Unboxing Verizon's Chocolate

by Chris Ziegler, posted Jul 30th 2006 at 8:02PM

Screw waiting until the official release this week -- we want to live vicariously through the few lucky souls who've already managed to score a piece of Verizon's Chocolate. A HowardForums member has managed to hook us all up, putting down his glossy black bundle of joy just long enough to snap a few shots of the VX8500 being extracted from its packaging materials. As might be expected, the phone looks to quickly get covered with smudges and fingerprints, but such is the price one must pay for mobile exclusivity these days.

[Thanks, Damian]

Filed under: Handsets, Multimedia, LG, Verizon Wireless, EV-DO, CDMA

Tags: 8500, chocolate, lg, music, musicphone, slider, verizon, verizon wireless, VerizonWireless, vx8500, vzw

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Deeps @ Jul 30th 2006 11:12PM

I was just watching t.v. and i just saw an ad for the chocolate from verizon. They said that it's available now online and that it will be in stores by 07/07/06

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Janella @ Jul 31st 2006 1:27AM

I just saw this commercial on T.V. too for the Verizon Chocolate & I'm trying to figure out what song is playing in the background. It's boggling the mind! :@

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Jake @ Jul 31st 2006 2:49AM

I think I might want one. My Motorola E815 is being a pain in the ass, freezing up half the time it's plugged in the charger. Stupid thing.

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rick @ Jul 31st 2006 4:33AM

yeah thinking about getting it too. just upgraded though my vx9800 is being a pain. the keyboard locks up and i am always on roaming even when my bros phone has service vzw too and when not in roaming cant use vcast, get it now send pix or flix even when i m paying for them

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Deeps @ Jul 31st 2006 8:57AM

150 w/ two year contract!

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Robert Kolin @ Jul 31st 2006 3:19PM

This is a sweet little unit! But how do you get an upgrade if you're not due one until next year? When I tried to order one online, I was denied and told to call. Anyone know what the price would be?

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Doug Curl @ Aug 1st 2006 8:55PM

Is the Chocolate going to be fully Bluetooth enabled so I can tranfer data and autodial using my Palm Lifedrive?

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phez @ Aug 3rd 2006 1:40PM

seriously...am I the only who just doesn't see the point in this phone?

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Thomas @ Aug 11th 2006 6:34PM

The name of the song used in the commercial is called "Strict Machine" by Goldfrapp. The same song was also used by Nintendo for their GameBoy Advance SP ad about a year or so ago.

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