New LG slider in Verizon ad? Probably not.

by Chris Ziegler posted May 12th 2008 at 9:51AM

The darndest things can happen when you don't have your marketing and product development groups on exactly the same page. Case in point: this ad, astutely observed by a reader and sent in. It clearly depicts a phone that doesn't exist -- at least not officially. The closest analog we can draw to it would be Alltel's LG Glimmer, though it doesn't share the Glimmer's chin below the keypad. Our guess, honestly, is that some Photoshop wiz slapped an oversized VZ Navigator screen shot on a Venus, added a stupendously huge Verizon logo below it just for effect, and called it a day. Anyone else want to chime in on this?

[Thanks, Zachary D.]

Filed under: Handsets, LG, Verizon Wireless, EV-DO, CDMA

Tags: glimmer, lg, slider, verizon, verizon wireless, VerizonWireless, vzw

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Sy @ May 12th 2008 10:21AM

Looks like the LG KF700 to me, the one that was unveiled at the MWC in barcelona this year

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Dan @ May 12th 2008 10:44AM

who cares?

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MasonMan @ May 12th 2008 10:50AM

It is the Venus. Funny how they try to make something a big deal when all they really need to do is focus a bit.

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Riley Freeman @ May 12th 2008 10:51AM

isnt that the real chocolate 2 the one that stores that bluetooth headset in the back i think

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Brandon P. @ May 12th 2008 11:06AM

Its the VENUS. I have the phone, I can do a sloppy PS job just as well as their marketing dept.

--cheers--

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derhof @ May 12th 2008 10:01PM

I actually saw this same pohne on a TV commerical last night. The phone was moving during the commerical and it was the same VZ navigator picture on the phone. First thing I thought was, "I didn't know a Venus could do that..." Caught my attention there, too.

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Andy222 @ May 12th 2008 7:48PM

looks like a PS job. a bad one at that.
the keypad is a Venus,look at the colored pattern of the keys.
but the screen is something else, there isnt the bottom part for the touch screen. plus the hand wouldn't be that out of focus if they intended to use this pic for sales.

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EH @ May 13th 2008 10:08AM

Yeah, this is a poor PS job by the marketing department at Big Red. We recently had a poster sent to our Verizon Store featuring the Blackberry Pearl, but the screenshot on the pearl was of Windows Mobile. I am pretty sure they graphics people internally don't know a thing about phones.