LG Chocolate Touch VX-8575 Phone (Verizon Wireless)

by LG

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 3.9 x 1.9 x 0.6 inches ; 3.4 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B002UUTCLG
• Item model number: VX-8575
• Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (28 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #86,079 in Cell Phones & Accessories (See Top 100 in Cell Phones & Accessories)

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Enjoy on-the-go audio that sounds like it came from your home theater with the LG Chocolate Touch for Verizon Wireless, which features patented Dolby Mobile technologies for a dramatically richer listening experience with potent bass and sparkling clarity. The latest in LG's line of music-centric phones, the Chocolate Touch also offers a vibrantly colorful 3-inch touchscreen with intuitive interface and vibrating response. It's also a great social networking companion, with a dedicated messaging key for sending quick updates to Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, and more.

The LG Chocolate Touch offers a 3-inch touchscreen, a wealth of music playback features, and a 1 GB internal memory that's expandable via microSD memory cards (see a schematic of all the ports and controls).

With 1 GB of internal memory dedicated to music--and up to 16 GB of additional storage from optional microSD cards--all your favorite tracks can be cued up and ready to go at a moment's notice. This mobile multimedia powerhouse is compatible with the V Cast Music with Rhapsody service, which enables you to purchase songs through your phone and download them via the fast Verizon Wireless 3G EV-DO data network, and the V CAST Video on Demand service that enables you to watch full-length TV shows plus news, sports, weather and live entertainment video clips.

You'll also stay on course thanks to the VZ Navigator GPS turn-by-turn direction service. And with the optional Visual Voice Mail service, you'll be able to quickly and easily scroll through your messages and pick the ones you want to listen to. See more details on optional Verizon Wireless services below.

Other features include a 3.2-megapixel camera/camcorder, Bluetooth connectivity for hands-free devices and stereo music streaming as well as tethering to a PC for use as a modem, full HTML web browsing with RSS support, speakerphone, voice activated dialing, personal organizer tools, and up to 5.1 hours of talk time.

Key Features

• Fast 3G connectivity thanks to the reliable Verizon Wireless EV–DO, Rev A network
• Dolby Mobile audio playback technologies for rich sound quality through stereo headphones or optional external speakers (Learn more)
• Multi-format digital audio player compatible with MP3, WAM, and unprotected AAC/AAC+ files
• Join the Band feature enables you to play along with favorite songs using virtual keyboard or drums
• Easy access to Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and other top social networks
• 3-inch touchscreen display (400 x 240-pixel resolution, 262K color depth) with virtual keyboard and automatic screen rotation based on orientation
• 1 GB of internal memory
• Memory expansion via microSD card slot with support for optional cards up to 16 GB
• GPS navigation capabilities via VZ Navigator service
• 3.2-megapixel camera with video capture capabilities with flash and video capture and on-device editing capabilities (Learn more)
• Bluetooth 2.1 connectivity with stereo music streaming (A2DP) capabilities as well as hands-free headsets and car kits (Learn more)
• Full messaging capabilities including SMS, MMS, Mobile IM, Mobile Email and Corporate Email
• Full HTML viewing of Web sites with support for RSS feeds and pre-loaded Bing search engine
• Voice activated dialing
• Organizer tools including Calculator, Ez Tip Calculator, Calendar, Alarm Clock, Stopwatch, World Clock, Notepad, Drawing Pad

  Patented Dolby Mobile brings you a dramatically richer listening experience with potent bass and sparkling clarity.

  The Touch Chocolate features organic back grip plates in black and purple.

• Airplane mode allows you to listen to music while the cellular connectivity is turned off
• Phonebook stores up to 1000 entries with up to 5 numbers, 2 email addresses, 1 physical address and a picture ID per contact
• 3.5mm headset jack
• Hearing Aid Compatibility = M4/T4

Vital Statistics
The LG Chocolate Touch weighs 4.23 ounces and measures 4.3 x 2.2 x 0.47 inches. Its 1000 mAh lithium-ion battery is rated at up to 5.1 hours of talk time, and up to 470 hours (19.6 days) of standby time. It runs on the CDMA 800/1900 frequencies as well as EV–DO, Rev 0 3G frequencies.

What's in the Box
LG Chocolate Touch handset, rechargeable battery, charger, extra purple battery cover, quick start guide, user manual

Verizon Wireless Services

• VZ Navigator Capable: With this GPS-enabled phone, you'll be able to access the Verizon Wireless VZ Navigator service (additional charges applicable) for voice-prompted turn-by-turn directions, heads-up alerts, local search of nearly 14 million points of interest in the US (such as landmarks, restaurants and ATMs), and detailed color maps.

• V CAST Music with Rhapsody: Access this exclusive digital music service for RealNetworks and for MTV Networks, which delivers unlimited monthly access to music on up to three Rhapsody-compatible mobile phones and players and online on multiple PCs and Web browsers. For a monthly fee (billed on your Verizon Wireless bill), you can load and reload your subscription songs from your PC to your V CAST Music with Rhapsody phone as often as you want, and take your music on the go.

