LG VX8500 Chocolate Cell Phone

Rad phone.. Read this if your battery dies daily!!

By canetsberger  Oct 15, 2006 | 196 out of 214 found this LG VX8500 Chocolate review helpful

Pros: Awesome looking, nice screen, touch pad is awesome, good pictures, good interface

Cons: small internal memory, only WMP compatible (no itunes) and headphones don't use a regular headphone jack

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 shou...ld 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! Read more Less