Cell Phones : LG VX8500 Chocolate

I'm bored at work so I felt like doing something with my time.



When I first got this phone I loved everything about it; wasn't hard to learn, touchpad wasn't too sensitive, camera was great, played music from a 1 gig card that you should buy online for like 30-40 bucks. It did kinda suck that I bought the music essentials kit, what a scam but whatever. You can probably get the right headphones and data cable somewhere online for half the price. Oh and by the way apparently these phones come with a speakerphone mode; mine did.



Then the phone died. At five o'clock. On the same day that I charged it. Hardly even used it. My mom's chocolate lasted for days without a recharge! So I promptly took the battery back and replaced it to no avail; still died the next day. So thennnnn I took the whole phone back. Verizon was great and gave me another one. Had it another day and it died. So I was getting ready to accept and live with it until I did some thinking and decided that maybe the fact that I had the memory card in mine had something to do with it, because that was the only difference between mine and my mother's. So next day I took it out and the phone still had 4 bars (full) of charge by the time I went to sleep. And then I realized that my WALLPAPER WAS STORED ON THE MEMORY CARD. So this whole time it has been wasting battery accessing the memory card.. no wonder it died so fast. Hopefully this is the situation that many of you are in and that this resolves the battery life problem for you as it did for me.



Personally I think people that think the touch pad is too sensitive are out of their minds. I didn't find mine sensitive enough so I turned the sensitivity to high. If you just spend a few minutes to look through the phone interface you will find that it is organized very well. It takes great pictures but it sucks that there's no flash. Also, the glossy finish really likes oil/fingerprints but it's not a problem if you carry the phone in your pocket because it just cleans off on the fabric. There are still a lot of features like VZnavigator and stuff that I really haven't had to use yet but if I do I'll be glad I have this phone.



A few things I don't like are the music player interface, Windows Media Sync, and small keys. The music player does kind of a crappy job of organizing your music; the songs are all out of order, etc. I hate, hate, hateeee Windows Media Player also and it sucks that I have to use it in order to sync the songs onto the phone. I haven't yet done a direct transfer to the card via a card reader on the pc. Hopefully that works a bit better. If you're used to iTunes then this will be a pain in the butt for you. Transfers often fail, playlists are unorganized and everything is just plain difficult to use. Also, if you text a lot, the keys will take some getting used to as they are small. When I first got it I would often type out 3 or 4 letters with 1 press on the keypad because I would hit other keys accidentally.



Hope this review helped you. I think this is a really great phone, period. Have fun with it! Hide Full Review

Yes it's over rated, yes Verizon has disabled some features, yes it does not have a speakerphone.

Also yes I still love it, it works well and is a small quailty phone.

Battery life is not good esp. if you use for pics an most of all video. For me it's still a keeper. Hide Full Review

I bought the chocolate this weekend and I am in love! The chocolate fits the arm band for the IPOD mini, allowing me to take my music on the go with me, without toting an extra device. The touch screen sensitivity is adjustable, allowing the user to modify the device to suit them. Screen quality and sound quality are excellent. It has a memory expansion port which allows up to a 2GB card to store music, in addition to the in phone memory. While the chocolate does not have a speakerphone, the bluetooth capability makes it easy to use in the car and on the go.

The only downside to buying the chocolate is that you have to read the manual in order to master all the versatile features it has to offer. But it's worth the read.

I LOVE MY CHOCOLATE! Hide Full Review

This is really a wonderful phone. Some people just need to read the manual and maybe use it before actually writing a review on something they know very little about. The touch buttons, take a little while to get used to but if you have an IPod, you'll be well off. IT DOES HAVE A SPEAKERPHONE. When you're talking, there is a little thing on the top-right of the screen. If you press the adjacent side button, you're on speakerphone. Memory for the songs can go up to 2GB with a miniSD disk. And what is great about the extra memory is that on the phone, you can choose to put not only music on the extra memory but photos too. What pissed me off a little bit at the beginning was the ringtone situation. My friends all got RAZRs, and those could have loaded real music ringtones (pretty obvious). I really wanted that. I thought at first that the Chocolate couldn't do it but through thorough research, I've found that you can do it through either sending a ringtone as a PIXmessage or a program called BitPim. Look into it. Oh and for those who are complaining about battery life, there is a trick to that. If you go to menu and press 0, something will pop up with 6 question marks. Enter 6 zeroes and you'll get a long menu; go to (3)Network Select, then (1) Mode Preference. You'll get 4 choices, one of which will up your battery life A LOT: 1X Only. I have no idea what the other choices are, but the initial setting was Digital Only Hybrid I believe. 1X Only will make the battery life something like 24 hours. The only downside to this is that VCast will be mostly unavailable. GREAT PHONE. GREAT PRICE. GREAT FEATURES. Just don't listen to people who give uneducated and bad reviews. Hide Full Review

okay heres the deal
people keep saying that there isnt a speaker phone, well news flash! THERE IS! just read the manual before you go off bad mouthing a perfectlyy good phone. sure its touch pad is a bit sensitive, and it does get a bit of fingerprints, but those are trifles. [dont mean anything] the speaker phone is the camera button. when u are on a call, just press it and it will go to speaker phone. another thing, the battery is fine, those people who listen to music for 4 hours, ya that DOES kill the battery, but if u dont use it for an iPod, it lasts forever. mine STILL hasent died and i had it for like 3 weeks. geez and for the people who say that the touch-sensitive pad thing is too "sensitive" first of all, read the name. and second of all:lay off the caffine. its fine. mine isnt sensitive. i think those people are just looking for bad things. just enjoy a great phone and..i dont know. try READING THE MANUAL before complaining. its all in there, thats what its for. some people.... Hide Full Review