LG Chocolate 3 (1 GB) Cell Phone
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- Screen Size (Diagonal): 2.2 inch
- Installed Memory: 1 GB
- Connectivity: Bluetooth
- Performance: Dual Band
- Design: Mobile
- Style: Clamshell
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LG Chocolate 3-Very Sweet
Pros
Just the right size, no antenna, SD card capability, music storing and playing, loud speakers.
Cons
I'm still looking.
Recommended it?
Yes
The Bottom Line:
This is a good phone. Cheap enough, good camera, great speakers, SD card. Get it, you won't regret it.
I'm hell on cell phones. Plain and simple. I drop them, I kick them, I lose them, I sit on them, so when my last phone, some sort of Motorola flip phone, finally got so old as to not want to take my abuse anymore, I went shopping for a new one. I wanted a phone that I could download Michael Buble music on, and could have cared less about a camera, texting capabilities, etc., since a phone is a phone and I use it to call with. So we stopped in to the Verizon store when my contract was up, just to see what they had...
The story
There were four options the boy showed me at the store. (Yes, he was probably half my age, if that, and I'm in my 30's. Early 30's) The one option was a plain-Jane, no-extras free phone. It had a camera, didn't play music, didn't have a front screen, and had stupid ringtones. Since I don't have internet service, texting services or anything else, I can't download new ringtones, so this one was out.
Another option was a phone that was supposedly mainly for texting, flipped open and slid and all kinds of stuff, and still had a camera, but no music downloading capability, so I passed on it as well.
The third phone was in the neighborhood of $200, was sleek and stylish, fit in the palm of my hand, and had options I've never heard of, as well as one-touch internet connection, some outrageously good camera capabilities, and this tiny touch screen. Yeah, pass.
The last option was this little LG Chocolate 3...
The Phone
The little boy at the Verizon store went off for five minutes on each of the other phones, but when he came to the Chocolate, an old man walked into the store, started demanding his phone back, and so the boy went to deal with him. So I got to explore the phone on my own.
It has one-touch music downloading, playing, and the V-cast music downloading program. It is a flip phone with no antenna, which is nice because the antenna stabs me on other phones when I sit on the things. So that was also a big selling point. It has a quite impressive internal memory, which I discovered much later. It stores pictures, music, even video, so that is nice.
What sold me on this phone, other than the other stuff I already mentioned, was the capability this phone had of storing pictures, music, and other documents on a micro SD card, so I can remove them from my phone to my computer. Since I don't do email from my phone (not worth the cost, in my opinion) there was no other way for me to get photos off my old phone! I lost pictures of my son at the park, my kids at the lake, my husband and me in the mountains. All gone, but that's neither here nor there. My new LG Chocolate 3 has these capabilities, so between that and all the other fun options (including a super-loud ringer) I took this sucker home.
The Experience
So far, I've taken hundreds of pictures (no zoom, no focus), stored hundreds of songs, and made thousands of calls. I could not tell you what this phone would do in the texting or internet situation, but I'm sure it would be fine. But so far, other than not knowing exactly how close or far away would make the best pictures, I've never had any trouble with this phone.
It has a port for earphones, which is super-nice when I walk in the morning and don't want to disturb the wildlife with my music. Because the music (as well as photos and video) can be stored on the SD card, it is a sinch to move, delete, and download new music. The setting did have to be set to automatically save stuff to the card instead of the internal memory, but that took 5 seconds. It also has the port for the USB cable and the micro SD card. It has a lock button on the side, which controls whether or not you can use the cover muci button. This lock button does not lock the keyboard buttons inside the phone, so those have to be locked manually from the menu.
The screen on the outside is different from the screen on the inside, but both show the date, time, signal bar, battery life bar, and settings that are applied, such as mute or missed called, new voicemails, etc.
There is just the one button on the cover, to access the menu. The outside roller wheel allows you to scroll sideways through the menu options of music, pictures, camera, calendar, and your inbox. From there, you can hit the middle button to select whatever you want. When you set it to music mode, the speakers can be controlled by the same buttons on the side that normally control the sound of the ringer.
All in all, I think this is a great phone for me. If you text a lot, access the internet from your phone, or update your tweets or facebook status from your phone, I haven't a clue how well this would suit your needs. But it wasn't terribly expensive, and is nice to use, especially for music. So there you have it!
The story
There were four options the boy showed me at the store. (Yes, he was probably half my age, if that, and I'm in my 30's. Early 30's) The one option was a plain-Jane, no-extras free phone. It had a camera, didn't play music, didn't have a front screen, and had stupid ringtones. Since I don't have internet service, texting services or anything else, I can't download new ringtones, so this one was out.
Another option was a phone that was supposedly mainly for texting, flipped open and slid and all kinds of stuff, and still had a camera, but no music downloading capability, so I passed on it as well.
The third phone was in the neighborhood of $200, was sleek and stylish, fit in the palm of my hand, and had options I've never heard of, as well as one-touch internet connection, some outrageously good camera capabilities, and this tiny touch screen. Yeah, pass.
The last option was this little LG Chocolate 3...
The Phone
The little boy at the Verizon store went off for five minutes on each of the other phones, but when he came to the Chocolate, an old man walked into the store, started demanding his phone back, and so the boy went to deal with him. So I got to explore the phone on my own.
It has one-touch music downloading, playing, and the V-cast music downloading program. It is a flip phone with no antenna, which is nice because the antenna stabs me on other phones when I sit on the things. So that was also a big selling point. It has a quite impressive internal memory, which I discovered much later. It stores pictures, music, even video, so that is nice.
What sold me on this phone, other than the other stuff I already mentioned, was the capability this phone had of storing pictures, music, and other documents on a micro SD card, so I can remove them from my phone to my computer. Since I don't do email from my phone (not worth the cost, in my opinion) there was no other way for me to get photos off my old phone! I lost pictures of my son at the park, my kids at the lake, my husband and me in the mountains. All gone, but that's neither here nor there. My new LG Chocolate 3 has these capabilities, so between that and all the other fun options (including a super-loud ringer) I took this sucker home.
The Experience
So far, I've taken hundreds of pictures (no zoom, no focus), stored hundreds of songs, and made thousands of calls. I could not tell you what this phone would do in the texting or internet situation, but I'm sure it would be fine. But so far, other than not knowing exactly how close or far away would make the best pictures, I've never had any trouble with this phone.
It has a port for earphones, which is super-nice when I walk in the morning and don't want to disturb the wildlife with my music. Because the music (as well as photos and video) can be stored on the SD card, it is a sinch to move, delete, and download new music. The setting did have to be set to automatically save stuff to the card instead of the internal memory, but that took 5 seconds. It also has the port for the USB cable and the micro SD card. It has a lock button on the side, which controls whether or not you can use the cover muci button. This lock button does not lock the keyboard buttons inside the phone, so those have to be locked manually from the menu.
The screen on the outside is different from the screen on the inside, but both show the date, time, signal bar, battery life bar, and settings that are applied, such as mute or missed called, new voicemails, etc.
There is just the one button on the cover, to access the menu. The outside roller wheel allows you to scroll sideways through the menu options of music, pictures, camera, calendar, and your inbox. From there, you can hit the middle button to select whatever you want. When you set it to music mode, the speakers can be controlled by the same buttons on the side that normally control the sound of the ringer.
All in all, I think this is a great phone for me. If you text a lot, access the internet from your phone, or update your tweets or facebook status from your phone, I haven't a clue how well this would suit your needs. But it wasn't terribly expensive, and is nice to use, especially for music. So there you have it!
