LG Chocolate VX8550 mobile phone

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LG’s original Chocolate phones took the world by storm with its delicious colors, strong music features and innovative, trend-setting touch-sensitive controls. LG Chocolate is sweeter than ever. It’s slimmer and lighter with an improved navigation wheel that uses trace motion light. Choose from red, blue, black, and blue ice to please your sophisticated palette. Though the GSM version of the Chocolate was available only through importers, we were glad to see that Verizon offered the CDMA version of the original Chocolate. The slider design on the new Chocolate is largely unchanged from the original Chocolate with very similar dimensions and the new Chocolate is slightly lighter than the original one. In addition to the LED trace motion lights added to the navigation wheel that light up when you spin it to make your menu selections, LG has wisely added another menu row to the slide-out keypad to house the call Send, End and camera launcher buttons.

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Talk hands-free with a wireless Bluetooth headset. You can hook up to a PC desktop or laptop to access music and games, print pictures, transfer contacts, and more. The LG supports Verizon’s Mobile Web 2.0 and comes with the same Openwave browser found on many Verizon feature phones. There is no dedicated shortcut or menu item for the browser, you must launch one of Verizon’s portals and then enter the URL of your choice. The WAP browser has decent speed when loading WAP sites and can loading full HTML web sites into a single column view. Takes high-resolution pics with up to 4x zoom and live videos with up to 2x zoom. Customizable effects and image editor let you resize, crop, and rotate photos. This easy-to-use scroll wheel has a touch pad with a slight vibration, for a better feel. For longer battery life you can get the extended battery that’s 1,500 mAh in capacity. If you use the phone for music playback and watch videos a lot on top of making phone calls, investing in the extended battery is a good idea. The battery life indicator fluctuated quite a bit on our unit, so be sure to let the battery indicator settle down a bit after a long period of usage. The LG Chocolate comes with a world AC charger.

The LG Chocolate VX8550 is a nice music player with some basic features like playlist, repeat and shuffle. Like the original Chocolate, the VX8550 plays MP3 and WMA music files. A dedicated key gets you to your favorite tunes with one simple touch of a button. Adding to the music experience are a dedicated music launch key on the right side of the Chocolate, a rear-firing speaker that sounds decent, an LG proprietary headphone jack and a 2.5mm non-standard stereo headphone jack. This easy-to-use scroll wheel has a touch pad with a slight vibration, for a better feel.

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Specification of LG Chocolate VX8550 mobile phone

• Technology : CDMA
  
  
• Frequency : 1.9 GHz CDMA PCS, 800 MHz CDMA (Digital Dual-Band)
  
  
• Data Transmission : High-Speed EVDO
  
  
• Dimensions : 3.85" (H) x 1.87" (W) x 0.67" (D)
  
  
• Weight : 3.24 oz.
  
  
• Display : 262K Color TFT, 240 x 320 Pixels, 11 lines
  
  
• Standard Battery : 800 mAh Li-Polymer
  
  
• Usage Time : Up to 250 Minutes
  
  
• Standby Time : Up to 350 Hours
  
  
• HAC Rating : Hearing Aid Compatible (M4-Rating)

[WaGoN]

The LG VX8550 Chocolate has a much improved design over the original Chocolate, it is easier to use than the first generation Chocolate. Also has a good amount of memory which supports 4gb. It has an impressive multimedia feature set that includes a megapixel camera, a music player, and access to Verizon's V Cast service.