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Mcmillan
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Joined: 16 Jan 2007
Posts: 19
Location: Australia
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 Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 9:37 am Post subject: LG Chocolate VX-8500 |
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I have been using this phone for a little over a month now and in this review, I will try to address the questions I myself had when considering purchasing the chocolate.
Screen - the screen is amazing. The screen's resolution is 320 x 240 (same resolution as the iPod) and the pixel density is fairly high....
Touch buttons - I don't find the touch buttons hard to use but occasionally you will mess up but it is not a big deal. The only way to know if you will like the touch buttons is to go to the verizon store and try it out for yourself.
Keypad - Being a slider phone, the chocolate keypad has small buttons but are still relatively easy to use. They have a nice solid feel when they are pressed. I don't text message a lot, but if you are someone who does, I do not recommend this phone. Its pretty easy for your fingers to slip when typing fast. This phone is not meant for speed text messaging. Go with a simpler phone with larger buttons.
Battery life - Battery life on the vx8500 is bad compared to other cell phones. It drops from 4 bars of battery down to 3 after just one day. Looking at it now, I it only has 2 bars of battery left and I charged it just 3 days ago. I don't use the music/video features, but I can imagine they are battery hogs as well.
Camera - I don't use the camera a lot, but it is decent. 1.3 megapixels. The phone is extremely slow when browsing through pictures. It takes about 3 seconds for each picture to load. It does have a dedicated camera button on the side which is helpful.
Verizon has made it impossible to use bluetooth OBEX between your phone and your computer. They purposely crippled the phone's OBEX support so that you are forced to purchase overpriced ringtones from their own service. (note: this is for ALL verizon phones with bluetooth, not just the chocolate) greedy [...] Another reason they have OBEX crippled is so they can make [...] each time you need to send a picture from your phone to your computer. Why build a camera into the phone if you need to pay just to get the pictures off? Maybe I sound cheap, but why should I have to pay for a basic feature that should already be included? (If you are confused because you don't know what OBEX is, it stands for object exchange and is a way to move files around using bluetooth)
If you don't want to use verizon, but want the chocolate, there is a GSM version (kg800) of this phone but I think verizon's version is better.
Last note: If you can afford it, definitely buy this phone at the retail price without a contract.
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