The LG Chocolate 3 sports a new sleak clamshell design. Key features include media player, stereo Bluetooth, expandable memory card slot, Email, GPS, external music controls and streaming media.
Update: $129 after rebate with two-year contract, available Sunday July 13
The heat's getting to me, but I still managed to unbox the LG Chocolate 3 for Verizon Wireless. LG went from slider to flip for this latest Chocolate, and VZW threw in support for Rhapsody music subscriptions. Check it out ... and don't hold me accountable for my not-funny jokes.
Previous Posts in this series: LG Voyager - VZW, LG Dare - VZW, Samsung Glyde - VZW, LG Decoy - VZW , Samsung Alias - VZW
LG Chocolate 3 (VX-8560) - Verizon WirelessYou can bemoan the move from slider to flip as the end of the "real Chocolate phones." Whatever. Chocolate 3 is the best Chocolate yet for a few simple reasons: Better UI, better external controls, and a 3.5mm headphone jack. Seriously, this is the first Chocolate...
With the temperature on the rise outside, the PhoneDog days of summer sweepstakes keeps getting hotter as well. Today our friends from Verizon Wireless added to the excitement with a brand new LG Chocolate 3.
From a slider to a flip, the upgraded Chocolate 3 VX8560 also improved on the camera by taking it up to a full 2 megapixels. This VCAST music phone comes equipped with an external scroll wheel, to make it easier to enjoy...
Now available through Verizon direct for $129.99 after $50 instant online rebate.
The LG Chocolate 3 sports a new sleak clamshell design. Key features include media player, stereo Bluetooth, expandable memory card slot, Email, GPS, external music controls and streaming media.
Carrier: Verizon WirelessContract Price: $179.99Hot Feature: Sleek flip phone Coco-style
Nothing says Summer like Chocolate, right? I don't know about that, actually, but I'd take a Chocolate ice cream cone right about now (there's a mini heat wave here in the East Bay) ... At any rate, the UPS man showed up this morning with LG's new Chocolate 3 for Verizon and we've got pics here and a video on the way.
The new Chocolate eschews the slider thing in favor of a flip form factor, and features a click wheel and nice big...
Rumor is that the Chocolate 3 will be available July 14th via Verizon.
The LG Chocolate 3 sports a new sleak clamshell design. Key features include media player, stereo Bluetooth, expandable memory card slot, Email, GPS, external music controls and streaming media.
Technology: CDMALikely Carrier: VerizonExpected: Rumor, July 14th
By: Lisa Bohm on Wednesday, September 03, 2008 From: Pittsburgh, PA (United States) Experience: 3 Weeks
Pros: Call quality is great; nice big bright displays; keys have decent tactile touch, and operation is similar to most other LG phones.Cons: The external speaker is a JOKE! Even on the lowest sound setting when using the phone for calls only (and not music), the ringtones are so loud that it hurts your ears and is embarrassing in public. The body gets smudges and fingerprints easily.Summary: I love my phone. It allows me to add my numerous contacts as well as custom ringtones and listen to MP3s if I want. (I already have an MP3 player, though, so I use the phone for calls only.) Be sure to keep an eyeglass cleaner cloth around to periodically wipe the smudges off of the phone. I wish I knew how to solve the overly loud sound issue; otherwise, I'd recommend the phone.
By: yudi Jones on Friday, August 29, 2008 From: New York, NY (United States) Experience: 1 Weeks
Pros: Nice screensCons: Very bad phone featuresSummary: Bad speaker phone quality. Bad sound quality. Need to press speakerphone button after every call. Need to unlock the phone every time you want to use it.The phone is too big. Reception is mediocare. It is amazing that a company like LG can't produce a decent phone after so many years.
Fierce! It's the unique new LG Lotus for Sprint - a square-shaped clamshell with a full QWERTY board inside. GPS, Sprint TV & Music, 2MP Camera, HTML Browser, Mobile IM and Email ... Noah checks out this fashion-forward feature phone.
Hey, look what just came! Thanks, Vanessa ;-) Here are some photos of the black LG Lotus for Sprint. The QWERTY board feels GREAT so far, as those bubbled chiclet-style keys make up for the relatively small size of the layout. Sprint's new One Click UI is sort of cool and helpful and sort of overdone; I'll have to play with it more, but I hope it winds up being handier more often than it gets in the way. And I'm...
