LG Optimus 7 made official ahead of Windows Phone 7 launch, quickly yanked
It’s gonna be a busy few days in terms of Windows Phone 7, with Microsoft’s much anticipated operating system all set for its official, if somewhat protracted, public airing.
And with WP7 handsets leaking faster than a BP undersea oil well, we were kind of wondering which manufacturer would be first to go live with its handset.
And the answer appears to be LG, who has officially revealed the LG Optimus 7 in all of its hub-boasting glory.
The Optimus 7 has a 3.8-inch WVGA, 800 x 480, capacitive touchscreen and boasts 16GB of internal storage.
It has a 1500mAh battery, a 5-megapixel camera with LED flash, loves a bit of 720p HD video and also has Bluetooth 2.1 to go with the Wi-Fi and 3G connectivity. There’s also a proximity sensor, an ambient light sensor and a digital compass.
LG has also revealed a few features that it hopes will set the Optimus 7 apart from the other WP7 launch handsets including Play-To, which is its DLNA multimedia sharing platform, Scansearch, which is an augmented reality style real-time search assistant and Voice-to-Text, which it says “will be a godsend for text addicts, allowing voice to text transcribing for Facebook and Twitter updates, emails or memos for a convenient hands free experience”.
T-Mobile Announces the LG Optimus T
Today, T-Mobile have officially announced the LG Optimus T, which looks like it’s an Optimus One made especially for T-Mobile.
The Optimus T will be aimed at first-time smartphone buyers. It will come with Android 2.2 and deep integration with Google services including Voice actions (customers can control the phone by speaking commands to call, text, email, find directions and so on).
The LG Optimus T will have a 3.2 megapixel autofocus camera with video capture, a microSD card slot and a 2GB card in the sales package.
If the other specs are indeed identical to the Optimus One, expect this handset to also have a 3.2-inch 320×480 capacitive touchscreen, GPS, WiFi and Bluetooth. The battery should be 1500 mAh in case it’s the same as that in the Optimus One.
LG Optimus 7 (E900) official pics outed
LG’s Windows Phone 7 handset, the E900 – or LG Optimus 7, is expected to be announced officially on 11 October along with a handful of other handsets from Samsung and HTC.
Blowing any chance of surprise out of the water, official looking press shots of the new phone have appeared on a German site for all to see giving us an early glimpse of what LG is expected to debut ahead of schedule.
Aside from the name, which is also yet to be confirmed by the way, the pictures give us little to go on other than that it will be a touchscreen device sporting a 5 megapixel camera on the back.
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