What does the update bring? The slider design on the new Chocolate is largely unchanged from the original Chocolate with very similar dimensions and the new Chocolate is slightly lighter than the original one. In addition to the LED trace motion lights added to the navigation wheel that light up when you spin it to make your menu selections, LG has wisely added another menu row to the slide-out keypad to house the call Send, End and camera launcher buttons.
This is a big user-interface improvement on the new Chocolate phone since the original Chocolate put the call send and end buttons on the touch-controlled front panel where they were easy to accidentally activate. The touch sensitive buttons offer vibration feedback. You can also set the level of the touch-sensitivity for the keys and the navigation wheel.
As with the original Chocolate, most menus and applications support the touch control and spin wheel with exception of V CAST videos. Instead you must press down the 4-way directional pad on the spin wheel until it clicks like a normal d-pad to navigate through the listings.
The side control buttons have improved as well. This makes the buttons easier to press, especially when using the phone one-handed. But the new Chocolate adds an optional 2. On the right side of the phone, the call end button and the camera launcher are gone since they live on the main keypad now. You will still find the microSD card slot and the music quick launch button on the right, along with a key lock for the touch sensitive controls which is a great thing to have on the LG VX The rear-firing speaker lives up top on the back of the phone and sounds decent for music playback.
Open the slider you will see the 1. If you are in a strong coverage area have no fear, but if you are in a marginally covered area you might only get bars in EV and 1X. The voice quality is good on the LG and volume on both incoming and outgoing calls is high.
EVDO speed is good and when the signal is strong, music, video and software download speeds are quite fast. The LG VX offers general call management features including call waiting, last number redial, speed dial 95 entries and a dedicated speakerphone key. The LG comes with a Phone Book that can store up to 1, contacts and each contact can store up to 5 numbers, 2 email addresses and a picture ID. You can assign unique ringtones, speed dial numbers and groups to your contact entries.
You can dial numbers and by name, launch messaging and find contacts, check phone status, battery life and more by giving voice commands. The GPS get signals quite fast, and accuracy is within a hundred yards in our tests in metro areas. The screen looks bright and very color saturated. The LG Chocolate VX is a nice music player with some basic features like playlist, repeat and shuffle. Adding in most cases to the music experience are a dedicated music launch key on the right side of the Chocolate, a rear-firing speaker that sounds decent, an LG proprietary headphone jack and a 2.
The dedicated music launch key will get you to your songs in one click. We tried several 2. Sound only comes out mono. The Call End button lost its place on the front face of the phone no doubt thanks to a design that tries to keep the front clean, but it takes some getting used to for folks who expect to see Call Send and Call End buttons in their more common location on the front of the phone above the number keys.
You have access to the battery, the loudspeaker and the camera lens with self-portrait mirror when the slider is open on the back of the Chocolate. The battery is integrated into the battery door and is secured by a latch. Hold the latch to left to open the door and lift the battery up. We are in a small pocket where Verizon coverage is below-par and the Chocolate gets 2 bars on EVDO consistently sometimes jumping to 4 bars and bars on 1x for voice. If you are in an area where Verizon has good and great coverage, then you will see full bars on the Chocolate.
Call quality is very good and volume is loud. Incoming voice is full and rich, and it sounds great through the loudspeaker thanks to the 3D sound support which will be very useful for conference calls. Data transfer on the Chocolate is plenty fast enough for a feature phone.
Where you will see the fast speed is getting messages and accessing web sites. Mail loads very quickly. You can of course access other web-based email accounts by going to the URL directly. The web browser, though a WAP browser, has a few nifty features such as clearing the cache, cookies, history and security features such as encryption.
The Chocolate performs most all tasks at a decent speed. Applications launch fairly quickly and V Cast videos play at a good speed.
The display is crisp and color saturated which makes the Chocolate a great device for showing off photos and video. For more games use the Get It Now app on the phone to purchase games in the library.
The biggest star on the Chocolate in the entertainment department is the music. The phone comes with a feature-rich music player that has not only basic features such as playlists, shuffle, repeat but also some advanced settings such as effects including Rock, Concert Hall, Jazz, 3D Surround and more.
The music player can play MP3 and WMA files and you can use your music tracks as your alarm clock alerts. If a call comes in when music is playing, the Chocolate will gracefully pause playback automatically and the call will route to your headsets directly. When the call ends, the music will automatically resume playing from where it stopped when the call came in.
Very smooth operation! V CAST has a preview feature that plays snippets of tracks before you buy. The 3D sound quality is very crisp and loud by phone standards with good track separation and full bass. Even the loudspeaker on the phone sounds pretty decent for music playing.
We did experience one bug though: when you have tracks on the memory card they will show up on your playlists; but if you take the memory card out and try playing the tracks stored on the card from the playlist it will crash the phone every time. The video quality is good on the Chocolate as well. Video and audio are still out of sync in most cases, but the performance is above average among EVDO feature phones. In addition to a music phone with good looks, the Chocolate serves up another great feature: a very good 1.
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