Verizon VX8575 Chocolate Touch confirmed to be uglier than that other Chocolate Touch

If you've been loving the pictures and videos we've been bringing you of the lusciously slim BL40 Chocolate Touch, but holding your breath since a certain blurry photo a few weeks ago showed a rather different Chocolate Touch, we have some bad news. According to Phone Arena News, a Verizon "focus group" (with a questionable sense of aesthetics) decided that the BL40 was crap, and so the somewhat unfortunate looking and decidedly asymmetrical VX8575 has been blessed for domestic release as "Chocolate Touch." It looks to be standard fare featurephone stuff, with a 3.2MP camera, WVGA TFT display, and a browser that will support some subset of HTML. No word on if or when the BL40 will also be making an appearance at Verizon stores, but if we'd been pushed to the curb for something this busted we certainly wouldn't come back -- at least not without a very big bouquet accompanied by a sincere apology.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 21st 2009 12:06PM]

doesnt look like a chocolate phone.

[Twanzio Posted Sep 21st 2009 12:11PM]

LG used to have somewhat nice phones 3 or 4 years back. What the hell happened?

[steakman Posted Sep 21st 2009 1:45PM]

They still do... Its Verizon forcing them to make this ugly shit so it corresponds with what they believe to be appropriate for their network and customers.

[ic wiener Posted Sep 21st 2009 4:06PM]

verizon happened

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 21st 2009 12:18PM]

EVERYONE CONTACT VERIZON'S CEO AND TELL HIM WHAT YOU THINK! http://aboutus.vzw.com/leadership/executive/profiles/Lowell_McAdam.html

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 21st 2009 12:46PM]

Fantastic. They kill the only phone I was looking forward to and was legitimately considering of buying and instead they just release another generic touch phone with the same features and functionalities that dozens of phones before it, had offered for years now. Seriously, stop f***ing yourself up the ass, LG; it's starting to personally bother me.

[steakman Posted Sep 21st 2009 1:16PM]

MY EYES! THEY BURN! Being a Verizon customer, I am FURIOUS and the absolute SHIT phones they have. Why they wont pull the stick out of their ass and have fun is a mystery to me. I love Verizon, they have the best network but they really could stand to acquire more phones that can actually be put to use other than checking outlook on winmo.

[kelloggs Posted Sep 21st 2009 1:34PM]

When will the BL40 come to the US?! Verizon made a BIG mistake letting this one go. I can only hope that they will have a change of heart and get the BL40 (or any good phone for that matter).

[doc Posted Sep 21st 2009 1:51PM]

Um, I have Verizon but their phones suck ass!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 21st 2009 2:05PM]

this phone looks really really ugly because it looks so bulky!!

[Moemo73 Posted Sep 21st 2009 2:36PM]

look at this video on the bottom of the screen on the phone (about 16 sec in to the clip) it says T-mobile not verizon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RC-8dqJTukY

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 21st 2009 4:53PM]

It says T-Mobile because that is a clip from the UK.

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 22nd 2009 2:39AM]

It looks like Nokia 3310 with bigger screen.