New Chocolate BL20 debuts on LG’s developer website

By on Sep 23, 2009 at 10:00 AM
General September 23, 2009

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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.

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  • grrr

    i’ll take that over the piece of shit verizon is going to release.

  • Mrwirez

    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.

  • mindlessnationalist

    that’s not a verizon phone…

  • Sonya

    @ 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.

  • StevenGlansburg

    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.

  • mindlessnationalist

    how is it safe to say when the phone is gsm?

  • Ethan

    You guys really ought to read the specs before making these ridiculous comments, it says GSM at the top of the specs.

  • Justin

    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.

  • Cool Dude

    That’s an AT&T wallpaper. ;)

  • Justin

    That’s also the LG enV Touch wallpaper on VZW.

  • Mog

    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…

    • Tonya

      well every LG Chocolate that I have owned has been the best phone yet…Blackberry’s lock up and suck major butts, right now I am using a SAMSUNG and they suck big time I cant save hardly anything to my card that is sounds or ringtones…but I am deciding whether to get the chocolate touch or see if this phone is gonna be a verizon phone cuz i always buy at full price cuz i like the look of some of the phones and i just got 2 have it….but when i do that its like a week later and they drop another new phone…

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