LG Chocolate VX8550 Mobile phone Press Release

The Chocolate mobile phone by LG is back and sweeter than ever. Decked out in traditional Black, the Chocolate will also sport two new colors, Black Cherry and Blue Mint, when it hits Verizon Wireless stores July 9. The leading wireless company with the most reliable wireless voice and data network and LG, the global leader and technology innovator in consumer electronics, home appliances and mobile communications, today announced a new feature-rich successor to its popular music-centric best seller.

Slimmer and sleeker, the new Chocolate mobile phone has a rich assortment of features, including 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.

Perfect for V CAST Music customers who crave a fully-functional mobile music device, Chocolate mobile phone by LG offers advanced multimedia features such as a microSD™ memory slot that supports up to a 4GB card, a music player, a powerful speaker for music and dedicated keys for easy access to stored music. Chocolate by LG is also V CAST-capable and perfect for use with Get It Now® applications, such as VZ NavigatorSM, the location-based service from Verizon Wireless that provides turn-by-turn directions to more than 14 million destinations and points of interest throughout the U.S.

PCMag reviews the LG Chocolate VX8550 mobile phone and writes, "The built-in 1.3-megapixel camera takes sharp shots, though it does tend to overexpose images slightly and wash out the brightest areas. There was refreshingly little blur in low-light shots. The video camera mode takes the usual for-novelty-value-only, low-res 176- by 144-pixel videos. The new Chocolate mobile phone is Verizon Wireless's best music phone, meant for folks who intend to use their phones for multimedia. For other uses, I have other picks. ... Still, the Chocolate 8550 should satisfy music fans who've been oh-so-longingly looking at the iPhone, but are unwilling to leave Verizon." Read MOre