Sink your teeth into the luxury and innovation of the Chocolate KG800 by LG. With its minimalist-inspired style and silky-smooth slide design, the Chocolate offers a rich array of features that include a glowing, touch-sensitive keypad, a superlative music/video player, a luxurious 1.3 megapixel camera/camcorder, and Bluetooth capabilities. If you value extreme style mixed with powerful substance, this is the phone for you.
Sleek lines and a luscious design make the KG800 the hottest thing you can put in your pocket.
Design The LG KG800 is entirely about fashion, convenience, and usability. The ultra-thin, stylish slider design always keeps the unobtrusive internal antenna safely tucked away--always protected from snags or breaking. The touch-sensitive navigation keys are hidden when inactive, a key feature to save battery life, or when keeping a low profile is a must. A unique touch protection feature is built right into the phone--preventing unwanted key actions. In an effort to always keep things looking fashionable, the 176 x 220 pixel screen boasts over 260,00 colors. The user interface provides for clear images and text, and there are wallpapers with fun animations, as well. Other design features include a 1.3-megapixel camera, which is housed on the rear of the phone. To keep the user interface looking clean and tidy, the left edge of the handset sports the volume buttons, while the right side houses the end call key, media key, and a covered USB 1.1 interface. The phone includes 128 MB of shared internal memory.
Calling Features The Chocolate boasts powerful calling functions, such as speaker independent voice dialing, which makes it easy to call contacts by simply saying their names. No prior voice training is required and you can even speak individual digits to the phone for quick dialing of numbers you know by heart. And because the Chocolate is Bluetooth enabled, wireless headsets can be configured with the phone for total handsfree operation.
Need to make a call? Just slide it open.
Messaging, Internet and Tools The phone's support for multimedia messaging means that text, photos, video and audio can be sent with ease. When used in combination with the Chocolate's built-in camera, MMS opens up a whole new world of messaging fun. The built in MMS editor allows the user to create convenient messaging templates for fast MMS messages, as well as the ability to create SMS messaging templates. And to make messaging even easier on the KG800, the phone comes stock with built-in T9 text entry, which is a technology that makes it easier for people to enter words and text on handsets--a definite plus for mobile email and text messaging users. A number of handy software tools are bundled with the Chocolate including a calendar, an alarm clock, a calculator, a stopwatch timer, a digital note pad, and a vibrating alert alarm.
Imaging and Entertainment The KG800 arrives Java enabled, allowing you to play the latest games--a requisite for any high-end fashion phone. The KG800 even comes stock with embedded games, and of course, more games can always be downloaded from the web and loaded onto the phone via the KG800's convenient USB connection port.
Into taking pictures or carrying your music with you everywhere? The Chocolate's 1.3-megapixel digital camera features a flash, a 4x digital zoom, a multi shot mode, and a photo album feature. The camera also offers up to one-hour of video capture. When it's time for music, the Chocolate boasts a built-in music player with stereo speakers and an equalizer, offering MP3 and WMA playback, a feature which lets you keep your music playing in the background during a call. You can also take advantage of the Chocolate's Bluetooth wireless headset capability, allowing you to hook up a pair of Bluetooth stereo headphones.
Vital Statistics The LG KG800 Chocolate weighs just 2.93 ounces and measures 3.74 x 1.89 x 0.59 inches. The lithium-ion battery is rated at up to 6 hours of digital talk time, and up to 200 hours of digital standby time. It runs on the GSM 900/1800/1900 frequencies. The phone comes with a one-year limited warranty.
Spotlight customer reviews:
Customer Rating: Summary: mEXICO MANUAL AND CHEAP QUALITY Comment: I bought it from Amazon shiping to me fast. But next day I call Amazon to return it with the reason the manual book written in Spanish which I can't read or undwerstand and it look very cheap quality.Many customers like me complaint Amazone not reveal in small detail or correct something written on the goods( like Motorola V8 orV9.It is high end cell and expensive, the customers want to know what content it had in box?where it made from? The other sellers online Ebay, Bestbuy said very detail in box) Customer Rating: Summary: but it works fine in spain Comment: many bubbles in casing...phone keeps demanding i install a sim card that was not received...best of all, the charger is european, not american...co. rep has offered to work with these "issues" but i do not expect them to repay the time and $30.00 it cost to replace the charger, and i do not have the time to waste trading the phone for one that is not marred. Customer Rating: Summary: Disappointing transaction Comment: The item was fine. However, it would not work on my wireless network (not at all clear from the description), so I had to return it. I was promised credit minus a 10% restocking fee IF AND ONLY IF I wrote a review favorable to the seller, which I did. To date (February 8, 2008) my card has not been credited. I have never had a bad transaction through Amazon until this one, but I would not recommend that anyone do business with this ethically challenged seller. Customer Rating: Summary: No problems, love it Comment: I have Tmobile and I bought the unlocked phone and just traded sim cards from my old phone. I did lose some of my newer contacts and some archived text messages, but other that that everything has been fine. Synching to my PC was flawless. Could be a bit tough for a novice but transfering MP3's is easy. The keys are VERY touchy, that took getting used to. There are a lot of things I'm annoyed about but I chalk it up to not being used to the phone yet. So far it has worked well and I'm happy. It takes some patience to figure out, but it's a great phone IMO. My main concern is it's size, I bought a case for it because I'm afraid at the price I'll damage it. I paid $170 on ebay.
So I've been using this phone for a while now. I still like it. I keep it in my pocket while at work, use it as an alarm clock etc. The quality of the pictures it takes isn't as good as it could be, especially indoors. Outdoor shots are much sharper quality with the natural light. The MP3 player works well but for the price of the phone I'm feeling like it should have more memory. In any case, I still rate it high after all this time. I haven't had problems. Customer Rating: Summary: not good in US Comment: I have had this phone in NYC area for about 3 months now. My wife has
Cingular (RAZR) and I was going to get that phone as well, but then
saw this one available at the Cingular store and figured I would get it for the looks, and
Cingular said they support the phone so I thought all would be good.
After using it for 3 months, I lose service in A LOT of areas around
here, and my wife's phone works fine. I guess it is b/c of all this
1900, 850, 900 band issues. If I knew about
this problem before purchasing the phone with a 2 year contract, I
would definitely have gotten a different model instead. Also, I just
went on a trip up to northern Vermont, and my wife's phone never
dropped a call or lost service (Cingular), and I had no service for the whole
trip (Cingular), which was very frustrating trying to do business from the road.
I was thinking of getting the battery signal increaser metal strip,
but after reading more about the phone, I do not think they will help any?? If
anyone has any suggestions for me to get a better signal, I would
appreciate it, as I have paid a lot for this phone that loses a lot
of calls daily.
