LG hasn't been what you'd call "super secretive" with its first
Windows Phone 7 hardware (codenamed
LG Panther), after all, the phone was
flashed on the Engadget Show as the first official hardware for the new OS. Still, a prototype of the phone, meant for developers to start testing their apps on, has made its way into the wild and might shed some new light on the handset. It's been spotted with some full-on packaging (which is apparently non-final, even the Windows Phone 7 logo is wrong) and a "GW910" model number, which might be the final name for the handset -- or at least its internal call sign. It's also dangerously close in sound to the
GW990, bringing back painful memories of that
Moorestown phone's cancellation. Other notes accompanying the leak state that while the OS still has plenty of rough edges and is being updated with new builds almost every other day, it's "more or less feature complete" and very fast. They even shot a sample photo with the device, which you can find at your friendly neighborhood source link. Haven't had enough Windows Phone 7? Hit up our
nerdtastic breakdown of the OS's core components.
Update: Looks like
Innovative Singapore got a video of the phone's startup sequence as well. Watch it power on at our source link.
posted May 24th 2010 2:37PM
Name = Stupid
Really MS? The first ever Windows Phone 7 phone and you name it "GW910"
Why even bother? I mean seriously android may be garbage and not my cup of tea but one can't deny that they've come up with some interesting, catchy names for their phones...
Sometimes less is more MS...
@TheLondonExchange
o shut up, seriously.
as long as the phone works who gives a shit what it is called.
@TheLondonExchange Really? That's your complaint?
You need a clue. It's an LG device. You think LG maybe came up with the name? Come on ... it's not that hard.
@TheLondonExchange
Just because you dislike android no need to call it things many people like android and it is a very capable operating system and you have to give it credit for what it has accomplished in such a short period of time and the following it has got.
@TheLondonExchange
What a cheap, generic-looking handset for a debut flagship device on the newest OS from the world's largest software manufacturer. :-|
LG can't make a desirable high-end handset to save their life. At least the OS will HAVE be better than that cube-interface pseudo-smartphone bullshit they've been bloating their handsets with as of late.
@BrianH
It's called marketting.
@TheLondonExchange I agree with you. Any generic name would be better.
@TheLondonExchange
LG named the device not MS. Honestly I think they should stick with calling it the LG Panther. Sounds better but in the end that has nothing to do with MS. I'm sure when HTC puts out their devices the names will be better.
@BrianH oh shut up, of course it matters what it's called, at the end if the day advertisers have got to sell this away from possible iPhone owners so calling something cool will give them something to start with. Specs alone don't sell a phone, it's all about the branding
@TheLondonExchange LG makes the phone, not MS. They don't have a stake in the naming scheme.
@TheLondonExchange
" I mean seriously android may be garbage and not my cup of tea.."
Yeah bad mouthing Android while you bad mouth LG
Yeah smooth
@BrianH
Shut up nimrod. I know LG makes the phone but that doesn't mean MS has no input at all.
And if you think that then you're the idiotic one here.
More importantly it is ALL ABOUT MARKETING dumbass.
How do you market GW910 to the masses.
This is a bad name and you all know it. Downrank me all you want but I'll continue to say the truth.
And yes android is shitty subpar operating system. You can yell and scream all you want about flash this froyo that and multitasking but none of those things matter one whit to me. I prefer not to have Flash and I won't be using multitasking that much that it makes it a "do or die" type of deal that you guys make it out to be.
Obviously the millions of people who own iPhones agree with me.
@TheLondonExchange Android has nothing to do with this article. Once again you steer us away into irrelevant, idiotic, wrong, and unnecessary flamewars. Give yourself a pat on the back.
@N900
And before we go into it I'm NOT trying to make this an
iPhone vs android debate
I'm just simply pointing out that this phone represents a LOT for MS. Yes MS does have a stake in this phone. It represents the first of many new phones with their new OS.
Do you think brand name isn't important or something? Any idiot out there can tell you what the Droid line represents. Not to mention it sounds cool to say you own a Droid. Or a Droid Incredible.
All I'm saying is that it wouldn't have killed MS to work with LG to come out with a nice name for this phone.
God people stop taking things I say the wrong way intentionally. Its not that hard to figure what I meant to say/was implying...
@TheLondonExchange
What exactly is your problem? This is a developer, prototype device that likely won't be released to consumers. It doesn't matter what it's called. I don't get why you always act like you have some major chip on your shoulder. Go take some benedryl or something.
@TheLondonExchange Ok, well let's discuss that instead of blabbering on about Android.
I don't believe this will be the final name for the device. Every prototype that LG has had always had a numerical naming scheme. For instance when the BL series came out. They eventually became the Chocolate line up. BL40. KP became Cookie. Now look at the GW line. Notice that most of them have recently been for smartphones running different OS'. GW990 was for Meego. GW620 and GW880 was for Android. GW820 was for 6.5.
