LG Chocolate VX8550 Cell Phone

Slimmer and sleeker, the new Chocolate 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 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.

The Chocolate by LG from Verizon Wireless offers the following features and capabilities:

• Music player for MP3 and WMA songs
  
• Powerful speaker for music
  
• Dedicated key for easy access to the music player
  
• Background music - music plays in the background while sending messages, browsing the Web, etc.
  
• My Music - songs are automatically organized by artist, genre and album
  
• Music only mode (RF off except Bluetooth)
  
• MicroSD memory port to store pictures, videos, music and sounds, compatible with microSD cards up to 4GB
  
• 1.3 megapixel camera and camcorder
  
• Camera resolution: 1280 x 960, 640 x 480 (default), 320 x 240 pixels
  
• V CAST Video - stream and download video clips
  
• Video recording time: 30 seconds for sending
  
• Video player for MP4, 3GP, 3G2 formats
  
• Set videos (under 5MB) as wallpaper
  
• Video resolution: 176 x 144 pixels
  
• Video format: 3G2
  
• Zoom: up to 2x
  
• Self-timer: three, five or ten seconds
  
• Image editor - zoom, rotate, crop
  
• Mirror for self-portrait capability
  
• Speaker-independent voice commands: call, send message to, go to, check, lookup, play,
  
• My Account
  
• TTY/TDD support
  
• Hearing aid compatible (M4-rating)
  
• Text, picture/video messaging
  
• Mobile Web 2.0SM
  
• Web-based e-mail, instant messaging and chat
  
• Flash user interface for clear images, text and fun animations
  
• Phone book with 1,000 contacts - each stores five numbers, two e-mail addresses and a picture ID
  
• Emergency contacts - enter three contacts and personal information, in case of emergency
  
• Frequency 1.9 GHz CDMA PCS, 800 MHz CDMA (digital dual-band)
  
• Data transmission high-speed EV-DO
  
• Dimensions: 3.85" (h) x 1.87" (w) x 0.67" (d)
  
• Weight: 3.24 oz.
  
• LCD 262K color TFT, 240 x 320 pixels, 11 lines
  
• Standard battery: 800 mAh Li-Polymer
  
• Up to 250 minutes of usage time or up to 350 hours of standby time

Supported Bluetooth Profiles:

• Headset, hands-free, dial-up networking, advanced audio distribution (stereo)
  
• Phone book access, basic print (print and send user-generated pictures to a printer via Bluetooth),
  
• Object push for vCard and vCalendar, file transfer and basic imaging