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In 2009, LG released the New Chocolate (BL40) in Europe, Asia and Canada, alongside a non-touch New Chocolate model BL20. One major failing of this handset is that you have no way of expanding the internal memory. Now, there is 128MB of this designated as multimedia storage. This is fairly generous, but it is nowhere near enough for you to consider using the Chocolate KG800 as a substitute for a dedicated music player. At least copying music across is no problem as the handset functions as a USB Mass Storage device, and you get a cable in the box. With the slider opened it is two presses (the side key and then number pad key 1 for the music player, 2 for stills camera or 3 for video shooting). With the slider closed you have to precede these presses with two pushes of the volume up key which not only enables the front mounted touch buttons but also the camera/music player button. I found it odd but not an enormously big deal that the end call key which doubles up as the power key sits on the right edge of the casing instead of in its usual place under the screen. It was fairly easy to get used to the position, and if you do find it annoying you can just end calls by closing the slider. Before its European debut, the phone had already won an iF Design Award and Red Dot Design Award. [26]
In fact one of the first impressions we had were that the phone hidden in its pouch resembles in a great way a stylish and highly expensive cigar lighter that a real connoisseur always has within their reach. It boasts a generally pretty standard set of features: a 2″, 256k colour display, 1.3 megapixel camera and 128MB memory. The pleasant surprises come in the form of its smaller than expected dimensions (9.5 x 4.8 x 1.5cm) and particularly light weight (approximately 85g). You may also have read about the “hidden LCD” screen which had us confused for a while. It turns out that the red buttons on the front aren’t buttons at all but in fact a touch-keypad section which lights up when you slide it open. Mobile Choice Magazine: Mobile Choice Consumer Awards 2006 Winners". 2006-11-09. Archived from the original on 2006-11-09 . Retrieved 2023-07-16. {{ cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown ( link) AddThis sets this geolocation cookie to help understand the location of users who share the information. Talk: 3.50 hours (210 minutes) Standby: 384 hours (16 days) batteries were known to have a defect as they were released in December 2006. They did not hold a full charge.
The Chocolate single-handedly helped turn LG Electronics's business from a loss to profit by the end of 2006. [28] Successors [ edit ] There is no speakerphone. Now, I don’t use a speakerphone very often, but I do regard it as one of the basics for any handset. CookieYes sets this cookie to record the default button state of the corresponding category and the status of CCPA. It works only in coordination with the primary cookie.
LG KU800: 3G Chocolate – Mobile Gazette – Mobile Phone News". www.mobilegazette.com . Retrieved 2023-07-17. Ever since the chocolatier first made their pink chocolate, they spent some time marketing their 'pink sensation' in Asia and Europe and finally introduced it in American and Canadian markets. You'll be surprised to know that the Ruby chocolate is the first-ever new flavor of chocolate introduced in the U.S. since its debut of chocolate in the 1930s. No wonder it was welcomed as a sensation. The side mounted end call key sits next to another key – this opens a screen menu that allows you to use the built in music player or camera. The idea of a dual purpose key is, I suppose, to save on the number of keys around the edges of the casing. That said, I think I’d still rather have two keys as the arrangement that LG has chosen means that it takes multiple presses to get to either feature. Five popular cell phones that dominated the US market in 2006". Archived from the original on 2018-10-16 . Retrieved 2018-10-15. Join us, AIB, and the Center for Science and the Imagination on Tuesday, Nov. 9 at noon Eastern to discuss the exhibit, the pieces, and the roles museums play in depicting future narratives. RSVP here, and read Tochi’s and Madeline’s stories on Future Tense here.
The KU800 is a 3G version of the KG800 Chocolate, providing higher speed UMTS connections. It was released in the UK at end 2006 by Vodafone. Its display resolution has also increased to 240x320 but with a drop in colour depth. [20] LG VX8500 (Verizon Wireless, U.S.) [ edit ] LG VX8500 Chocolate Boasting a ‘hidden’ LCD screen and touch-keypad controls that glow red when in use, the feature-rich, slim LG Chocolate phone is designed with minimalism in mind and will become a must-have handset for those that value fashion as well as function. With a look and feel totally dissimilar to any previous handset, the LG Chocolate phone is the first product from LG’s premium series of mobile phones that combine fantastic styling with cutting-edge technology. According to the chocolatier, the chocolate got its pink color from an extract from the pink ruby cocoa , that's a unique and rare type of cocoa bean only found in Brazil, Ecuador, and the Ivory Coast. They say this cocoa bean was left undiscovered and unutilized. However, speculations suggest otherwise. Some insiders from the chocolate industry are set on their belief that Ruby chocolate is a product of regular cocoa, only that it has been left unfermented, which gives it the pink color. The regular brown chocolate is made using bitter cocoa beans from the cocoa tree. These beans are first dried and then fermented till they become edible. Brown chocolate has been made using this technique for as many as 4,000 years.
At the Mobile Choice Consumer Awards 2006, the Chocolate won the award for Best Fashion Phone, and was runner up in Phone of the Year beaten by Sony Ericsson K800i. [27] The comparison is also helped by the fact that the Chocolate KG800 is supplied with a soft drawstring pouch.
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The front part of the phone shell has a mirror-like finish that really makes it look classy. When closed, the slider has a rather monolith construction so there were a few people that tried opening it as a flip phone instead of a slider. That's really something since mobile phones nowadays are invading every part of our lives so to be able to produce something innovative really counts. A slightly modified version of the KG800, released as the LG TG800, was sold by Rogers Wireless and Fido in Canada, released on the market in November 2006. [21] Additionally, Bell Mobility has a modified version of this phone that works on their CDMA/ 3G EVDO network despite the offering of the LG Chocolate (VX8500) in Canada available there through Telus Mobility. Now, you may find it extremely hard to believe that a bar of chocolate that's pink in color doesn't have any artificial colors! Well, the secret to what gives this chocolate the pink due is closely guarded by the manufacturers; there are some speculations. Time Travel to 2071 with Smithsonian Researchers: How can portraying the future help us prepare for it? As part of the Smithsonian’s upcoming FUTURES exhibition, the Smithsonian Arts and Industries Building (AIB) collaborated with Arizona State University’s Center for Science and the Imagination to bring together museum experts, cultural and research centers, writers, and artists to help answer that question. They asked eight research teams to imagine potential futures for Smithsonian institutions, their areas of research, and, most importantly, the communities they serve. Might children be able to vote in 2071? What would it take to make human life in space sustainable? Then award-winning artist Brian Miller and acclaimed sci-fi writers Tochi Onyebuchi and Madeline Ashby created exhibition posters and short stories based on those visions. This all makes for very neat lines, but it is only half the story. The Chocolate KG800 is a slider with an extremely smooth spring loaded mechanism. When you push upper and lower halves apart a large number pad appears. But it is only a numberpad. There are no soft menu keys, no call and end keys, no other control keys.
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