LG Chocolate Platinum (KE800)

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Features
We weren't totally convinced by the feature set on the original Chocolate, but the Platinum KE800 has some improvements.

There's now a 2-megapixel camera with auto-focus and an LED photo light, which is great for MMS messages and wallpaper photos, but flounders against the quality of the Sony Ericsson K800i's 3.2-megapixel camera. The camera lets you change the white balance, use a timer, add effects, choose size and resolution and it lets you turn the flash on and off.

The MP3 player performs very well and features equalizer settings, a shuffle mode and even animations. It works particularly well with the included headset, which also lets you plug in your own headphones, control the MP3 player and answer calls, without needing to take the phone out of your pocket. You also get an FM radio, which is a nice addition and means that you don't always need to upload MP3s on to the Platinum if you fancy listening to some music.

If you want to take photos and store MP3s on the Chocolate Platinum phone you're going to need plenty of space. Fortunately, it has a microSD slot to expand on the phone's miserly 7MB of onboard memory.

If you connect the phone to the PC via USB, the phone is automatically recognised by Windows as a mass-storage device and you can simply drag and drop files into or out of the phone with ease.

	The LG Chocolate Platinum looks very similar to the Chocolate phone.

We were also disappointed by the included PC software, which didn't seem to work on any machine we loaded it on to, and didn't recognise the phone when we plugged it in. This meant that we couldn't take advantage of the synchronizing capabilities that the software claims it provides, though this may have been a specific problem with our software or computers.

Aside from that, everything else worked fine and there were small details that made using it straightforward. For example, we particularly liked the ability to search recent recipients of texts when sending messages. This meant that rather than searching through a list of contacts every time we sent a message, we could simply search the 'recent' list.

Other features include a speakerphone mode for making hands-free calls, a WAP browser, MMS and SMS messaging, stereo Bluetooth for listening to music wirelessly, an email client, video recorder, photo album, video album, voice recorder, calendar, memo, calculator, unit converter, world time and games--Sudoku and racing.

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