The South Korean manufacturer LG, confirming its plans for the active promotion of a new segment, has released the first Android-smartphone LG GW620. The device will be implemented in the UK, and then in other European countries.
Horizontal Slider LG GW620 has a physical QWERTY-keyboard, 3-inch resistive touch screen with a resolution of 320 x 480 pixels, a 5 megapixel camera with autofocus, LED flash and Face Detection, built-in memory with the capacity of 300 MB plus 2 or 4 GB (depending on version), GPS, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi modules, FM-radio, 3.5-mm audio connector, microUSB-port, 1500 mAh battery and rich functionality of social networks.
According to John Barton, LG director of sales and marketing, the launch of Android-devices is symbolic, since it is a sign for the beginning of the end of expensive and exclusive applications. According to him Android Market offers more than 20 thousand programs, 65% of which are free.
This year the company intends to sell 140 mobile phones. The ultimate goal is the achievement of the second place in the list of leading manufacturers of the industry by 2012. It is planned to release about 20 new smartphones, half of which will be running Google Android, the rest will have Windows Mobile and Linux.
