Bah! Humbug! Curses! Gosh diddly darn it!
We hate it when those cynical phone manufacturing types get things right. Sometimes they take big risks and invest in new technologies that sometimes make our lives way more fun, but that sometimes fail and lose them lots of money. Sometimes they bow to pressure from our good selves and produce something fun / exciting / new / groundbreaking just to show that they care. But sometimes, just sometimes, they release things that are so downright annoyingly profitable that we just have to (cynically) applaud their efforts.
Step forward the LG GW300. A phone that offers pretty much nothing beyond a QWERTY keyboard. A phone that is actually going to be marketed as offering little more than a few pre-installed bits and bobs that will let you us said keyboard to update your Facebook or Twitter accounts with ease. Because it’s going to be sold very cheaply indeed, and all those who use Facebook too much, or understand what the hell Twitter is all about, are going to get very excited and buy these in the hundreds of thousands.
But with all these cheap LG GW300 deals, we hear you scream, surely LG won’t make that much? Ah, precious stupid reader, but you forget (already) that this thing is about as basic as phones get. That with no 3G, no Wi-Fi, no GPS and no lots of other things, it will cost LG about as much to make as the hourly wage of their underpaid workers in whatever god forsaken country these things are constructed in.
That’s the truth according to us, anyway. You can corroborate it, kind of, by reading the truth according to GSM Arena, or the truth according to this LG GW300 review.
