LG to launch first Android mobile in Q4

LG has announced its first Android mobile, the LG-GW620, featuring a three inch touchscreen and slide out QWERTY keypad. Up until now, all LG smartphones have used the Windows Mobile OS.

But that isn’t stopping the South Korea handset maker from hedging its bets and also investing in another mobile operating system—Google’s Android.

The company says it’s designed to appeal to people ‘who use their handsets for email and social networking, keeping them connected to their work or personal communities’. The phone joins the growing list of Android wins, including Motorola’s first Android-based smartphone, Cliq, which was announced last week and devices from Samsung and HTC.

Skott Ahn, LG’s Electronics Mobile president and CEO in a statement: “This Android phone is just one of many smartphone models we plan to introduce worldwide in the years ahead.”