LG BL20 unboxing video

Back at the beginning of December last year we reviewed the first of a new line of LG Chocolate phones, the LG BL40. It was a pretty unusual form-factor with a 4″ full 21:9 cinematic widescreen display and at just under 11mm thick it invited such comments as ‘It looks like a TV remote’!

LG have taken the same design ideas, such as the smooth glossy black screen and metallic red accents and have applied all of that to a slim slider-styly handset and have come up with the LG BL20 ‘New Chocolate’.

The LG BL20 New Chocolate

I think, overall, the LG BL20 and the BL40 before it, are attractive looking handsets, the red and black does work well and when the screen is off or in standby the front looks almost totally black. The BL20 isn’t touchscreen though but uses a touch sensitive area below the screen for the majority of system and menu navigation. For input there’s the sliding numeric keypad which is also a stylish red colour.

As always, I’ve taken the time to unbox and tour the handset before it gets the full review treatment. Have a look at the video below for a brief tour of the handset and the OS.

LG BL20 Specification:

• GSM Tri-band, HSDPA Dual-band
• Dimensions: 106.9 x 50.8 x 12.3 mm
• Weight: 115 g
• Display: 240 x 320 pixels, 2.4 inches, TFT, 262K colors
• Touch-sensitive hidden navigation keys
• 60MB internal memory
• microSD card slot supports up to 16GB
• Bluetooth v2.1 with A2DP
• USB v2.0
• Camera: 5 MP, 2560 x 1920 pixels, Schneider-Kreuznach optics, autofocus, LED flash
• SMS, EMS, MMS, EMail, Instant Messaging
• WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML browser
• FM radio
• Java MIDP 2.0
• MP3/AAC/AAC+/WMA player
• H.264/MP4/WMV player
• Battery: Standard battery, Li-Ion 900 mAh
• Stand-by: Up to 450 h
• Talk time: Up to 300 min

Posted by: Matt