Smartphone manufacturer LG has been busy in the last few months
getting ready a number of flagship devices that run on the Android
operating system. It seems though the company is looking to strengthen
its smartphone range with reports suggesting LG is going to offer some
Windows Phone 8 handsets, and the line-up is thought to include a
5.5-inch HD handset.
At the moment the biggest players on the Windows Phone 8 platform are
the likes of Nokia, HTC, and Huawei, but LG Electronics are now
reportedly going to offer handsets on the platform at some point this
year. The company is looking to sell around 75 million devices during
2013, which is up from the 55 million it achieved last year.
It hopes that sales for this year will include around 45 million
smartphones, which would prove more lucrative for the company, with the
rest of the numbers being made up by cheaper feature mobile phones. LG
is hoping to ship at least ten million smartphones every quarter with
efforts to try and achieve higher than that.
We have already heard
of the company’s plans to release a flagship smartphone early this
year, and now there is talk the 5.5-inch device that will have a
resolution of 1920 x 1080 could also find its way onto the Windows Phone
8 platform.
A senior executive has told the Korea Times
about its plans for the rest of the year and stated it had “a number of
new Optimus devices this year and LG also has some new smartphones in
the works, that will run Microsoft’s Windows Phone 8”.
It makes sense for the company to branch out into the WP8 platform as
the market for devices running the software is currently a lot less
crowded than Android is. Microsoft has strict rules regarding hardware
released on the platform, and the majority of the handsets have higher
specifications that in turn mean higher profits for the manufacturer.
Would you get a Windows Phone 8 handset from LG?
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