New Chocolate BL20 debuts on LG’s developer website
LG’s latest and greatest Chocolate offering is shaping up to be the entry level BL20 touch-enabled slider. Shots of handset adorned with its red keypad have been bouncing around for a while but LG has been mum as far as details go. The silence has just been broken however — though it’s not an official announcement, the BL20 has made its first appearance on LG’s developer website with a full list of specifications including:
- GSM/GPRS/EDGE 900/1800/1900 MHz
- UMTS/HSDPA (3.6Mbps) 900/2100 MHz
- 2.4-inch QVGA display with 262K colors
- ARM9 processor
- 256MB Flash memory
- 128 MB RAM
- 5 megapixel camera with auto-focus, flash and video recording
- Bluetooth 2.1
- FM radio
- MicroSD card expansion, up to 16GB
- USB 2.0
- Proprietary OS with SMS and MMS 1.2, Email (SMTP, POP3, IMAP4), WAP 2.0/HTML/XHTML web browser
- 106.9 x 50.8 x 12.3 mm and 115 grams
Most of what we already knew about the slider has been confirmed, so now we just need LG to get moving and make this handset official.
[Via Unwired View]
i’ll take that over the piece of shit verizon is going to release.
Fugly-BORING-Crippled…. Why does Verizon keep cranking out these same old crippled, boring phones. Where is the *WOW* factor with Verizon.. There is none, ZERO zip… Verizon could really clean house if they would open up their services, dump V cast, add wifi and made a true “user friendly phone”. This is the same as the last ten phones Big Red released. I have been using an old LG vx8350 without a contract for one year, just waiting for something…..ANYTHING cool from Verizon. I may have to switch carriers AGAIN!
PS. I always thought “chocolate” was a dumb name too.
that’s not a verizon phone…
@ Mrwirez
Um that phone is simply a LG phone as of now. So if it looks crippled to you then it’s LG’s doing, though all I see is wallpaper so not sure what’s crippled.
I think your asking a bit much for a dumbphone to have WiFi. No carrier has that.
I think it’s safe to say it’s going to verizon. Aside from a couple of wifi-less blackberries and one or two WM phones, the rest of their lineup is a bunch of LG phones that are all bascally the same aside from some kind of “innovative” form factor.
how is it safe to say when the phone is gsm?
You guys really ought to read the specs before making these ridiculous comments, it says GSM at the top of the specs.
Look at the BL20 and then look at the piece of garbage Verizon is releasing for a touch screen chocolate and then complain about how the BL20 looks horrible and crippled.
While I agree Verizon has 0 wow factor. Not a single device is even worth mentioning. Nothing innovative whatsoever. The BL20 and BL40 respectively would give Verizon just a small taste of something good even if only for a few weeks.
That’s an AT&T wallpaper.
That’s also the LG enV Touch wallpaper on VZW.
WTF? The New Chocolate BL20 is anything but “crippled.” Sure, it’s not a smartphone, but pray tell how many other non-smartphones support widgets? It’ll be a nice lower-end option to the expensive-looking BL40.
Seriously, how exactly is it crippled? Some of you are just assuming it’s going to Verizon and then assuming that Verizon will cripple it…