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Video Tour: LG Chocolate 8550

Aug 7, 2007, 10:50 AM by Eric Lin

The successor to the Chocolate features a vast number of improvements in a slimmer body.

The new Chocolate 8550 is a significant improvement over the original, launched almost a year ago. In this video we take you on a tour of the new version and show you what's been improved.

You can watch the video here:

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LG VX-8550 Chocolate

Display: 240 x 320 pixels
800 mAh battery
Memory Card Slot

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unfrostedpoptart

Aug 7, 2007, 11:09 AM

Music player / phone interaction

Thanks for the review, but I'm really surprised you didn't address how the music player and phone interact, especially since you talk about how the music player works in the background.

If you are playing music and a call comes in, what happens? Does the music automatically pause and then resume when the call is over? What about for outgoing calls?

Thanks,

David

bigredslave

To answer you question: Yes, it time's-out on a phone call & resumes when tha call ends.

eric Lin

i didn't spend any time on it because we've shown it on other verizon phones before. when a call comes in, the volume is lowered to play the ringtone, then when you answer, the call is paused, automatically resuming when you hang up. making a call, th...
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SabrToothSqrl

Aug 7, 2007, 5:26 PM

scroll wheel

he forgot to mention its not a cool ipod like scroll wheel (insert technical name here) its a plastic wheel from a lego's set you will be spinning around...

minus that AND the keyboard, its a nifty music phone.

carfanatic2

Notice that all the nice fast running phones that Veirzon sells are from LG. That's gott o say something about LG as a company. I mean Compared against the LG 9400, there is that Samsung phone the u-620 or something that's the 2nd phone for VCast tv b...
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