LG Chocolate BL20 Review

The LG Chocolate BL20 is a slider phone which has a stylish and unique appeal. It has a design layout which is intuitive and provides fantastic external features along with amazing functionality internally. The phone’s futuristic look provides an insight into the numerous functions that are present inside. The pictures provide superb reproduction of colors. GPS and Wi-Fi are absent while the texting and calls are marvelous. The handset has a TFT display screen of 2.4” and can display 256k colors at a resolution of 240 x 320 pixels.

To assist navigation, the phone has concealed navigation keys which are touch sensitive at the front portion of the phone. They can be used at ease and are extremely responsive. The mobile has its measurements, 106*50*12mm in thickness and has a weight of 115g. The black and red finish indicates its family background and has a shiny finish along with a read keypad. The keys are bulky but convenient and the monotonous predictive text is fast and accurate, thereby overtaking the touch screen keyboard which is quite slow.

The user interface is comfy to use. You have 4 shortcuts located on the navigation pad which can be customized and a multitasking button to switch between a widget launcher that offers a shortcut to your calendar, weather and your favorite contacts and applications. The right and left keys offer shortcuts to browser and the media files correspondingly.

A camera with a resolution of 5 Mega pixels is available which utilizes the stunning optics of ‘Schneider-Kreuznach’ which is world famous in the filed of camera optics. To assist in capturing great snaps, the camera offers a LED flash, ‘Autofocus’, ISO modes, white balance and night modes. Features like video recording, playback and moving images are available at QVGA quality at a rate of 15 frames / sec. Since Wi-Fi is absent, you need to depend on the 3G coverage which is tricky.

The HTML browser is not facilitated by the low memory and websites which are rich in content get loaded very slowly or does not get loaded. You can use the sites which are mobile-optimized instead. You can browse easily with the navigation bar and nice shortcuts are available in the keypad to enter URL addresses. Zooming can be done for the whole page or upto 100% but, if you want to zoom in between that is, say 70%, then you have to perform more number of clicks in the menu, ‘Options.’

In case you try to run 4 applications or more, then the phone automatically reduces its speed and freezes the websites completely. A 3.5mm headset port is absent but you have an adaptor to plug your own headphones. GPS and the ‘Maps’ software is missing in this cell phone. The ‘Downloads’ page has only ringtones and games. The mobile can connect to multiple devices and systems with the help of GPRS, microUSB, HSCSD, Bluetooth and EDGE. Internet access is offered by the connection, ‘HSDPA’ which provides quick web browsing in times of need.

The LG mobile is designed exquisitely with interesting and special features. It is simple in functionality and navigation. The cell phone is surely going to become famous. The calls and texting are very comfy in this device and the camera is great. But, it has minor drawbacks such as no GPS and Wi-fi.

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