LG GW300

The LG GW300 is the first BlackBerry-style device that we have seen from this Korean manufacturer.

But where other recent LG designs have impressed us, the GW300 really does not. Closely resembling the two-year-old BlackBerry Curve 8300 in terms of specification, the GW300 seems dated before it even gets to market.

So what does the GW300 offer us? WiFi? Nope. 3G? Nope. A touchscreen? Nope. A high-resolution camera? Nope. GPS? Nope. A 3.5mm audio socket? Yeay.. we have a winner!

What we have with the GW300 is a GSM-only device with a QWERTY keyboard, a 2.4" QVGA display, a 2 megapixel camera, media player, FM radio, microSD expandable memory, Bluetooth and of course the 3.5mm audio socket.

But there's much more. Well, perhaps not much more.. but there's a Facebook application, email client and web browser. Terrific.

Perhaps it will be cheap. That at least would be something, and the "300" number does seem to place it quite a way down the product range.

LG say that the GW300 should be available in September, although we suspect that not many of our readers will care.


LG GW300 at a glance

Available: September 2009

Network: GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900

Data: GPRS + EDGE

Screen: 2.4" 320 x 240 pixels, 262k colours

Camera: 2 megapixels

Size: 116 x 61 x 13mm / 95 grams

Bluetooth: Yes

Memory card: MicroSD

Infra-red: No

Polyphonic: Yes

Java: Yes

GPS: No

OS: Proprietary

Battery life: 5 hours talk / 16 days standby

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