If you want to know what Verizon's upcoming
Chocolate Touch will look like, look no further than this little number, the SB210, that's just been unveiled for LG's domestic South Korean market. Naturally we can expect that the firmware will be a good deal different, but the hardware looks exactly like the spy shots we've seen so far of the next Big Red handset to wear the storied Chocolate brand -- which, it bears repeating, won't be the much hotter
BL40. In the SB210's case, the big feature here is an integrated database of 280 golf courses that hooks up with the GPS to offer distance information and lower your handicap (theoretically, anyway). The phone's available now on SKT for 638,000 won -- about $538 -- so we're expecting a much lower subsidized price when this thing comes to Verizon
later this week.
posted Nov 2nd 2009 8:36PM
....So the Chocolate changed from a music phone, to a golfing phone?
Anyone care to explain how the hell THAT happened?
Well, it was a crazy party and everyone had a little too much to drink, soon one thing led to another...
Ahh.... I see, I'm starting to think this change was largely influenced by the fight at the party between Tiger woods and Kanye, after Kanye started telling others that he had a much better swing then Tiger.
In Korea it's not a party until someone birdies.
There's a map for that.
Indeed!!
I don't think you need to speculate. It shows the LG Chocolate Touch in a verizon ad in this months Costco Connection
Ditto. Come on Engadget, don't you read your Costco material?
Who buys these things? I'm guessing teeny-boppers.
Is it made by LG, If yes NO THANKS,
You WOULD decide whether or not to like a phone purely on the manufacturer...
Of course, you wouldn't buy anything BUT the best, which is why I'm confused at your choice of the iPhone.
I do not see any chocolate :-)
You've only seen the wrapper
Even a fat kid wouldn't touch this chocolate
Ah, fond memories of my original VX8500 chocolate. Such a great phone until it split in two....a relic from a bygone age when smartphones were expensive and only for people with jobs.
"Such a great phone until it split in two"
Truer words were never spoken about the original Chocolate.
Fuck you Verizon. Thanks for the Droid Verizon,
If I buy a $49 iphne 3g over this $538 lg am I considered apple fAnboy? Cheap?or smart consumer?
Hm... not sure about first two but you don't seem like the last thing you mentioned there... your spelling...
i would say you're pretty stupid to buy one subsidized over the non-subsidized one, however, it's almost guaranteed that the iphone is better than this thing.
... but then again an android or winmo is better than both of those, IMO at least.
btw, good job on bringing up the iphone in a post about the chocolate/sb210.
As long as the Cyons don't look just like us, I'm OK with it.
Yea, I looked at the phone and saw an 'l' in the middle of the name too.
Might be something about last night's "Big Bang Theory" and the Cylon toast... :)
"Chocolate Touch"? It's difficult for me to get excited about a phone named after a finger that's been where no man has gone before . . . her first year in college.