LG to Keep Partnership With Microsoft

Posted by jhansonxi on Jan 15, 2010 1:39 AM EDT
The Korea Times; By Kim Yoo-chul 		Mail this story
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Ahn Seung-kwon, president of LG's mobile communications division, said the world's third-biggest handset vendor after Nokia and Samsung, however, will heavily bet on phones with Google's Android operating system. "MS Windows Mobile operating system is rather unqualified in mobile interfaces. Despite such worries, the partnership with Microsoft is still safe,"

Ahn Seung-kwon, president of LG's mobile communications division, said the world's third-biggest handset vendor after Nokia and Samsung, however, will heavily bet on phones with Google's Android operating system.

"MS Windows Mobile operating system is rather unqualified in mobile interfaces. Despite such worries, the partnership with Microsoft is still safe," Ahn said at a press conference in Seoul.

LG plans to introduce a smartphone equipped with Windows Mobile 6.5 operating system later this month.

"We plan to increase the portion of Android phones to half of 20 smartphones that LG has been set to launch in the global market in 2010," the executive said.

The remaining 10 smartphone offerings will run on Windows Mobile and Linux software.

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