One of the Windows Phone 7 devices that leaked galore these days was the LG C900 with a slide-out QWERTY keyboard. It was interesting to peep at its Bluetooth SIG filing, and to find out that LG has slated it for September 28th release to market.
This is in line with what AT&T was striving for. Ma Bell wants to be the first to out a WP7 device, and was gearing up its retail store promotional materials at the end of July. This usually means end of September launch for the devices, coinciding nicely with the officially announced Q4 WP7 availability. If we put two and two together, first to the US market with a Windows Phone 7 device should be LG, either with the GW910, or the C900, pictured below, both appearing on AT&T.
A French Microsoft employee is said to be behind the posting on Flickr of an LG Windows Phone 7 model. While we might not know the specs of this specific handset, we do know the minimum hardware requirements for the OS. That means the pictured device should be running a 1GHz processor.
Hmm, can we think of the name of such a beast? It should be a snap. The phone probably has a capacitive touchscreen with no less than 8GB of memory. Other features that are necessary for this to be a Windows Phone 7 unit include an accelerometer, a camera with at least 5MP and flash, a-GPS, a digital compass and light and proximity sensors.
As HTC HD2 owners sadly found out, to be running Windows Phone 7, this LG model can have only 3 buttons for “back”, “Windows” and “search”-all on the front. The first batch of phones powered by the new finger friendly OS will be available later this year and might include this beauty from the Korean based manufacturer.