Good point Verizon Tester, I never did think of the possibility that both phones could come to Verizon as another duo like the recent Env 3 and Env Touch. I really hope this happens to be the case!

I have a hunch that this BL40 is a brand new "Black Label" series (hence the whole 4th generation thing in the promo video), which means it may or may not even hit the States. However I look at the BL42 (the slider with touch sensitive controls), and just think that it makes so much more sense to being the Chocolate 4, as the Chocolate family has never been really anything outstanding feature-wise besides being a music-oriented phone. I hope I'm wrong though, I have much more interest in the BL40

Thanks for the speedy and informative response!

Take a look at the fourth picture in this forum Rob dug up in an older Engadget post:

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

Sweet would love to win one of these!