Physical Features

• At 2.2 inches wide, 0.5 inches deep and 4.2 oz., the HTC Droid Eris and LG Chocolate Touch are nearly identical in their measurements, but they are only slightly different in their lengths. The Droid Eris measures 4.5 inches long, while the Chocolate Touch measures 4.3 inches long. Both phones feature a thin-film transistor touch screen that displays more than 262,000 colors, but on different-sized screens and at different resolutions. The Droid Eris' 3.2-inch screen displays at 320 by 480 pixels of resolution, while the Chocolate Touch's 3-inch screen displays at 240 by 400 pixels of resolution.
  
  

Memory

• The HTC Droid Eris comes with 147MB of onboard memory and the LG Chocolate Touch features 1GB, 900MB of which is reserved for music files. Both phones are equipped with a built-in micro-Secure Digital card slot for up to 16GB of expanded memory. The phones support microSD cards, which provide up to 2GB of memory, and high-capacity microSD (microSDHC) cards, which offer between 2GB and 32GB of memory, up to their 16GB limitation. By adding memory to these phones, you will have more room to add large-scale files, such as videos, applications and photos.
  
  

Battery Life

• When fully charged, the HTC Droid Eris gets up to 3.6 hours of talk time and up to 373 hours, or 15.5 days, of standby time. The LG Chocolate Touch, on the other hand, gets up to 5.1 hours of talk time and up to 470 hours, or 19.6 days, of standby time. Compared to similar devices on the market at the time of publication, these times rank below the seven-hour average for talk time and the 448-hour average for standby time, except for the Touch's standby time, which ranks above average.
  
  

Miscellaneous

• The HTC Droid Eris features a 3.2-megapixel camera that is capable of recording video, while the LG Chocolate Touch comes with a 5-megapixel camera, which is also capable of recording video. Only the Droid Eris is capable of geotagging with its camera, a process that embeds map and GPS coordinate data into each picture it takes. Each phone is equipped with a media player that supports a variety of audio and video file formats, such as MP3, AAC and MPEG4. As its name implies, the Droid Eris is built on the Android operating system, while the Chocolate Touch is not.