The LG env 2 is a slim and attractive handset, with a roomy keypad, bright dual displays, a good multimedia feature set, a full QWERTY keyboard, plus great call quality. The enV2 is comfortable to hold in your hand. It's easy to wrap your fingers all the way around it. The back is coated with a soft-touch paint job, while the top half of the phone is rimmed with a smooth, chrome accent. There are no weird ledges or sharp edges on which to catch the meat of your palm. Opening the enV2 is easily done with either hand.

The top part of the phone can be pushed open to about 120 degrees for normal use, and a full 180 degrees to help framing pictures. I found when using it all the way open, it was very easy to accidentally cover the lens with the fingers on your right hand. Holding it in your hand open is fairly comfortable. The textured paint job is extended into the trim around the keyboard, and this helps you maintain your grip on it.

Rounding out the env 2's exterior controls are the dedicated camera key and volume rocker on the left spine, and the right spine is home to a microSD card slot and a headset jack. On the back is a 2-megapixel camera lens, but there is no flash. Unlike the original enV, the camera lens on the env 2 is flush to the surface, allowing the phone to lie completely flat on its back. Much like the other LG messaging phones, you can flip open the env 2 to reveal a full QWERTY keyboard as well as an internal display.

The env 2 has quite a solid hinge construction, and we can open it up to 180 degrees. You can only use the left spine controls if you open it up all the way.The QWERTY keyboard and navigation array are very similar to that of the LG Voyager. The navigation array sits to the right of the QWERTY keyboard and consists of the Send and End/Power keys, the square navigation toggle (which doubles as four user-defined shortcuts), a Clear key, and a speakerphone key. As with the Voyager, there are two soft keys underneath the display. Along the left of the keyboard are the Function, Shift, Symbol, and Space keys.

There's also another Space key on the right. The right Space key acts as both a voice-command shortcut as well as a voice-memo-recording shortcut.The five gray keys on the keyboard (2, Q, W, E, and S keys) double as game player controls. The overall keyboard is a tad narrower than on both the Voyager and the enV. This makes typing on the keyboard feel a bit more cramped. We also would prefer it if the Space key was placed in the middle of the keyboard instead of to the left and right. That said, this is still one of the better QWERTY keyboards for handsets out there because of the raised keys that yield easily to pressure.