Many carriers offer a wide variety of phones, and this makes choosing one an even more difficult task than choosing a provider to begin with. Each person has their own needs regarding a cell phone. Some want functionality, some want for factor, some want a flip-phone, and some just want a phone that makes calls. This guide will help you pick a phone that is perfect for you and give you some insight to what I believe is the best phone that Verizon Wireless has currently.

       Now we all know how frustrating it can be to have to deal with representatives, especially because they will tell you anything to sell something. Regardless, if you know what you are talking about, they are sure to provide helpful information about specific phones.
       Now let's go over the main phones for Verizon Wireless. There is the LG vx8100, the Motorola Razr, the Motorola e815, and the LG The V. All of these phones are comparable when it comes to features, but there is one phone that really sticks out in my mind. The Motorola e815. Now, I have owned most of these phones, and at least have tinkered with all of them for enough time to develop an educated opinion about all of them. Carrying on, I will review these phones.
       Starting with the LG vx8100, it is my opinion that this phone is currently a very competitive model. I owned one for about a week before returning it because of lack of functionality. The phone looks sleek, with its improved look from the LG vx8000, much improved look might I add. It still retains the outter LCD with the three-button style, which do absolutely nothing. Now unless you are an avid VCAST watcher, which I'm sure about 5% of Verizon Wireless customers are, then these buttons are useless. They "say" that they are for MP3 functionality, but that is not true. I called up Motorola representative and they stated that they can be used to play MP3s, but Verizon Wireless does not yet support that feature. Thanks Verizon. Other than that, thhis phone has a nice color LCD and inner display, which is nice, as well as an SD memory slot, which is good for storing MP3s. The camera keeps up with other phones, so overall I would say that this phone is decent, but still not the best.
       Next is the Motorola Razr. Us Verizon Wireless subscribers waited for over a year to finally get this thing, and when we do, it doesnt een have the Motorola User Interface. Verizon has yet again crippled another phone, by implanting their own "red" interface to the phone. This in my opinion is the achilles heel of the phone. It really disables what you can do with the phone. It makes it hard to scroll through options and properties and the only way to get to the camera is through the camera button. A lot of confusion. I tested this phone out for a while to see if I would purchase it, but the interface was so ugly and frustrating that I just couldn't deal with it. Another thing, is that IT IS YEAR OLD TECHNOLOGY! In todays technological world that moves so fast anything older than a year is probably outdated, which as we can see by future Razr models, the Razr is. Cingular is soon to carry another model of the Razr, an updated one sometime late this year. It will come with a better camera, better color, navy, and even a TransFlash memory slot. I feel that the sacrifice for buying a phone that has a nice slim form factor, is that you sacrifice being able to control it and use it to its fullest. If you want the Razr, go to Cingular.
       For the same reason that I dislike the Razr, I dislike the Lg The V. Now this phone is the first phone for Verizon that keeps in mind the text message user. With its QWERTY keypad, it let you type text messages as if you were typing them on a computer. Now this is fine an dandy, but the phone is a brick. Not only is is heavy for a cellular phone, but it is also is very thick and awkward. If you are looking for a phone to carry with you in a small purse or pocket, this phone is not for you. Another problematic part of this phone is the display. The internal display is nice, but the outer is not. It resembles a candy bar style phone display, but it is very small. Im order to make the most out of this phone, one would have to open up the phone to read any type. It does have stereo speakers which are nice, but again, Verizon's stupid interface partly disables its functionality.
       So finally we come to the best of the best, the Motorola E815. Now for a while, Verizon carried its older brother, the V710. Both phones are very similar, same design and size, but the E815 has clear improvements, and we can tell that fromt he fact that Verizon has completely removed the V710 from its lineup. Let me go over some key features to the E815. First off, it has the Motorola User Interface, which is one of the best that there is. Easy to navigate and clear and concise ways to make calls and access your phone book and other features. Second it has a TransFlash slot at the top. This is nice because if you have ever seen a TransFlash card, they are super tiny. They are about the size of two pieces of rice, but half the thickness. Now the thing that I like about the TransFlash card, is that they come in very large storage capacities. THe largest currently are 512 mb, and soon perhaps later in the year they will be 1 gb, thats about the size of the IPOD SHUFFLE. Leave your IPOD at home, since the Motorola e815 is MP3 capable, you can make playlists and listne to MP3s through headphones. Its very neat, and you can even set your ringtones to be MP3s. Another great feature of the e815 is the large inner screen and large outter screen. It takes picture perfect pictures and even better videos. Concerning call quality, I have never lost a call, nor have I gotten static. The speaker phone is great and the fact that it has BlueTooth is even better. You can connect it to your laptop, your car, and soon enough a lot of other devices. Overall this phone has great feautures, a good form factor and is the best that Verizon Wireless currently offers.