"I should never have bought!"

I wish that I had never had bought... a LG KG800 Chocolate mobile phone. I asked to get the phone for Christmas last year as my last phone was slightly outdated. At first there where lots of advantages to the phone. Aesthetically it is a fantastic design. The phone has a sleek smooth black design, complemented well by the choice of backlit red touch buttons. The screen was a good size and the design of the menus where equally as good. The materials that the phone was made from felt like they where of a high quality compared to other materials that phones are often made from. The cost of the phone was around £100 which at the time was quite cheap for a phone, especially a phone that appeared on the face of it to be so well designed. The designers had also clearly looked at a good range of ergonomic data, the phone fitted in the hand well and the buttons where of a good size.

Sadly despite the fantastic aesthetically quality of the phone the function is far from the same quality. The touch buttons where extremely hard to use and this resulted in it being difficult to use many of the functions and applications. The phone itself was a sliding phone and for a while this aspect of the phone was great, disappointingly like many other features of the phone the sliding function did not wear well. After a few month dirt had managed to collect in the grooves that allowed the phone to slide resulting in it being hard to actually slide the phone. The camera on the phone was also poor; the camera only produced low quality photos and did not respond well to conditions other than bright daylight.

I think that this phone was such a disappointment because the aesthetic properties of the phone where so good. The general trend for well designed products is that the function is normally equally as good. Sadly in this case it is not true.