  On PCs running the Windows XP or higher operating system, you can also browse, preview and purchase music using the V CAST Music with Rhapsody software, which is available as a free download from the V CAST Music with Rhapsody download website. Additional subscription charges applicable.

• V CAST Video on Demand: This optional service enables you to watch full-length TV shows plus news, sports, weather and live entertainment video clips. It features more than 100 full-length programs from leading broadcast and cable networks, ranging from highly-rated drama and comedy series to reality programs and children’s programming. V CAST Video on Demand also delivers live sporting events, including NHL hockey games and an upcoming slate of college football games

  The service offers unlimited viewing of Basic Videos and the ESPN MVP channel. You can choose from 14 categories, including Entertainment, Kids, Music, Sports, Comedy, News, Pop Culture, Information, Women, Latino, Home & Leisure, Multicultural, Cutting Edge, and Hollywood. Additional subscription charges applicable.

• Visual Voice Mail: This innovative service enables you to delete, reply and forward voice mail messages without having to listen to prior messages or voice instructions. Visual Voice Mail is the ideal tool for the busy mobile professional who may need to prioritize which messages he or she listens to first. Features include on-screen access to voice mail message status, save up to 40 messages for 40 days (or archive permanently), create up to 10 different caller ID-based greetings, and reply via call back, text or even voice mail.

• Mobile Broadband Connect: Use your smartphone as a modem for your notebook when you connect the two using a USB cable--or open a Bluetooth connection--enabling you to access the Internet or your company intranet. The Mobile Broadband Connect tethered modem capability is ideal when you're traveling and need to use your notebook to check email, access corporate networks, or download large files like presentations and reports. And with Mobile Broadband Connect, you won't have to buy an extra PC Card or other devices.

Learn More

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Feature-Rich Music Playback with Dolby Mobile

The Chocolate Touch's music player.

• Experience rich sound quality through stereo headphones or external speakers.
• Customizable EQ Settings: flat, bass boost, treble boost, vocal boost, and classical.
• Manual EQ--adjust EQ settings across 4 bands.
• Standard 3.5mm headset jack.
• Natural Bass--provides clean, powerful bass extension without artificial sound effects.

  FM radio with up to 12 presets.

• High-Frequency Enhancer--reinforces the high frequencies for lower-quality source content.
• Sound Level Controller--maintains a consistent playback level, both within a particular program and across content.
• Native music player for MP3, WMA, unprotected AAC, and unprotected AAC+.
• 1 GB of internal memory dedicated to music--store up to 250 songs.
• Join the Band--play along with favorite songs using virtual keyboard or drums.
• Rhythmical Beat--handset vibrates to the beat of the music.
• Visual Effect--display dynamic animation on screen while playing music.
• Pick a Song Image--select an iconic photo to be displayed as a song image for a particular song.
• Create and manage playlists.
• Multitask while playing music--hide player to browse the web, send messages, etc.
• Music library--organized by artist, genre, and album.
• Repeat, shuffle, and music only modes (RF off except Bluetooth).
• Dedicated side key and shortcut key for easy music access.
• Sync music from V CAST Music with Rhapsody to phone.
• FM tuner (87.5-107.9 MHz) with RBDS support and 12 station presets.

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Capture On-the-Go Pics and Videos with 3.2-Megapixel Camera

• Camera Resolutions: 2048 x 1536 (default), 1600 x 1200, 1280 x 960, 800 x 480, 640 x 480 Pixels
• Zoom: up to 1.6x (depending on selected resolution)
• Intelligent Shot for Improved Image Quality
• Panorama--take up to 3 guided shots in a row for a wide area view
• Facial Makeover--removes facial blemishes and enhances facial features
• Image Editor: Zoom, Rotate, Crop, Add Frames, Stamps, Write Over Images
• Customizable brightness, white balance, shutter sound, color effects, and self-timer
• Video Resolutions: 320 x 240, 176 x 144 (default) pixels
• Video Recording Time: up to 30 seconds (for sending) or up to 1 hour (for saving)
• Video Player for WMV, MP4, 3GP, and 3G2 Formats

Product Description

Verizon LG Chocolate Touch 8575 HIGH

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

39 of 40 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best. Phone. Ever., December 2, 2009

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Paul "Paul" (Bellingham, WA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: LG Chocolate Touch VX-8575 Phone (Verizon Wireless) (Wireless Phone)

I am very hard to please, and I have owned two other LG msuic phones but didn't liked either of them. This phone is different: it is the best phone I've ever owned.

It has every feature I want in a phone, in a beautiful package that is very user-friendly.

