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LG let some details of its upcoming VX-8600 phone for Verizon Wireless.

This clamshell phone includes most of the features of the VX-8500 Chocolate that launched recently, but into a thinner clamshell form factor.

Features of the LG Chocolate VX8600 include:

• EV-DO high-speed data
• 176 x 220 main screen with 262k colors (a bit lower resolution of 8500)
• 128 x 128 external screen with 65k colors
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Verizon Wireless today launched the LG Chocolate, an ultra-thin minimalist slider design with glowing red touch sensitive keypad.

In addition to its multimedia capabilities and styling, Verizon Wireless has included the features customers have come to expect including VCAST Video and 3D Games, a 1.3-megapixel camera, Bluetooth capabilities, a microSD memory expansion slot that supports the newest SanDisk 2 GB cards and access to VZ Navigator and turn-by-turn navigation with audible voice directions to most addresses in the U.

Verizon Wireless is now featuring the LG "Chocolate" 8500 handset on its homepage, noting that it will be for sale soon. The slide style phone will be an exclusive to Verizon Wireless. Not much information was revealed, but music will be a central theme for the handset. A launch date for the handset was not given, but previous reports pointed to a release later this month.