LG VX-8500-Chocolate Review - Entertainment, Internet, Storage,Conncetivity

Entertainment, Internet, Storage,Conncetivity

The LG Chocolate phone has a 1.3 mega pixel camera with flash. The flash consists of an LED and does the job. If the flash isn’t enough, you can also put the camera in night mode which often helps take better pictures. The camera also has a 4x digital zoom but oddly you cannot zoom in when the pictures are set to maximum resolution. In my opinion the camera program is very slow and takes a while loading up. Also since the camera is slow, when you take a picture of something it takes a couple of seconds to process. By the time the picture is taken, it is of something else. The Chocolate phone also comes preinstalled with 1 game and that is Sudoku. You can also put many other games onto the phone that are made with JAVA. 

The internet on the chocolate phone is very simple. The browser only supports some basic HTML pages but not all. The browser is regular WAP and offers nothing special. This phone does not offer EDGE either. 
In my opinion LG should have put newer browser technology in this phone because more and more people use internet on their phone, and this is just to slow. The Chocolate phone only supports 32 to 48 kbps.  

The Chocolate phone has 128 Mb built in for music, pictures and videos. In my opinion, this phone was supposed to be a music phone and there is no where near enough memory for people to enjoy their music collection. Also another downside is that there is no expandable memory either. For people who like the design of the chocolate phone but do not like the idea of being limited to 128Mb, the Samsung e900 is also a great choice. The Samsung e900 has 80 Mb of built in memory but also supports a micro SD card for expandable memory, 2Gb micro SD have just been released by Sandisk.    

The Chocolate offers Bluetooth version 1.2 for sending/receiving files and connecting to your Bluetooth headset. The chocolate also has WAP 2.0 and a XHTML browser. The phone however does not have infrared, 3G or EDGE. Since the Chocolate phone does not support EDGE it may be very slow for some when surfing the net. The Samsung e900 has built in EDGE and supports a faster way to stay connected to the net. With EDGE on the e900 you can surf the net with speeds up to 237 KBPS while the chocolate phone only 48 KBPS. 
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