chocoholics

I got a new cell phone this weekend -- the LG Chocolate in Blue Mint. Very slick, and a major improvement over my previous phone which got lousy reception -- I may never buy a Samsung product again. The guy at Circuit City/Verizon was very nice and combined a few offers together so I was able to get the phone for the low low price of $FREE.99! But wait, there's more... he also threw in an BOGO offer, so we got a second Chocolate in Black Cherry for V. and we only had to pay the sales tax on it. So now we have matching his and her's phones, very dorky! Guess you could think of it as an early Valentine's Day gift.

The Chocolate is a slider not a flip phone, but its simplistic design calls to mind the beloved Motorola StarTAC that I gave up for the Samsung. It also doesn't hurt that this new phone is probably 70% thinner than my old phone, and maybe 50% smaller than V's feature-laden but brick-sized LG VX9800. Yes, the Chocolate does has a camera and MP3 music player incorporated into that slim little case but they haven't missed the mark on the most important aspect of a phone -- namely, to be able to make clear phone calls and maintain a good signal. Well let's not unconditionally praise the new phones just yet -- we'll have to play around with them for a bit and see if they live up to their initial positive impressions in the long-term.