LG Unveils New Windows Mobile OS-based Cell Phone

San Diego, California-headquartered LG Electronics MobileComm USA Inc today (February 16) unveiled a new Windows Mobile OS-based cell phone at the ongoing Mobile World Conference show in Barcelona.

The latest mobile is called GM730, and is the first of a series of at least 10 mobile phones that the company is planning to come out with in 2009 that will be based on the Windows Mobile operating system.

The GM730 – a black gizmo – measures approx 11cm X 5.6cm X 12cm, and is fully touch-operated. The display is a TFT touchscreen with 65K colors and is 3 inches long diagonally with 240X400 pixels. Its specialty is the “S-Class” Touch UI.

The mobile phone operates in the HSDPA 900 / 2100 3G network (7.2Mbps) and GSM 900 / 1800 / 1900 2G network, supporting data in GPRS and EDGE formats. The device also supports Bluetooth and USB, but does not have infrared ports.

The ringtones are standard polyphonic with 72 channels and MP3-compliant. The camera  is 5MP, 2,592X1,944 pixels, autofocus and capable of video-capture.

The mobile phone has a microSD (TransFlash) card slot that can hold memory of up to 16GB.

The device runs on Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional OS with a WAP 2.0/xHTML and HTML-based IE 6.0 browser.