LG VX-8500-Chocolate Review - Construction & Conclusion

Construction & Conclusion

The Chocolate phone is very durable in my opinion. The phone easily slides open when pushed from the bottom and the slider is excellently implemented. The phone’s design was very well thought of and very high quality. Just by feeling the phone in your hand you can tell that the phone is high quality because it feels very smooth with rounded edges.    
 
One cool feature I liked about this phone was that when you plug it into your computer the phone goes into mass storage drive like a USB key. You can just drag over which ever files you want. Another cool thing is that you can put files that the phone does not support and upload it to another computer, so the phone works as a USB key also!! The downside to this feature is that when the phone is in mass storage drive and some one calls, the call automatically gets dropped.

The Battery life of the chocolate phone is half decent. There are a lot of factors that come into play but overall the battery life could have been a lot better. The total talk time on one charge is around 5 to 6 hours, but battery life totally depends on how much you use the phone and what features you use.

The Chocolate phone is for people who demand a good looking phone and do not really care about all the extra features. For some this phone would be ideal while for others it would not. Although the phone has all the basic features, it does lack a good user interface. For people who like the design but demand more features and especially more memory I would recommend the Samsung e900. The Samsung e900 has a 2 mega pixel camera, expandable memory via micro SD, Stereo over Bluetooth and a lot better user interface.

In conclusion the LG Chocolate phone is a beautiful looking phone and has all the basic features you want in a phone. Some people do not care about all the extra stuff because they will never use the extra functions. Many people just want a simple phone that is stylish to make and receive calls, and in that case this is the phone to get. The LG Chocolate now comes in pearl white too, which in my opinion looks a lot better than the original black, but also cost more too. Many people also do not have the option of getting the e900 because they are with a CDMA service provider like Verizon. If you are an existing Verizon customer you can get the Chocolate phone for only 49.99 when renewing your contract for 2 years or if you are a new customer the phone is only 149.99 with 2 year contract. This is a great bargain because the phone retails for around 350 – 400 dollars.     

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