LG Chocolate mobile phone with 4-inch wide screen announced in Middle East

LG today announced that their Chocolate handset (LG-BL40) will be on sale in the Middle East from the middle of October. It’s the latest model to join the “Black Label Series” and judging from pictures it’s a pretty good looking device.

The thing that obviously captures your attention with the new handset is the 4-inch 21:9 wide screen display showing 800×345 pixels (TFT, 16 million colors). That makes this a really large display for a mobile phone albeit at a unique format. If you look at the other specifications it has a five-megapixel camera, 7.2HSDPA for fast 3G data connections, multi-touch, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, A-GPS, 1.1GB built-in memory (expandable using MicroSD slot), and more.

This is a format and a screen aspect ratio we’ve not seen in other devices before. It makes the Chocolate very tall and slim. Since the screen is 800 pixels wide it should fit more web sites better than most other mobile phones but at the same time it’s only 345 pixels high, which might be a concern. Anyway, without trying it I don’t want to say to much about that other than I’m very curious about how well it actually works in real life.

We’re hoping to be able to bring you a review in the near future.

It should be available in the UAE from the middle of next month and the retail price is AED2999.

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