14 DAY TRIAL // South Korean mobile phone maker LG Electronics is yet another manufacturer to announce the upcoming availability of its first Windows phones. A number of three new device running under Microsoft's Windows Mobile 6.5 operating system, which will come to the market starting with October 6 this year. Among them, we can count the LG GM750, which should become available the very same day from Vodafone in a number of seven countries: Germany, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Spain and the UK, and also in France through SFR.
All three new LG Windows phones should come to the market during the following few weeks, the phone maker stated, while adding that they are expected to help it gain more ground on the mobile phone market. Moreover, the company has also stated that it intends to unveil a series of 13 new handsets running under WM 6.5 by the end of 2010, and that the three new Windows phones only “kick off LG’s most aggressive smartphone strategy to date.” The trio includes a full touchscreen device, a touch slider that sports a QWERTY keyboard, as well as a candybar QWERTY phone.
“This initial launch is a strong testament that LG is committed to offering a spectrum of choices for our broad range of customers,” said Dr. Skott Ahn, President and CEO of LG Electronics Mobile Communications Company. “Our work with Microsoft on mobile devices reflects our strategy of offering the best in both hardware and software in all our smartphones.” One of the three phones, namely the candybar QWERTY device, should be the LG GW550, spotted in the wild back in June.
The LG GM750 will be the touchscreen device included in the trifecta. It comes with a large 3-inch full touch display, a 5-megapixel camera, built-in GPS receiver, LG’s S-Class user-interface, easy navigation while browsing the Internet, and a customizable Windows Mobile 6.5 user interface so that Vodafone customers can make use of the device the way they consider best. Other features included with the device would be Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync, Adobe Flash Lite, support for Windows Marketplace for Mobile, the free My Phone service, or Windows Live.
LG has also announced that all of the three Windows phones it plans on launching to the market in the near future will sport its S-Class User Interface, delivering a 3D experience to users. “The three phones will be aimed at different segments of the market ranging from premium to affordable smartphones,” the company stated, while also adding that the new phones should become available for purchase in Europe, the United States and Asia in the beginning, yet that they will a reach the entire world eventually.
