coo The $79.99 VX8575 Chocolate Touch is LG’s fourth phone in its Chocolate series for the U.S. market. It’s the first to offer a full touch screen interface and it continues the line’s focus on multimedia performance. Despite excellent call quality, good music playback performance, and chic industrial design, there are a few hitches that you should be aware of.

The front of the phone is dominated by its 3-inch 400 x 240 pixel resistive touchscreen display that was fairly responsive to my finger taps, but not as responsive as capacitive displays. I found the screen was bright enough to read even under direct sunlight.

The VX8575 has a host of keyboard options: In vertical mode you can touch-type on the alphanumeric keyboard with T9, use an incredibly cramped vertical QWERTY, or try scribbling a message using its highly inaccurate "Pen" feature. The QWERTY keyboard in landscape mode was usable but not nearly as accurate as the QWERTYs found on other touch screen phones like the Samsung Instinct HD or smartphones like the iPhone. I found I had to be very deliberate in each key press to write a message without any typos.

Via:mobile