LG has been very busy with Android lately, but is still taking the time to rustle up cheap and cheerful handsets such as the LG Town C300.
Aiming the device at energetic young things looking for a cheap pay as you go phone, the C300 has a curved 2.4-inch screen , and follows the traditional BlackBerry Qwerty keyboard style. A 2-megapixel camera is thrown in.
It has the usual social networking bits and pieces, with Facebook, Twitter and an MSN client, but without 3G and Wi-Fi Web browsing will be a chore. It'll be available for £70 plus a £10 top-up with Orange, and later Phones4U and Tesco.
Looks and spec wise, it's eerily similar to the Alcatel OT-802, another BlackBerry-styled phone which -- funnily enough -- also has a 2.4-inch screen, Qwerty keyboard and 2-megapixel camera. We're not sure what makes the LG £20 or so more expensive than the £45 Alcatel, but we suspect branding may have something to do with it.
Only recently, we would have said you're getting decent value for very little money with these two. But the advent of budget Android 2.1 devices from both Alcatel and Orange -- costing less than £100 -- have moved the goalposts into a different stadium.
Although we have doubts about the data deal it comes with, the £99 Orange San Francisco has significantly better specs than the C300, boasting a capacitive touchscreen, a 600MHz processor, a 3-megapixel camera, 3G and Wi-Fi. But the fact that it's on a recent build of Android is a huge game changer, showing that networks and manufacturers can now provide Web-friendly, app-happy smart phones for incredibly low prices.
Social networking has been the buzzword for yoof-focused phones like the LG Town C300 this year. But the game has moved on: Android has spurred companies to provide far more advanced features that these dashing young blades really want, such as 3G, Wi-Fi and bazillions of apps, all for pocket-money prices. The writing's on the wall: soon even your gran will have a smart phone.
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anonymous 8 October, 2010 09:46
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Anonymous 17 October, 2010 10:00
* Does the LG Town C300 have a touch screen?
Anonymous 11 November, 2010 20:00
it looks v. cool but what is so special about it?
Anonymous 18 November, 2010 19:26
its not touch screen just keyboard
Anonymous 10 December, 2010 14:44
i really like it and i want it but i want the htc desire too though and im only 11 years old maybe i should get the lg for a simple phone and the htc as a really nice phone at home and stuff!!!! :):):):):)
Anonymous 17 February, 2011 14:23
i think it is a really good phone the only thing is that it has noo games on it :(
Anonymous 13 August, 2011 20:20
ive got this phone and it is amazing, got no games though, only bad thing!
anonymous 20 October, 2011 18:22
I really really like this phone....I'm gonna get it ^^
anonymous 14 December, 2011 19:32
I have this phone and it is okish. i like the keyboard and i agree with everyone who says u cant go back to a not querty keyboard later. but my one has deleted loads of stuff without asking including internet, music and games files causing me to have to rebuy them. also it has problems were it decides it has no memory when all my stuff is on my memory card even my contacts and everything.