LG's "Black Sapphire" MG810 Chocolate flip phone is real!

by Ryan Block, posted Sep 7th 2006 at 2:34AM

We hope you're not preparing for this to be a specced out monster of a cellphone, but for those longing for a Chocolate flip phone that may be a little (ok, a lot) too reminiscent of the KRZR, look no further than the Black Sapphire MG810 (aka VX8600, and U830). It'll apparently have a 1.3 megapixel camera, 176 x 220 internal display (and 96x 96 external), media player that supports MP3 and AAC, Bluetooth, FM radio, 128MB of flash memory, and GRPS. Still, she's ah so beautiful. According to our Brazilian pal who sent this in, they snuck it right out underneath our ever lovin' noses and apparently put it on sale in South America for 999 Brazil Reais (or about $465 US). Steep, for a phone that doesn't appear to have EDGE or expandable media, but you're not paying for features here, remember?

[Thanks, Gustavo]

Filed under: Handsets, LG, GSM, GPRS

Tags: black sapphire, BlackSapphire, chocolate, flip phone, FlipPhone, mg810, u830, vx8600

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

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Ted @ Sep 7th 2006 7:53AM

Why LG would u include an MP3 player, camera and other multi media applications into a phone that will not support them with a stronger battery life.

It's a good phone if your aim is to have people look at it, a poor phone if you actually intend to use it.

One other thing, how on earth does a phone with so many functional weaknesses consistently make it in the TOP 10 and get positive reviews from the editor's on this site when clearly this phone has been hyped up and over priced.

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Nick @ Sep 7th 2006 8:47AM

What is GRPS? I'm running on severe lack of sleep since Burning Man and I can still remember my GPRS's.

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felonious.monk @ Sep 7th 2006 6:00PM

Closer to the Samsung blade than the RAZR. Isn't LG connected to Samsung?

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Mr Fantastic @ Sep 8th 2006 8:52AM

this has been available in the uk for a few months now

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Leo Maia @ Sep 8th 2006 3:57PM

I can't believe that this phone is not in the US market and hit the Brazilian market first. Now that's some odd news!

I'm from Brazil and a friend of mine have one of those for about 3-4 weeks now...

It's a great and beautiful phone, probably the most beautiful around. The only problem is the battery life and it has too many extra buttons around the navigation pad. Sometimes you hit the wrong buttons.

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stimr2 @ Sep 9th 2006 8:41AM

I think the phone looks good but I still prefer sliders. The only relation LG and Samsung have together is that they're Korean. They're actually across town rivals and very competitve against each other.

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