It’s been awhile…This is the first of several small updates….
It was time for Jesica and I to upgrade our phones. Our trusty Samsung A670’s were loosing their battery life and it made sense to get new phones.
We’ve been longtime Verizon Wireless customers and currently on an old grandfathered plan which is a lot less than any plan available today. It would have been nice to get an Apple iPhone, but not at the purchase price of $600 and switching carriers.
We were eligible to upgrade our phones on our plans, so we decided to look at all the new phones. Jesica did most of the research this time and decided that the 2 for one special on the LG Chocolate was the phone for us. She picked the red “Cherry” Chocolate and I went with the standard “Black” Chocolate.
The VX8500 is a sleek slider phone that features EV-DO, Bluetooth, MP3 and Video support, 1.3 megapixel camera, V-CAST support, speaker phone, Internet, and just looks good, don’t you think? It has support for a 2 GB MicroSD card and has stereo headphones that also serve as a hands free kit.
I have been able to use it as an iPod replacement and also use it to sync our Google Calendars. As an added bonus I have been using it as a high speed internet connection through Bluetooth with my laptop. It’s nice to have an internet connection without using WiFi hotspots.
We’ve been really happy with the phone so far, but of course they come out with the VX8850 Chocolate v2 a few weeks after we got ours. I did look at the new version and while they made some improvements, didn’t return my VX8500 to upgrade.
