ProductCritic: LG VX8500 Chocolate Reviews

MobileTechReview (90)

The LG Chocolate is a serious fashion phone with great music capabilities. It’s not a smartphone but it does a great deal more than some other fashion and feature phones such as the Motorola RAZR. Its smooth look and the innovative touch-sensitive controls should earn LG some credit on design and the ability to take a chance at doing something new and different.

Mobiledia (82)

The LG Chocolate is a seductive phone that integrates many firsts. From its touch-sensitive keypad to the sleek exterior and hidden screen, the obvious aesthetic appeal is no wonder it was a best selling handheld overseas.

PC Mag (80)

Verizon’s best music phone, LG VX8500 (a.k.a., the “Chocolate”) looks like nothing else and that’s a good thing, mostly.

Phone Scoop (78)

But those who are power users like us will experience a great number of frustrations after the short honeymoon of unpacking the Chocolate from its little box. With some practice and effort, we learned to work around most of the software and design limitations. Even so, this is not a phone for power users.

infoSync World (71)

With its groovy Flash interface and revamped music player, LG’s new VX8500 Chocolate phone makes for one of the most satisfying V Cast music handsets we’ve seen to date; unfortunately, it’s hobbled by its lack of dedicated music controls, earbuds and USB cables, while its touch-sensitive inputs are way too sensitive for our taste.

phoneArena.com (70)

It is our opinion that the LG VX8500 Chocolate is a nice quality phone that is designed and targeted at younger users in their teens to mid 20’s that are not looking to spend a lot of money.

CNET (70)

Though the LG Chocolate is beautifully designed and offers a respectable mix of features and performance, it doesn’t quite live up to the hype.

MobileBurn (66)

If you are not the right type of user, this handset can be infuriating. I don’t imagine that anybody will prefer the touch controls over hardware buttons – no matter how much practice with them they have. But as long as you use the right theme, the phone will at least be usable, even if only for 2 or so hours of talk time.