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LG VX-8500-Chocolate Review - Introduction & Design

LG VX-8500-Chocolate
Published on 9/12/2006
By: Fareed Mahdi, Cell Phone Editor
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Editor Rating: 3.3
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LG VX8500 "Chocolate" assorted colors

The LG chocolate phone was made and released for Valentines Day, hence the name Chocolate phone. The phone got very famous quite fast because of the design and futuristic look. Although the LG chocolate phone is more famous, the Samsung E900 is a direct competitor, but which is better for you? Even though the phone is called chocolate, it sure doesn’t taste like it!!   
 
The LG chocolate is a slider phone and when open it reveals the keypad. The best part of the phone is the touch sensitive buttons. When the phone is on standby the lights of the buttons are off so you cannot see them. When lit they have a red backlight which looks cool, but also very annoying at times!!
Sometimes when you are going through the menu you accidentally press the wrong button because the side of your finger brushed the touch sensitive button. Even more annoying, the touch sensitive buttons freeze at times and you have to pull out the battery to fix the issue. This happened to me once so far but I have heard of others having the same issue. Overall the design of the phone is cool and many people prefer looks over functions. 

A new version of the chocolate phone has been released too. The new version has the exact same specs but is in pearl white color. The price is a little more than the original chocolate phone but is worth the extra buck.  

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Thursday, May 29, 2008heyyy loookk at itttttttttttt!!!!!!!!
Steven Martin
Tuesday, May 27, 2008Ok......I have a Cherry Chocolate. And I must say you got the audio part ALL WRONG! The music player is WAAAAY better than even the Voyager. Allow me to explain. The Chocolate automatically assorts songs by Artist, Album, & Genre. The phone does NOT have 5 volume levels; it has 15. And the phone has MULTI-TASKING. (While listening to a song, I can send a TEXT Message, go look at pictures, check my e-mail, or just browse through the phone.) And the Chocolate DOES have speakerphone. So I would have to say the LG Chocolate by FAR surpasses the Voyager, Glyde, and a LOT of other phones when it comes to music.

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