CES 2010 Hands on: LG GW620, LG’s first Android smartphone
by at January 8, 2010 4:45 pm
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As the first public day of CES 2010 was coming to a close I found myself drawn to LG’s brightly lit and elegantly furnished floor space. I managed to try out LG’s first attempt at an Android based smartphone called the GW620.
The GW620 has a horizontal slide out keyboard, 5 MP camera with flash and support for Divx and WMV media files. This all sounds great on a spec sheet, but the real question is how the phone feels and operates.
The LG GW620 doesn’t have any hard buttons on its front side. The home and back buttons are touch sensitive. You get some haptic feedback when touching one of these buttons. On one side of the phone you have a dedicated camera button, microSD card slot and what I think is a button for push e-mail. The bottom of the phone houses a 3.5 headphone jack and power button. The GW620 also features a slide out five row full QWERTY keyboard. The keyboard feels quite nice and any small errors were accurately corrected by Android’s dictionary.
LG added some custom features to the phone but didn’t build its own custom user interface on top of Android like HTC’s Sense or Motorola’s Motoblur. The GW620 has the standard three home screens as found in most Android phones.
And now we come to my biggest problem which is the screen itself. It’s 3 inches in size which isn’t too bad, butI had the hardest time getting the phone to scroll smoothly in the application drawer. I found myself long pressing when I didn’t want to and opening applications on accident. I had a similar problem when trying to change wallpapers.
The LG GW620 is available now in select European markets.
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