LG BL20

LG BL20

The iPhone might be popular with a lot of people these days, but old classics still endure. There is still a market for phones released in the middle of the decade, around 2006 and 2007. In those years, the camera and touch screen phones that were made were considered high-end, and their prices reflected it. However, while those ‘old’ models of cell phones might not be considered so technologically advanced or even fashionable by today’s standards, they are by no means inefficient. In fact, if anything, they are sturdier, sleeker and last longer than many phones made nowadays. This article will review one such phone that was manufactured and released a couple of years ago, the LG BL20, also known as the Chocolate BL20.

LG BL20 Features

The primary things one looks for in a mid-range phone are looks, battery-life, features, camera, and last but not the least, band compatibility. In the looks department, the LG Chocolate BL20 gets an 8 on 10, because of its smooth, sleek, and stylish exterior, tastefully done up in a darker tones of black and red. Its slider mechanism allows the top part of the phone to slide up to reveal a reasonably large numeric keypad, recessed into the base, but not hindering typing in any way. Also, when the screen slides up, its directional keys discreetly light up, signaling that the phone has left standby mode and is fully operational. These directional keys are not actual keys; that is, they cannot be pressed. This is due to the fact that they are in fact touch sensitive keys which only need to be lightly tapped. These keys, including the central one, can be programmed as shortcut keys that provide one-touch access to selected functions or applications. Even the volume-control and camera zoom keys located on the side of the phone are touch sensitive.

This phone was amongst the first that allowed touch-based phone navigation. The phone isn’t heavy at all, but is loaded with some great features. While camera phones had been around for a while since the early years of the 21st century’s first decade, this was one of the first phones to amalgamate a 5 megapixel camera into the phone design, thus providing users with a tool that could be used as much for vacation photography as it could for making business calls. The phone also has dedicated ‘widget’ keys that launch a pre-selected application speedily. As for connectivity and band compatibility, the phone has Bluetooth for wireless data transfer, and runs on a Quad-band network, which means that you can take it with you wherever you travel without it refusing to function the moment you land on foreign shores. The LG BL20 phone’s battery-life is pleasingly long, and you don’t have to worry about your phone getting turned off if you play a game on it for more than twenty minutes. As with every phone, though, there must be minus-points as well.

LG BL20 Review

Fortunately, there aren’t many things wrong with this phone. If there is a complaint, it is mainly that the phone doesn’t have a document-reader, which doesn’t appeal to a lot persons who want to use their phone as much for work as for chatting and pleasure. Also, the memory card slot (yes, this phone has expandable memory!) is located in an inconvenient spot, right beneath the battery cover. This means, if you want to swap memory cards, it will take some fiddling around to do so.

Apart from this, there’s really nothing bad to be said about this phone. It’s not crazily expensive like a lot of phones offering similar features and functionality are, and its subtly rich appearance is guaranteed to draw more than a few looks.