Verizon wireless - LG Chocolate Sucks

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LG Chocolate Sucks

robnhood00

2007-02-17, 10:33 pm

How the LG Chocolate phone made it to the market is beyond me. This
phone should never have passed the most basic customer test.
Problem: The phone touch activation buttons instead of push buttons
which means...
1) If you're using the phone and your face brushes one of the
buttons, it starts activating functions during the call. Am I the
only one who puts the phone to the ear when calling? Like I said...
basic customer tests.

2) When typing a text message, if you accidentally brush over the
send button, the text message is sent. Sometimes you don't even have
to touch it... just hovering over the touch button sometimes activates
the send.

3) The response time of the touch is too slow. So.. even if you hit
the touch button on purpose, there is a 1 second delay in screen
changing so you might hit the button again thinking that it didn't
catch the first time. Now it cycles through two clicks.

The list of problems the touch screen causes is exponential. But when
your most BASIC functions of a device becomes difficult, then the
conclusion is simple.... The Device is UNUSABLE

gordo

2007-02-17, 10:33 pm

"robnhood00" <robnhood007@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> How the LG Chocolate phone made it to the market is beyond me. This
> phone should never have passed the most basic customer test.
> Problem: The phone touch activation buttons instead of push buttons
> which means...
> 1) If you're using the phone and your face brushes one of the
> buttons, it starts activating functions during the call. Am I the
> only one who puts the phone to the ear when calling? Like I said...
> basic customer tests.
>
> 2) When typing a text message, if you accidentally brush over the
> send button, the text message is sent. Sometimes you don't even have
> to touch it... just hovering over the touch button sometimes activates
> the send.
>
> 3) The response time of the touch is too slow. So.. even if you hit
> the touch button on purpose, there is a 1 second delay in screen
> changing so you might hit the button again thinking that it didn't
> catch the first time. Now it cycles through two clicks.
>
> The list of problems the touch screen causes is exponential. But when
> your most BASIC functions of a device becomes difficult, then the
> conclusion is simple.... The Device is UNUSABLE
>
They offer a satisfaction trial period to return it if you don't like it.
Why didn't you return it?

Agent_C

2007-02-17, 10:33 pm

On 17 Feb 2007 15:02:36 -0800, "robnhood00" <robnhood007@yahoo.com>
wrote:

>How the LG Chocolate phone made it to the market is beyond me.

I love mine...

A_C

Evan Platt

2007-02-18, 10:33 am

On 17 Feb 2007 15:02:36 -0800, "robnhood00" <robnhood007@yahoo.com>
wrote:

> 2) When typing a text message, if you accidentally brush over the
>send button, the text message is sent. Sometimes you don't even have
>to touch it... just hovering over the touch button sometimes activates
>the send.

Wow, so you don't need to make physical contact with the button?
Simply having your finger a inch or more above the button, the phone
'knows' it?

Wow.

Martin Kallikak, Jr.

2007-02-18, 12:33 pm

"Evan Platt" <evan@theobvious.espphotography.com> wrote in message
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> On 17 Feb 2007 15:02:36 -0800, "robnhood00" <robnhood007@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
>
> Wow, so you don't need to make physical contact with the button?
> Simply having your finger a inch or more above the button, the phone
> 'knows' it?
>
> Wow.

Hell, that's nothing. I can dial a call on mine by just staring real hard at
the numbers.

I probably shouldn't post this but----- a tech at the local VZW store told
me there's a hack that let's you dial just by thinking about the number-- as
long as the phone is within a few feet of your head. Also-- the higher your
IQ, the further away the phone can be.

Marty

Larry

2007-02-18, 12:33 pm

"Martin Kallikak, Jr." <noone> wrote in
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> I probably shouldn't post this but----- a tech at the local VZW store
> told me there's a hack that let's you dial just by thinking about the
> number-- as long as the phone is within a few feet of your head.
> Also-- the higher your IQ, the further away the phone can be.
>
>

That feature might not be as far off as you think....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VeriChip

Of course, the hackers of the world stand ready to protect us from
government intrusion...(c;
http://cq.cx/verichip.pl
Can the Verichip jammer be ready in time?...(c;

Larry
--
Vista has been out a week.
Is Service Pack 1 ready yet?

Agent_C

2007-02-20, 10:33 am

On Sun, 18 Feb 2007 12:39:39 -0500, "Martin Kallikak, Jr." <noone>
wrote:

>Also-- the higher your IQ, the further away the phone can be.

Then this feature will be of little value in the US.

A_C

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