LG's GW550 WinMo Standard phone bows at CommunicAsia
By and large, LG's announcements at CommunicAsia in Singapore this week have been straight-up rehashes of announcements from earlier in the year -- the GD900, for example -- but there was one diamond in the rough that should get a few people excited. The GW550 is the latest fruit of LG's strategic alliance with Microsoft to produce Windows Mobile phones, offering a 2.4-inch QVGA display, full HSPA with 7.2Mbps on the downlink, a 3 megapixel primary cam with a VGA sensor up front for video calling, and stereo speakers on board; the front cam immediately tells us that we can't expect this phone to drop as-is on AT&T, but we bet LG would just love to put something very similar up against the Jack. Any takers?
[Via PhoneArena and Tech2]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
zephxiii @ Jun 17th 2009 10:51AM
WOW. that looks awfully similar to my e71! lol. I mean look at the keyboard and navigation layout lol. Hell the gray shading for numbers is identical lol.
zephxiii @ Jun 17th 2009 10:54AM
WOW. that looks awfully similar to my e71! lol. I mean look at the keyboard and navigation layout lol. Hell the gray shading for numbers is identical lol.
MichaelJW @ Jun 17th 2009 3:09PM
This was my first thought on seeing this: it is exactly like my E71x. After holding up my E71 right next to the picture it's even more obvious.
I actually would have preferred my E71x with WinMo, but this device already looks like it might be chunkier. One nice improvement:L it removes two shortcut keys and uses the extra space for an even wider control pad. This would make me rethink my purchase if I knew it was going to ship with a steel housing (Which I doubt).
john @ Jun 17th 2009 11:04AM
this is probably a nokia knock off
bobby @ Jun 17th 2009 9:23PM
wow, I would but I think my 2g iphone is still more advanced.
Mobile Developer @ Jun 25th 2009 2:27PM
I think this is the first of a wave of new windows mobile and smartphones in asia. If China ever really gets rolling with a userbase we will see explosive growth in this mobile smartphone market and the big consumers today like the US will be a second thought to carriers and providers.