{"id":194500,"date":"2010-01-18T11:15:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-18T16:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:feeds.phonedog.com:\/\/837602cac93cee338c7b153d1685334e"},"modified":"2010-01-18T11:15:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-18T16:15:00","slug":"article-lg-gw620-intouch-max-hits-the-uk-market-with-android-in-tow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/194500","title":{"rendered":"ARTICLE: LG GW620 &#8216;InTouch Max&#8217; hits the UK market with Android in tow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">writeFlash({\"src\":\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/GlHeHrgGK2o&\",\"width\":\"425\",\"height\":\"350\"});<\/script>\n<\/p>\n<p>Sure, it&#8217;s running Android 1.5 and has a resistive touchscreen, but after my brief hands-on look at CES 2010, I can say that the LG GW620 is a decent mid-level Android device &#8211; particularly given that it&#8217;s LG&#8217;s first foray into the Android market.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The LG GW620, branded as the &#8220;InTouch Max,&#8221; has landed on Virgin Mobile and T-Mobile in the United Kingdom, where &pound;20 (approximately $32.50) monthly and a two-year T-Mobile agreement will net them the device for free.&nbsp; Virgin Mobile is offering the device for free with a &pound;22 monthly bill and an 18-month agreement.<\/p>\n<p>Head over to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.t-mobile.co.uk\/shop\/coming-soon\/lg-intouch-max\/\" >T-Mobile UK<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginmobile.com\/vm\/viewProduct.do?productId=D2B00182-51E1-4060-B68B-49DF26116027\" >Virgin Mobile<\/a> for more information, including pricing and availability.&nbsp; Whether it will arrive in the States or not is anyone&#8217;s guess (I could see this taking off on Virgin Mobile USA), but the low to mid-level device category is one that Android needs in order to be successful.&nbsp; The fact that devices like this are hitting the market is a positive sign for Android&#8217;s long-term viability.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2010\/01\/18\/lg-marks-belated-android-entry-with-gw620-uk-launch\/\" >Engadget<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/BFUjNnBMtuq4eVVDjRQ47WYmnfY\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/BFUjNnBMtuq4eVVDjRQ47WYmnfY\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/BFUjNnBMtuq4eVVDjRQ47WYmnfY\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/BFUjNnBMtuq4eVVDjRQ47WYmnfY\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/phonedog_cellphoneblog\/~4\/0uuP4zKyQ6U\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sure, it&#8217;s running Android 1.5 and has a resistive touchscreen, but after my brief hands-on look at CES 2010, I can say that the LG GW620 is a decent mid-level Android device &#8211; particularly given that it&#8217;s LG&#8217;s first foray into the Android market.&nbsp; The LG GW620, branded as the &#8220;InTouch Max,&#8221; has landed on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":671,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/671"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}