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Durability of the Verizon LG VX8500 Chocolate, its superman in phone form
Date of Review: Feb 27, 2009
The Bottom Line: People who use a phone all the time shouldn t get a chocolate. if you don t use it often it s ok. if you play sports its real light and won't break
When I had gotten my phone I hadn t really cared what phone I was going to get... my mom picked it out for me .. I had gotten a chocolate slide, the black one. At first all I wanted to do was play with my phone but I m not allowed to play games or download stuff on it . I have never had a problem with the chocolate call or TXT wise . The thing I like the most about it is the fact that it s almost unbreakable it like superman in phone form I say this because I have slipped on it playing football about 5 times, slipped on it once in the mall cause it fell out of my pocket, I ve kicked it across the gym playing soccer multiple times again cause it fell out of my pocket, it has fallen into a puddle and still worked, I have accidently thrown it 3 times because it s slipped out if my hand, I ve dropped the phone outside on the pavement thousands of times, and my sister dropped it in the snow twice, but the phone has not broken, malfunctioned or immediately stopped working, its just been scratched up a little . By now you people who have read this are probably thinking I shouldn t have a phone in my possession well your wrong all of this was done by accident, and I don t always have it in my possession I have to share it with my sister so she has it sometimes.
The durability of the phone if probably the only thing that LG and Verizon didn t mess up on, because the battery life is awful, I had left it in my moms car for 5 min. and it died. Most of the features of the phone are ok but the battery life . You take one picture and the pone only has 2 battery bars left. You make a phone call that s about 2 min. and you lose a battery bar. What up with that, you leave it charging all day and then it dies every time you use it sure its strong but what s durability going to for you when your lost some where and your phones dead. Seriously Verizon you can do better on battery life, and LG we know you can do better.