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| LG VX8550 Chocolate Maroon Phone (Verizon Wireless) | 
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| Brand: LG
Category: Wireless
List Price: $499.99
Buy New: $30.42
You Save: $469.57 (94%)
Avg. Customer Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 1127
Color: Maroon
Media: Wireless Phone
Battery Type: Lithium Ion
Display Size: 3
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0
Dimensions (in): 0 x 0 x 0
Model: KPC680
UPC: 652810813365
ASIN: B000TJT1BG
Release Date: July 12, 2007
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Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Customer Reviews:
 A pretty phone but annoying July 17, 2008
I have had this phone about 6 months, I'm on my second one as the first one freaked out on me a few weeks ago and they had to replace it.
It's a very pretty phone but not well designed.
1. Because of the slide I've had times where I take it from my pocket to answer and it slips shut hanging up on the person before I get it free.
2. the wheel is a pain and will slip when calling people making it tricky to get the right person all the time.
3. When you call a number that requires you to enter digital codes (like voice mail) it activates the front keys which will now start changing settings with your cheek so you have to remember to deactivate them after sending in numbers. this is a huge pain in the butt and has caused me to go onto mute while trying to dial in to a corporation and almost lose the call because I didn't realize it was on mute.
4. The voice activation does the same thing so you need to use it on speaker because if you try to use it without speaker the settings keep changing by touching your face.
5. I find myself constantly asking people what they said because I just don't hear them well (not using a bluetooth)
The speaker phone does work well, it takes decent pics.
I wish I never got this phone
LG chocolate is an okay phone and Verizon leaves a little to be desired July 13, 2008
We purchased two LG chocolate phones through Verizon five months ago. I should have purchased the phone through Amazon. Although Verizon promised what Amazon could deliver, it took several hour long phone calls to Verizon customer service and almost three months to actually get what Amazon could have done for us originally in one online purchase. Oops. Anyway, my chocolate phone seemed to do all that I required at first. Unfortunately, after three months, the wheel on the phone stopped working. Quite distressing. Two months later the phone was stolen. More distressing and too bad for the thief, as the wheel no longer worked. The subsequent calls (please note the use of the plural) to Verizon to deal with the theft of my phone resulted in several more hours of my time spent and the only thing Verizon succeeded in doing was shutting off the service to the other unstolen chocolate phone and listing the wrong phone on the lost/stolen list, thus rendering our only working phone unusable. Sadly, no one at Verizon much cared. We had switched from AT&T because of abysmal customer service but Verizon, thus far, is only marginally better. Perhaps this is just the state of phone service today and in retrospect, perhaps I would have been better off with a different phone. Or a rabid wombat.
 Pretty cool but ... April 22, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I just received my chocolate a few days ago and I have say it is quite beautiful. The color is a deep, rich red and it is amazingly very light in weight. The navigation wheel is something I have to get use to since all my previous phones were the traditional flip-open type. I am still learning the features of this phone. So far what I do find annoying is the sensitivity of the four control areas around the wheel. Whenever I am trying to modify my phone settings, enter new entries in my phonebook or even browse through my music list the slightest touch to any of those control areas will change the screen. It is quite annoying and at times frustrating.
I never had a cell phone that played music so this one is a novelty. I opted to using the micro SD and an SD adapter for my pc. At first I couldn't download any songs onto the SD from my pc because it kept declaring that the SD was write-protected. What I found out later was that there is a lever at the side of the adapter that you have to slide to unprotect it. This information would have save me some frustration if it was mentioned in the SD package and/or the Chocolate manual. In fact the manual doesn't even mention anything on how to download music, pics or sounds from the pc using an micro SD or USB cable.
BTW I bought my Sandisk 1 GB with 2 adapters from Amazon at a very cheap price. Verizon was selling the same thing for twice as much.
To sum it up the LG VX8550 Chocolate is a pretty cool phone...so far.
 Useless as a media player. April 22, 2008
1 out of 6 found this review helpful
When I selected this phone I was looking forward to being able to have a nice mp3 player built into my phone to use with my S9 blue tooth headphones. The first annoyance was the fact that this phone will list and play all the songs in alphabetical order based on tag name. Which means properly tagged files will play out of sequence. This is a minor annoyance for music but makes listening to lectures or books on tape impossible. The second annoyance is that the blue tooth power is not strong enough to maintain signal with the phone in my pocket.
Other complaints include not being able to set vibrate and ring simultaneously, touch sensitive buttons are flaky, and fast forwarding through a song takes just barely less time then listening to the song. They should spend more time making a device that functions right, rather than one that just looks neat.
 Glad I bought It !!! March 23, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
First off I didn't buy this phone at Amazon because verizon had a better deal directly. That said I am quite pleased with this cell phone. As I am new to the whole cell phone thing ( past 5 years ) this was a quantum leap from my old pay as you go phone. There was a learning curve to all the buttons and whistles this phone has on board but if your patient and RTFM that comes with the phone it is a fun piece of equipment to own and operate.
Phone reception is pretty good and the camera is feature filled with decent quality. If there are any down sides to this phone it's that the touch sensitive buttons can be mildly annoying and the MP3 player could be more intuitive AKA I-pod or creative labs players. As I tend to be somewhat ham handed texting is more a function of the times then something I gotta have so any multi-use hand held device wouldn't get a good rating from me in this area. The benefits far outweigh the deficits as far as I'm concerned so my 5 star is objective to my most used features and don't warrant that this makes this any less a 5 star in my book.
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