14 DAY TRIAL // According to the latest news around the web, South Korean mobile phone maker LG Electronics is set to deliver two new handsets powered by Microsoft's Windows Mobile 6.5 operating system to the market in the United States. The handsets will come for “early adopter customers,” the company seems to have said, and they will reach other markets as well.
LG has already announced plans to launch three new Windows phones on the market during the ongoing year, yet no official details were given, except for some info on LG GM750, which should arrive in Europe on Vodafone. The three handhelds will come as a touchscreen device (probably the LG GM750), a candybar QWERTY phone, and one with a sliding QWERTY keypad.
According to a recent article on PCMag, the company will also launch its own app store in the US along with the two new devices, and users will have the possibility to find a number of more than 2,000 applications available there before the end of 2009. In addition to supporting LG's software portal, the two phones will also offer access to Microsoft's Windows Marketplace for Mobile, which will be launched on October 6, along with the first phones running under Windows Mobile 6.5.
The article on PCMag doesn't say exactly what Windows phones LG will deliver to the US market, yet we can assume that they will be two of the three unnamed devices the company announced earlier. There are great chances that the phones will arrive via carriers, which means that the exact details on the release will come from them.
As many of you may already know, the LG Incite available with AT&T is the only Windows Mobile-powered device the South Korean phone maker has on the US market. Given the fact that it has strong relations with other US operators as well, such as Verizon Wireless, we might learn that one or both LG Windows phones will come to this carrier.