http://mobile.engadget.com/2009/07/15/verizon-is-signed-up-for-an-lg-chocolate-4-but-is-it-anything/ Engadget Mobile Comments for Verizon is signed up for an LG Chocolate 4 -- but is it anything like the BL40? http://mobile.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://mobile.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://mobile.engadget.com/2009/07/15/verizon-is-signed-up-for-an-lg-chocolate-4-but-is-it-anything/http://mobile.engadget.com/2009/07/15/verizon-is-signed-up-for-an-lg-chocolate-4-but-is-it-anything/
I'd be amazed to see LG producing a CDMA version of this phone before its available to the rest of the world under its black label uh label.]]>Jul 15th 2009 9:38PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2009/07/15/verizon-is-signed-up-for-an-lg-chocolate-4-but-is-it-anything/http://mobile.engadget.com/2009/07/15/verizon-is-signed-up-for-an-lg-chocolate-4-but-is-it-anything/http://www.phonearena.com/htmls/New-Verizon-phones-due-out-by-the-end-of-the-year-article-a_6086.html

Check out the New Verizon phones due out.]]>Jul 19th 2009 8:21PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2009/07/15/verizon-is-signed-up-for-an-lg-chocolate-4-but-is-it-anything/http://mobile.engadget.com/2009/07/15/verizon-is-signed-up-for-an-lg-chocolate-4-but-is-it-anything/Jul 15th 2009 9:53PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2009/07/15/verizon-is-signed-up-for-an-lg-chocolate-4-but-is-it-anything/http://mobile.engadget.com/2009/07/15/verizon-is-signed-up-for-an-lg-chocolate-4-but-is-it-anything/Jul 15th 2009 10:08PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2009/07/15/verizon-is-signed-up-for-an-lg-chocolate-4-but-is-it-anything/http://mobile.engadget.com/2009/07/15/verizon-is-signed-up-for-an-lg-chocolate-4-but-is-it-anything/Jul 15th 2009 11:39PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2009/07/15/verizon-is-signed-up-for-an-lg-chocolate-4-but-is-it-anything/http://mobile.engadget.com/2009/07/15/verizon-is-signed-up-for-an-lg-chocolate-4-but-is-it-anything/Jul 15th 2009 11:30PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2009/07/15/verizon-is-signed-up-for-an-lg-chocolate-4-but-is-it-anything/http://mobile.engadget.com/2009/07/15/verizon-is-signed-up-for-an-lg-chocolate-4-but-is-it-anything/Jul 15th 2009 11:36PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2009/07/15/verizon-is-signed-up-for-an-lg-chocolate-4-but-is-it-anything/http://mobile.engadget.com/2009/07/15/verizon-is-signed-up-for-an-lg-chocolate-4-but-is-it-anything/
http://www.telefon-treff.de/showthread.php?postid=3728125#post3728125

In my opinion, the phone seems like a more suitable phone to fit the bill as an LG Chocolate 4, with the possibility of them returning to touch-controls? Just throwing that out there, I'm most likely wrong (and hope to be) wrong and that the Chocolate 4 will be some iteration of the BL40

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BIG launch of new Push to Talk phones....

Casio "Rock" (I am hoping they will change this name!) - Model # C731
Casio "Brigade" - Model # C741
Samsung "Convoy" - Model # U640
Motorola v860 - no name yet

A few others include....

Samsung 450 - Which I just found out will be a juke like device - hooray! and I have seen colors of Black and Teal

Samsung 440 - entry level phone to replace the 430

Samsung Omnia II - Model # i920 - this will be out for christmas!

Motorola "Entice" - Model # Motorola w766 - replacing 755

Samsung Rogue - Model # SCHU960 -replacement to Glyde

Treo 800w - Probably not until February

Nokia "Shade" - Model Nokia 2705 - basic replacement to 2605

Nokia "Twist" - Model Nokia 7705

And early reports of the Storm II are true and will be released approximately around the same time as last year. I was told by my superiors that the reasoning for this was that they want to ensure that those folks with the Storm I will be eligible for an early upgrade. Any new info and I will let everyone know!


