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Remember that fancy schmancy Christmas Edition of the LG BL40-alike for South Korea’s domestic market, the SU630? No? Well, allows us to refresh your memory: the phone took the BL40’s basic ultra-wide 21:9 theme and added some gold accents along with an 8 megapixel cam, upgraded from the standard model’s 5. Well, in this place we are a few short months later, and those same gold accents have made another appearance — this time on an authentic BL40 in Russia, but sadly sans the upgraded camera. It’s not clear who’s carrying the tweaked model or how many rubles you’ll be shelling out for the pleasure, but honestly, didn’t the original black / red scheme look gobs sexier anyhow?

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When the Motorola DROID debuts in Verizon Wireless stores bright and early this Friday, one nice little feature that won’t be making an appearance yet is tethering, for computing with your laptop on-the-go when that Android 2.0 interface just won’t cut it. We’re pretty sure that missing functionality won’t be lessening the early adopter crowds too much, but if you are so inclined, Gearlog’s confirmed with VZW that its “Broadband Access Connect” tethering plan is indeed coming to the device, but not until sometime early 2010. at this time, how about muscling Motorola and / or Google for some of that double-finger pointing our fine European friends get to indulge in?

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If you’ve been loving the pictures and videos we’ve been bringing you of the lusciously slim BL40 Chocolate Touch, but holding your breath since a certain blurry photo a few weeks ago showed a rather different Chocolate Touch, we have some bad news. According to Phone Arena News, a Verizon “focus group” (with a questionable sense of aesthetics) decided that the BL40 was crap, and so the somewhat unfortunate looking and definitely asymmetrical VX8575 has been blessed for domestic release as “Chocolate Touch.” It looks to be standard fare featurephone stuff, with a 3.2MP camera, WVGA TFT display, and a browser that will support some subset of HTML. No word on if or when the BL40 will also be making an appearance at Verizon stores, but if we’d been pushed to the curb for something this busted we certainly wouldn’t come back — at least not without a very big bouquet accompanied by a sincere apology.

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