Verizon Announces new Chocolate
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Richard Baguley Published on July 05, 2007 Comment on this |
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5th July 2007 - Verizon has just announced a new version of their popular Chocolate slider phone. The new Chocolate by LG is claimed to be slimmer; although only by two hundredths of an inch; at 0.67 inches thick, against the 0.69 inches of the previous mode that we reviewed here. It will also include a number of new features, including a redesigned navigation wheel and a vibrating touch keypad. The new Chocolate uses a redesigned control method; a round touchpad replaces the touch-sensitive directional pad of the previous model, and there's a new feature called trace motion, which has a light that follows the spot you are touching on the control pad. Whether this new control method is easier to use than the rather unresponsive directional pad (which we described as "one of the worst we have ever used") remains to be seen.
However, the other changes on the new version of the Chocolate look to be relatively minor; the new mode has the same display (a 240 by 320 pixel, 2-inch display that can show 256k colors), the same resolution camera (1.3-megapixel) and the same small 800 mAh battery. Verizon claims that the new CDMA phone will run for up to 250 minutes (just over 4 hours) and will have a standby time of 350 hours (over 14 days). We'll be checking all of these claims and more in our full review that will be coming soon. The new Chocolate by LG will be available on July 9th; no pricing information has yet been released from Verizon.
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