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Also, does it include the S40 interface?

Thanks for all the info!]]>Jul 16th 2009 9:41AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2009/07/15/verizon-is-signed-up-for-an-lg-chocolate-4-but-is-it-anything/http://mobile.engadget.com/2009/07/15/verizon-is-signed-up-for-an-lg-chocolate-4-but-is-it-anything/
the Nokia twist is the swiveling keyboard that has been talked about. I havent used the N40 interface so I cant say for sure if they are the same. Currently the keyboard will swivel similar to the Sidekick but we are working with Nokia to design the most condusive option for durability as well convenience.]]>Jul 20th 2009 12:16AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2009/07/15/verizon-is-signed-up-for-an-lg-chocolate-4-but-is-it-anything/http://mobile.engadget.com/2009/07/15/verizon-is-signed-up-for-an-lg-chocolate-4-but-is-it-anything/Jul 15th 2009 11:59PMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2009/07/15/verizon-is-signed-up-for-an-lg-chocolate-4-but-is-it-anything/http://mobile.engadget.com/2009/07/15/verizon-is-signed-up-for-an-lg-chocolate-4-but-is-it-anything/Jul 16th 2009 8:29AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2009/07/15/verizon-is-signed-up-for-an-lg-chocolate-4-but-is-it-anything/http://mobile.engadget.com/2009/07/15/verizon-is-signed-up-for-an-lg-chocolate-4-but-is-it-anything/
I would love to know more about your job and the phones...

I want to be a phone tester and want to know what I need to get into the field.

Please email me Thanks!]]>Jul 16th 2009 8:41AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2009/07/15/verizon-is-signed-up-for-an-lg-chocolate-4-but-is-it-anything/http://mobile.engadget.com/2009/07/15/verizon-is-signed-up-for-an-lg-chocolate-4-but-is-it-anything/
I used to take consumer customer service calls @ VZW for years, and I never, EVER received an escalated call about a customer's firmware. Ever.

I can tell you as a Verizon Wireless employee that the majority of our customers couldn't care LESS about the freakin' firmware. Only self-important a-holes like 1/2 of all cell phone/tech bloggers and their readers, who insist that their phones be able to fly them to the moon/provide hovercraft service/act as mind-reading devices for $50 on a max 1 yr contract give a rat's ass about the phone's firmware. If it makes/receives calls and sends/receives messages, people are happy.

Most of you, Engadget authors included, have absolutely zero perspective on this. Take a step out of your little nerd boxes and look at the other over 80 million customers - YOU ALL ARE IN THE MINORITY. The severe, severe minoritiy.

So how about stop taking so many pot shots at VZW for features that the general public has never and will never care about?]]>Jul 16th 2009 5:37AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2009/07/15/verizon-is-signed-up-for-an-lg-chocolate-4-but-is-it-anything/http://mobile.engadget.com/2009/07/15/verizon-is-signed-up-for-an-lg-chocolate-4-but-is-it-anything/Jul 16th 2009 10:03AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2009/07/15/verizon-is-signed-up-for-an-lg-chocolate-4-but-is-it-anything/http://mobile.engadget.com/2009/07/15/verizon-is-signed-up-for-an-lg-chocolate-4-but-is-it-anything/
Duh, this is not news. We dont care about the average user. So go back to your hole now. ]]>Jul 16th 2009 11:12AMhttp://mobile.engadget.com/2009/07/15/verizon-is-signed-up-for-an-lg-chocolate-4-but-is-it-anything/http://mobile.engadget.com/2009/07/15/verizon-is-signed-up-for-an-lg-chocolate-4-but-is-it-anything/You took the calls, but I actually sold the phones in a store.

I too worked at Verizon, and I can tell you the reasons large number of people returned their phones was the UI. They never SAID "Hey this UI SUCKS IM RETURNING IT." but after discussing their reasons it always came down to them not liking some dumbed down aspect of the phone. Hardware was not as much of an issue as the software. But you're right, most customers dont isolate problems as firmware related.

More often than not they would also ask me in their uninformed roundabout way if we had any phones that DIDNT operate like that.
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