The GW520 has a tremendous keyboard, with large evenly spread out keys so that accurate typing is quick and easy. It has arrow keys too that are handy if you need to scroll through loads of messages, which is a saving grace considering the touchscreen’s lack of sensitivity.
When you run your fingers across the LG GW520 home page, you enter LG’s Livesquare where your favourite contacts will appear as little icons, showing the number of messages they’ve sent you and your missed calls. The icons are displayed in a field, a park or a zoo and look sweet when they wave to you.
You can personalise your home screen by dragging a limited number of widgets, making things like your email or the weather more easily and quickly accessible. The phone also has an auto-predict when you manually type in phone numbers, so that even a number you dial frequently but do not have as a contact will come up for you.
There are lots of things that don’t really hit the mark with the GW520. The touchscreen is unresponsive, the QWERTY keyboard slow, and the quality of pictures from the 3-megapixel camera is way below average.
You can access Facebook from the home screen but the images look squeezed together on the 2.8 inch screen. You can’t add any applications so if you use any other social networking site, you won’t be able to access it on this phone.
Other similar phones to check out are the Samsung Beat DJ and the Samsung Genio Slide.
