MUSIC HALL PhonoPack - Phono Preamplifier

MUSIC HALL PhonoPack - Phono Preamplifier
Manufacturer: MUSIC HALL
Product Type: CE

Editorial Review:
Product Description
Connect a turntable to any stereo system that does not have a phono input

Average customer rating: 2.5

Battery sucks
Hot Chocolate
Money-sucking device (but cute)

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LG VX8500 White Chocolate Phone (Verizon Wireless)

Manufacturer: Verizon Wireless
Product Group: Wireless
Binding: Wireless Phone
ASIN: B000KEOX4U
2006-11-06

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Amazon.com Product Description

LG's newest mobile treat, the VX-8500 Chocolate offers minimalist-inspired style and a silky-smooth slider design. Deluxe features include support for V Cast Music, glowing touch-sensitive navigation keys, a powerful integrated music/video player, a 1.3 megapixel camera/camcorder, stereo Bluetooth capabilities, and a microSD memory slot for extra storage. If you value extreme style mixed with powerful substance, this is the phone for you. And now, the VX-8500 is available in white chocolate.

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The Chocolate's sliding keypad keeps it hidden until you need it (black version shown). See the phone in 3-D. </td></tr></table> Design
The phone features a seriously attractive open-faced design with an internal antenna and a vibrant 240 x 320 pixel, 262,000-color TFT/TFD display. A touch sensor click wheel, similar to iPod, and sliding design set the phone apart stylistically. Opening the slider reveals a numeric keypad, as well as the 1.3-megapixel camera and LED flash, which are housed on the rear of the phone. The volume and voice slide keys are on the left of the phone, while the music, camera and "end" keys are on the right side. A memory card slot is provided for MicroSD/TransFlash memory cards of up to 2 GB capacity (additional cards sold separately). The phone includes 512 MB of internal memory.

Calling Features
The Chocolate boasts powerful calling functions, such as speaker independent voice dialing, which makes it easy to call contacts by simply saying their names. No prior voice training is required and you can even speak individual digits to the phone for quick dialing of numbers you know by heart. And because the Chocolate is Bluetooth enabled, wireless headsets can be configured with the phone for total handsfree operation.

The Chocolate's internal memory can hold up to 500 contacts for quick access to email addresses and phone numbers. The phone lets you easily assign pictures as well as ringtones to your most common callers. In addition to vibrating alerts, the phone supports polyphonic ringtones, and a number of ringtones come preloaded on the phone and more ringtones can be downloaded from Verizon's Get It Now service. Lastly, the Chocolate's GPS location technology pinpoints your exact location when you dial 911.

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Diminutive size and incredible music functionality make this phone the complete mobile companion. </td></tr></table> Messaging, Internet, and Tools
The phone's support for multimedia messaging means that text, photos, video and audio can be sent with ease (Verizon messaging charges apply). When used in combination with the Chocolate's built-in camera, MMS opens up a whole new world of messaging fun. There's also a built-in web browser for downloads and mobile web browsing. Verizon's optional Mobile Web 2.0 package allows you to read and send e-mails, exchange instant messages and view your favorite web content on your phone. You can check your e-mail, trade stocks online, compare prices while shopping, access flight information, get movie listings and find directions to the theater. T9 text entry, which is a technology that makes it easier for people to enter words and text on handsets, is built into the unit--a plus for mobile email and text messaging users.

With support for the EV-DO high-speed data standard, the Chocolate is fully compatible with Verizon's V Cast service. With V Cast, you can download and stream high-quality video. Need news and weather? Get the latest Accuweather forecast delivered right to your handset, or stream CNN news headlines. ESPN sports updates, entertainment news from E!, and even Sesame Street content for the kids, are all available. V Cast also serves as a portal for enhanced 3D games, making it possible to have more fun with a new breed of realistic games.

Verizon's music service is another EV-DO-powered service that makes the Chocolate all the more desirable. With V Cast music, your phone is a music player, letting you jam out wherever you are. It's also a music store, and you can download songs instantly to your phone. Save your songs to a memory card with a capacity that's right for you. You can even pause to take a call without missing a beat.

A number of handy software tools are bundled with the Chocolate including a voice memo recorder that can record calls, a calculator, a calendar, and an alarm clock. You can even set the alarm to wake you to your favorite music. Also included with the Chocolate is Verizon's VG Navigator software, which allows you to get real-time, turn-by-turn audible directions as you're driving.

Imaging and Entertainment
The Chocolate's is a 1.3-megapixel digital camera features a flash, as well as digital zoom, self-timer, night-mode functions, and brightness and white balance controls. The camera also offers up to one-hour of video capture. A built-in music player with stereo speakers and an equalizer, offering MP3 and WMA playback, lets you keep your music playing in the background. You can also take advantage of the Chocolate's Bluetooth wireless headset capability, allowing you to hook up a pair of Bluetooth stereo headphones. EV-DO Wireless Broadband Coverage
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Vital Statistics
The LG VX-8500 Chocolate weighs just 3.53 ounces and measures 3.80 x 1.88 x .69 inches. Its lithium-ion battery is rated at up to 3.5 hours of digital talk time, and up to 384 hours of digital standby time. It runs on the CDMA 850/CDMA 1900 frequencies. The phone comes with a one-year limited warranty.

Note: The LG Chocolate supports the Headset, Handsfree, Serial Port, Dial Up Networking, Advanced Audio Distribution, and Object Push for vCard. It does not support all Bluetooth object transfer (OBEX) profiles

Customer Reviews:

Battery sucks.......2007-05-08

After a few months, my battery life dropped to 5-6 hours, a tech at Verizon told me I could purchase a "heavy duty" battery for a mere $50 or so. No thanks: would you buy a car if the dealer asked if you wanted to upgrade to a heavy duty battery?
Also, the touchpad on my chocolate goes brain dead intermittently, hope the replacement is better. In summary, I DO NOT recommend the chocolate.

Hot Chocolate.......2007-01-24

I don't think people should buy advance devices or phones if you aren't planning on utilizing the features on the phone. It's like buying an Audi A8 but you walk everywhere???? I Dont get it??

Money-sucking device (but cute).......2006-12-22

I almost returned this because it "had" no voice memo support. It does have Voice Memo, an undocumented feature that Verizon Support couldn't find either. Lucky for them I found a knowledgeable person in the store.

The most annoying thing about this phone is the giant sucking sound of consume, consume, consume. Almost everything is a pay-extra feature. $30 for a music kit (and then spend hours online trying to make it work). A couple hundred more to buy a micro-SD card to hold more than 12 songs. Or buy each song from "Get It Now" and pay $2 each. It's easy to accidentally click on the "connect to web" and start racking up charges. Seems like everywhere you click in the menus, they are trying to suck more money out of you. Even your own items - like the small selection of generic ring tones, the photos you take, anything mailed to you - are stored under the "Get It Now" menu item. The constant exhortation to buy more (now!) is enough of a drumbeat in our culture without having my phone do it too.

It does seem to have features you can use while on the phone, which is cool. Unfortunately it's easy to accidentally activate them with the gentle-touch buttons if you accidentally touch the phone to your face while listening. It was almost impossible to navigate a voice-prompt system (Verizon Support) because of that.

You can get past the extra $$ and the headache of their Music Kit by buying your own Micro-SD (1 gig $40 at Fry's) and feeding in your own songs.
Originally rated one star when I was returning it, I'd give it 3 stars now. It works and has the features I need, but they are buried in clunky menus and spottily documented.

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