Verizon Wireless has released the LG Chocolate Touch VX8575, a touchscreen multimedia phone that belongs to the popular LG Chocolate family. Combined with Dolby Mobile sound, a vibrant and responsive screen, a 3.2-megapixel camera and quick access to social networking sites, the new Chocolate is geared towards Verizon customers who enjoy playing music on the go.Dominating the front is a 3.0-inch resistive touchscreen display with 262,000-color support and 400x240-pixel resolution, which makes a great match with the shiny mirror finish on the back. The phone is slim and fairly lightweight by measuring 4.30 by 2.20 by 0.47 inches and weighing 4.23 ounces.
The highlight of the Chocolate Touch is its music features. The native music player lets you sync music with your PC using V CAST Music with Rhapsody. The player works with the Dolby Mobile equalizer for you to tweat music manually or with the five presets. You can use other functions of the phone while listening to music with the player running in the background.
A number of additional music-related features can be found on the handset. "Rhythmical Beat" makes the phone vibrate along to the song. The song ID program analyzes a song played on the radio and displays its information. The fun "Join the Band" application lets you tap along to music on a virtual piano or drum kit. Additionally, there is a FM radio tuner with 12 preset tunes.
The Chocolate Touch also provides great messaging and email functions. You can sync your email and calendar through RemoSnyc, and use the mobile Web email for access to popular email services such as Hotmail and Yahoo Mail. Threaded text and multimedia messaging, voice messaging and instant messaging are supported. Text typing is easy using the full QWERTY keyboard in landscape mode, the nine-key alphanumeric keypad or the handwriting recognition tool.
As for Internet surfing, the Chocolate Touch boasts a full HTML browser with Microsoft Bing search function. You can update your status or photo on various social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook by tapping the convenient social network shortcut key. More Verizon applications, like the GPS-based VZ Navigator and V Cast Video for streaming content, are preloaded as well.
Also offered by the phone are a 3.2-megapixel camera/camcorder, a 3.5mm audio jack, a 1,000-entry phone book, Bluetooth 2.1, USB mass storage, a built-in accelerometer and voice command dialing. The phone includes 1GB internal memory and accommodates a microSD memory card up to 16GB.
Overall, the LG Chocolate Touch is a nice update of the series that is built upon the previous models’ strengths in music functionality. If you think music is a must-have feature on your phone, you will probably want to give the Chocolate Touch a try.
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