Verizon launches Motorola's KRZR K1m and LG's Chocolate, again

Just in time for Halloween, VZW has new flavors of the MOTOKRZR K1m and Chocolate phones up for grabs. Well kinda, since their new White Chocolate only appears on what looks to be a Verizon staging site at the mo' with actual launch still expected tomorrow for $130 and a 2 year commitment. Just don't forget to treat yourself to a speakerphone with the ol' firmware trick hear, 'cause it looks from the site to ship without. Also up is the return on the K1m KRZR only now in a ghostly white with gray exterior -- yours to ship home for $200 after on-line discount and two-year contractual obligation akin to a feast of apples and rzrbldz.

[Thanks, John and Bob the Builder]

Read -- LG Chocolate (white)
Read -- Motorola MOTOKRZR K1m

[TS @ Oct 30th 2006 9:18AM]

The (White) Chocolate is slick looking, but the KRZR just doesn't do it for me in white. Kinda bland looking, and the gray inside and out is of poor contrast with the rest of the phone.

[Pete @ Oct 30th 2006 10:05AM]

Ugh, the krzr is fugly. I'll stick with my blue/gray regular one, thanks.

[scott @ Oct 30th 2006 10:05AM]

Anyone else noticing the big Cell providers are popping out a lot of white, apple-esque phones lately? I mean, do you think they know something about the iPhone we don't?

[Matt B @ Oct 30th 2006 10:10AM]

bah! Who wants to have the same phone for 2 years?

[Alex @ Oct 30th 2006 11:03AM]

Hahhahahahah apples and rzrbldz.

[rkho @ Oct 30th 2006 11:51AM]

I think Verizon effed up with the white Chocolate. The touch wheel is just fugly on the white model. They should have kept the Korean model instead =/

White looks so much better on the KG800

[telepheedian @ Oct 30th 2006 12:02PM]

Both are ugly, but the white Chocolate wins the award. That navigation pad is UGLY.

[Josh @ Oct 30th 2006 1:31PM]

Why does America always have bad phones? Most of the phones I see when browsing American sites (Verizon and Cingular) are so old they're not even sold in Europe anymore. The best phones you have are those 2 and I heard that Verizon cripples them when they bring them over. I know that the Chocolate has had the front keypad re-designed for the American launch. Its much less slick looking than the version we get over here. (U.K.)

[Killian @ Oct 30th 2006 1:51PM]

my white chocolate > that white chocolate

[Jeff Foster @ Oct 30th 2006 2:29PM]

those look cheap and shitty.

yeah, why does the US get old ugly phones while so many other countries are getting the new slick stuff? that's lame.

[Mike @ Oct 30th 2006 3:13PM]

Are these for real? My verizon rep says no..but what does she know? Where did this information come from, an official press release?

[MaX PL @ Oct 30th 2006 3:14PM]

josh, its because we get everything else ahead of you.

[Josh @ Oct 30th 2006 7:19PM]

Besides video games, what comes out ahead in America?

[voodoobru @ Oct 31st 2006 1:37PM]

i don't think the white k1m is real
1.the verizon website shows the black phone on the listing page although the white one is what is described. i believe it's only heavily brightened seeing as how the lighting is consistantly brightened everywhere except the clearly simulated screen shots.
2.the model number and phone id is that of the black k1m
3.i called verizon and the rep said they only have one model number in their system and that is the black one although the verizon rep did acknowledge he saw on the website the same thing that i saw, but said there is only one model they sell and ship out. and that the model listed on that page is that of the black one.
4.i'm going to the verizon store today to confirm, especially since i have to go there for my battery issue on my k1m which doesn't even last 16 hours.

[voodoobru @ Oct 31st 2006 5:56PM]

there is no such thing as the white k1m.
1.i verified this with a verizon rep
2.i verified this on the site. in fact the pic on the verizonwireless site is just shaded poorly or has light bouncing from the pic. when looked at on the listing page or using the 360 you can clearly see it is black. there is a single model, a single phone id, a single listing, and it's black.
http://flickr.com/photos/97429328@N00/284962271/

hate to bust this bubble, but it's just not true. and about the lg, i hate to bust that bubble, there may be a white phone but it'll still be a piece of crap.