Gadget Venue

We recently received the LG GW520 phone for review. The GW520 has a 2.8 inch touchscreen along with a full QWERTY slide out keyboard making it ideal for social networking and messaging. A number of modern phones have virtual keyboards that work well, but for some people they just cannot get to grips with on on-screen keyboard and hence, prefer the physical keyboard instead.

Priced at £169.95 for a pay-as-you-go version the GW520 is at a good price for what you get. It’s not the cheapest of phones but at the same time, it’s not the most expensive, and sits in an affordable bracket.

The phone it’s self feels a little plastic in comparison to LG’s high end phones such as the LG BL40. Also the phone is slightly fatter than other LG phones due to the physical keyboard, however this doesn’t make it an oversized phone and it does sit quite well in your hands. [Read more…]

A few weeks ago, Vodafone [VOD] launched a new service called Vodafone 360 that puts a number of social networking services on to your phone along with the ability to sync contacts. The service acts as a single address book for all your contacts so that you can access them on your laptop or PC and when changes are made on one device they are automatically synced to another.

The Samsung H1 is the first phone released that makes use of this services and we hear now that it is ready for pre-order and will ship for the 30 October.

The Samsung H1 has a 3.5 inch OLED display along with 3G, GPRS, HSDPA, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi for connectivity options. 16GB of internal memory can be found that gives plenty of storage for photos captured by the 5 megapixel camera along with music and videos. [Read more…]

The iPhone has received another application that puts Expose type functionality on to the iPhone. As the application isn’t official or approved, it had to be put on their through other means, ie, a Jailbroken phone.

It was ported on to the iPhone by Steve Troughton-Smith who managed to get a similar style application on to the iPhone. What the application does is enable you to access all programs on your iPhone a lot quicker by putting miniature versions of the menu’s in a grid form where you can click on the page you want and then the program you want. [Read more…]

If you were mixed in with the sidekick data loss problems of recent days then all might be ok thanks to most, if not all of the data being recovered. The outage was cause by a system failure that basically lost user data that included contacts, messages, photos, calendar, tasks and high scores on a number of users phones.

We are pleased to report that we have recovered most, if not all, customer data for those Sidekick customers whose data was affected by the recent outage. We plan to begin restoring users’ personal data as soon as possible, starting with personal contacts, after we have validated the data and our restoration plan. We will then continue to work around the clock to restore data to all affected users, including calendar, notes, tasks, photographs and high scores, as quickly as possible.

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After a few months of seeing reviews and information here and there, we now hear that Vodafone in the UK have the BlackBerry Storm 2 available for pre-order and it is set to be released on 26 October.

The phone is a much needed follow up to the original BlackBerry Storm that had issues with it’s screen. The new version has a fancy new screen that according to early reviews and previews, works far better than the original Storm.

Back on to the main news, The BlackBerry Storm 2 (also named the 9520) will be available for free on a pay-monthly contract for users. The contract will cost £35/month and will run for 24 months. If you opt for an 18 month contract then the phone is free for those committing to £40/month. [Read more…]