It's the ruggedized Samsung a837 "Rugby" for AT&T. It's the Crane of Death in downtown Berkeley, CA. Push to talk technology meets a giant crane. But will Noah have the guts to scale the crane to drop the phone? Find out here!
Heads-up, phone phans! Nokia's planned an announcemnet for next Monday, October 13th - and has a viral campaign to hype things up in the meantime - and Motorola's announcing something new and "Clear" (as per their PR campaign) on Tuesday, October 14th. My bets? I have no idea what Nokia's gonna drop, but I bet MOTO unveils the Kraze smartphone for Verizon Wireless.
Stay tuned for all of the juicy bits as we get them. And...
Out of the box! It's the newest AT&T 3G phone, the pearly white Samsung a637. Low-end means high-tech these days, and this candybar packs 3G, support for XM Radio Mobile & AT&T Music/Video, and a 1.3 MP camera with video capture.
Might this be a peek into our near-term future? I hope so. You're looking at the HTC T8290, a shiny, sleek, badass looking piece of kit from HTC destined for Russia's Yota network.
What's neat about this device, besides its obvious good looks, is that it packs both GSM and WiMax connectivity so you can get your voice and high-speed data on in style. There's a 3.8", 800 x 480 hi-res display for all of that content you'll be...
First off, how cool is it that HTC dropped some significant cell phone news on the blogosphere via Twitter the other day? I'm not saying Twitter itself is/isn't cool, but rather that it's neat to see a tech company innovate when it comes to communicating with the media. Particularly so a tech company that uses the word "Innovation" in their marketing materials.
Second, my post about the possibility of the HTC Touch HD coming to...
An Android Community user - and T-Mobile Store Manager in Florida,
apparently - who goes by kaziko has posted the first user
review of T-Mobile's G1 Android phone. The review - which takes the
form of an ongoing forum thread - is summarized nicely in this post if
you don't care to dive into the 11+ page thread. Of course, if you do
there's text galore to tide you over until those G1s start
shipping on the 22nd.
So what's kaziko...
For the past few weeks I've been considering writing a post about how California's law against driving while holding a cell phone has done pretty much nothing to curb the habit - at least in the Oakland/Berkeley area where I live and work. Yesterday on my bike ride home from the office I figured out why I hadn't penned the post yet. The law has done something, I think. Sure, I still see at least three drivers with cellies in...
While i'm not exactly sure what's going on with some of these code names (Behold? Eternal? Huh?), I am sure of this: Samsung Mobile's bustin' out all over with their Xmas-time lineup of new phones for US carriers. Here's a little summary for you, best as I can cobble it out of truth, rumors, and other stuff that's just across the line from pure fiction:
T919 "Behold" (T-Mobile): This one's all but a lock. TouchWiz UI...
Okay, this is more like a "Paper DogFight" than a real dogfight since, you know, none of these phones are actually available yet. So what? Let's look at 'em on paper and see how they stack up so you can get a jump on arguing with your FaceBook Friends over which of these new phones is the best.Note that I'll include the US carrier for each phone in the competitor run-down. I'm well aware that the Storm is also available in...
This week's Noah's Bark podcast features an interview with Chloe Sladden, VP of Special Project Programming at Current TV. Chloe and I talked about "Hack the Debate," a collaboration between Current and Twitter which allows viewers to post "tweets" - in this case, short commentaries on the debate - some of which are chosen to run in a constant stream on the bottom portion of Current's TV broadcasts of the debates.Last night I watched the...
It's official! Verizon Wireless and BlackBerry have confirmed that the Storm will be available later this fall. The first BlackBerry touchscreen will make an exclusive debut in the U.S. with Verizon next month. Making changes to their OS, the BlackBerry Storm provides consumers with a full QWERTY keyboard in landscape mode and a SureType keyboard when in portrait. Find out more below in the official press release made...
When I first heard that T-mobile was offering a VoIP service, frankly, I wondered what could cause them to do such a thing, and what would motivate a customer to buy it. I've never paid much attention to VoIP because I've gotten so used to being mobile, 100% of the time. I went to my local T-Mobile store to check it out, and saw that they were pushing it as the hot new product.
The service is $10 a month for unlimited calls, to anywhere in...
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October 6, 2008 - Cogratulations to Omar Flores of TX. He is our week 17 winner of a brand new Motorola Q9m. "It feels good to know i won, I really did not expect for me to win, it came of great shock to me, thank you phonedog.com for the awesome phone!"
