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Verizon has announced the Verizon LG Voyager to be released in the Fall of 2007, a product that will directly compete with the Apple iPhone. Verizon’s Wireless Chief Marketing Officer claims, “It will kill the iPhone.”

The Voyager has a touch screen exterior (like the iPhone but smaller), but users will be able to unclamp the phone to reveal a second screen that comes with a full QWERTY keyboard. Other features include:

* HTML browser
* Full V CAST-capabilities
* V CAST Mobile TV
* V CAST Music
* Ability to play .mp3, .wma and unprotected .aac files
* V CAST Video
* High-Speed Wireless Broadband Access
* Removable microSD memory (8GB).

Verizon says the Voyager should be in stores for the holidays.

You can see photos of the Voyager or watch a video demo of the phone. No word yet on the price, but reviewers say they expect it to be in the $300 and up range. One reviewer gushed, “The Voyager is so awesome, your hand will tremble in fear.” (Maybe he works with the Verizon Marketing Officer.)

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