Mr eel
LG Chocolate - A Mobile Phone Review
I bought one of these phones on impulse recently. Here is my very short review.
Lovely bit of industrial design. It’s extremely attractive, the touch sensitive buttons below the screen work better than you’d expect and the slide action is really cool. It slips open with a firm movement and the touch controls light up. Ooooooh.
The keypad is also surprisingly good. Surprising because most mobile keypads seem to be an exercise in sadism.
The operating system is TOTAL SHIT. Four years ago it would have been still crap, but passable. Nope, I hate it. I hate it like most phone OSs. Horrible aliased type, a menu system that makes you poke through a deep deep hierarchy and just loads of strange choices.
Screen? Mmmmmm, screen. Also shit. You can barely see it in sunlight. Ooops.
Bluetooth? It’s there, but useless. No profiles for iSync on my Mac. Not LG’s fault, but annoying. Looking at the specs, it doesn’t let you do nice stuff like send SMSs or even initiate a call from a computer. Pfffft. To really put the nail in the coffin, it won’t let you turn off the Bluetooth when you’ve got a device paired to it. You have to unpair, then turn it off. BLAAHHHHH. JUST TURN OFF YOU DAMN MOTHERBITCH.
So in a nutshell, a brilliant bit of industrial design marred by a crappy screen and an Operating System scraped off someone’s boot. Do not buy this phone.
I’m pining! What am I pining for? Guess! I had one in my hands last last weekend.
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