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Call us old fashioned, but we think things were better in t’olden days. Way back in the early 2000’s, for example. When you had a screechy dial-up internet connection. And you checked your emails one or twice a day, never found pictures of yourself throwing up through your nose online in public view (unless you were famous and/or naked as well, that is), and if anyone had used the phrase social networking you would have thought it was something very people did when they played polo.

Now, with the future very much here, the kids want something different. Not satisfied with updating their Facebook status every 4 minutes (I’m on a bus! Don’t know where I’m going!) and checking, sending, forwarding and bouncing emails left right and centre, the kids need more. And the LG GW520 is giving ‘em just want they want by being just about the first mid-range (i.e. pretty cheap, considering) phone to offer ‘push’ services. That means the GW520 can be set-up not only to allow you to check to see if you have new emails or relevant status updates, but to actually alert you whenever that happens. Sounds like a version of hell to us (especially if it’s set to do some kind of annoying beeping ping every time an email arrives) but we’ve no doubt there’s going to be a whole lot of probably younger than us folk out there who are going to find this – not to mention the large slide-out QWERTY keyboard on this thing – very useful indeed. The GW520 will be out on most networks imminently. Read a full LG GW520 review here if you’re one of those kids who’s going to get your kicks from it.