LG VX8500 Chocolate

Price: $8.99 - $8.99

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Great phone and IT DOES HAVE A SPEAKERPHONE!12/30/06

Pros:

the style, the music speaker, the music player, the extra memory, a lot more

Cons:

Camera has no flash and is only 1.3 megapixels

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.