From afar, you’d probably think it’s a black iPod but it’s not. Actually, it’s new Chocolate mobile phone from LG, the LG VX8500, which is designed like an iPod. This sleek handset flaunts a shiny black chocolate color and smoothly curved edges. It has touch-sensitive keys and iPod-style click wheel, music player, speaker, dedicated music keys, a 320 x 240 color screen and a 1.3-megapixel camera.

This LG Chocolate phone is launched recently by Verizon Wireless as its premium music phone. Good news is, now you can play WMA and MP3 files via Verizon’s V CAST Music player. Additionally, this time you no longer have to pay $15 subscription fee per month to play your favorite music.

The phone is also equipped with a 68-MB memory and has a slot for a 2-GB card so you can save and play as much as 2000 songs in this Chocolate phone. With this phone’s Bluetooth feature and included Plantronics Pulsar 590 headphones, you can enjoy seamless wireless entertainment. You can also transfer songs from your computer to this phone by means of a USB cable.

LG Chocolate will be available in nearly 2000 Verizon Wireless stores by August 7 and will be sold at $199.99 (Verizon stores) and for $149.99 (Verizon’s site) company's Web site.

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