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LGVX8600 - The “Flippy” LG Chocolate Review

I just switched cell phone carriers to Verizon Wireless and ended up purchasing the LG VX8600 to go along with it.

The first thing I thought of with this phone, is that it is very similar in features to the LG Chocolate. However, I especially liked this phone for the fact it was not as bulky as the Chocolate. It is a lot thinner so it fits in the pocket better, and even still has the cool touch sensitive buttons on the cover for controlling your music.

The lgvx8600 also includes a 1.3mp digital camera as opposed to the older vga style cameras. The pictures are definitely a lot more crisp and you can take higher resolution photos. I never expected that I would be getting such a nice camera on a cellphone. The phone even has a feature that allows you to zoom in on your photos so you can see even the smallest details directly on your phone without having to upload it to your computer.

When you have a missed call, or more than one, you no longer have to flip open the phone to scroll through all of your missed calls. The screen on the front of the phone under the camera lens allows you to scroll through ALL of your missed calls whenever you miss one, all without ever opening the phone.

One thing that is starting to become an annoyance is the glossy coating on the phone. It seems to get smudged up quite often and it takes time to clean off all of those little smears, being the perfectionist that I am.

I also have a slight problem with Verizon trying to force you to buy songs off their VCast program and making it as hard as they can to just put songs on from your computer. Although the phone can only hold 1 or 2 songs itself, you are still forced to get a memory card before you import songs onto your phone. The only other way to do it is by using bluetooth to import the song to your “My Sounds” folder instead of your “My Music” folder. Although that’s only if you don’t have a MicroSD card, and you can buy them cheap from Amazon.

Supposedly the phone only supports WMA audio files, but I have heard that it also supports mp3 files. I have yet to figure that out as I haven’t received the SD card I just ordered the other day. I believe Verizon did this to compete with Apple’s iTunes, which is really dumb in my opinion

In addition to the smudges and the music issues, this phone is pretty solid and has some great features. It’s a big step up from the old NOKIA I had before I got this one. Sadly, it almost makes my iPod Shuffle obsolete. Keep in mind that most of the negative aspects of the phone are in the software that Verizon uses, not the phone itself (i.e. the music compatibility).