Wednesday, August 02, 2006
Mossberg Reviews The Verizon "Chocolate"
Chocolate Cellphone Only Looks Sweet; Its Design Is Flawed August 3, 2006, Walter S. Mossberg, The Wall Street Journal
If you needed any proof that cellphones today are often about everything but phone calls, Verizon Wireless this week made that case by releasing a phone called the Chocolate, produced by LG, the big Korean electronics company.
The Chocolate can make and receive phone calls and text messages, but it's designed as a music player first. In fact, it was crafted to look like an Apple iPod, right down to its most prominent feature, a navigation wheel. Verizon is heavily hyping the Chocolate, hoping to capture some of the same sort of buzz that catapulted the iPod, and later Motorola's RAZR phone, into the status of cult-style accessories.
The Chocolate will hit Verizon stores next week and is available at Verizon's site for $150.
While the Chocolate may look like an iPod, however, it doesn't work like one. In fact, as a music player, it functions like an iPod designed by a committee. It's burdened by a ham-handed user interface and other failings that would get its designers fired at Apple. As a result, the Chocolate, which I've been testing for a week or so, isn't as good a music phone as, say, the Sony Ericsson Walkman phone....Read more:
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