Did a search, nothing came up.

Anyone heard about this yet? Verizon's first shot at a mp3/cell

8/9/2006 8:24:16 AM

i played with a coworkers for about 5 minutes. it seemed cool, if youre into overpriced trendy phones.


ps: its thick, and i liked another friends SLVR better in comparison

[Edited on August 9, 2006 at 8:33 AM. Reason : .]

8/9/2006 8:32:24 AM

the thing that bugs me about what i've read is that you can't use downloaded songs as ringtones

there's no way i'm going to have an mp3 cell phone and not use whatever song I want as the ringtone

8/9/2006 8:43:23 AM

^That's how Verizon rolls. Good luck using bluetooth to transfer anything as well. On my Sony Ericsson w600i, I can bluetooth my entire mp3 playlist to another phone, or use any of those mp3s as ringtones. When will people learn

8/9/2006 9:02:27 AM

Thats the only thing I don't like is they disable mp3 transfers by bluetooth and the mp3s as ringtones.

I'm seriously considering getting one as I like my current phone as an MP3 player. The main advantage to it aside from the look and shit is that it does have Stereo Bluetooth enabled, so I can get a stereo bluetooth headset and rock that without wires to my phone. The main disadvantage in my mind is that it doesn't have speakerphone and my 8100 can rock my music without headphones and sounds really good actually. So I'm still kinda deciding.

[Edited on August 9, 2006 at 9:12 AM. Reason : PS We (Verizon) are getting the SLVR in another couple months.]

8/9/2006 9:11:30 AM

slider....the only thing is the screen is going to be easy scratched, cool looking though

8/9/2006 9:18:53 AM

I do like the fact the keys can't get pushed (aside from the ones on the front) and the camera lens will be protected when its not slid open.

8/9/2006 9:20:15 AM

3^ just hack your phone. I enabled everything they disabled on my E815.

8/9/2006 10:36:03 AM

Quote :

"Did a search, nothing came up."

What were you using? AOL search?
http://www.verizonwireless.com/chocolate/

I played with one yesterday. It will be popular but I wasn't impressed. For the price they charge, you should be able to upload your own mp3 songs and use the gps without paying extra monthly fees.

8/9/2006 10:46:03 AM

sony ericsson w810 will be better

8/9/2006 10:50:02 AM

^^He probably meant he searched TWW and saw nothing on it. Shit you can't go to a website on the net without seeing a fucking ad for the thing.

^^1 you can upload your own songs without charge. The only thing you have to do is get the music kit. I paid $20 for mine that included the software, headphones, and the USB cable to plug up to my computer. I have 220 songs on my phone and didn't pay shit for them.

8/9/2006 11:07:10 AM

Quote :

"That's how Verizon rolls. Good luck using bluetooth to transfer anything as well. On my Sony Ericsson w600i, I can bluetooth my entire mp3 playlist to another phone, or use any of those mp3s as ringtones. When will people learn "

yeah, that's my main gripe with CDMA carriers in general

that said, i have the 6255i from alltel and i can do everything with its bluetooth, including uploading mp3s, pictures, and java games...and i love the fact that nokia's app is free, easily downloaded from their site, and actually makes SENSE (unlike their phone software, which is pretty confusing)

8/9/2006 12:13:02 PM

my friend works for suncom and he has a slvr.

I want one so bad.

8/9/2006 2:04:08 PM

FYI for anyone with Verizon:

HACK YOUR PHONE. Pretty much every phone can be hacked open and enable all the shit they turn off. All that functionality is just a firmware flash away. Check howardforums

8/9/2006 4:34:04 PM

Its not LG's First mp3 phone, the 8100 and the 8300 are both mp3 phones.


This phone has nothing special about it at all... Its just a silder phone, with no antenna. The glossy black finish will scratch easily....

We've sold a few out of my store already, they are "ok"

8/9/2006 4:40:26 PM

I just got a dummy unit today and am surprised by how small it is. I kinda like it. Its not the "wonderous" thing that you'd think from the ads, but damn I thought it was more like an iPod in size. This thing is tiny. I don enjoy it and would like to get one, if it didn't cost $texas.

