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| Brand: LG
List Price: $499.99
Buy New: $49.99
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Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 7763
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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 Pretty cool but ... April 22, 2008
First time mommy from NYC (USA)
4 out of 5 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.
 Glad I bought It !!! March 23, 2008
D. J. Savage (Lowell, Mass)
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.
Love this phone! January 18, 2008
Angie (Minneapolis, MN USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I love this phone! We just switched from Sprint (terrible customer service!) and I don't know if it's this phone or the service, but the calls are loud and crystal clear! The battery seems to last forever (compared to my Razr I was using w/ Sprint). I got a 2GB memory card (LOVE that it takes those!) and easily loaded it with music that I can play on my phone...don't need an iPod with this phone.
The menu is a little less intuitive than ones I'm used to, but after a day or two of really playing with it, we've learned to use it pretty well.
I only gave it 4 stars for two reasons: One is the address book...there is no space in a contact for a note like "Joe's cousin" or "Open 8-10", there isn't a Birthday/Anniversary field, and there is also not an address field. Two is sometimes the voice dialing "ie: Call Mom Mobile" has trouble understanding me, but mostly has trouble understanding my fiance (who got the dark blue model).
We easily transferred our contacts via bluetooth.
Overall though, we both love our phones and are really happy with them so far. (About 2 weeks now)
 Useless as a media player. April 22, 2008
Andrew Tudor (Chattanooga, TN)
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.
black cherry chocolate 2! August 23, 2008
i<3pnutbutter
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
let me give a disclaimer that this is my 1st video/music/1.3 camera phone after using a phone that is 4 years old. i was filled with glee when i first got this one.
pros:
+ sleek, slim, and sexy slider phone
+ of good weight for a cell phone
+ color is awesome: dark bloody red!
+ nice finished gloss on phone
+ menu interface seems like other LGs. can move left to right for diff menus and up to down to look within each menu
+ each contact can have 7 info lines: mobile 1&2, home, work, email 1&2, fax
+ music is clear
+ music player stops when phone calls in! and plays once hung up! wow!
+ music shortcut smartkey is on the side of phone
+ complimented for the clear call quality!!
+ each side button/cover is of the glossy hard plastic, so no soft plastic covers!
+ 2gb microsd card
+ decent camera
+ has dedicated camera button
+ EZ tip calculator! interesting.
+ accessories can be found cheap
cons:
- navigation wheel and touchpad are kind of too close together and my fingers sometimes tap on the touchpad when i meant to slide the wheel. both still sensitive to the touch.
- navigation wheel feels flimsy to me
- can't adjust music player volume until played. this makes for a loud noise when u decide to play it in a setting that is quieter than the last setting you were in.
- needs headphone adapter
- video recording isn't the sharpest but usable
- zooming of video recording allowed but *clicking* of zoom is recorded loudly
- phone lock is on too quickly (ie: when in music player and want to skip, searching through phonebook and pausing for a bit)
- speaker is on back of phone so when music player is on, have to lie it face down to hear clearly
- menu items are set and unchangeable (order-wise or items shown)
- no games
- number pad feels small to me. i end up misstexting letters
- 5-minute alarm snoozes?!
- bad ringtones that arrived with it
- some pictures are undeletable that arrived with it
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