LG's KE800 Chocolate Platinum: the KG800's and KV-6000's pretty baby

Mmm, yummy leaked photos of LG's Chocolate v2, otherwise known as the KE800 Chocolate Platinum, unofficially that is. While it certainly shares the looks of the LG KV-6000 Black Label II slider, this model goes tri-band 900/1800/1900 with GPRS (like the KG800) and now EDGE data while doubling the internal memory to 256MB and packing a bigger 2 megapixel shooter with autofocus and macro mode. What's more, you get an FM radio to accompany that media player supporting MP3/AAC/AAC+/AAC++ and WAV formats along with microSD expansion and Bluetooth stereo support to make this is viable music phone. All these bumps yet it measures a scant 9.9-mm / 0.39-inch thin compared to its relatively chubby 15.2-mm / 0.69-inch VZW Chocolate cuz. No word on where or when but without the 850MHz band, we're happy to wait for this to go quad, right Cingular users?

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[GorgeousGeorge @ Nov 1st 2006 1:26PM]

The Q and the BB Pearl are as slick-looking as nearly any phone I've seen on the market. Expensive, yes. But relatively compact and good looking? In my opinion, certainly.

[KYDS3K @ Nov 1st 2006 9:18AM]

ugh! why do people like sliders? they just seem so awkward to me!!

whatever happened to the Chocolate flip phone - or did i just miss an announcement?

[brian welch @ Nov 1st 2006 10:13AM]

Awkward? Not really. Granted, some of them are definitely plasticy and not very 'solid' feeling. I picked up a nokia 8801 when they came out and I could not be more pleased with the feel and overall use of it. It is solid, the slide is sooo awesome. I have people borrowing it just to flick it open and closed over and over. To me and the people that have messed with this phone, it is completely intuitive, not awkward.

[Joshua Sayers @ Nov 1st 2006 10:13AM]

Here is a suggestion: Why doesn't someone make a cell phone that won't get scratched all to hell within a month and a half owning it. This scratch free cell phone could also be water resistant, have a decent operating system, and a nice long battery life. It seems that the current design trend with cell phones is to design it well enough to maybe work for two years under the most optimal conditions (i.e. carrying it around locked in a velvet lined box and only daring to open the box in a padded room with no plumbing). I am afraid to see what my Razr will look like in two years, considering that after owning it for about five months the buttons are peeling off there are scratches and bumps all over the damn thing, oh well it probably won't last that long anyway. I predict that I will need a new just after my Razr passes the one year mark and my next one certainly won't be anything from motorola.

[DAN @ Nov 1st 2006 11:07AM]

who uses cell phones for 2 years these days?? 6 monthes is the new 2 years :D

[Jamar @ Nov 1st 2006 11:13AM]

If you're on Verizon wait for the Casio G-Zone phone. It's waterproof and more durable than most cell phones. Pity, though- Verizon's most likely going to stick their awful UI on it and they've given it a stub antenna compared to the Japanese antennaless version- what were they thinking? I'd really wish that Japanese telecoms would directly enter the US market- otherwise the cool phones will never get here.

[GorgeousGeorge @ Nov 1st 2006 12:57PM]

>>who uses cell phones for 2 years these days??

[Korey @ Nov 1st 2006 11:37AM]

Yes Engadget very right. My area of New York (Upstate) Gets full 1900mhz service so I could get it now. I have to say the Chocolate script on the outside needs to go it looks very feminine.

[neale @ Nov 1st 2006 12:05PM]

ive got the original chocolate, looks pretty identical to that except that has a hidious chrome engraved chocolate thing. loose the chrome strip

flip phones: protect the screen by having it inside. great idea. but sadly, theyre soooo 2004. just like white consumer electronics are

[GorgeousGeorge @ Nov 1st 2006 12:59PM]

Ugh. Got cut off. At any rate, meant to say:

Who uses cell phones at all these days? Smart phones / blackberries have now become portable enough to carry around like cell phones (Motorola Q, anyone?). There's no point to owning a normal cell anymore.

[Wow. @ Nov 7th 2006 4:50PM]

Ignorance.

Phones are for talking. If there was no point to having a normal cell, then there wouldn't be so many of them still available. This is a moronic comment, at best. Only trend-hopping whores would think otherwise.

"Like, omigosh, like noooooooooobody carries regular phones anymore, that's so...ick!"

Give me a damn break.

[Norm @ Nov 1st 2006 6:34PM]

But will it have speakerphone? :)

[J @ Nov 1st 2006 10:18PM]

looks pretty sleek

[Omar @ Nov 4th 2006 2:21PM]

This was mentioned ages ago and I even submitted it to you guys....

http://www.widgx.com/2006/05/10/lg-kv6000-black-label-chocolate-2/

[khalid enaanai @ Oct 29th 2008 7:08AM]

looks pretty skleek