LG Drops Windows Phone, Targets Android With a Monster

Posted on 16/05/2012 | in Android, LG | by

A couple of weeks ago, back in April and after seven consecutive quarters of declining sales figures, LG announced that the company would not be increasing or developing any further its range of Windows Phone handset. In line with this the details of a new handset have been leaked which supports the official company line that LG is focusing its efforts on the Android platform.

The recent leak has the handset designated as the LG LS970 Eclipse 4G LTE comprised of a 1.5 GHz Qualcomm quad-core Krait processor (Snapdragon S4 series) with an Adreno 320 GPU driving the 4.67-inch WXGA (1280×768) LCD TFT display. Memory is rumoured to be 2GB SDRAM, 16GB storage, a 13MP main camera backed up by a fairly standard 1.3MP front-facing unit. The battery is shown as 2100mA capacity. The whole device is slated to be a mere 8.6mm thick. All this adds up to one of the thinnest, most powerful handsets rumoured thus far.

Could this be the handset that turns LG’s fortunes around?

 

Source: BriefMobile

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  • Damon Lewis

    Sounds like one hell of a phone (luckily they didn’t go Tegra)

  • Danny

    All the hardware is good. This maybe what people will buy for but in my opinion LG has one of the worst supports/software compared to all the major manufacturers. Untill thwy change that. Not going to get a LG device

  • Hikari0307

    Hardware wise, sounds good, but LG needs more than Hardware to fend off the brand values that Samsung and HTC has built in the android world. A number of people would certainly go for the SIII or One X/XL just because the two companies has had a better track record than LG.

  • http://twitter.com/gtroberts GTRoberts

    For the record, LG is NOT dropping Windows Phone. They are working on new Windows Phone’s due for release October/November.

  • Christopher_Earle

    It seems that LG still has a number of Windows Phone handsets already far enough through the development cycle that they can be released and will be in the near future. However, unless something new has come out of today’s Seoul Digital Forum at which Steve Ballmer was scheduled to speak, LG have expressed reluctance to put any further investment dollars into R&D for a platform which accounts for only 2% of global smartphone figures.

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