LG to launch Windows Phone 7 mobile phones this year

From InfoWorld: South Korea's LG Electronics will launch its first smartphone designed around Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 software by the end of September and will follow with more by the end of the year, a company representative said Wednesday.

Photos of one of the LG smartphones have already been shown off by a number of enthusiast blogs. That phone is ready to go, according to LG.

"We have a deep relationship with Microsoft so expect to have a couple by the end of this year," said Ken Hong, an LG representative in Seoul.

The company also expects to pour more money into research and development around other mobile phone OSes, including Android and other Linux distributions, he said.

On Wednesday LG reported troubling financial results at its mobile phone division, including an operating loss and a 30.8 percent drop in sales revenue compared to the same time last year. Handset shipments increased 2 percent year on year to 30.6 million units.

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