The chocolate® is sweeter than ever. It’s slimmer and lighter with an improved navigation wheel using trace motion light. This minor update to the 8500 is slightly slimmer and lighter, sporting an improved keypad with vibration feedback on the touch keys, plus support for larger memory cards. Other features of this slide-style CDMA music phone remain similar, including stereo Bluetooth, EVDO data, megapixel camera, and QVGA display.
Phone Specifications| Camera | Connectivity | Data | Display | General | Messaging | Multimedia |
| 2.0 MP | Bluetooth | EVDO | Color | Alarm | Email | Music Player |
| Video Camera | Internet | Flight Mode | External Display | Calculator | EMS | Video |
| PC Sync | WAP | | Calendar | Instant Messenging | |
| | | | Polyphonic Ringtones | MMS | |
| | | | Vibrate | Text Messaging | |
| | | | Voice Memo | | |
| Operating System | Sound | Storage Card | Technology | Type |
| BREW | 2.5 mm Headphone Slot | MicroSD | CDMA | Flip Phone |
| Video Camera | Hands Free Slot | Flight Mode | External Display | Calculator |
| Speakerphone | WAP | | Calendar |
The LG VX8550 Chocolate is a slim and light phone that was released on 2007. This phone has 240 x 320 pixels TFT 262k color display and weighs around 3.24 oz or 92 g. The phone has a total dimension of 3.85 x 1.87 x 0.67 and has an 800 mAh battery that can handle 4.16 hours of talk time and will last 14.6 days on stand-by time. It also comes with a 1.3 megapixel camera that lets you take picture and videos which you can save to the phone’s 0.125 GB built-in storage or to a microSD card (additional memory). The phone also can store 1000 phonebook entries that can have multiple numbers per contact, Calendar, Alarm and basic phone features. You can send or receive files via Bluetooth and you can transfer files from your phone to your computer via USB data cable.