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LG GW300 impressions
LG's kept our thumbs busy over the last few days with its GW300 -- a 2G featurephone with a portrait QWERTY keyboard, a first from LG that joins the likes of Samsung's CorbyTXT and Freeform along with INQ's Chat 3G. O2 UK offers this phone with just a standalone price of £78.29 ($129) with a minimum £10 ($16.50) initial top-up, but little is known about US availability for now. Either way, there's no harm in pointing your sexy eyes to our review just in case something happens tomorrow. Go ahead -- you know where to click. %Gallery-83323%
LG taking Viewty name way downmarket with GW300?
When we hear "Viewty," we think expansive touchscreens and ample, high-capability cameras. LG might be a little over-excited to capitalize on the brand's name recognition, though, because that uninteresting GW300 we showed you a little a while back -- the low-end portrait QWERTY handset with a 2 megapixel cam, quadband EDGE, and a meek QVGA display -- has apparently been slapped with a Viewty badge and quietly released in France with nary a peep out of LG's press offices. As best as we can tell, the company figures customers will stroll into the store, see the phone, think to themselves "holy [expletive], I can get a Viewty for [some ridiculously small amount of euro]?" and plunk down the cash -- but given how the GW300 looks nothing like its brand siblings, we can't picture that happening.
LG's GW300 looks like a low-end WinMo phone, but isn't
For some reason LG's just-announced GW300 screams "cheap smartphone" to us, but don't be fooled -- there's not a trace of smartphone-ish-ness to be found here. Instead, you've got goodies like an integrated Facebook client to keep the young ones happy, piled atop a 3G-free EDGE radio, 2.4-inch QVGA display, USB mass storage mode support, stereo Bluetooth, and naturally, a full QWERTY keyboard. No word on pricing or availability, but we wouldn't be surprised to see this one become a prepaid superstar in some parts of the globe.[Via Unwired View]
