The LG Envoy

The LG Envoy has a simple 1,000-entry phone book, with room in each entry for seven numbers, two e-mail addresses, a URL, and a memo. You can also add a photo for caller ID and any of 28 sounds to be used as either a custom ringtone or message tone. If you prefer, you can set your own MP3s as a ringtone. You can organize your contacts into caller groups as well.

It has a very simple clamshell design, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. At 3.75 inches long by 1.94 inches wide by 0.7 inch thick, the Envoy is decidedly compact and pocket-friendly. It has straight sides, rounded corners, and subtle curves along the edges that result in a comfortable feel in the hand. The Envoy is clad in a glossy piano black plastic that makes it feel rather cheap.
Sitting on the front of the phone is a camera lens at the top plus a 0.98-inch external display underneath it. The display is a grayscale CSTN with 96x64-pixel resolution and is not meant for much more than showing basic information. It displays the date, time, battery life, signal strength, and incoming caller ID. A 2.5mm headset jack, volume rocker, and Micro-USB port sit on the left spine, while a camera button sits on the right.
The phone flips open easily yet firmly thanks to the Envoy's sturdy hinge. When you do so, you'll reveal the phone's 2.2-inch 260,000-color TFT display with a 220x176-pixel resolution. While the screen didn't exactly dazzle us, we found it perfectly serviceable for a basic phone like this. The screen is bright and colorful, and text is legible enough. Graphics were a bit more pixelated than we would like, but that's a minor complaint. You can adjust the wallpaper, the banner text, the backlight timer, the menu style, language, the appearance of the clock and calendar, the font type, and the style and size of the dial fonts. You can also have the phone match the number to the name in your phonebook as you're dialing.
Beneath the display is the navigation array, which consists of two soft keys, a square toggle and middle OK key, a dedicated speakerphone key, a Clear/voice command key, the Send key, and the End/Power key. The toggle doubles as shortcuts to a favorites list, a My Menu list of up to 12 customizable shortcuts, the EasyEdge shop, and the calendar.
Right underneath the navigation array is the number keypad. The keypad is quite spacious, and each row of keys is separated with a curved delineation. The keys on each row may seem flat to the surface, but there's actually a slight bump underneath each key to help you dial by feel.