8/10/2006 4:35:33 PM

They are expensive if you dont get them through a 2yr contract... something like 360$ + etc at cost

[Edited on August 10, 2006 at 6:24 PM. Reason : at cost^]

8/10/2006 6:24:22 PM

lol kevin...people that are looking at the cdma version of the chocolate dont give a shit about the w810...they want the coverage area of verizon...or they would have already switched to gsm...because gsm phones are always "cooler"

8/11/2006 12:43:47 AM

dumb

8/11/2006 2:27:06 AM

ahahaha.... sounds like a winner
http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/?p=122

8/24/2006 10:37:32 PM

I LOVE my Samsung D600

8/25/2006 11:03:05 AM

^^ i read that and agree

8/25/2006 11:22:59 AM

I get:

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when clicking that link.

8/25/2006 1:33:23 PM

works for me. here's the text

Quote :

"Heavily Hyped Cellphone Won’t Make You a Chocoholic Chocolate, under the proper circumstances, can be a deeply satisfying treat for the senses. It can also be a sticky mess. Unfortunately, the heavily hyped Chocolate music player/cellphone (made by LG, offered by Verizon Wireless) resembles the latter more than the former. What’s nice about the phone: its looks. It’s tiny, almost like an elongated box of Tic Tacs. It’s shiny, clad in dark plastic. And it’s a slider phone, meaning that the dialing pad is hidden except when you slide the halves apart. The rest of the time, the front panel is supposed to look like an iPod, with a bright color screen above and a circular control pad below. The phone-call sound quality is good, and the price isn’t bad: $150 (after rebate, and with two-year commitment), although you should also factor in the price of a Micro SD card to hold your music files ($50 or so for a 1-gigabyte card). Music lovers should also note that the Chocolate is one of very few U.S. phones that can actually send high-quality music wirelessly to Bluetooth *stereo* headphones. And now, the sticky mess part. Turns out the iPod dial isn’t a dial at all; it’s just four buttons arranged in a circle. That’s OK in itself, but these buttons don’t budge or even click when you press them; the only response you get, if any, is a reaction on the screen. It’s a bad sign that two pages of the manual are dedicated to listing warnings about these touch buttons. “Remove moisture from the surface of your hands,” goes one. “Don’t use the touch buttons in a humid environment.” (OK, so what are we supposed to do when we’re in Miami? Use a pay phone?) “If you touch [a button] off-center, it may activate the nearby function instead.” And so on. Listen up, LG dudes: I’m sorry, but if your primary control system requires seven warnings in your manual, maybe you should reconsider your system. Sure enough, these buttons are a nightmare. They’re balky, nonresponsive, slow to react and all-around infuriating (and yes, I tried all four sensitivity settings). The three people who tried my review unit had amazingly similar reactions, even after I told them to stop running their thumbs around the dial as though it were an iPod. One said he felt like throwing the phone “through the window,” another “into the trash,” and another “across the room.” More problems: The Send key is on the left of the front—but the End key isn’t across from it, as on every other cellphone on earth; instead, it’s a microscopic, vertically mounted button on the right edge of the phone. When the phone is sleeping, the screen goes completely black, so you can’t even tell if it’s on (you don’t even get a clock). The phone works with MP3 and Windows Media files, but not with songs bought on iTunes and not with the Macintosh. The camera is decent, but it’s only 1.3 megapixels and you have to open the slider to use it. Worse, your picture gallery (and the Take Video command) are hidden, nonsensically, in the Get It Now menu, which is traditionally the cheesy commercial area of Verizon phones, where they try to sell you games, streaming video and so on. And what kind of phone has a speaker this good, but no speakerphone? Don’t even get me started on the phone lock function, which disables all of the buttons after only *three seconds*. You can’t use any of the buttons again unless you press a tiny side button twice. I couldn’t find any way to disable this deeply annoying feature. Whenever I review a product this badly designed, I just stare at the ceiling and try to imagine how it could possibly have gotten out the door. Haven’t successes like the iPod and the Treo taught the marketers anything about making things work simply and well? It’s stunning that nobody in a position of power at LG or Verizon actually tried this thing, tried pressing those infernal passive-aggressive buttons, and realized that the Chocolate is a usability disaster. As it stands, people might buy this phone because it looks cool. But it’s safe to say that not many of them will become Chocoholics. "

8/25/2006 1:58:09 PM