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LG Chocolate Touch Full Review

LG Chocolate Touch Full Review

Today,we bring a full review of LG Chocolate Touch for you, hope you like it and it will be helpful for you!If you're looking for a fancy touch phone that puts the music experience first, then perhaps the new LG Chocolate Touch is for you. I doesn't quite have the heavy app-lifting power of a smartphone, but it offers a decent touch-based user experience, a shiny design, and solid music features.

Making a touch phone that stands out from the crowded field is becoming harder every day. These monoblock devices are always rectangular, with few buttons and a front surface that is dominated by a large display. Most of them are black, chrome, or some combination thereof. The Chocolate Touch falls into the chrome camp.

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LG Chocolate Touch

The front of the Chocolate Touch has only three buttons: Send, Back/Mute, Power/End. All three buttons are oddly shaped, but stand out nicely from the surface of the Chocolate Touch. They have solid travel and feedback, with a nice clicking action to them.

There are a few controls on the left side of the Chocolate Touch. At the very top is the hatch covering the microUSB port. Just below it is the volume toggle. The volume toggle switch is a little bit difficult to find by feel, but it has excellent travel and feedback. There is also a voice / application key wedged onto the left side of the Chocolate Touch, very close to the bottom of the phone. It is similarly hard to find, but also has good travel and feedback.

On the right, a lock key is closest to the top. This button was easier to find and had good travel and feedback. Below it is a dedicated music application key. Pressing it launches the media player. It, also, was easy to find and had good travel and feedback. Last is the camera key. This button was easily found, but it was rather mushy.

The 3.5mm headset jack is on the top of the phone. LG has included an extra battery cover if you don't like the one that comes pre-installed. Unfortunately, LG stuffed the microSD slot under the battery cover. This makes it somewhat cumbersome to get to and is a no-no in my book (considering that this is a media-focused device). It's not actually under the battery itself, but still... The battery cover comes off easily enough, though and snaps firmly back into place.

Next,I will itroduce every part of LG Chocolate Touch:

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LG Chocolate Touch

LG Chocolate Touch  Screen

The screen is OK, but doesn't compare favorably to some of the newer handsets being announced lately. It measures 3 inches and packs in just 240 x 400 pixels. Many other touch displays are measuring 320 x 480 or greater, so this is a lower-end display -- and its obvious when you look at it. LG went with a resistive touch panel on the Chocolate Touch. It isn't as bright or sharp as I'd like it to be. You can definitely see pixels and rough edges here and there, but it gets the job done. There are certainly worse displays out there. Readability was just fine inside, though outdoors posed a bit of a problem for the LG. Sunlight washed out the display from time to time, depending on what sort of background you have on the screen.

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LG Chocolate Touch


LG Chocolate Touch  Signal

Signal performance was solid with the Chocolate Touch. It always managed to find and remain connected to Verizon's network with no problems. The signal level indicators never seemed to stray below three bars of coverage. Practically speaking, I didn't miss any calls to the Chocolate Touch. I never received any mystery voicemails. SMS messages arrived promptly, and I never dropped any calls. In other words, the Chocolate Touch gets the phone part of being a phone right.


LG Chocolate Touch  Sound

The ringtones are adequately loud with the Chocolate Touch. One thing to note. Because the speaker is positioned on the back side of the phone, it could become muted if you place it on a soft surface, such as a pillow or couch. Hard surfaces, such as a desk, are fine, but the Chocolate Touch becomes much more difficult to hear if you put it down on a cloth-covered surface. It includes a vibrate alert that I found enough to get me to notice an incoming call. The earpiece speaker was very loud. In fact, if you're in a quiet room, you don't need to use the speakerphone at all, you can hear calls just fine through the earpiece. You can hear calls when in noisy environments, too. Coffee shops and malls were no problem. Quality of phone calls was good. I noticed a few weird echoes, but most of the time calls were clear and free of noise.

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LG Chocolate Touch

LG Chocolate Touch  Battery

The Chocolate Touch's battery performed well. I was able to get it to last about 2.5 days consistently, even with moderate amounts of music playback. Even heavy web and messaging use didn't detract from battery life too much. Two days was the least I got, so you shouldn't have to charge it every night.

