LG GW520, Sim Unlocked, Inc £10 Airtime

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LG GW520

SIM Unlocked, Inc £10 O2 Airtime.

Description and a review for the price of one:

The LG GW520 is an upgraded version of the very popular KS360. The KS360 has been a big seller in the first half of 2009, thanks to its QWERTY keyboard and cheap price. This has made it an extremely popular phone for texters – like a Cookie, but with the bonus of a proper keyboard. The GW520 builds on the strengths of the KS360 and looks like it’s going to be another smash.

The GW520 looks like a Cookie, with a touchscreen display, but turn it on its sside and you can pull out a full QWERTY keyboard. The keyboard is styled differently to the KS360, but works very well. The slide gives plenty of room for keys and the size and spacing of keys is excellent. The responsiveness of the keys is top notch too, making this a step above virtual keypads on touchscreen phones. This is a phone that’s ideal for texting and messaging, and it incorporates features like threaded SMS, which makes text conversations flow more naturally. It can support email too. The new avatars feature lets you set up avatars for your closest friends on the home screen, and you can then click an avatar to view messages etc.

The touchscreen measures 2.8 inches across, which is slightly less than a Cookie, but more than the KS360. Generally the rule is that larger touchscreens are easier to use, but in this case because the keyboard slides down, there’s more screen space available than you might expect. In terms of usability, this outperforms the Cookie and other budget touchscreen phones. In addition to the QWERTY keyboard and touchscreen, there are conventional buttons for making and ending calls etc.

THE GW520 costs more than the KS360, but has some significant enhancements too. The most important of these is 3G. While the KS 360 was a triband 2G phone, the GW520 has 3G and supports broadband internet access right up to 7.2Mbps with HSDPA. This moves it beyond a simple call and text mobile into the realms of fast web browsing, facebook, youtube, etc. making it a thoroughly modern phone.

Other features of the phone include a 3 megapixel camera with video recording, music player, Fm radio and Java games. Connectivity is by Bluetooth. Memory is 40MB but the phone can accept microSD cards up to 8GB, providing enough storage for 2,000 – 4,000 music tracks. Battery life is good.

The GW520 offers a lot more than the entry level touchscreen phones that have dominated the marketplace in the fist half of 2009

This phone currently retails as £169.95 (SIM locked).

Also included with purchase is 12 month manufacturers guarantee (a copy of my original receipt will be sent with the order).

This item will be dispatched the next working day by Royal Mail recorded delivery.