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Lets start with some quick pros and cons to give you a quick idea:

Pros:
Excellent value
Great Qwerty keyboard
FM radio

Cons:
Relatively small screen
Touch sensitive buttons annoy
Uses Android 1.5

Verdict: Currently the best ultra-budget Android phone with a Qwerty keyboard, the GW620 is a great buy held back by a few irritating niggles

LG GW620 Revies:

LG’s GW620 joins the T-Mobile Pulse and HTC Tattoo as one of a relatively small – but growing – number of budget-oriented Android phones.

These kinds of phones occasionally end up being overshadowed by older Android mobiles that have slipped down the price scale, such as the HTC Magic, but that doesn’t invalidate their existence.

However, the GW620 does bear some traits that highlight its budget origins. The first is its resistive touchscreen. For more on the differences between the touchscreen technologies check out our feature on the subject, but to sum up touchscreen navigation requires a press rather than a light touch.

That the GW620 does not feature a stylus suggests that this is a budgeting issue rather than a design choice. For a resistive touchscreen, it’s commendably responsive but still a cut below the capacitive model used in the T-Mobile Pulse.
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