14 DAY TRIAL // South Korean mobile phone maker LG Electronics is one of the companies which came to the market with Windows Phone 7-based devices when the mobile platform was officially launched in October last year, and it seems that the handset vendor is working on new such phones, one of them sporting the model number E700.
No specific info on this device emerged for the time being, but the handset was spotted on LG's website in an Open Mobile Alliance device profile (via tweakers), and some details on it made it into the wild, including the fact that it might run under the next Windows Phone platform.
The handset's browser data shows “LGE/Microsoft/IE9,” which clearly points at the inclusion of the Internet Explorer 9 browser into the mix, thus suggesting that it would run under Mango, since the browser would arrive only in that OS flavor.
At the same time, this confirms that we won't see the LG E700 on shelves before fall, which is somehow disappointing.
Other details that emerged on the new mobile phone would include the fact that it might sport a 480 x 800 pixels touchscreen display, but no other info has made it into the wild so far.
The good news is, of course, the fact that newer Windows Phone devices are being developed, since no new ones were launched since October 2010.
Recently, we caught word on another such phone, the HTC Mazaa, and chances are that more of them would appear before fall, though nothing is official on this for the time being.
However, we should expect even more handset vendors to come up with Windows phone devices this year, including Nokia, which committed to the delivery of its first such device before the end of the year.
The new phones are expected to arrive on shelves with the next Windows Phone platform on board, Mango, which would bring into the mix features like multitasking, support for HTML5 in IE9, Twitter integration in People Hub, and more.
