LG Chocolate for Verizon Wireless, Models (Chocolate LG White)

CHOCOLATE LG VERIZON WIRELESS

The sweet LG Chocolate for Verizon Wireless may make you leave your iPOD at home forever! The LG Chocolate is the first Verizon Wireless phone with a soft-touch keypad, external graphic equalizer, streaming or downloadable music from VCAST, and the capability to transfer music to and from your PC (USB cable required). It also supports streaming stereo music over Bluetooth as well. With a 1.3 Megapixel camera/camcorder and tons more, the Chocolate is perhaps the best music phone available!

LG VX8550 Chocolate II Maroon

LG Chocolate vx8550 Blue Ice

LG VX8550 Chocolate White
LG VX8550 Chocolate in Black

CHOCOLATE LG WHITE

LG CHOCOLATE (VX8500), (Chocolate LG White)

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LG CHOCOLATE (VX8500).

The LG VX8500 (or "Chocolate") is a slider cellphone-MP3 player hybrid that is sold as a feature phone. In the U.S. it was released by Verizon Wireless in July 2006 and made available online, and later released in Verizon stores in the U.S. on August 7, 2006. In addition to the original black model (dubbed "Dark Chocolate"), the LG Chocolate VX8500 is also available in the U.S. in a light green, white, pink, and red (called "Mint Chocolate," "White Chocolate," "Strawberry Chocolate," and "Cherry Chocolate," respectively). The LG Chocolate has another successor called the LG Chocolate (VX8550) which has: touch buttons with improved accuracy, a scroll wheel, support for 4GB microSD cards, and tactile send and end keys. The LG Chocolate 3 was recently released, the current price is $179 with a 2 year contract.

ORIGIN. The original LG Chocolate(KV5900) was released in Korea long before the UK or U.S. version. In Korea, it was available in three colors which were black, white and red. After becoming an extremely popular item in South Korea's mobile phone market, it saw its GSM release into the UK, and a modified version was released in Canada. The US Chocolate is a different phone (VX8500), with a QVGA (320x240) LCD over the KG800's 176x220 LCD. The touch panel on the VX8500 has a slightly different design, with a circular button arrangement bordered with glossy metal, versus the KG800's square arrangement featuring simple arrow designs (a defining part of the ads for the original LG Chocolate ) , and a rounded silver rectangle bordering the "OK" button in the center. The A2DP and AVRCP Bluetooth profiles are available on the VX8500, but not on the KG800. The KG800's number pad also features a matte grey and glossy black checkerboard pattern, and the camera has a white LED flash, both of which the VX8500 does not have.

AD CAMPAIGN. The in-store release of the VX8500/Chocolate followed six television commercials, four of which featured music playing while the device was displayed from various camera angles, often with the glow from the touch-panel leaving a trail. The device was shown closed, making it look like an MP3 player, and the commercials ended with the music pausing, the phone opening, and a phone call or message being played. In one campaign is featured the song "Candyman" by Christina Aguilera. The fifth commercial simply played Goldfrapp's "Strict Machine" while the phone emerged from liquid chocolate. The sixth commercial showed cherries being squished into a paste to make a redish phone, a chocolate dipped into a pool of white chocolate, and mint being chopped to make a green phone, also to the song Candyman. Verizon also scented select units to tie the phone into the ad campaign.

TOUCH PANEL. The face of the Chocolate LG has no tactile buttons, but rather touch-sensitive panels with red-orange illuminating symbols to designate the touch-sensitive areas. The buttons include four corner buttons (Left option, right option, Call, and Return), and a wheel. The four sides of the wheel behave like a direction pad in most applications. In the music player, they work as scroll up/down, and next/previous track. The OK button in the center of the wheel doubles as Pause/Play in the music player.

CHOCOLATE LG WHITE

CHOCOLATE LG WHITE

Key features

• Bluetooth® Capable

• V CAST Music and Video

• 1.3 Megapixel Camera & Camcorder

• microSDTM Memory Port

• Touch-Sensitive Navigation Keys

Music

• Music Player with Customizable Effects and Player Themes (supports MP3 and WMA formats)

• V CAST Music – download and play full-length songs (WMA files),† sync music from PC to phone*

• Powerful Speaker for Music

• Dedicated Music Key for Easy Access

• Multitask While Playing Music – hide player to send messages, browse the web, etc.

• My Music – manage playlists and songs which are auto organized by artist, genre, and album

• Music Only Mode (RF off except Bluetooth)

• Set Alarm Using Music

• microSD Memory Port to Store Pictures, Videos, Music, and Sounds** *Requires USB cable (sold separately) and Windows Media Player 10. **Not all downloaded content may be moved to the microSD card. Memory card sold separately.

Bluetooth

• Bluetooth Capable (v1.1) – supports headset, hands-free,* advanced audio distribution, serial port, dial-up networking, object push profiles**

• Save up to 20 Bluetooth Pairings

• Bluetooth Stereo Headset Support for Listening to Music***

• Send vCard to another Bluetooth Capable Device *For Bluetooth vehicle/accessory compatibility, go to www.verizonwireless.com/bluetoothchart. **Phone does not support all Bluetooth OBEX profiles. ***Streaming audio not supported through Bluetooth stereo headset.

Camera / Video

• 1.3 Megapixel Camera & Camcorder

• Resolution: 1280x960, 640x480 (default), 320x240, 176x144, 160x120 Pixels

• Save up to 1,000 Photos at Any Resolution*

• V CAST Video – stream and download video clips (15 fps)†

• Video Player (supports MPEG4, 3GP, 3G2, H.264)

• FLIX Message Mode – record up to 15 seconds of video

• General Mode – record up to 1 hour of video*

• Video Resolution: 176x144 Pixels

• Video Format: 3G2

• Digital Zoom: Up to 2x**

• Self-Timer: 3, 5 or 10 Seconds

• Customizable Brightness,*** White Balance,*** Shutter Sound, Color Effects, Night Mode

• Mirror for Self-Portrait Capability *Depends on unused memory. **Varies by image size. Camera setting of 1280x960 pixels does not support zoom function. ***Available in both video and camera modes.