
You are lucky if you are living in South Korea because LG will launch the special edition LG BL40 for this Holiday season. The new LG BL40 Chocolate Christmas Edition boasts a superb 8-megapixel digital camera with Autofocus and a sleek black case with golden accents. Customers will also get a chance to win up to 5-million Won (more than $4,000). The LG BL40 Chocolate Christmas Edition will be available in South Korea on December 10th, 2009. More

The highly anticipated LG Chocolate Touch is now available via Verizon Wireless. The handset boasts a touchscreen LCD display with a 3.2-megapixel camera with built in digital zoom and a range of software editing features. The phone also has an FM radio with 12 presets and provides an access to a range of social networking sites including Twitter, Facebook and MySpace. Verizon Wireless customers can purchase the LG Chocolate Touch for $79.99 after a $50 mail-in rebate with a new two-year contract. [Verizon Wireless]

LG has officially confirmed that the LG BL40 Touch Chocolate will be available for purchase on the European market starting mid-September 2009. In case you didn’t know, the new LG Chocolate features a 4-inch wide screen with a 21:9 aspect ratio, support for 7.2 HSDPA for fast Internet browsing with the elimination of side scrolling due to the wider screen, a panoramic multimedia experience, the Dual Screen UI (shows two types of content at the same time), simplified touchscreen navigation, one-touch copy and paste, a wide range of personalization options through wallpapers, themes and ringtones, a slim shape with glossy black finish, as well as a smooth, elegant surface provided by the curved scratch-resistant glass encasing the device. The LG Chocolate LG-BL40 should first become available for purchase on the UK market, with other European countries receiving it in September. [Akihabara]

Here are two leaked pictures of the upcoming LG BL40 Chocolate phone. The LG BL40 boasts a 21:9 ratio wide touchscreen display with LG’s S-Class user interface, a 5-megapixel camera, WiFi and FM radio receiver. More

The LG BL40 has been approved by the FCC. Dubbed as the next generation of LG Chocolate, the phone will come with a 800 x 345 resolution display with a 21:9 aspect ratio, a Flash-based 3D UI, multitouch, AGPS, WiFi, 7.2Mbps HSDPA, and a glass screen surface that’s said to be scratch-proof. [UnWiredView]

Here is the latest video of the upcoming LG Chocolate BL40. The video shows that the handset will come with a 800 x 345 resolution display with a 21:9 aspect ratio. Other features include a Flash-based 3D UI, multitouch, AGPS, WiFi, 7.2Mbps HSDPA, and a glass screen surface that’s said to be scratch-proof. Video after the jump. More