LG VX8550 Reviews

4 Jul 2007

LG VX8550 Chocolate Review

Chocolate got upgrade!

The VX8550 is a definite upgrade from the original VX8500 Chocolate. If you liked the original, you will love this even more, but if you didn’t like the Chocolate, you should give the new version a try. You will be pleasantly surprised..

Average

6.1

out of 10

• Keywords:
• LG
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• Verizon
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• Budget
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• Stylish

21. give and take

13 Sep 2007 by L Cook

62%6.2out of 10

Overall, a snazzy, stylish little phone. Nice features. Problems: BAD problems with dropped signals for those of us who live out in the boonies and/or are on the road a lot. Also bad: the touch-sensitive face can start moving you along to other screens when you don't really want to go, eg, when you're talking to someone on the phone and your cheek bumps the phone accidentally, next thing you know you've chosen options you didn't even know existed.

Overall, a pretty toy, but I need a tool. Wish I had kept my old phone with better reception.

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22. SiK99

28 Jul 2007 by K

60%6out of 10

Just bought the LG VX8500 a week and a half ago. Overall I like the phone. Great feature set. However I do have some problems. Battery life is not as advertised. 15 days on standby?1? Yeah right. Brand new phone battery and i'm lucky if i get 4-5 days with maybe 5 texts and 3 short(5 min or less) calls.

My other big issue is signal strength. I was just upgrading from a moto E815 phone. With my moto, I could get almost full EVDO bars. With the LG, I'm lucky if i get 1(out of four) bars in the 1X signal. To be fair it still makes the calls but I don't have a home phone. I use my cell as my main/only phone and need it to be dialed in at all times while home. The lack in signal strength is a deal breaker.

I will probably be returning mine and trying out the VX8300 instead. Overall its a great phone with great features. If you live in a city with good signal strength then I do not think you'll have much problem with this phone. I would suggest getting the larger battery though, especially if you are going to use this phones full features such as the bluetooth and music player.

-SiK99

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23. I know Technology

19 Jul 2007 by John Doe

88%8.8out of 10

The phone is great. I searched for quite some time for a phone and truthfully did not know whether I was going to make the jump to a smart phone because of my business, but with a nice laptop, I don't need to pay 60 extra bucks a month and everything else like size and confusion of the phone. The VX8550 has a superb design, good call quality and is overall just "slick". It does everything you need to do, great to goof around with, and it's carried by Verizon, Expensive service but you get what you pay for with there service. Highly reccomended.

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24. Amazing Phone!!!

16 Jul 2007 by blueks35

88%8.8out of 10

i used to have a prepaid phone for the lasted time but i was getting so tired of it. so i decided to go with some kind of plan and verizon was the plan i went with. thank god i did because verizon is the only company that has the chocolate. as soon as i saw it i loved it!!! i was worried though because i heard so much bad things about the old chocolate :-\ but i went with it anyway haha and i love it! the navigation wheel is amazing it works soo well and makes it easy to go through all the phones awesome features. i dont know what every one is talking about the camera for i think it takes amazing pictures..such good quality! overall this phone is def worth buying..especiallly because its only 100 bucks!! after the mail in rebate thing..unless you buy it on-line ;-) hehe

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25. Very good!

16 Jul 2007 by perry

86%8.6out of 10

I got this phone last week and just love it. I wanted a simple, useful and functional cell phone and I got more than that with the new chocolate. I love the voice quality, volume, and the speaker option on this phone. The battery life is average but does well. The stand-by time is also pretty good. You can call and answer a call without having to open the slider. I also like the lock option so the phone does not switch itself on inside my purse. Now for the frills- the phone looks great. I got the cherry color and cant help showing it off. The camera takes clear pictures and is hidden and protected behind the slider, which is great. This is not a camera so I didnt expect a 6 or 10 MP quality, and it didnt disappoint me. I love the outside metal scroll - it is pretty cool and easy to use. Overall, I would give it an "A" grade.

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26. i LOVe iT!!!!

16 Jul 2007 by Keana

100%10out of 10

so yeah i ordered my chocolate the day it came out and i got it thursday. i've had it 3 days and i absolutely love it!! it's so small and i love the touch screen feature. i was also really impressed with the camera too. it takes really good pictures. i also love the fact that you can answer it without having to open it and that it had VZW's sond id feature. the only thing is that it seems like i have to charge the battery every night but that's maybe cuz i talk on it alot. any whoo, i love it!!

