'Chocolate' phone for tunes

Verizon's Chocolate is more for music tastes than the other kind, unfortunately for chocoholic communicators. But digital music fans may be happier. With this phone, Verizon is making the music-on-phone experience a better one for them, USATODAY reports. The big complaint has been that they couldn't upload their music collections onto their phones. They can upload them onto the Chocolate, USATODAY says. It comes with a USB cable to connect PC and phone for copying MP3 and Microsoft's (not Apple's) copy-protected formatted tunes onto the phone. The Chocolate, which – with a 2-GB storage card – can hold 2,000 songs, costs $149, according to USATODAY (the article includes a picture of the phone). Added 8/4: Later in the week, Wall Street Journal tech writer Walt Mossberg pretty much panned the Chocolate, saying not in this case, but he does believe that "someday, the merger of the cellphone and the music player will result in a great device for consumers."