LG Confirms Windows Phone 7 Series

LG confirms Windows Phone 7 Coming as Early as Sept.This news has come as a surprise for many people who assumed Microsoft’s announcement that WinPhone7 would be available before the holidays meant sometime in November. The news that LG is aiming for earlier launch means that Microsoft may also release Windows Phone 7 Series sooner than expected.

The September news might also mean good things for Microsoft. The company has already received scorn for announcing an impressive new smartphone operating system after so many manufacturers started making Windows Mobile 6.5 phones. Many consumers might be content to wait until Windows Phone 7 Series comes out instead of buying a Windows Mobile 6.5 phone, so getting the new platform out sooner will help minimize the hit from low Windows Mobile 6.5 sales.
Specifics around the model weren’t revealed, but Show host Josh Topolsky did get some play time and described it as only fractionally thicker than an iPhone 3GS and Nexus One. Video of the handset also confirms a 3.5mm headphone jack (remember when companies were too stupid to offer this? Seems like a lifetime ago), 5MP camera with flash the front ‘Back’, ‘Home’ and ‘Search’ hardware buttons Microsoft insists will have to feature on every 7 Series smartphone.

Aaron Woodman, the director of consumer experiences for Microsoft’s mobile division, showed off a prototype of LG’s Windows Phone 7 Series phone over at Engadget. We don’t have many details, but we do know that it’s a QWERTY slider that’s just a tad thicker than the iPhone, with a 5MP camera, and six hardware buttons.
With Windows Phone 7 Series, Microsoft takes a fundamentally different approach to phone software. Smart design begins with a new, holistic design system that informs every aspect of the phone, from its visually appealing layout and motion to its function and hardware integration. On the Start screen, dynamically updated “live tiles” show users real-time content directly, breaking the mold of static icons that serve as an intermediate step on the way to an application. Create a tile of a friend, and the user gains a readable, up-to-date view of a friend’s latest pictures and posts, just by glancing at Start.
Every Windows Phone 7 Series phone will come with a dedicated hardware button for Bing, providing one-click access to search from anywhere on the phone, while a special implementation of Bing search provides intent-specific results, delivering the most relevant Web or local results, depending on the type of query.

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