{"id":4631,"date":"2006-07-31T09:02:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-31T09:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/death-by-chocolate.html"},"modified":"2006-07-31T09:02:00","modified_gmt":"2006-07-31T09:02:00","slug":"death-by-chocolate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/consumer-electronics\/death-by-chocolate.html","title":{"rendered":"Death By Chocolate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"WIDTH: 171px; HEIGHT: 314px\" height=\"348\" src=\"http:\/\/images.usatoday.com\/tech\/_photos\/2006\/07\/31\/verizon.jpg\" width=\"192\" align=\"left\" alt=\"\" \/>It is far better to have a music player that also acts as a phone. It is that simple. But most people wither disagree or they don&rsquo;t want a clunky music playing phone &ndash; they prefer a sleep iPod Mini. Well now that Verizon Wireless has decided to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/tech\/products\/gear\/entertainment\/2006-07-31-verizon-chocolate_x.htm\"><font color=\"#800080\">carry<\/font><\/a> the LG Chocolate phone &ndash; a sleekly designed model resembling a music player more than a phone, the world may be about to change. Couple this with more consumer friendly pricing and you have a recipe for some serious iPod killing chocolate.<\/p>\n<p>I have heard great things about these Chocolate phones by the way. They are all the rage in Asia and as usual in the US we get the best toys last.<\/p>\n<p>One last&nbsp;note &ndash; I have repeatedly slammed Verizon Wireless in years past due to their poor selection of devices. They seemed to have listened and are doing an awesome job of competing with leading-edge devices such as this phone and the Motorola Q.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is far better to have a music player that also acts as a phone. It is that simple. But most people wither disagree or they don&rsquo;t want a clunky music playing phone &ndash; they prefer a sleep iPod Mini. Well now that Verizon Wireless has decided to carry the LG Chocolate phone &ndash; a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[1243,442,350,1244],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4631"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}