LG GT505 and LG GW520 Preview

Expected June 2009 30th May 2009

LG announced a few details of two new handsets this week, aimed at users of social networking sites. Both handsets are due to hit the market next calendar month.

LG GT505

The LG GT505 is a version of the upcoming LG GT500 Puccini, but where the GT500 is for the T-Mobile River network, the GT505 will be available exclusively on Orange.

Other than a few cosmetics changes, the GT500 and GT505 seem to be identical. Both ar touchscreen phones with a 3" 400 x 240 pixel touchscreen exhibit, 5 megapixel photographic camera, GPS, wireless local area network and 3.5G documentation. The GT505 comes with a 30 day trial of the WisePilot turn-by-twist seafaring software system, plus a range of applications to employment with sociable networking sites.

Twelve months ago the LG GT505 (and indeed the Giacomo Puccini) would have been a pretty big trade. But LG’s relatively low gear-keystone launching of these devices indicates that perhaps LG are pitching these as mass-market phones.

The GT500 and GT505 should be available on the respective networks from June onwards.

LG GW520

The LG GW520 is a touchscreen phone with a glide-out QWERTY keyboard, sitting in LG’s kitchen range somewhere between the KS360 and PRADA II handsets.

 There’s a 2.8" 240 x 400 pixel display, a 3 megapixel photographic camera, HSDPA documentation plus all the usual features including push electronic mail for Microsoft Exchange.

Again, the LG GW520 is meant to employment with social networking sites although few details were presumption by LG, however it does seem that updates can be pushed directly to the headphone.

LG say that the GW520 should be widely available from June 2009 onwards, although we rich person no selective information on pricing.

As with the GT505, the GW520 would have been a hugely impressive headphone if launched 12 months ago, but now the competition is very tough indeed. The GW520 simply cannot compete with the likes of the HTC Touch Pro 2, but our shot is that the LG will be an awful draw cheaper to bargain.