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If you want to know what Verizon’s upcoming Chocolate Touch will look like, look no further than this little number, the SB210, that’s just been unveiled for LG’s domestic South Korean market. Naturally we can expect that the firmware will be a good deal different, but the hardware looks precisely like the spy shots we’ve seen so far of the next Big Red handset to wear the storied Chocolate brand — which, it bears repeating, won’t be the much hotter BL40. In the SB210’s case, the big feature in this place is an integrated database of 280 golf courses that hooks up with the GPS to offer distance information and decrease your handicap (theoretically, anyway). The phone’s available at this time on SKT for 638,000 won — about $538 — so we’re expecting a much decrease subsidized price when this thing comes to Verizon later this week.

Filed under: Handsets, LG, Verizon Wireless

By all accounts, the GW620 seems to be a pretty timid first entry into the Android fray for LG — it’s a pretty plain-vanilla set with nary a software customization to be found — but there’s definitely a market for that sort of thing, so it’s good to see that they’re making nice progress toward retail availability with an FCC filing in this place. Of course, as with far too many phones, FCC approval has precisely zero bearing on whether it’ll actually be offered in the New World; these guys are just dotting their I’s and crossing their T’s as they prepare for a proper launch in key markets around the globe where travel to the US seems like a possibility. The particular version we’ve got in this place is the GW620F variant, rocking quadband GSM / EDGE plus WCDMA Band V which offers up 850MHz 3G. If we had to guess, there’s also 2100 in there, which would make it likely bound for Australia. With DROID Fever still in full effect, of course, it could launch in Antarctica and we’re not sure the Android community would be paying too much mind.

Filed under: Handsets, LG, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA, UMTS, Android