LG VX8600 (Chocolate Flip Phone) Review

Feature Spec:
* 176×220 pixel screen with 262k colors (main screen)
* 128×160 w/ 65K colors (external)
* Bluetooth with A2DP stereo support
* Music player (MP3 and WMA) with external control keys
* EV-DO high-speed data (VCAST)
* 1.3 megapixel camera
* Speakerphone
* microSD card slot
* OTA Capable
* Internal Antenna
* GPS
* PC Sync

Package Contents:
+ wall Charger
+ documentation
+ mini jack adapter
- no car chager
- no hands free

Aesthetics:
+ Highly attractive Black
+ Red Lit touchkeys
+ CHROME outline
- Verizon Branding
- Lots of fingerprint streaks

Battery Life:
- Speaker for over 2 Hours
+ Charges in less than 2 Hours
+ Talktime is alleged to be 367mins

Keypad:
+ Chrome Decorations
+ Keys light up (white)
- Not for visually impaired
- No easy to find key with touch
* My v600 has an easy to touch Digit '5' on the pad it's a braille marker.

Touchkeys:
+ Very Attractive
+ Good touch response
+ Customizable sensitivity (4 options)
- Only activated upon pressing side buttons (5 seconds)

Side Buttons:
+ EZ Launch Camera
+ EZ Launch Voice Commands
* Less buttons than my V600 yet the same amount of features accessible.

Voice Comm Option:
+ Soft feminine voice to help navigate
+ Screen Reading aloud
- You can't orate your txt messages

Speakerphone:
+ Quality is on par with my v600
- Speaker is on front of phone
- Could be louder.
+ Voice Recorder

Camera:
+ 8x Zoom
+ Lots of Picture Quality options
+ Video Recorder

Menu Styles and Quickies:
+ Quick way to send txt message is 3 clicks.
+ support for changing menu orientation
- full circle menu from 8500 is gone!

Media or lack thereof:
+ 17 Ringtones
+ handful of midi's
+ nice music player
- Lots of themes dated to 32bit games from the 90's
- no preloaded games
- no preloaded mp3 ( not even a sample )

Storage or Expandability:
+ Support for SD-Micro (avail in 2GB)
- Only 24MB
* my V600 had just 5MB

Other:
- Fragile covers for the memory card and charger port.
+ Call Conversation Recording
* Services menu is the same one on the VX8500.