LG JOINS ANDROID BANDWAGON WITH THE LG GW620
The world’s 3rd largest mobile phone maker has just unveiled its first smartphone running under Google’s Android operating system, hot on the heels of Motorola and Samsung joining the Android bandwagon. With Sony Ericsson’s Xperia 3 following the same Android route to diversify its product line, Nokia is the only one of the “big five” mobile phone mavericks that hasn’t made any announced plans to join the fray. It has opted instead to stay away from the Android trend with its own Maemo product portfolio starting with the N900.
The new Android handset from LG looks like the Motorola CLIQ and almost identical with the LG GW520 confirming much of what has been speculated on with the LG Etna – its production codename, in terms of looks. LG is less than accommodating with its pricing information. A more complete and official technical specs sheet have yet to be released by the Korean phone maker. But from what can be gleaned from online sources on a speculated data sheet, a rather bland unremarkable but highly competent feature set appears.
Parity Features
For a start, its QWERTY keyboard seems to have a slightly raised tactile 5-row key set that’s conventional in every way. It sports a rather attractive blue on black color scheme that can wow prospective Android phone buyers looking for an alternative to the plain all black smartphones out there. We know that it sports a 3” LCD panel that uses a resistive touchscreen technology on a 256k color depth support with 240 x 400 screen resolution. Not remarkable when compared with other Android and non-Android phones in its class, but does the job. There’s a 5 megapixel autofocus camera which puts it above many smartphones with less imaging capability.
It’s 3G with high speed HSDPA support for a more satisfying online experience on the road. It’s your basic quad band GSM/GPRS/EDGE for its 2G network support. There’s a rumoured GPS and A-GPS feature which is fairly standard on Android phones. It has stereo FM radio and Bluetooth 2 with A2DP support for wireless stereo earphones. Memory can be expanded up to16 GB on its microSD slot.
Availability
We hope to see this new LG Android phone before the year ends. As far as pricing is concerned, with a non-remarkable hardware feature set and a promised Android user-friendliness and personalization abilities that is shared across many other Android handsets, we don’t foresee a hefty upscale SIM free price tag as this could be LG’s entry level product as a way to introduce itself to an emerging Android market now dominated by HTC.
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LG Joins Android Bandwagon with the LG GW620
The world’s 3rd largest mobile phone maker has just unveiled its first smartphone running under Google’s Android operating system, hot on the heels of Motorola and Samsung joining the Android bandwagon. With Sony Ericsson’s Xperia 3 following the same Android route to diversify its product line, Nokia is the only one of the “big five” mobile phone mavericks that hasn’t made any announced plans to join the fray. It has opted instead to stay away from the Android trend with its own Maemo product portfolio starting with the N900.
The new Android handset from LG looks like the Motorola CLIQ and almost identical with the LG GW520 confirming much of what has been speculated on with the LG Etna – its production codename, in terms of looks. LG is less than accommodating with its pricing information. A more complete and official technical specs sheet have yet to be released by the Korean phone maker. But from what can be gleaned from online sources on a speculated data sheet, a rather bland unremarkable but highly competent feature set appears.
Parity Features
For a start, its QWERTY keyboard seems to have a slightly raised tactile 5-row key set that’s conventional in every way. It sports a rather attractive blue on black color scheme that can wow prospective Android phone buyers looking for an alternative to the plain all black smartphones out there. We know that it sports a 3” LCD panel that uses a resistive touchscreen technology on a 256k color depth support with 240 x 400 screen resolution. Not remarkable when compared with other Android and non-Android phones in its class, but does the job. There’s a 5 megapixel autofocus camera which puts it above many smartphones with less imaging capability.
It’s 3G with high speed HSDPA support for a more satisfying online experience on the road. It’s your basic quad band GSM/GPRS/EDGE for its 2G network support. There’s a rumoured GPS and A-GPS feature which is fairly standard on Android phones. It has stereo FM radio and Bluetooth 2 with A2DP support for wireless stereo earphones. Memory can be expanded up to16 GB on its microSD slot.
Availability
We hope to see this new LG Android phone before the year ends. As far as pricing is concerned, with a non-remarkable hardware feature set and a promised Android user-friendliness and personalization abilities that is shared across many other Android handsets, we don’t foresee a hefty upscale SIM free price tag as this could be LG’s entry level product as a way to introduce itself to an emerging Android market now dominated by HTC.
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