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anyone have verizon? (pg. 2)
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| chimchim |
| i got verizon and i just got the chocolate phone...its pretty cool.... i like the mp3 player in it.....camera kinda sux....the touchpad is very weird tho....takes a while to get used to.... |
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| Shamez214 |
| I have the SLVR with Cingular. I rarely ever don't have service. I went on a cruise over the summer and I was basically the only one who had service the whole way to the Caribbean and back. |
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| Miss Bliss |
| I have Verizon and am very satisfied with it from Vermont to Florida which is the extent I've taken it. The phone choices suck though, I agree. My contract is up and there's nothing to get and I don't want that Chocolate... |
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| babyvsrhino |
I love verizon, use a motorola v710 or something, enjoy it
I've heard nothing good about Chocolate. |
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| stan229 |
using a treo on verizon
love the service, hate the phone :) |
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| SpinMars |
Source: The New York Times. Might need membership to log in http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/24/t...e47e1e0&ei=5070
"Chocolate, under the proper circumstances, can be a deeply satisfying treat for the senses. It can also be a sticky mess.
Unfortunately, the heavily hyped Chocolate music player/cellphone (made by LG, offered by Verizon Wireless) resembles the latter more than the former.
What’s nice about the phone: its looks. It’s tiny, almost like an elongated box of Tic Tacs. It’s shiny, clad in dark plastic. And it’s a slider phone, meaning that the dialing pad is hidden except when you slide the halves apart.
The rest of the time, the front panel is supposed to look like an iPod, with a bright color screen above and a circular control pad below. The phone-call sound quality is good, and the price isn’t bad: $150 (after rebate, and with two-year commitment), although you should also factor in the price of a Micro SD card to hold your music files ($50 or so for a 1-gigabyte card).
Music lovers should also note that the Chocolate is one of very few U.S. phones that can actually send high-quality music wirelessly to Bluetooth *stereo* headphones. And now, the sticky mess part.
Turns out the iPod dial isn’t a dial at all; it’s just four buttons arranged in a circle. That’s OK in itself, but these buttons don’t budge or even click when you press them; the only response you get, if any, is a reaction on the screen.
It’s a bad sign that two pages of the manual are dedicated to listing warnings about these touch buttons. “Remove moisture from the surface of your hands,” goes one. “Don’t use the touch buttons in a humid environment.” (OK, so what are we supposed to do when we’re in Miami? Use a pay phone?)
“If you touch [a button] off-center, it may activate the nearby function instead.”
And so on.
Listen up, LG dudes: I’m sorry, but if your primary control system requires seven warnings in your manual, maybe you should reconsider your system.
Sure enough, these buttons are a nightmare. They’re balky, nonresponsive, slow to react and all-around infuriating (and yes, I tried all four sensitivity settings). The three people who tried my review unit had amazingly similar reactions, even after I told them to stop running their thumbs around the dial as though it were an iPod. One said he felt like throwing the phone “through the window,” another “into the trash,” and another “across the room.”
More problems: The Send key is on the left of the front—but the End key isn’t across from it, as on every other cellphone on earth; instead, it’s a microscopic, vertically mounted button on the right edge of the phone. When the phone is sleeping, the screen goes completely black, so you can’t even tell if it’s on (you don’t even get a clock). The phone works with MP3 and Windows Media files, but not with songs bought on iTunes and not with the Macintosh.
The camera is decent, but it’s only 1.3 megapixels and you have to open the slider to use it. Worse, your picture gallery (and the Take Video command) are hidden, nonsensically, in the Get It Now menu, which is traditionally the cheesy commercial area of Verizon phones, where they try to sell you games, streaming video and so on.
And what kind of phone has a speaker this good, but no speakerphone?
Don’t even get me started on the phone lock function, which disables all of the buttons after only *three seconds*. You can’t use any of the buttons again unless you press a tiny side button twice. I couldn’t find any way to disable this deeply annoying feature.
Whenever I review a product this badly designed, I just stare at the ceiling and try to imagine how it could possibly have gotten out the door. Haven’t successes like the iPod and the Treo taught the marketers anything about making things work simply and well? It’s stunning that nobody in a position of power at LG or Verizon actually tried this thing, tried pressing those infernal passive-aggressive buttons, and realized that the Chocolate is a usability disaster.
As it stands, people might buy this phone because it looks cool. But it’s safe to say that not many of them will become Chocoholics." |
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| pvd420 |
| still happy with my vx 8100. i had thought about the idea of having the chocolate cause it's their new phone, but i'd rather have a phone where everything works, than something flashy and new. |
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| yujie__ |
| be warn verizon "cripple" there phones with there version of the firmware and just want more money from u |
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| chanman7483 |
| IMO there is very little difference between carriers in the city. They're all pretty damn good, with the exception of TMobile. My friend got the chocolate, I wasn't a fan.. the keys were way too small for my hands. If you have small hands though, give it a shot...I prefer not to have my phone loaded up w/ useless verizon bull so I left the first day I could and got sprint and haven't looked back. |
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| Greedy |
| on yea, the GPS navigational program you can get for it is on point. |
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| SebG |
VERIZON
I had verizon for 4 years and they lost me as a customer. I will never deal with that piece of of company ever again.
SPRINT FTW! |
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| dcctnycprincess |
| quote: | Originally posted by verndogs
i currently have cingular (Need the GSM for work)...
I haven't had a problem with it in NYC and other cities I've been to (Atlanta, Denver, Los Angeles, Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Louis) at all
plus rollover minutes rock |
got cingular today - and the motorola slvr - also needed the gsm for international travel |
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