The second Windows Phone 7 smartphone (after HTC HD7) just landed in our shores, thanks to Celcom. It’s LG Optimus 7 , the phone that you do not expect to be here this fast. Nevertheless, you got another choice of Windows Phone 7, especially those that’s not fancy to HTC phone. And this is the phone that comes with free premium application worth of USD30 every 60 days!!
Not only that, the first 150 customers who register online will be able to purchase the phone at RM777, about a third of the retail price, RM2099. Comes with the phone is the new Celcom Exec plan which is quite tempting and affordable than before. The plan started from RM78, which consist of RM50 worth of voice/sms plan and data worth of RM28, limited only to 300MB of data), followed by RM88, RM118 and RM250. The registration ends on 30th November.
Off all Windows Phone 7 smartphone manufacturer, perhaps LG has one of the brightest idea to promote it’s phone. LG Optimus is LG’s main bid to gain entry into Windows Phone 7 market. Well, design wise it may little bit behind the like of HTC and Samsung, but how about giving something for free. And that’s what they just announced today, 10 free premium applications worth more than $30 will be given away every 60 days. The application can be downloaded directly from LG Application Store which is accessible only from LG phone.
The first 10 apps will be given away is already available on LG Facebook page, which varies from different app category from utility , music, games and etc. Do you think the free apps are tempting enough to get people jump to certain device?
Ok, so finally Windows Phone 7 reach the RTM (release to manufacturing ) stages, another step closer to much awaited date of releasing it to the world to enjoy… or criticizing it. Windows Phone 7 is one massive project for Microsoft, that require notably effort from the whole team to make it as it is today. This is the testament to the effort and dollar that Microsoft has poured to this project, and it’s ain’t cheap!
“We had nearly ten thousand devices running automated tests daily, over a half million hours of active self-hosting use, over three and a half million hours of stress test passes, and eight and a half million hours of fully automated test passes. We’ve had thousands of independent software vendors and early adopters testing our software and giving us great feedback. We are ready”
Pocketnow has done some neat video to compare the Windows Phone 7 boot up times using LG Phanter with the iPhone 4, Android 2.2 running on Nexus One and HTC HD2 running on Android 2.2 as well. The outcome! Windows Phone 7 took only 25 seconds to boot up and simply beat the rest of the smartphone with almost half the time of all of the other smartphones. Though the LG Phanter is just prototype model, the blazing boots up times is just amazing!
No doubt that this is the most gorgeous Window Phone 7 smartphone ever leaked so far. Only known for the time being as HTC T8788, HTC seems to have the ideal candidate to win the race for the best Windows Phone 7 title. Interestingly, there is slider at the back of the smartphone that reveal speaker, not a keypad normally available on such slider phone. What I can guess is, this smartphone is going to take full advantage of XBox Live game integration, by bringing a console-like sound experience to smartphone that looks appeal for gamers. The rest of the spec remain mystery, but Engadget folks that post this story, must be working tirelessly digging for more info.
