Home

Windows Phone 7 running on LG GW910 (Greek)

techblog.gr

LG GW910: Yet another Windows Phone 7 device - Pocket-lint

by Paul Lamkin

LG has well and truly stuck its flag in the Microsoft camp with yet another Windows Phone 7 device turning up.

Fresh from the news of the Windows Phone 7 boasting E900 and C900, the LG GW910 has been named and, as far as we can tell, this is the latest version of the LG Panther that Pocket-lint got its hands on back in May .

The GW910 has a slider QWERTY keyboard, like the C900 - but apart from that very little is known.

But what we do know is that Internet Explorer on Windows Phone 7 does look to be a much nicer experience than IE on previous Windows Mobile incumbents.

A video has surfaced showing off a browsing session on the GW910 (even though the guy in the video claims it's not a finished version of an official handset) which shows IE on WP7 will support six tabs (in the background like Safari on iOS) but no Flash or HTML 5 at present.

The video also compares browsing on the GW910 to an iPhone and a Nexus One, although that does seem a bit pointless considering the chap in the video explains that it isn't a finished version of the browsing software on the Windows device.

Read more...