LG Chocolate VX8500 Cell Phone Review - Conclusions
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Alfredo Padilla Published on March 16, 2007 Comment on this |
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Who’s It For
Business user – The LG Chocolate is not a good choice for a business user as it does not provide the advanced messaging and enterprise features that many business people look for. We are particularly concerned about the lack of a built in email client, a must for business users.
Budget callers – The LG Chocolate is not a good choice for budget callers. You can get a phone that can do almost as much for significantly less than $99, and if all you’re looking for is a phone to make calls, you can find one for free.
Chatty teenager – The Chocolate would be a good choice for a teenager looking for a good-looking phone that provides a solid range of features. The ability to play music is a nice bonus as well.
Media maven – A Media maven focused on music should definitely consider the LG Chocolate at the lower end of media phones. It will not be able to do the advanced media and imaging functions that you will find on a higher end phone, but combined with a Music Essentials Package from Verizon and a MicroSD card and you have yourself a solid music player.
Conclusion
The LG Chocolate from Verizon is a mid range handset with impressive looks and a solid array of features. Audio quality on the Chocolate was TK. The Chocolate is not going to replace your camera, either still or camcorder, any time soon. Probably our biggest beef with the Chocolate were the touch controls. We found that they were not sensitive enough, although you can improve this by increasing sensitivity in the settings. More problematic is the lack of tactile feedback. The other buttons on the phone are only slightly better, they are small and awkward to use. We were also disappointed by the lack of a built in email client.
On the multimedia side the Chocolate provides good functionality as a music player, but the video options fall short. We were disappointed by the fact that you will need to spend an extra $29.99 for a Music Essentials Package to get the most out of the phone. Battery performance on the Chocolate was poor for both talk time and web browsing, and only middle of the road for music playback. We did like the Chocolate’s size and the aesthetics are certainly attractive. Compared to other phones at a similar price point the Chocolate provides better functionality than the Motorola Razr and Krazr.
Overall the Chocolate is an average handset whose limits and annoyances hold it back significantly.| Previous Next | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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