The LG Mint Chocolate VX8500G Cellular Telephone from Verizon Wireless

When I recently upgraded my cellular telephone through Verizon Wireless, there were countless options in models of cellular phone from which to choose. After considering various models, I settled upon the Mint Chocolate VX8500G from LG and Verizon Wireless. In this article I will review the pros and cons of the Verizon Mint Chocolate phone and go over some of the features and benefits, as well as drawbacks, that the Mint Chocolate phone has to offer.

Pros

MP3 Player: The LG Mint Chocolate Cellular Telephone from Verizon Wireless has a number of impressive features. Most fundamentally, the Mint Chocolate telephone is both an MP3 player and a cellular telephone in the same unit. To this end the LG Mint Chocolate phone has a Micro SD memory card slot that allows one to transfer music and photographs from one phone to another or from your computer to your telephone. Personally I have archived my entire music collection onto my telephone and now I am able to take my music collection with me wherever I go in just a small portable device.

Camera: The LG Mint Chocolate VX8500G also has a built-in camera that supports a resolution of up to 1280 x 960 pixels. While this is not the highest resolution camera available in a cellular telephone, it is a high enough resolution to be able to snap some acceptable-quality photographs very quickly. I often use the built-in camera in my LG Mint Chocolate Telephone to snap quick photographs that I can then upload to my personal blog or my business website very easily and quickly.

Attractive Color: Perhaps the most striking feature of the LG Mint Chocolate telephone from Verizon Wireless is its attractive minty green color, which is similar in color to the bright green of the Volkswagen New Beetle. I figured that as long as I was buying a phone I should do it in style and pick a telephone that would stand out in a crowd. I am very pleased with the bright and fun color of the LG Mint Chocolate telephone.

Cons

Lousy Touch Pad: One of the major drawbacks to the LG Mint Chocolate VX8500G telephone is its extremely lousy touch pad. The circular touch pad is convenient as a means of controlling the MP3 player portion of this device, but the sensitivity on the touch pad is very low quality. The idea behind the Mint Chocolate's touch pad is to emulate or copy the the touch pad on the various models of the Apple iPod. But while the sensitivity on the Mint Chocolate touchpad is adjustable, it is not adjustable enough. The touch pad is either far too sensitive or far too insensitive, which makes the device difficult to control.

No Java or Flash Support: While the LG Mint Chocolate from Verizon does have the ability to browse the internet and check email via the telephone, the mobile web browser is extremely limited and lacks Java support. And with the ever-increasing presence of Java and Flash applications on many websites, the end result is that the Mint Chocolate phone from LG is next-to useless on those major websites that require a Java or Flash capable web browser.

In conclusion, the LG Mint Chocolate VX8500G telephone from Verizon wireless is a balanced blend of functionality and features. There are several advantages to this telephone, including the quality camera and the MP3 player features, but the lack of Java and Flash support for the phone's web browser severely limits this phone's usefulness as a gateway to total connectivity.