Earlier this year we brought you news of the LG C300 and C320, both QWERTY feature phones, with the latter coming in a unique slide up QWERTY form factor that few device manufacturers have dabbled with; check out Simon’s review of the Android powered Motorola Spice if you digg the style. Anyway, back to LG, today they’re adding yet another member to the C3XX product family, the C310, and it looks exactly like the C300, except that it packs two SIM card slots under the hood. Other features include a 2.4 inch display with your typical 320 by 240 pixel resolution, 3.5 mm headphone jack, Bluetooth 2.0, a lowly 2 megapixel camera, triband GSM/EDGE (900/1800/1900 MHz), no 3G, but the built in WiFi b/g support should hold you over. The first market to get this puppy is New Zealand strangely enough, and it’ll cost you around $200.
This isn’t the first dual SIM QWERTY device to hit the market, that honor goes to the Samsung Ch@t, but both devices point to a larger industry trend that people want to text until their thumbs fall off, and they also want to save their pennies by having two SIM card slots. One to use for friends and family who use network A, and the other set of people who use network B. The price tag is a bit high, for that amount of money you can get one fairly decent smartphone like the Huawei IDEOS, which not only includes 3G, but also GPS so you never have to get lost, and then with the money left over you can pick up a low end Nokia for your calling and texting needs. We recommend you go that route to get the best of both worlds, dumb and smart devices, because blowing $200 on a feature phone in 2011 seems a tad … oh, I don’t know … retarded.
[Via: Unwired View]