Ok here it is one month and 1 day since I got my LG Dare. It was my birthday present. I have been so far impressed with it as a whole. But there are a few things they could do better on.

I love the way it looks, a nice elegant phone..

The desktop is customizable in the essence, You can Drag and drop Icons on to the desktop, set it to use a hide away dock or Just have all icons hidden till you press on the desktop.. (I use hidden). You also have a decent range of icons to choose from for the dock or desktop. At the bottom it has 5 dedicated icons for messaging,calling,settings,contacts,favorites. Tho I would prefer to remove them since I have the ones I use the most already set in my icon menu, but thier there for the duration..

It has 3.2 mgp camera, the camera works quite well and takes a fantastic pic.. the video it takes stomps the web camera in my laptop to death. The auto focus and flash add quite a well rounded list of goodies to make taking pics with this phone fun and handy, I actually use'd it more this last month than my 4.0 mgp camera. The Dare took better pictures than the dedicated camera.. [e digicons]8(|[/e] The camera on the LG Dare is made by Schneider Kreuznach. The company won an Oscar  for technical achievement in motion picture lenses.

I have played a bit with the Internal Image editing stuff, crop,etc. but have not really delved in to it enough in to from an opinion.

Music is clean and clear. I cant tell any real diff from my Ipod touch for quality. I use the same Bluetooth head set for both.. and it plays MP3 as well as AAC.

Videos are Clear and not difficult to see, considering the screen is a tad smaller than my Ipod touch * like .80 inches smaller or somthing*. Watching movies or clipz you just recorded on the built in Video recorder is a snap. Wide screen is supported.

Messaging is nice and works well. But is some what hampered by the small keys on the virtual keyboard. I frequently have to edit messages as I fumble thru typing. ** every one on IRC knows my Typing rocks**    I find myself using my Stylus/Pen more and more to type messages.  *I would use a stylus with my Ipod touch as well, But it dont support Stylus input*

Speaker is loud but clear..it works well for listening to music and movies, but I do have to turn it down for phone calls as it can get a bit distorted. * I think the calls are actually louder at the same volume setting as the Music/movies* Tho one i have turned it down the calls are clear.. the ear speaker ( while holding to your head to talk) does not distort even on the highest setting. **Unless I upset the Mrs** To which I would not need the phone to hear her anyways.

It supports 8 gig MicroSD cards, LG would have faired better to have it support 16 gigs atleast to keep up with the Ipod/Phone.

It does come with USB cable and AC USB Charging dock. Transfering music, movies, etc is a breeze with the USB charging cable.

While it does not replace my Ipod Touch. ( I'm hooked on the Games * Sim City* woohoo!! ) the LG Dare does do awesome as a camera/phone and all around media player. If your looking for a great phone with plenty of Multimedia gooodies, The dare is a good bet.

Tho the dare is supposed to have games etc available for purchase from Verizon, I have not delved in to them enough to give a qualified review on them...