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Photos: Sweet ‘Chocolate’ phones

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Verizon Wireless is bringing LG Mobile Phones’ Chocolate handset to U.S. customers. The “slide” phone comes with a 1.3-megapixel camera, GPS navigation, and lots of music and video.

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Photos: Sweet ‘Chocolate’ phones

Chocolate’s storage memory is expandable through the use of SanDisk’s MicroSD flash memory cards

Photos: Sweet ‘Chocolate’ phones

Photos: Sweet ‘Chocolate’ phones

Verizon Wireless’ V Cast media store boasts “instant” downloads and a catalog of more 1.3 million songs in Windows Media Audio (WMA) format, including those from popular Colombian pop-singer Shakira.

Photos: Sweet ‘Chocolate’ phones

Songs downloaded to a Chocolate phone will cost $1.99; a copy will instantly be sent to the user’s PC.rn

rnIf the song is downloaded to the PC from V Cast’s Web site, however, only 99 cents will be charged. The song can then be loaded onto the phone at no extra cost.

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By Bill Detwiler
Bill Detwiler is the Editor for Technical Content and Ecosystem at Celonis. He is the former Editor in Chief of TechRepublic and previous host of TechRepublic's Dynamic Developer podcast and Cracking Open, CNET and TechRepublic's popular online show.