LG have launched a new website for their new LG GW620 Android based mobile phone. The page appears to be a work in progress, with form text rather than any actual press copy, but there are two video demos , plenty of stock photos, and both the user manual and specification sheet for download.
The LG GW620 was first spotted back in September at the IFA trade show in Germany. On display at the Vodafone booth, and known as the LG Etna, the handset features a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, 3-inch touchscreen display, and a 5 mega-pixel camera.The operating system will be a little behind times and run version 1.5 of Android (not 1.6 or even 2.0. Powering the phone is a 1500mWh battery that will provide 700 hours of standby time on GSM networks (625 hrs on 3G) along with 8.1 or 7.7 hrs for GSM/3G respectively. It has either 2GB or 4GB of internal storage, along with a microSD card slot
There’ll also be LG’s “SNS Manager” (Social Networking Service) which ties Facebook, Twitter and other networks into the Contacts app, together with facial recognition that automatically spots people in photos and links those shots to the individual’s Contact entry . LG says that the GW620 will arrive in “select European markets” before the end of 2009.
