the black sheep of the flock?

Is It Your Type?

The LG Vortex is Verizon Wireless' version of the LG Optimus, a phone I've reviewed on Sprint and T-Mobile as well. The Vortex, like all the Optimus phones, offers a modern Android 2.2 system in a compact, touchscreen body. It packs all the same features of the other Optimus phones, though it launches at more than twice the price of T-Mobile's version. Is Verizon's LG Vortex worth paying for?

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