LG - VX8550 Blue Mint Chocolate Cell Phone Reviews

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 This phone is super cool, great features, and easy to create your own ringtones instead of having to buy them from verizon HOWEVER, the super sensitivity  makes this phone lose ALL appeal.  While creating a text message, if your finger ever slightly hits the end of the touchpad, you lose your entire message lickity spilt.  Phone often unlocks easily and calls people without your knowledge.  Also, the vibrating feature for the touch pad drains the battery extremely quickly.  Toss in a number of text messages and you're lucky not to have to charge the phone twice a day.  Great...

I have owned this phone for about 2 months and I absolutely LOVE it!  The music feature is my favorite part.  You can download your OWN songs, as long as they're not protected, and create playlists.  You can also buy a memory card if you want to store more songs to listen to.  The only downfall is that if you listen to songs a lot you will have to charge the battery a lot sooner than most phones.  I love its sleek design.  It's easy to slide open and you can change the sensitivity of the touch dial to your preference.  The camera mirror feature is great, too. 

I have never used...

I've had the LG - VX8550 for six months and enjoy the phone immensely. The sound quality's great for both music and calls, the slider means the compact phone fits easily in my pocket, and it gets great reception compared to other Verizon phones I've been around with this unit.

I've got two complaints with this unit. First up, and this is a biggie, is that the phone can really lag sometimes when buttons are pressed. I'm talking along the lines of 5 seconds to pull a menu up if I haven't used the phone in a day.

Complaint number two is that, at first, the touch buttons were a little too touchy, as...

This review is for the LG Blue Mint Chocolate cell phone.

The number one thing that I do not like about this phone is that when talking in a car, it sounds like you are in a wind tunnel. There seems to be a lot of background noise.

I also find that the phone is "very touchy". For instance, my husband found that he was connected to the internet (even though we don't use this feature) because the phone was touched the right way while in his pocket.

As far as looks, the phone looks great. It holds up well. I was in a motor vehicle accident where the phone hit the windshield and bounced to the back...

This phone is not designed for the every day texter! The letters are too small.

The over all appearance is great but the lighted touch buttons around the dial are a bit confusing. They tend to turn on if you touch your cheek to them while in a conversation. Muting your caller or trying to search for contacts, etc.. while you are talking.

Camera takes good pictures. However the view screen is tiny and settings are slightly confusing. Graphics are also very tiny.

Gaming is also a problem due to the tiny numeric key pad.

Could use a better antenna system as my husband has a little cheap LG phone (on the...

I enjoy the Chocolate even though I have to replace it twice. I now have the newer version. Verizon taded my old version twice and finally just gave me the new one. I didn't have to wait to sign a new contract which was really good.

 MP3 player is good but you have to buy an extra memory chip tp hold a decent amount of music. I have the 1 GB chip and it covers what I need for short trips.

One downside is that the screen scratches very easily. I cringe everytime I drop my phone because I fear that I have put another scratch in it.

It's a good slider phone, easy to keep clean, and not too steep of...