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LG KG800 Chocolate review: Dressed to impress

31 May 2006 | Read the review | Post your comment
LG KG800 Chocolate review: Dressed to impress - read the full textA new LG phone has hit the streets. The possible suspect is described as black, slim, sexy and most of all fashionable. Well then, we might just have some information on that suspect, Mr. Officer. The LG Chocolate phone is a gorgeous mobile phone offering a red-glowing navigation touchpad, 128MB of internal memory, 1.3 megapixel camera and MP3 player, tri-band GSM and GPRS support - all that incorporated into a slim slider shell.

 

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im tempted to get this phone due to its pure sleek look but it does seem to have many downfalls...

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  • 2007-02-17 22:39
  • pYSr

Really thourough review guys, thanks!

Two questiosn though,
How many SMS messages can be stored?
What would you give this phone overall out of 10?

Thanks!!

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  • 2007-01-11 18:28
  • n1aV

such a gr8 fone.

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  • 2006-12-29 12:05
  • PG3S

such a gr8 fone.but not so good

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  • 2006-12-29 12:05
  • PG3S

such a gr8 fone.

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  • 2006-12-29 12:03
  • PG3S

It sounds clear, but not loud. I'm using ef81 and there is no way u can compare what ef81 can give u in loudnes :). I bought this kg800 to my girlfriend at xmas. Well, she is satisfied. What more could I wish. :)

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  • 2006-12-27 14:47
  • mn@I

can you put passwords on your text messages?
like before you check it, you have to enter a password

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  • 2006-12-13 03:27
  • xI7Y

Hallow...i have 1 question ...how did it sounds with mp3 playback?..loud?..clear?..please answer someone....and my white is bad:D

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  • 2006-12-12 01:46
  • pkrU

i just bought the new chocolate phone but i cant seem to figure out how to change from t9 format when text msging. can anyone help?

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  • 2006-12-10 07:37
  • kDx@

Ive had this phone for a about a month now maybe...

The onli problems i have had is freezing while im deleting messages..

I dont like some features.. Like that you cant save massges to certain folders, Or move things out of the "others" file. Without the comp..

And its annoying how the reception bar shows reception when its searching..

But i can live with that....

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  • 2006-12-07 11:30
  • 2CGr

I have had the chocolate for less than three months and the light for the numeric key pad has stopped working. Has that happened to anyone else? By the way, my sister has the same problem.

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  • 2006-12-01 19:56
  • xk1D

Sorry but i have to agree with Ronnie here. What is a phone for? communicating. You want a great beat-em-all camera? Buy a digital camera. You want great music? Buy an mp3 player. You want loads of space? Get a laptop. And I also must point out that I don't like people eavesdropping on my conversations, so I find speakerphone a useless feature, same with airplane mode. How can you use your phone without using it for communication, which is what it was meant to be for?

ADVICE
"i cant set my ringtone. it sets up fine activates but when i get a call my ringtone dosent come on can anyone help please!"

Have you tried looking into your settings? Touch the left key - general - personalise - call alert type. see which one you've got activated. If it's vibrate or silent, then there's your problem.

Daniella - I've looked everywhere - I don't think you can change the shortcut. Sorry.

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  • 2006-11-06 13:02
  • U2W7

i just bought the KG800 yesterday and im lovin it xcept the right soft key is set as the net and everytime i slid it up it goes onto the internet automatically...... does anyone know how to change it into another short cut???? plz i really need help

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  • 2006-11-03 09:55
  • 2C8t

um... people, can i just explain that if you thing the lg chocolate phone's battery life is bad, have a look at the samsung e 820's battery life. my mum got one 2 days ago and after only two hours of having it on, a message came up saying "low battery". i have the lg chocolate and i used it for a full two days (48 hours) before it said low battery, and even then it stayed on for another half a day before it went dead. the samsung e 820 stayed on for another hour and then went dead.

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  • 2006-10-27 13:41
  • 2C5e

i cant set my ringtone. it sets up fine activates but when i get a call my ringtone dosent come on can anyone help please!

