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LG GW620 Android-powered smartphone officially unveiled

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LG GW620

LG GW620

Today LG formally announced the GW620, the company’s first Android-powered smartphone. While the company did provide two photos, below, and a Q4 2009 time frame for the GW620, it has provided little in terms of real specs other than to say that the GW620eatures a 3-inch touchscreen and a customer user interface that should suit novices as well as experienced users.

That’s not much to go on.  But we can, of course, tell from the photos that the phone’s slide-out QWERTY keyboard sports 5 full rows of keys and some dedicated arrow keys.

The socket on the top of the device looks large enough to be a 3.5mm headphone port, and the keys that straddle the center select button, the back and home keys, look to be touch sensitive.  Hard to say if that center select button is perhaps also an optical joystick or some other navigation device, but it might not be as Android devices get by pretty well just with touchscreens.

In any case, we’ll post more information when we get it.  The larger photos are available after the jump.

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  • http://twitter.com/Ready4Fajir Ready4Fajir

    I recently got myself a Samsung Galaxy i7500 – and in comparison to the first LG screenshots I’ve got to say: LG loses big time – at least as far as the design is concerned. I admit the Galaxy is pretty plain design-wise, but why the heck did LG have to add a keyboard? It makes the phone a lot more bulky and there is a freaking virtual keyboard in android, which is about the same size as the LG keyboard (if u use it vertical) and with haptic feedback that virtual keyboard is as good as a real one (well, at least to me). I really don’t get it – there we have this wonderful touch-screen technology and people are still clinging to the same old stuff… Oh well I’ll stop here with the rambling :-) …

  • Me

    Maybe it’s because some people (like me) will not buy a phone without a keyboard. With the completely awesome looking Cliq dropping soon, why would I? The Cliq is seriously impressive and will probably be my (and my wife’s) next phone.

    An onscreen keyboard cannot compare to a physical one. Why would I want to give up screen space? Why would I want to be typing constantly on the screen? All that does is get it scratched and dirty faster.

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