About a week we gave you a quick preview of the LG GW520, and now after a few days of testing, we’re back with a full review of the phone that promised to offer both the ease of use of the touchscreen and the functionality of a QWERTY keyboard in a neat looking affordable phone. Well did it succeed? Let’s find out!

Firstly let me take something that I implied in the preview, and that was that this phone could either be a big success or a complete failure as LG either mastered or messed up the integration of both QWERTY and touchscreen. The first thing to know is that the LG GW520 is very much a phone of two halves — sometimes you’ll wonder if this will challenge the big players and others you’ll despair at LG’s failures in this phone. But anyway, on with the review…
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The original LG Chocolate proved pretty popular when it was released, and despite the fact that it was new a good few years ago you still see a few of them around — mostly because of its looks which remain pretty stylish. Well, now the LG Chocolate (BL40) is back in a totally different form.

Ditching the slider design (which seems to have fallen out of fashion recently) it has unsurprisingly moved to the touchscreen option, and if you’re thinking that it looks slightly odd you’re 100% correct because it uses a distinctive 4” 21:9 aspect ratio touchscreen which promises to enhance your multimedia viewing and generally helps to produce a great phone.
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I’ve spent quite a lot of time with the latest 5th generation of the iPod Nano since its release last month, and found it to be a welcome addition to Apple’s holiday line-up with a host of welcome features including what must be Apple’s most leaked update to an iPod with the addition of a video camera.

First Impressions

The new Nano is available in two capacities, 8GB and 16GB, priced at £115 and £135 respectively, available in 9 different colours. The first thing you’ll notice about the new model is a bigger screen and a smaller click wheel. The screen is now 2.2” big, with a strange resolution of 240 x 376, compared to the previous resolution of 240 x 320.

I’ve never been able to watch a full-length movie on the Nano, and despite the slight increase in screen estate, I still can’t, but it’s great for watching a short TV show, a video podcast or a few music videos very comfortably. I found the aluminium enclosure to be very durable, as the first thing I did (accidentally of course) was to drop the Nano from about 4 feet on to a hard floor with no noticeable damage to the casing or hardware.
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Back in June, we brought you a preview of the LG Crystal as well as the video preview, and now that it’s been released and we thought we’d have another look and see if the LG Crystal has lived up to expectations.

These expectations were understandably quite high, as they are generally for any phone released by one of the big manufacturers these days, but especially because this was the first phone to have a transparent keypad; however those laurels would not be enough and LG will have had to back up this with some good features to make it worthwhile. So have they? Read on!
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About a week ago we brought you a preview of the new addition to the Sony Walkman line up, the S-series, and now have put it through some rigorous use we’ve managed to come up with a full review looking at whether or not this MP3 player can punch its weight.

To make this review of the Sony Walkman S Series easier to read and compare it’ll be split up into 7 main sections: Screen, UI, Headphones, Syncing, Speakers, Features and Battery as well as a couple of others looking at more general aspects.
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