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GX20
Announced
2003
Weight
102 grams
Features
The GX20 launched in Europe & Asia in Q3 of 2003, bringing in superior Japanese LCD technology thus far only found on O2's PDA-style XDA series. The 2.2" Continuous Grain Silicon (CGS) LCD was perhaps small when compared to the XDA's 3.5" touchscreen, but with the same resolution of 240 x 320px it was much sharper. The flip phone form factor enabled the GX20 to remain small and yet offer the largest LCD on any compact mobile phone available in Europe that year, with only the NEC N820 offering the same type of display. Whilst it was not a smartphone, it was sophisticated and high-end.
With a large screen came a large camera, the GX20 featured a VGA (640 x 480px, or 0.3Mpx) camera, which in 2003, was quickly becoming the norm. Nonetheless, its pictures were stunning – perhaps one of the best camera phones of its class at the time. Back in those days, auto-focus was still in its infancy but the GX20 made up for it by offering two modes, Macro and Portrait, which were controlled via the outer hardware ring on its camera. Information courtesy of Christian Legere, the author of The Flipside Story
With a large screen came a large camera, the GX20 featured a VGA (640 x 480px, or 0.3Mpx) camera, which in 2003, was quickly becoming the norm. Nonetheless, its pictures were stunning – perhaps one of the best camera phones of its class at the time. Back in those days, auto-focus was still in its infancy but the GX20 made up for it by offering two modes, Macro and Portrait, which were controlled via the outer hardware ring on its camera. Information courtesy of Christian Legere, the author of The Flipside Story
