LG GW520. Crass market

Sometimes it’s too easy to be a snob. Especially when it comes to phones. What’s that, you’re phone has only a mere 3 megapixels? Hah, well mine has 8 whole megapixels! And your’s it made entirely of plastic? Kneel before the brushed aluminium of my smartphone. Etc. and so on.

And we could easily be snobbish about the GW520. 3MP camera. Pretty good but not groundbreaking internet speeds. Pretty damned ugly with that slide-out QWERTY keyboard… But then LG are making no pretence that this is anything but a mid-range phone. They’re not trying to do a Blackberry, or dance the Apple. It’s a phone that offer more than a hell of a lot of phones out there, and does so at a price that’s more than reasonable. It is, in fact, one of the cheapest phones to be offering full ‘push’ services (so that emails, social networking updates and so on are pushed up to your attention, rather than waiting passively until you go and discover them) we’ve ever come across.

The GW520 isn’t going to win any style awards, but nor are LG hoping it will, and nor should you be concerned that is doesn’t. You should buy the LG GW520 if you’re one of those constantly-typing messagers and emailers. Someone who’s going to be tapping away with glee on that bigger-than-most keyboards. And someone who’s going to appreciate those pretty nifty push features along with the money left in their wallet. Read a full LG GW520 review here for more details. And all being well, this will be out any day now on pretty much any contract provider you want.