The LG Chocolate was the first eye catcher in Verizon's line-up and it would only seem right that they would either release an updated version or a follow up to combat with the changing demands of cellular consumers. With that said, we're now presented with the LG Chocolate (VX-8550), the update to the popular Chocolate that is now available via Verizon's website. The updated Chocolate boast new features such as a new keypad that uses touch feedback and a new feature that LG calls "Trace Motion" with uses light to determine the input. Besides the addition of a few components, the phone stays relatively unchanged and users can expect the standard features to include stereo bluetooth, a microSD slot for up to 4GB of storage and so on and so forth. The LG Chocolate is available through verizonwireless.com and was released on the 9th of July so go out and get your oven new and sort of improved LG Chocolate.
Technical Specifications
Network:
CDMA 800 / 1900
Form Factor:
Slide
Dimensions:
98 x 47 x 17 mm
Weight:
92 g
Antenna:
Internal
Navigation:
Navigation Wheel (Trace Motion Light)
Battery Type:
800 mAh Li-Polymer
Talk Time:
4.17
Standby Time:
350
Memory:
64.0 MB
Expandable Memory
Network:
CDMA 800 / 1900
Form Factor:
Slide
Dimensions:
98 x 47 x 17 mm
Weight:
92 g
Antenna:
Internal
Navigation:
Navigation Wheel (Trace Motion Light)
Battery Type:
800 mAh Li-Polymer
Talk Time:
4.17
Standby Time:
350
Memory:
64.0 MB
Expandable Memory
microSD / TransFlash
Cheers,
John
1 comment:
I bought this phone looking to consolidate my MP3 player and phone into one. While this phone accomplishes some of the big things right, it has a myriad of smaller music-player problems that make me disappointed in the phone overall. This is a bummer because I wanted to like the phone.
1. The phone ignores track # on songs! If I import Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon, when I click on the album I see the tracks ordered.... alphabetically! This is incomprehensible to me. The only way to keep an album's songs ordered correctly is to manually override the track title to include the track #. For example changing "Speak To Me / Breathe" to "01 Speak to Me / Breathe".
2. The volume on the phone is too loud. Listening with headphones is painful, even on the lowest volume setting for standard MP3s. I have to manually run the MP3s through a volume conversion program to lower the volume.
3. The shuffle feature is useless. The shuffle feature picks a song at random, every time. Unfortunately this means that it could theoretically pick the same song over and over and over. If you have an album on shuffle, chances are that you will get the same tracks repeated, and never get to others. What shuffle SHOULD do, is play the songs from the list (whether album or artist) in a random order, but each song gets one play.
So because so much prep work has to be done to get the songs ready for my phone, it gets a lot less usage than I would have liked.
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