LG's "Black Sapphire" MG810 Chocolate flip phone is real!

We hope you're not preparing for this to be a specced out monster of a cellphone, but for those longing for a Chocolate flip phone that may be a little (ok, a lot) too reminiscent of the KRZR, look no further than the Black Sapphire MG810 (aka VX8600, and U830). It'll apparently have a 1.3 megapixel camera, 176 x 220 internal display (and 96x 96 external), media player that supports MP3 and AAC, Bluetooth, FM radio, 128MB of flash memory, and GRPS. Still, she's ah so beautiful. According to our Brazilian pal who sent this in, they snuck it right out underneath our ever lovin' noses and apparently put it on sale in South America for 999 Brazil Reais (or about $465 US). Steep, for a phone that doesn't appear to have EDGE or expandable media, but you're not paying for features here, remember?

[Thanks, Gustavo]

[willy @ Feb 17th 2008 9:40AM]

how do you use .mp3 music for a ringtone on this phone?!?!!?

[Itch @ Mar 8th 2008 10:56AM]

i have a mac and i went into a program and mad myself some ringtones - but they dont show up anywhere. why doesn't it work, is it only for iphones?

[brittany @ Mar 13th 2008 11:34PM]

i have the chocolate flip and these 2 look exactly the same except for the buttons. But i like the buttons way better then mine...

[zoe @ Jul 14th 2009 1:16PM]

how can i but this phone?!

[zoe @ Jul 14th 2009 1:19PM]

how can i buy this phone?!

[Devin Murphy @ Sep 7th 2006 2:42AM]

I have the chocolate and there is no FM radio, im a little mad about that. But im pretty sure this thing is going to have MicroSD capabilities. So expandable it will be. When it boils down to it, would i give back my chocolate for the new DARK chocolate, i still like the Slider, let Motorola have the "thin flips" LG's got the right idea with the original Chocolate.

[Shredsled87 @ Sep 7th 2006 2:52AM]

It looks cool. Too bad it doesn't have EDGE or expandable memory.

[Brian @ Sep 7th 2006 3:28AM]

The LG chocolate flip has been out in Asia for the longest time now. The pictures that are floating around the web are most likely of that version.

In asia, LG is marketing heavily three versions of its Chocolate "Black Label" series. A black chocolate flip, a black chocolate slider, and a black chocolate candybar phone.

There is also a white version of the slider, which looks just like the black one but in white, with the keys checkerboard with white and silver.

[Dave @ Sep 7th 2006 3:59AM]

Get the VX9900 out already! >_

[2-fre @ Sep 8th 2006 6:54AM]

The LG Action Sports Tour was in Paris to promo their cell phone (only 125Mo ;(

All the pict of the event are here
http://flickr.com/photos/sk8net/sets/72157594265287481/

2-fre > http://www.sk8.net

[chris @ Sep 7th 2006 8:27AM]

MobileBurn has it as the KG810 in Asia.

Here's a link to the KG810 Chocolate flip and the KG320 Chocolate candybar from an August 14 article:

http://mobileburn.com/news.jsp?Id=2631&source=BROWSER

[Kei @ Sep 7th 2006 8:41AM]

this has been out in the UK for over 2 weeks now from Phones2You. It felt very solid, however there is no improvement to the screen or camera compared to the Chocolate.
The phone is actually pretty slim feeling as well.

[PDubNYC @ Sep 7th 2006 9:42AM]

Umm, looks almost exactly like the Samsung a900. A lot more than it looks like any KRZR. Chocolate doo-doo.

[Michael @ Sep 7th 2006 10:02AM]

The silver really turns me off. If it were all black, that would be a differnet story. I just don't get this black with silver craze manufacturers are going though.
At least Samsung seems to be on track somewhat and some of those new Sony phones.

[K-SO @ Sep 8th 2006 7:12PM]

well, in the airport in sao paulo (brasil) theyve had adds for it for at least 2 months... since LG sponsors the airport and all that... also there it is called the black safira

[Felipe Cepriano @ Sep 7th 2006 7:13PM]

Here in Brazil the phones are REALLY expansive... A Moto v3 is arround R$800 (U$$350/400)

[Helcio @ Sep 7th 2006 8:30PM]

No, the V3 isn't costing R$800, it's around R$600 (US$ 280). And the MG810, i've already been with one, not big deal, i prefer my symbian, though many people are complaining about the battery life of the MG810

[Felipe Cepriano @ Sep 8th 2006 6:34AM]

Helcio, i was talking about a unlocked one...

[jamin @ Sep 9th 2006 7:42PM]

So is the battery life a big problem on the MG810? For those of you who have it do you like it a lot? I'm debating on whether to wait it out for this phone or just go ahead and get a chocolate...any suggestions?

[Jody @ Sep 8th 2006 8:18PM]

hmm, I just got a Samsung A900 about a week ago.

This phone looks nearly EXACTLY like it (a few differences here and there).

The screen is larger, and has a better resolution, and it in fact looks more slick and stylish. ('google "A900" for photos')

[Dee @ Jun 6th 2007 1:36PM]

How do you get music which u download off the computer then put the songs onto your phone? I got a free 3music voucher with my phone and have got the songs i just need to get them on my phone now? Help!!

xxx

[momo @ Jun 7th 2007 8:19PM]

I just got this yesterday, and yes it does in fact have microSD expansion. It came with a 1 GB card, a converter card and a USB card reader. It's also the sexiest phone I've seen, anything by Samsung and Moto can't touch it. Just trying to figure out if I can upload homebrew ringtones using the card instead of posting them to a website and then downloading them to the phone. Free is much better than 10 cents per page.

[Kira @ Aug 3rd 2007 3:06PM]

Hey, I just got this phone a while ago and can someone please let me know if there is any way to use my mp3s as ringtones or if there is a good site that has free ringtones for this phone. Thanks alot.

[kyle @ Dec 29th 2007 2:31PM]

how come the phone will not show my pics i have put on the sd 1 gig card......i have the pics in jpeg format??????????????

[brodie @ Jan 17th 2008 10:20PM]

how do you put muic from your computer on to your phone? Please use layman terms. And thank you.

Brodie