- Great battery life
- Excellent sound quality
- Good speakerphone
- A 3.5mm audio jack
- FM radio
- Music player with a well-designed user interface
- Great photo and video viewer
- USB data cable included (!)
- The ability to plug-and-sync automatically, even with non-Rhapsody music players(!) such as Windows Media Player or MediaMonkey (which supports podcasts :)
- The ability to mount the USB card as a generic device for drag-and-drop support for ringtones, photos, music, videos... you name it.

And Verizon doesn't force you to buy a data plan for this phone, which I don't neeed.

All in all, a perfect phone for me.

28 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointment for the next 2 years..., February 3, 2010

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J. Ho (San Francico, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: LG Chocolate Touch VX-8575 Phone (Verizon Wireless) (Wireless Phone)

... thats how I feel right now.

I purchased LG Chocolate Touch from Amazon for 1 cent in Jan 2010 with 2 year new Verizon plan.

Pros:
- Neat Music player, sounds very good with the Dobly Mobile filters. I like how it pairs with my bluetooth Motorola headphones wirelessly and the music volume, track forward controls, answering phone call buttons all work. I love listening to the mp3 player wirelessly in the gym. I got my motorola bluetooh headphones from Fry's electronics for $34.
- FM radio, my old iphone was disappointing without FM radio. (Note, FM radio will not work unless 3.5mm jack is plugged in, then your bluetooth headphones will not work.)
-Reception is ok. My iphone with AT&T did not work in my room, ground level of a 2 story house. Now, Verizon works, not great, but works in my room. I'm not sure if the phone is great or the service.
- EZ Tip Calucator! What a cool feature, you type in the amount of the bill, preset what percentage you want to tip.. and it works. Perfect when you had a bit too much to drink at dinner.

Cons:
- Touch screen is terrible. I use to own an iphone, and the navigation through the menu is sooo much better. Dragging or scrolling on the Cholocate is near impossible. Here's a tip, use your finger nail to scroll and drag, it works for me at least 50% of the time. Not to mention texting is hard. At least it is better than the iphone where the autocorrect makes me seem like a 5 year sending incoherant texts.
- The art of the artist on the now playing screen is too small.
- Contact list is hard to navigate, I have about 200 contacts and finding a specific person through the phone book can be nerve racking because of the lack of a scroll wheel or the touch screen scrolling doesn't work.
- Slow 3g applications, the browser, the navigation, the app that you can use to check your balance almost always crashes on me when I run it. In addition, be prepare to click on the back button a lot when you are using any browers, the touchscreen is not accurate.
- I'm not able to synch items like my pictures/notes or install any apps through my data cable from my pc (I could be wrong, if someone could point me to a FAQ where I can install new apps, I'm not sure if there are any)

Verizon dislikes:
- I didn't know until my first bill, that I signed up for $9.99 data plan. When ordering through Amazon, Jan 2010, it is manatory. I thought I might have inadvertatly signed up for it and went into my verizon profile to edit. No luck in opting out of the data plan. Then I tried to see what was up and went through the Amazon sign up for a new plan.. and A-HA! The radio button when you are selecting your plan on Amazon is not very clear, so be careful when you are selecting your plan. I don't think I would have gotten this phone knowing that there was a $9.99 data plan attached. It is not something I would use, considering the browsing is so slow.
- Outrageous tax - Here is San Francisco, my surcharges/taxes totaled $16.90 a month. What's up with all the hidden fees ($1.84 for an Admin charge)? Summary of my fees =Fed Universal Service Charge $2.21 + Regulatory Charge .14 + Administrative Charge $1.84 + CA State PUC Fee .07 + CA State 911 Fee .22 + CA State High Cost Fund .19 + CA Teleconnect Fund Surchg .03 + CA State High Cost Fund (A) .05 + Lifeline Surcharge CA .47 + CA Relay Srvc/Comm Device Fund .08 + SF Cnty 911 Fee $5.50 + SF City/Cnty Uut $6.10

23 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars a capable feature phone, but not deserving the "chocolate" name, December 19, 2009

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Calvin Wang (California, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: LG Chocolate Touch VX-8575 Phone (Verizon Wireless) (Wireless Phone)

This is marketed "LG Chocolate Touch", but not the ultra wide screen LG Chocolate (BL40?)that's marketed in Europe and Asia. I guess Verizon determined us Americans are too cheap to shell out $300+ for a phone, even with carrier's subsidy. The phone has a resistive touchscreen, therefore, no multi-touch (e.g. no zoom in/out in photo mode). The advantage of resistive touchscreen is it works witha stylus, or glove, and is less prone to accidental touches, but people who are spoiled by the iphone's feather touch will find the touchscreen to be a bit sluggish.

The call quality is decent. The built-in speaker is also quite capable. The FM radio is particularly useful and well designed. of course, being Chocolate, music is a key selling point, but don't expect it to replace your ipod.

overall, I'm neither disappointed nor impressed. If you just want a feature phone with a decent large screen, but no data plan, then this is good for you. Otherwise, I'd recommend either iPhone or one of those HTC-made Google phones.