Hot on the heels of Microsoft setting an Oct. 6 launch date for Windows Mobile 6.5, LG said Thursday that the company will soon launch two unnamed new Windows phones for "early adopter customers" in both the U.S. and other markets.
The two new phones join the GW550, which LG recently launched abroad. The three new phones - one with a full touch screen, one with a sliding QWERTY keyboard and the GW550, a BlackBerry-style QWERTY phone - will feature Windows Mobile 6.5 and LG's 3D "S-Class" user interface, which the company launched in February. Like HTC's Touch Flo3D and Samsung's TouchWiz, S-Class replaces much of Windows Mobile's native UI with LG's own designs.
LG will also produce 10 more Windows phones by the end of 2010, the company said in a press release.
The phones will be compatible with LG's own app store, which LG said may have 2,000 applications by the end of the year. As Windows Mobile phones, they'll also work with Microsoft's Windows Marketplace for Mobile. The U.S. versions will probably also have a third app store on board designed by the wireless carriers.
LG currently only has one Windows Mobile phone in the U.S. market - the Incite for AT&T, which hasn't received very strong reviews. But the company has a long-standing and strong relationship with Verizon Wireless, and LG smartphones for Verizon could shake up the market a bit.
LG promises more news in the upcoming weeks, but, following the usual practice, information about U.S. releases will probably be issued by the carriers.
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