While the LG enV3 looks nearly identical to the LG enV2, the enV3 has a number of upgrades over its predecessor. This, when combined with the improved keyboard layout, makes the enV3 great for messaging. Measuring 4.11 inches long by 2.13 inches wide by 0.65 inch thick, it also has a small external display and flat number keypad and it weighs 3.77 ounces. Open or closed, the enV3 feels comfy in the hand. You won’t get a full-grid menu interface in its small screen, but the enV3 does have a scrolling menu. For the more advanced applications such as the e-mail, Web browser, and instant messaging you’ll have to open up the phone for them to work. Underneath the array is a flat number keypad. On the left side of the enV3 are the volume rocker and dedicated camera key, while on the right are the microSD card slot and 2.5mm headset jack. The charger jack is on the bottom, and the 3.0-megapixel camera lens is on the back, as is the LED flash. Like other enV phones, the enV3 flips open to reveal a full QWERTY keyboard. The screen is bright and vibrant, and the images look sharp and colorful.

The LG enV3 also features a roomy 1,000-entry phone book as well as other essentials such as text and multimedia messaging, mobile instant messenger, vibrate mode, speakerphone, voice commands and dialing, a calendar, an alarm clock, notepad, a voice memo recorder, and Bluetooth. More advanced users will like the USB mass storage and GPS with VZ Navigator support. The LG enV3 has Dashboard with Mobile Web, which is basically a Web portal that leads to various Web channels and information sources such as news, weather, entertainment as well as access to the Verizon store. The Dashboard interface is powered by Adobe Flash Cast, which results in a graphically rich interface with full-color photos but the greatest feature of the Dashboard is that it has a shortcut to a full HTML Web browser that is really easy to use. You have plenty of personalization options with the enV3.

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Musician are expected to benefit a lot from this new app available for the iPhone. iLike, the leading social music discovery service, today announced a suite of new features for musicians, including integration with Twitter, YouTube, and MySpace, as well as a turnkey system for any artist to quickly create and distribute their own custom iPhone app.

These integrations expand on iLike’s existing syndication model and enable more than 300,000 artists who use the iLike Artist Dashboard to save time and reach more fans via these new channels.

The new content syndication destinations announced today, described in detail at www.iLike.com/manage, include:

• Twitter: Artists can now link their iLike and Twitter accounts, bringing their “tweets” to more fans via the iLike music feed, the artist’s iLike profile, and the artist’s page on Facebook. Likewise, when an artist posts a new song, video, or concert listing, iLike will notify fans via Twitter.
• YouTube: Artists can now sync their YouTube channel and iLike account. Every video an artist posts to iLike will be automatically posted to their YouTube channel, and vice versa.
• MySpace Concert Listings: iLike now lets artists enhance the concert listings on their MySpace pages, via a widget that adds prominent buy-links and allows fans to “RSVP” to a concert and see who else is going. Artists can also configure their iLike Artist Dashboard so that any blog, bulletin, or video they post at iLike is also posted on their MySpace page.
• Facebook Pages “Music” Tab: Artists can now add the Music tab to their Page on Facebook. The Music tab, by iLike, features the artist’s songs, concerts, videos, bulletins, blogs, and tweets.
• Artist dot-com Websites: The iLike Artist Dashboard now allows artists to manage the content on their own official dot-com websites via embeddable javaScript widgets.
• Ticketmaster: Songs, photos, and videos posted to the iLike Dashboard will also appear on the artist’s page on Ticketmaster.
• Artist iPhone Apps: iLike today announced a turnkey system to enable any artist to rapidly create and distribute their own iPhone app featuring the artist’s concert dates, photos, blogs, bulletins, and videos. A self-service system allows artists to customize the look and feel of their app and submit it to the iTunes App Store.

In addition, iLike continues to syndicate artist content to more than 45 million music fans across the iLike network, including iLike’s leading music applications on iGoogle, Facebook, hi5, Bebo, Orkut, and iLike plugins for iTunes and Windows Media Player.

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