LG to launch Windows Phone 7 Series device by November

An earlier rumour (that was tweeted out during before the MWC during a LG Design Lab meet), which let on that the first phone to feature the Windows Phone 7 Series OS would be a LG phone, seems to be true, or at least, the LG phone in question seems to have a release date ahead of any other phone as of now.

Engadget’s Chinese chapter met with LG Mobile in Hong Kong on Wednesday evening, and have confirmed that the LG phone that will feature Windows Phone 7 Series OS will be launched between September and November of this year. Meanwhile, this seems fit well with Steve Balmer’s announcement during the MWC of a Windows Phone 7 launch before the “holidays”.

LG Committed to Windows Phone and Android Platforms

Unlike Samsung, which has gone off to making its own Bada proprietary smartphone OS including licensing other popular platforms, rival Korean handset maker LG has gone on record to say that it is not planning on going the Samsung route and instead will be sticking with Android and Windows Phone.

LG, along with HTC and others, are partners for Windows Phone 7 Series. LG has released several Android and Windows Mobile handsets in the past and the company will continue to grow its portfolio with the two platforms. According to the firm, “Our strategy is not to make an independent mobile platform of our own at least for the next two to three years.”