Photos: Verizon unwraps holiday phone lineup

Verizon Wireless is giving an early peek at four of its upcoming phones for the holiday 2007 season. The company expects to have these phones and others on Verizon Wireless store shelves before Thanksgiving.

The new Juke is Verizon Wireless' entry-level music phone. Expected to be priced around $100, the phone is designed to appeal to teens looking for a combination MP3 player and phone.

But unlike Verizon's original music phone, the Chocolate, the Juke does not offer over-the-air music downloads. Instead, songs can be side-loaded onto the device using a USB cable, which comes with the phone. The device, which sports 2 gigabytes of storage, can hold up to 500 songs. It also comes with a travel charger and wired stereo headset.

Instead of flipping or sliding part of the phone to expose the number pad, you have to "flick" it or swivel the top half of the phone to the side. The Juke comes in three colors: blue, red or teal.

In addition to accessing Verizon's VCast music store, the Juke can be used with other Verizon services such as VZ Navigator, a turn-by-turn navigation service, and Verizon's Chaperone service, which allows parents to track their children's phones and limit usage of the phone.

The Juke also supports a slew of other features, including Bluetooth stereo headset and speaker capabilities for listening to music without wires, a VGA (Video Graphics Array) camera with "Nightshot," and text and picture messaging.