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27. i love this phone!

13 Jul 2007 by holly

88%8.8out of 10

So, I had had my old cell phone for about 3 years. It was a small Samsung: it took crappy pictures, the text was too big for the screen, and there were horrible ringtone and wallpaper options. But it was the cheapest of the "nice" phones, so I bought it.

This time around I said, "hey, let's not buy the phone that breaks halfway through your contract and you have to deal with it for a year because you dont want to shell out the cash for a full price phone." So I bought the newest LG chocolate (in black). I didn't realize it at the time, but I bought it on the first day it came out - it was only $99!!! I didn't get the headphone/music pack that comes with it because... i have an iPod. I'm not going to use my phone as an MP3 player. Although, I think it's important to have the OPTION to put music on my phone if I would like to. This makes me feel important.

So overall I am REALLY pleased with the phone. First of all, it looks cool. It's sleek and black... it's thin and it slides. The surface is smooth because the buttons on the top are touch sensitive. When it lights up it just makes you feel all warm and fuzzy. I didn't own an older chocolate phone, but from what I've heard the button placement on the new one is a lot better. The send and end buttons are easy to hit, the volume is conveniently located right there on the side. There is a headphone jack and some other fancy things that I probably won't ever use (what a waste, huh).

The speaker is loud and clear. There are hundreds of options to customize the phone just the way you want it. The screen is big and colorful. Text messaging is easier with T9 (didn't have it on my old phone). And the best part: I feel much much cooler with my new phone.

Now, I must have been living in the phone camera stoneage - I think the camera is great!!! I dont' care how many megapixels it is or how many options you have to even out the whtie balance and resolution and blah blah blah. It's a phone! Who expects a phone to take award winning photography?? NOT ME! You couldn't even tell what I was taking pictures of on my old phone and you could take two 30 second videos.... you can take a whole HOUR of video with this phone!!

I have found two things that I don't like about this phone... number one: like everyone has said and will keep on saying, it's a huge fingerprint magnet. I have to wipe it off everytime i use to because I'm a little OCD. But no biggie, right? Number two: When you're talking on the phone there is no (at least not that I've been able to find) easy way to turn on the speaker phone. You have to hit unlock and ok and ok and speaker etc, it just goes on forever and by the time you get it on, you've missed half the conversation you were having. I get that this is probably because if the buttons weren't locked, your cheek would hit it... but it's still annoying. Or maybe there is a setting that I can switch that I haven't found yet. We'll have to see about that.

Anyways, overall this is a cool phone! If you're someone who doesn't need a 8000 megapixel phone and 50 gigs of memory etc then you'll be very pleased with the LG VX8550.

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28. New Chocolate Phone

9 Jul 2007 by Ashleigh

94%9.4out of 10

This new phone is great. It is slimmer than the old Chocolate, but they are the same lengths. The VX8550 [new chocolate] has a scroll wheel very similar to the iPod, however this actually moves and lights around it move to show you which way you are going. Another option with this scroll wheel is instead of spinning it in circles, you may also just push the left, right, top, or bottom, to move around. The center is a button as well. The screen is bright, and fairly big. Also, the send, end/power, and camera button are now in the area of the number keys. So it is much easier to tell what you are doing. The only touch screen buttons are the clear, speaker, and the top left and right option keys. This phone has the same idea as the old phone, however has some different features, so if you like all of the touch screen keys at the top of the phone, this new one will be a bit of a change for you. Also, the memory is good but not great, so you would want to buy a memory card.

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29. LG Made Some Improvements

9 Jul 2007 by Will Harris

82%8.2out of 10

I have recently got my hands on the "new" chocolate, the LG 8550. I was suprised and disapointed at the same time. I do like that they have redone the keypad and the navigation wheel, but was sad to learn that with these improvements they Left the camera at 1.3 megapixels. Why not go for broke and upgrade the camera? But the UI is solid and we no longer need an adapter for headphone jack (thank god). But over all, it is a welcome addition to the LG lineup.

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30. AMAZING!!!

6 Jul 2007 by Dean

94%9.4out of 10

i got this phone for my b-day in feb. and i waited a while till i posted a review so i knew how it was. its utterly amazing!!

PROS:
So cool
slim
good colors
good volume
nice font size
good display theme options
I could go on and on

CONS:
How should I put it, well um.. : a major FINGERPRINT MAGNET, but only if you but an original (black) Chocolate.

all and all, it is A GREAT phone.

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