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LG Chocolate Updated for Verizon


Thu Jul 05, 2007 11:08 am

The LG Chocolate is back and sweeter than ever, sporting Black Cherry and Blue Mint colors. Slimmer and sleeker, the new Chocolate has a vibrating touch keypad and a new Navigation Wheel with Trace Motion light. The wheel allows for easy navigation through phone functions, as well as quick and simple functionality while browsing music and videos.


LG Chocolate (VX8550)
- Network: CDMA 800 / 1900
- Form Factor: Slide
- Main Screen: 262000 colors (TFT) / 240 x 320 px
- Camera: 1.3 MP / 1280 x 960 px / 2X Zoom / Video Recorder
- High-Speed Data: cdma2000 1xEV-DO

LG Chocolate (VX8550)


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Ideal for VCAST Music customers who want a mobile music device, the Chocolate offers advanced multimedia features such as a microSD memory slot that supports up to a 4 GB card, a music player, a powerful speaker for music and dedicated keys for easy access to stored music. The Chocolate is also VCAST-capable and compatible with VZ Navigator, the Verizon's location-based service that provides turn-by-turn directions to more than 14 million destinations and points of interest throughout the U.S.

The LG Chocolate offers the following features and capabilities:

- Music player for MP3 and WMA songs
- Powerful speaker for music
- Dedicated key for easy access to the music player
- Background music - music plays in the background while sending messages, browsing the Web, etc.
- My Music - songs are automatically organized by artist, genre and album
- Music only mode (RF off except Bluetooth)
- MicroSD memory port to store pictures, videos, music and sounds, compatible with microSD cards up to 4 GB
- 1.3-megapixel camera and camcorder
- Camera resolution: 1280 x 960 px, 640 x 480 px (default), 320 x 240 px
- VCAST Video - stream and download video clips
- Video recording time: 30 seconds for sending
- Video player for MP4, 3GP, 3G2 formats
- Set videos (under 5 MB) as wallpaper
- Video resolution: 176 x 144 px
- Video format: 3G2
- Zoom: up to 2x
- Self-timer: three, five or ten seconds
- Image editor - zoom, rotate, crop
- Mirror for self-portrait capability
- Supported Bluetooth Profiles: headset, hands-free, dial-up networking, advanced audio distribution (stereo), phone book access, basic print (print and send user-generated pictures to a printer via Bluetooth), object push for vCard and vCalendar, file transfer and basic imaging
- Speaker-independent voice commands: call, send message to, go to, check, lookup, play
- My Account
- TTY/TDD support
- Hearing aid compatible (M4-rating)
- Text, picture/video messaging
- Mobile Web 2.0
- Web-based email, instant messaging and chat
- Flash user interface for clear images, text and fun animations
- Phone book with 1,000 contacts - each stores five numbers, two email addresses and a picture ID
- Emergency contacts - enter three contacts and personal information, in case of emergency
- Frequency 1.9 GHz CDMA PCS, 800 MHz CDMA (digital dual-band)
- Data transmission high-speed EV-DO
- Dimensions: 3.85" x 1.87" x 0.67"
- Weight: 3.24 oz.
- LCD 262K-color TFT, 240 x 320 px, 11 lines
- Standard battery: 800 mAh Li-Polymer
- Up to 250 minutes of usage time or up to 350 hours of standby time

- LG Chocolate (VX8550) Specs

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