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Touch screen phones are hitting the market left and right these days, but not all of them can provide the performance, features and ease of use that we all want and need. This LG Chocolate Touch VX8575 cell phone that I got for my wife was very cool at first but then got really frustrating really fast.

My wife liked the light weight and thin design with the added benefit of the touch screen.  But what we didn't know was that the touch screen was the feature that was going to give my wife and I both a lot of grief. We got the phone from a Verizon store after playing with it for about 15 minutes. It cost us about $50 after her new-every-two discount and mail-in-rebates. So, keep reading to find out why we were so frustrated with this phone.


LOOK, FEEL AND BUILD
The LG Chocolate Touch is a compact bar mobile phone that's very light weight and thin. It has only three physical buttons on the front--Send/Clear/End. It also has three buttons on the right hand side of the phone--Lock/Music/Camera. The left hand side has the volume up/down and speakerphone buttons. There is also the covered port for the charger or microUSB cable. There is a 3.5mm headset jack on the top and that's about it.

The most beautiful feature of this phone is the full color 3.0" touch screen LCD with 400 x 240 pixel resolution. The screen has both vibrate and audio feedback when you touch, and it feels reasonably responsive. But the touch is not accurate at all. When you want to scroll, it will select the item where you started your attempt to scroll. Typing with the virtual keyboard was a pain too as we had too many errors. This was even after calibrating the touch screen with the built-in tool. We used an aftermarket stylus to navigate through the menus of this phone and that seemed to work much better. It just didn't like our fingers.

It comes with two black-plates--one purple and the other black.  My wife chose the purple for some odd reason, but it was her phone so I am not complaining. I personally would have preferred the black. All of the buttons are placed in easy to reach and expected positions on the phone. The dial pad buttons are large enough so you don't make any mistakes. I personally like the quick Lock button on the top right.

 

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