LG KG800 – tempting as a ‘chocolate’

LG Electronics has come up with a chic, sleek and stylish handset, popular by the name of LG Chocolate phone. It’s the novel design of the KG800 that sets it apart from anything we've seen before. Having already won two European design awards, the LG Chocolate phone is aimed at users who value style as highly as they value technology.

The fashion/design-conscious will probably go mad for this mobile, especially given its great sound while playing MP3s. If it had a decent-sized memory card and better battery life when playing MP3s, it could have been unbeatable as a multimedia phone.

KG800 comes in a sexy color combination of black and red. It has an innovative touch-sensitive navigation keypad, which is inactive when the phone is closed and locked, but glows vibrantly red when you slide the screen up.

It boasts of a large, clear, easy to read color screen, 1.3 mega pixel camera with LED "flash" and other settings, a video and voice recorder and charges in about 2.5 hrs.

With Bluetooth onboard and LG bundling a USB cable in the box, it's easy to download your photos and video clips.

The KG800 is limited by its 128MB of internal memory. With no expansion slot for external memory cards the MP3 usefulness is limited. Keys might take you some time in getting used to. The battery of this stylish handset is another drawback as it dies quite fast and no warnings are given before that.

A KG800 owner when asked said, “I've had mine for a while now and can confirm that the screen is excellent, colors are vibrant and crisp. The sliding action doesn't feel like it will brake. It is Very sturdy. Touch pad is very responsive. Once you get used to it you navigate through the menu's really quickly.

But his friend doesn’t seem that impressed as he says, “I agree with you but a disadvantage of this phone is that the volume of tone on sms in too low and you won’t hear anything.”

Well, I would say it’s a case of ‘style over substance.’