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LG Chocolate Updated for Verizon


By Allen Tsai | Thu Jul 05, 2007 7:08 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.

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LG Chocolate (VX8550)

LG Chocolate (VX8550)

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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