I purchased my LG Chocolate shortly after it became available online. My friends were all envious and I was approached by people I didn't even know when they saw me with it. So I was popular for awhile.I decided to wait to write my review until after I had the phone for at least 6 months (had it for almost a year now). I knew it was a lot different than my old phone and would take time to get used to.First off, I don't like the "touch pad". You can adjust the sensitivity level, but I have rather large fingers (for a woman). It takes special effort for me to avoid hitting the wrong arrows/numbers, which makes it very hard to navigate through the menu. Also, I enjoyed playing games on my old phone. For me, the Chocolate is almost impossible to play games on because of this issue. Even though I own an IPod, I have tried to use the MP3 capabilities of the phone, but have never quite gotten the swing of taking a call while listening to songs; basically hung on friends trying. Although the slide feature is nice, I still prefer my old flip-to-open phone.On the plus side, it fits really nice in my purse or pocket. I never cared for having to clip my old phone to my pants and it was too bulky to slip into a pocket. Although it does seem to get "smudgy" a lot, it's very easy to clean with a tissue and a little rubbing alcohol.I've had a couple minor issues with losing the sound (they could hear me, but I couldn't hear them) and then suddenly it would return after power-cycling it. This happens from time to time and although I was able to resolve the issue myself, it's been annoying for me on several occasions.All in all, if I could go back to last summer, knowing what I know now, I probably would not have purchased the Chocolate. I'm not one of those "cell phone power users" and typically never come close to using all of my 450 minutes per month. I'm not sure that if I were I'd be any happier with this phone. I can see that others that have posted a review have been happy with it, so maybe it's just me.***7/11/07 Since I started having some new problems with my phone, I decided to edit my review. This could be due to the warm, humid weather (per another review) or maybe my phone is now possessed, but all I have to do and touch the thing and it calls the last person in my history list. The phone is suppose to be locked when closed and this shouldn't happen, but while at work and had my phone on my desk I simply moved it out of my way (didn't open) and when I looked over I saw the light on and it was in the middle of a call to, thank heavens, my house phone (last number dialed in my history). Then I opened it one day after that to make a call and it immediately started dialing the last number in the call history. I closed it and opened it again and the same thing happened. I would "end" that call and immediately it would start dialing again. Grrr. I couldn't even turn the thing off because it just kept re-dialing. I took the battery off to stop it. I changed the sensitivity level and then it arrow pad wouldn't work at all. My rating is now a half star...and dropping