Main Features

The LG GW525 is a basic slider phone. The key features are:

• QWERTY
  QWERTY
  QWERTY is the most common modern-day keyboard layout. The name comes from the first six letters appearing in the topleft letter row of the keyboard, read left to right: Q-W-E-R-T-Y. The QWERTY design is based on a layout created for the Sholes and Glidden typewriter and sold to Remington in the...
  
   keypad
  Keypad
  A keypad is a set of buttons arranged in a block or "pad" which usually bear digits, symbols and usually a complete set of alphabetical letters. If it mostly contains numbers then it can also be called a numeric keypad...
  
  
• 2.8" Touch Screen
• Accelerometer
  Accelerometer
  An accelerometer is a device that measures proper acceleration, also called the four-acceleration. This is not necessarily the same as the coordinate acceleration , but is rather the type of acceleration associated with the phenomenon of weight experienced by a test mass that resides in the frame...
  
  
• 3 Megapixel camera
  Camera
  A camera is a device that records and stores images. These images may be still photographs or moving images such as videos or movies. The term camera comes from the camera obscura , an early mechanism for projecting images...
  
  
• WAP
  Wireless Application Protocol
  Wireless Application Protocol is a technical standard for accessing information over a mobile wireless network.A WAP browser is a web browser for mobile devices such as mobile phones that uses the protocol.Before the introduction of WAP, mobile service providers had limited opportunities to offer...
  
  
• Video Calling
• Speaker Phone (Handsfree)
• 2.0 Java Support
• In-built Games
• Customisable widgets
• Calendar and Organiser
• Alarm
• Customisable Wallpaper
• Downloadable Ringtones & Wallpapers

In The Box

When you buy the phone you should get:

• LG GW525 Mobile Phone
• LG Approved GW525 950mAh Li-Ion Battery
• A/C Charger
• USB Data Cable
• LG GW525 PC-Sync Software CD
• Handsfree

Carrier Support

Theoretically, the phone should work on any network, if you unlock it.
However, according to the phones website, the phone will work on All Phones, Optus and TeleChoice only.

Operating Frequency

GSM: 850/900/1500/1900

UMTS: 900/2100/HSPDA Speed 7.2Mbps

Dimensions

Height: 106.5mm

Width: 53mm

Thickness: 15.9mm

Weight: 125.5g

Screen

Size:2.8" Touch Screen

Colours: 262k

Pixels:

Pixel

In digital imaging, a pixel, or pel, is a single point in a raster image, or the smallest addressable screen element in a display device; it is the smallest unit of picture that can be represented or controlled....

240x400 (Width x Height)

Memory

Internal: 40 Megabytes

Expandable: Yes, up to 8 Gigabytes MicroSD
Phone Book: Up to 1000 Entries

Messaging

The phone can send normal SMS

SMS

SMS is a form of text messaging communication on phones and mobile phones. The terms SMS or sms may also refer to:- Computer hardware :...

 text messages (with T9 (predictive text)

T9 (predictive text)

T9, which stands for Text on 9 keys, is a patented predictive text technology for mobile phones, originally developed by Tegic Communications, now part of Nuance Communications....

, as well as MMS

Multimedia Messaging Service

Multimedia Messaging Service, or MMS, is a standard way to send messages that include multimedia content to and from mobile phones. It extends the core SMS capability that allowed exchange of text messages only up to 160 characters in length.The most popular use is to send photographs from...

, with Video MMS capabilities

E-Mail: POP3 and EAS

Media

Music: Audio formats include MP3

MP3

MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III, more commonly referred to as MP3, is a patented digital audio encoding format using a form of lossy data compression...

, AAC

Advanced Audio Coding

Advanced Audio Coding is a standardized, lossy compression and encoding scheme for digital audio. Designed to be the successor of the MP3 format, AAC generally achieves better sound quality than MP3 at similar bit rates....

, AAC+ and AAC++
Video: Video formats include H.263

H.263

H.263 is a video compression standard originally designed as a low-bitrate compressed format for videoconferencing. It was developed by the ITU-T Video Coding Experts Group in a project ending in 1995/1996 as one member of the H.26x family of video coding standards in the domain of the ITU-T.H.263...

, H.264 and MPEG4
The phone also comes with a FM Radio, and like most other phones you need the headset that comes with the phone.

Battery

The battery that comes with the phone is 950mAh Li-Ion, with 400 hours of stand-by time and 4.5 hours of talk time.