Verizon, LG intro new Chocolate
By Chris Ziegler 
posted July 5th 2007 11:01AM
posted July 5th 2007 11:01AM
posted July 5th 2007 11:01AM
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Very iPhone-esque chrome rim around that thing. This actually looks pretty nice...
will you people never stop comparing everything to apple?
Wow, yeah really stop comparing everything to Iphone your comment was totally idiotic
You guys are tools. Idiotic? I was just saying that looked like a very similar design cue. Did I say the features were the same as the iPhone? Did I rag on it for not being as cool as the iPhone? Do I even own or care about the iPhone?
Get a grip.
way better than the orginal
The new Chocolate actually does sport a 3.5mm headset jack on the top right side!! The Vibra-Touch system is awesome.
Too bad about the missing jack. I was really amped about this phone until that. Maybe "The Network" will get that ROKR Z6 or whatever I read about a few months ago.
... when in doubt ... release a new chocolate. Someday Verizon get it's act together and release a multimedia device like the iPhone. Ohhh but wait... ATT is the smarter company... get a great device to work on a crappy network... people will still come.
The VX8550 has a 2.5mm jack, not a 3.5mm
Review:
http://www.phonearena.com/htmls/LG-VX8550-Chocolate-Review-review-r_1776.html
is verizon going to make a phone to compete with the iphone?
"Chocolate the second time around"? Sounds like s**t to me.
Can't they think of anything better than that?
Pointless comment. VZW wasn't trying to come up with their own iPhone killer or PDA here. This is just a sleek slider phone for the music lover. You got bluetooth with OBEX, DUN, and A2DP support, 4 gig memory support, and a decent 1.3 mp cam. What were you expecting dude?
Have to ask a stupid question here - difference between 3.5mm and 2.5mm headphone jack? Clearly the difference is 1mm, but what types of headphones work in each one?
You people are idiots!!!!! STOP comparing every phone made to the iPhone. The iPhone will represent such a small percentage of the overall handset market. 99% of cell buyers will be happy with an iPod and a cell phone from a carrier that does not suck.
Believe it or not all the other carriers will manage to stay in business (well maybe not Sprint) without having an iPhone in their line-up.
i guess apple will only have a 1% market share on the iphone... just like they claimed that apple will never go any where with the ipod... and look at the ipod. the problem that phone makers dont want to admit... it dosent matter how cool you make it... what features you give the phone... how freakin good it is.. it WONT BE A IPHONE. and in the end .. people want the iphone.. they can claim what every iphone killer they have in the works. it really dosent matter. Apple sold 1 MILLION IPHONES in 74 days.. now tell me again how that is only going to make a small dent in the global phone sales. and when at&ts agreement ends with apple and they start letting other carriers have the iphone... then its all over for the rest of them. every one wants a iphone.. so we all need to learn to live with that fact. thanks don
What's so good about the iphone? Verizon already offers phones and pdas that have all of the features that the iphone does. The iphone doesn't offer navigation options (mapquest is not VZ Navigator), you can't send pictures and the network does suck. Any PDA Verizon offers is half the price and double the benefits. I can see lots of storage on the iphone is a benefit, sure, but overall, Verizon doesn't need to come out with an iphone killer, it's already got products that are feature rich and don't have touch screens that are going to break the first time you drop them.
Whats so good with the iPhone, I don't know. I just know I would love to have touch screen without the need to use a stylus. A Mac or Linux style user interface (never cared for Windows). A phone that will sync well with my MacBook, iCal, iTunes music and movies, and has WiFi. So it seems that iPhone is great for me, I have yet to see any other phones do all that. Maybe it will be good for 1% market share, then the other 99% can use there phone.
yes, Verizon will have an iPhone competitor, the LG Prada phone. I agree that everyone should stop comparing any piece of technology in existence to the iPhone. My carrier is Verizon, and i have bought Apple products since before it was cool. I have an iPod and i would be perfectly happy with an enV or some other non-iPhone; as i suspect many people will be.
that prada phone is a joke. I guess if you are in to phones with clunky inferfaces then the Prada is a great choice.
This is available on verizonwireless.com now
way better than the orginal
i guess apple will only have a 1% market share on the iphone... just like they claimed that apple will never go any where with the ipod... and look at the ipod. the problem that phone makers dont want to admit... it dosent matter how cool you make it... what features you give the phone... how freakin good it is.. it WONT BE A IPHONE. and in the end .. people want the iphone.. they can claim what every iphone killer they have in the works. it really dosent matter. Apple sold 1 MILLION IPHONES in 74 days.. now tell me again how that is only going to make a small dent in the global phone sales. and when at&ts agreement ends with apple and they start letting other carriers have the ipone... then its all over for the rest of them. every one wants a iphone.. so we all need to learn to live with that fact. thanks don