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LG FantasyE740 Windows Phone on video

May 1, 2012 | By Surur

WPCentral have laid bare their LG Fantasy Windows Phone, a prototype device that may never hit the market.

They note the handset has a pretty reasonable camera, and that the NFC was in fact fully functional, allowing the transfer of urls, contacts, notes and other information, but speculate that development of the phone has ceased, meaning we will likely never see it compete in the market with the Nokia Lumia 610NFC.

Here’s looking forward to Windows Phone 8, where NFC should not be a rare feature, and natively supported by the OS.

Via WPCentral.com

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No LG Windows Phones being announced at MWC 2012

February 26, 2012 | By Surur

In an interview with AllthingsD LG’s smartphone unit leader Ramchan Woo has said the Korean company will only be concentrating on Android handsets at Mobile World Congress this year.

The company was expected to show its LG Fantasy Windows Phone which has been leaked on numerous occasions earlier.

He complained that LG’s Windows Phones had sold slower than expected, but additional models were in the works.

Saying demand for new Windows Phones varied by operator, he continued:“Some operators, they ask (for) Windows Phone to balance Android; however, the others, they are (still) figuring out how to sell Windows.”

LG only sells around 10% of Windows Phones, and one of the reasons has been their uninspiring designs.

“We admit last year we were kind of behind,” Woo told AllThingsD.

The company claims however to have solved the issue, and now claims better battery life, better displays and thinner designs than rivals.

Hopefully these advances will also translate to their Windows Phones when they do eventually hit the market.

Via AllthingsD.com

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LG to release Windows Phone smartphones in Russia

February 23, 2012 | By Surur

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Noticing that LG’s Windows Phone apps have been localized to Russian, WP7Forum.ru suspected LG was planning to release a new Windows Phone smartphone in the region.

They asked LG Russia directly on twitter and received this response.

@ svetlojar	@ LG_Russia Good evening! Does the emergence of new application for the LG WP7 Apps in Russian means that Russia will receive smart phones from LG with WP7?
@ LG_Russia	@ svetlojar will.
@ svetlojar	@ LG_Russia Thank you!

The handset will likely be the LG Fantasy / LG Miracle, which is expected to be shown by LG at Mobile World Congress 2012. Of interest to our other readers is of course that a Russian release will likely also accompany a European-wide release, meaning we should expect to see this new relatively high end Windows Phone on our shelves soon also.

Thanks data2300 for the tip.

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LG Fantasy in the wild! (video)

February 11, 2012 | By Surur

Some-one on XDA-Developers appears to have purchased an LG Fantasy from a tester, and are trying to sell it on. To prove he had the handset he uploaded a video.

The video is of terrible quality, but confirms that the handset does have NFC, making it a first for Windows Phone.

He claims the handset will go on sale in July, making it possible we are seeing one of the first Tango handsets.

See the thread here.

Thanks Martin for the tip.

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More high quality LG Miracle pictures leaked

February 10, 2012 | By Surur

Some more pictures of the LG Miracle has shown up on a Romanian website for sale. The pictures have since been removed, but was accompanied by specs which still claimed NFC support for the 1 Ghz handset.

The handset was labelled by its older name, the LG Fantasy E740, and appears reassuringly stylish and thin with a bright screen. In the pictures the front facing VGA camera is now also clearly visible.

The device is still expected to arrive in the first half of the year and may be announced at Mobile World Congress 2012.

See more pictures at GSMArena here.

Via Pocketnow.com

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Another LG Fantasy Picture Leaks, This Time More Clearly

December 26, 2011 | By Liwen Guo

It was only last Friday that an xda-developers member, untitledmangxg, showed us some pictures of the LG Fantasy, a Windows Phone said to come in the first quarter of 2012. However, they were quite blurry, but thankfully another member, razorsbk, has posted a new, much nicer picture.

We’ve photoshopped the render that Pocketnow leaked back in July into the new image, and there are some notable differences here:

Size: From the proportions of earpiece, logo and capacitive buttons, the actual device on the left definitely seems smaller. With untitledmangxg claiming it to have a 4″ screen, the render seems to us more like 4.3″.
Front-facing camera: Yes folks, no camera on the render, but the actual device seems to have one, to the top-left of the logo.
Start button: The Windows flag on the actual device has a rectangular shape surrounding it, suggesting it to be a hardware button. Whatever it is, it’s definitely different from the render.
Edges: The top and bottom edges of the render are slightly curved outward, whereas the actual device shows them to be completely straight.

Maybe these are two different devices, maybe they’re the same device but LG has changed it, we don’t know. But considering the release timeframe, we should know soon, at least within the next three months.

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LG Fantasy leaked, coming Q1 2012 (Pictures)

December 23, 2011 | By Surur

untitledmangxg from XDA-Developers claims to have the new LG Fantasy, and has the pictures to back it up. he claims the device was sold to him by a Romanian tester and comes with a 4 inch IPS display and runs Windows phone Mango.

He calls the device “very nice~ and we will have to agree.

The handset was first leaked all the way in July 2011 by Pocketnow, but then of course was just a rendering and was not accompanied by specs.

See the XDA-Dev thread here.

Thanks Chaitanya for the tip.

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Leak: LG Fantasy looks a bit like the HTC HD7

July 22, 2011 | By Surur

Pocketnow have managed to lay their hands on LG’s fall line-up, revealing amongst a bevy of Android handsets a single Windows Phone 7 handset, the LG Fantasy.

No specs accompanied the rendering, but the device appears to have a near edge to edge screen and similar styling to the HC HD7, suggesting to me that it will likely be a premium large-screened handset.

How do our readers feel about the design compared to LG’s previous lower-end looking devices? Let us know below.

Thanks Kainy for the tip.

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