From a distance it looks like a Blackberry. One can be forgiven to assume it is. Even its feature list reads like one from a 2-year old Blackberry Curve 8300. So what features set this new LG GW300 apart from the other Blackberry and Blackberry look-alikes and wannabees?
Actually there’s none. It’s got no Wi-Fi. No 3G or high speed network support to breeze through internet surging, No trendy brilliant large touchscreen to impress your friends. No high resolution camera. No GPS. None of just about the most impressive features we’ve come to know should be there in a modern mid-priced mobile phone. In short, the LG GW300 is a dated phone right out of the box.
Do we have winner here?
It just might be. LG is positioning this phone as an entry-level QWERTY phone for the social networking geeks on the road. Its unimpressive features seem to suggest this is an old phone repackaged from the outside with a new façade and some nifty application to woo the new social media crowd out there. It’s got a Facebook application bundled with the handset, an email client and a capable web browser. But it’s just a GSM mobile phone with a 2.4” QVGA screen and the usual nod to 2-megapixel camera phones that was a rage 2-3 years ago. There’s FM radio, media players, Bluetooth 2.0 and a 3.5mm stereo audio socket.
In short, it’s an all-around phone for just about all the functions we know mobile phones have. Nothing spectacular. It’s “300” model designation does indicate its way down the ladder as LG phones go in the product range. So it has got to be really cheap. Extremely affordable, to say the least. QWERTY mobile phones are not exactly known to be cheap so this one from LG could be a real ticket for the masses.
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