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LG Chocolate VX8550 Review - MobileTechReview, “The new LG Chocolate VX8550 is a digital CDMA phone that operates on Verizon’s 800/1900 MHz networks and has EVDO for fast data. The LG Chocolate VX8550 has weaker reception compared to the original Chocolate and many other Verizon phones including the LG VX8600 flip-version of the Chocolate. If you are in a strong coverage area have no fear, but if you are in a marginally covered area you might only get 1-2 bars in EV and 1X. In our area where most Verizon phones get 2-3 bars of EVDO signal, the new Chocolate phone gets only 1-2 bars of EV and some times drops to only 1X which means you can’t access Verizon’s music, video and software stores. We didn’t experience dropped calls even in areas with spotty coverage. The voice quality is good on the LG and volume on both incoming and outgoing calls is high. EVDO speed is good and when the signal is strong, music, video and software download speeds are quite fast. When signal strength isn’t strong, the download speeds suffer accordingly.”

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