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  • 2006-10-18 13:37
  • M3s@

I went to a ASIA mobile expo in Delhi(India)And I must confess LG KG800 was indeed the Best looking phone. So iwas was more or less impulse buying of this Sleek And Slim Phone. Though it lacks expandable Memory But still 128 MB is enough. The network reception is Good (as some people has mentioned it weakas it all depends on your service provider) The feature of storing text files is good as I can view my notes on the go other +ve is it can be used as USB pendrive . Small Java application can also be installed.Also Overall A Good phone to Buy Go FOT IT

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  • 2006-10-16 10:15
  • iwXg

Great looks. Poor features.

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  • 2006-10-14 13:05
  • mVVn

oh yeah... people, a fone is for communicating, a laptop is for setting your alarms and subfolders and all that stuff you complain about. 128 MB is not bad, but i want a fone, not a laptop. seriously... its fine. it's communicating stuff is great and i have awesome reception with my one. no probs at all. GO LG!

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  • 2006-10-13 09:45
  • 2CA@

sorry people... i hav no idea wat u guys are talking about... let me explain why i am lost.

first of all, all these problems that have happened to others havent happened to me, and if you are experiencing problems with SMSing, it usually has something to do with the t9 dictionary. to enter our words without the chocolate making some of its own, go to messages > write message > text message > options > t9 lanugages> t9 off. at least it worked for me. hope this solves the problem, i will come back for more problem solving later.

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  • 2006-10-13 09:20
  • 2CA@

I got the KG800 a few days ago and am very disappointed. I decided to go with less features and more looks, but it turns out even the features that are included are very badly done. Here is a list of some things that annoy me, that the GSMarena review didn't mention:

• Speech quality is bad. The microphone is so weak, you have to be in a really quiet place so that your call partner can hear what you are saying.
• It often just loses connection in the middle of calls. That never happened to me before, and I heard of many others who encountered this too.
• MMS and E-Mail sending is limited to 100KB max. Which means you cannot send pictures you made with the phone in high resolution.
• No dynamic dictionary. You can enter new words, but you have to quit the message editor, go to the "add word" function and enter it there. My old Motorola added words I typed automatically to the dictionary. The LG method is such a mess, I don't use the dictionary at all anymore.
• You can't enter numbers into messages by just pressing the appropriate keys. Switch mode to numbers, enter numbers, switch mode back to letters. The same goes for capital letters: 1x mode button for capital letters, make 1 capital letter, 2x mode button to write lower case letters again. Enough said.
• Built-in sound effects for slide open/close and even new message notification CANNOT be changed, only chosen from the 4 that LG put in.
• Doesn't support subfolders. Anything you put in a folder that LG didn't create for you, is just ignored by the phone.
• I'd like to know why there are 3 folders for pictures: Album, Photos and Pictures. It seems Pictures is in "Main memory" while Photos and Albums is in "Multimedia Memory". However, only pictures you have just taken with the phone's camera go into the Albums folder. Together with the fact that you can only use pictures from that folder for phonebook entries, this means that you have to take those pictures directly with the phone. If you move them to the computer and right back to the phone again, you can't use them for the phonebook anymore.
• The photo viewer is bad. Actually, there are three photo viewers, one for each folder, and they don't have much in common. The best one is the one for the Albums folder as you can have a thumbnail view and fullscreen display of pictures, but the Albums folder is the least useful. You can't zoom to original size in any of the viewers.
• Sometimes, the menu just hangs for 2-3 seconds, and doesn't respond to anything you press. This happens about once in every 3 minutes.
• Entering texts is just as slow. You have to put long pauses in between consecutive pushes of the same button, or the phone is only going to acknowledge 2/3 of them.
• The battery is weak. Much weaker than what the specs say, which already isn't that good.
• There's a big, bulky digital watch and date display on the home screen, which you cannot disable.
• Memos up to 80 characters and voice notes up to 20 seconds are stupid limitations.

I am putting my phone back up for sale after less than 2 day of regular use.

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  • 2006-10-08 12:07
  • puCF
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