Verizon's Chocolate has a Bitter Taste

The sleek design of the rectangle we all know as the Chocolate is a piece of junk. I have had a model that lasted about 10 months only to get it replace with the exact same model. It was riddled with hardware failure and "sticky" buttons. Well technically there are no buttons on the face of the phone, which adds to the sleekness and subtracts to the quality. But these "areas" you touch become uber sensitive and end up repeating an infinite cycle of the programed action. Much to my dismay, this was a problem with a large number of the Chocolate phones.

With a pretty face and piss poor functionality, these kind-of-but-not-really buttons shown in the picture would constantly get stuck. For instance the down arrow is a short cut to my calendar. Pressing it once brings it up, then goes down to the next week, then the next week, and before you know it you are several months IN THE FUTURE! If I wished to open up the menu and scroll to an option, I would scroll around everything turning my phone into a bitch game of Wheel of Misfortune. Then the send button would constantly get pushed and call whomever happens to be the most recent missed, received, or called person. Of course I wasn't aware that I was calling some one until I checked my phone to see the time and realized I had been leaving a 5 minute voice mail to my friend. How dandy.

When the phone did decide to cooperate with me, it had about 2.5 to 3.5 second lag time when I pushed a button. I would end up opening something I didn't want to. Overall the functionality of the phone diminished luckily for me within the time limit of the warranty. But rather then let me choose a phone that would work properly, they just handed me another crappy Chocolate.

With a phone like this who needs enemies...