LG and Verizon have taken the framework first used in the LG Dare and tweaked it a bit for the Chocolate Touch. The main screen will show your wallpaper with a few ways to get where you need to go. Using either the physical lock key - or the software one on the keypad - will wake the phone up. About two-thirds of the way up the screen on the right side is a little triangle with an arrow. Tap that, a list of shortcuts appears. There are 10 user-configurable applications packed into this shortcut screen. Along with the shortcut screen, LG has added a second tab for media. Users can drag and drop any content to this space for quicker access. They are all just a touch away.

Back on the home screen, there are five software buttons running along the bottom. They are messaging, phone, main menu, contacts and favorites. The main menu icon takes you to the phone's main page for accessing all of the Chocolate Touchs features, applications and settings. If you open any of the menu items from here, gone is the sideways tabbed menu system that is so familiar on Verizon phones. You have to go back to the main menu to access the other items. There is a "back" button at the top left of the screen, and a "home" button at the bottom when in most applications. These buttons do exactly what you expect them to. You can always escape out to the home screen in short order. (The end key performs pretty much the same action.)

The icons all look great, and it is very simple to figure out how to navigate the Chocolate Touch's features.

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LG Chocolate Touch

LG Chocolate Touch  Calls

The send key at the bottom of the phone brings up a list of all your calls. At the very bottom of the screen are buttons that bring up the dial pad, contacts list, or options menu.

You can go straight to the dial pad if you press the phone icon from the Chocolate Touch's home screen. When in the dial pad, you have quick access to the recent calls log and your contacts. There is a big software button that lets dial a call via voice. I had good luck with voice dialing, and the Chocolate Touch confirms the number with you before it dials.

When in a call, there are six options listed on the in-call screen to open up the dial pad, your contacts list, the Bluetooth menu and several others. It is nice to have such easy access to these other features during a call.

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LG Chocolate Touch

LG Chocolate Touch  Camera

Like the Dare, the Chocolate Touch has a really solid camera on it. A quick press of the camera button launches the Chocolate Touch's camera in about 1.5 seconds. It feels fast. The default screen shows you what capture mode you're in, what your focus setting is, what your ISO (light sensitivity) setting is, and where your photos are being stored (either internal or external memory).

Touch the screen anywhere, and the full camera menus appear. On the left side are all the controls necessary to adjust brightness, white balance and shooting mode. Below it is a cog wheel that takes you into the extensive menu for fine-tuning everything about the camera. On the right side of the screen is a shortcut to the gallery application, the shutter release and a switch for video mode.

One of the fun things about the camera is that you can shoot in panorama mode. When taking shots, it shows you the far right edge of the last picture you took, so you can line everything up. The auto-stitching process takes perhaps 3 seconds. In the end, you wind up with a picture that has a view of about 180 degrees.

LG Chocolate Touch  Bluetooth

The Chocolate Touch pairs easily with both mono and stereo Bluetooth headsets. I found call quality in mono headset to be OK, and music playback in stereo headsets to be good. I had the Chocolate Touch randomly disconnect with stereo headsets from time to time, though. The Chocolate Touch will also connect with PCs and can pass certain file types back and forth.

LG Chocolate Touch  Clock

The Chocolate Touch has a very useful clock. When the Chocolate Touch is in sleep mode (with the screen off), a quick push of any of the keys will bring up the unlocking screen. On the screen, the time is shown nice and large at the top. There's no difficulty in telling the time at all.

LG Chocolate Touch  GPS

The Chocolate Touch comes with Verizon's VZNavigator software on board. This is the only option for getting maps and directions. The service, which costs $10 per month, is very good. It is easy to use and creates decent maps and routes between destinations.

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LG Chocolate Touch

LG Chocolate Touch  Search

Users can always go to Google.com to perform searches, but the Chocolate Touch also comes with Microsoft's Bing search client. The free software lets users search for whatever they want. With the location feature turned on, it will always return local results first, which makes searching for McDonald's that much more useful. I found it to be pretty good at finding what I wanted, though the user interface is a little clumsy. For example, the "search" button is downright teeny and hard to hit.

At last, the whole design and usability of the Chocolate Touch are very good, and I believe that if you want to get a beautiful design and used just for daily life for callings,vedios,cameras and so on,LG Chocolate Touch will you good choice.

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