The GW910 is for WP7. Now, only the GW820 (Expo), 620 (Etna) have been given names after their numerical prototype naming scheme, but could we consider that the GW910 will be given it's final name soon enough, Panther in this regard?
@TheLondonExchange
who cares android sucks period. The flash is not all that great anyways HTML5 is way better. Now back to the LG Phone. Phone is hot. It's just a name for the phone so leave it alone and be happy they making it for wp7.
@BecauseItsNotGoogle
You don't believe that the FIRST ever Windows Phone 7 Series device means a lot to MS?
You're idiot sir.
Lastly what phones lately have you heard that have sold bazillions that had a name like this? Please list them out?
The last few successful phones according to my memory are
1) iPhone
2) iPhone 3G
3) iPhone 3GS
4) droid
Thats pretty much it....maybe globally theres a nokia phone that all over the place but thats it.
If you want to bring it feature phones lets see we have the
Envy, Rumor, multiple Samsung sliders.
My point (and its a VALID one) is that the market recognizes a device that has a strong name...that's ALL I'm saying.
But hey keep insulting me personally instead of acknowledging that what I'm saying may have some truth to it.
@TheLondonExchange
You are the biggest Hypocrite I have ever seen. You whine and bitch about everyone hating on apple in other posts, but here you are doing the same thing. You say you're not trying to start a debate, but your very presence in any thread does nothing but start a flamewar. You might as well just go away. Forever. At the sight of your name, you'll be downranked anyway.
@TheLondonExchange
"You're idiot sir."
You're one to talk.
@TheLondonExchange I should also sidenote that 3 of Nokia's best selling phones, one the best of all time, had no name at all, just easily forgettable numbers. Nokia 1100, 3210, 3310. No grace in the name, no cleverness, nada.
I would venture to say that naming can is subjective. Sometimes it means everything, and sometimes nothing. Some people care more about what it can do and how cool it can do those things, and other just appeal to what it's called.
Let me see:
- No skype, no mozilla, very little 3rd party translated sw for the most part
- No copy&paste, no memory card file system
- DRM everywhere - makes Apple look open by comparison
- software starts from 0 apps. Not binary compatible with WM6.x
- No true multi-tasking (killing processes 'with state' ain't the same thing)
- Mandatory Windows Live ID to even start using the phone (say goodbye to your privacy)
- no hacks for anything (yet, maybe for a loooong time)
Thanks Microsoft and LG, but no thanks.
You have created the most closed source, most island-of-a-phone in a world developing towards openness and inter-connectivity. Yes, even the closed Apple ecosystem looks open by comparison. Android, Meego or Symbian? No comparison.
How many morons does the marketing dept think there is to sell this to?
They must have a bigger budget than we think...
@TheLondonExchange
TheLondonExchange = Stupid
@TheLondonExchange
Have you really sweared never to use your brain?
@krishansy
Woops! I meant sworn.
@TheLondonExchange
Are you all really that stupid? Every electronic device has an alphanumeric official model name. Names like Incredible, Eris, etc. are just the surface/advertising name.
@TheLondonExchange
All phones have an internal name for them. ALL phones and ALL products.
Stuff like Panther and Droid are just made up and used to make it easier for consumers to know and call a device without having to remember all those letters and numbers.
Common sense dude, common sense.
@vasra
Android requires mandatory gmail account, apple forces you to register your device (hello spam), if you read the article it states that the storage card will be the primary storage, so that implies that there will be a file system and its hard to hack an OS that isn't released yet....
@TheLondonExchange Millions of people once used leaded gasoline, and gave cocaine to kids for toothaches.
@lamerz He's an apple fan. Of course something as superficial as its name would be his largest issue with the device. Also, it could be shinier and grayer.
Carrier? Band? Hmm?
Yes. No. Maybe.
that cardboard box doesn't do it justice.
What exactly is "social multimedia companion"...? and y would anyone want one...?
Has LG even made a good mobile device? I mean one that would compare (even loosely) to the top tier devices from HTC, Apple, Motorola?
@GeneralThade
My wife always picks out lg phones. I think they are crap but she loves them. So I guess they have a market. I think they need to stay away from power users, but also some more competition is good for us.
doesn't look like the original prototype
Too close to GW Bush, this will never sell to liberals.
@Shalabi Product = President? Right, because when I play Monopoly, I can't buy B & O Railroad without thinking of Barack Obama ....
@lamerz lol.
@Shalabi
Then expect the LG "GW" to preemptively jam other phones claiming other phones had exploding batteries and other dangerous features for humanity (never verified).
Guarantee this is a dev phone, much like the Android Dev 1 and Dev 2, nothing ever meant to go to the market (mind the dev phones look similar to the G1)
This looks to be very promising. I just hope windows 7 doesn't turn out to be too limited. It almost seems like in their efforts to present a clean UI they might be getting ride of any usefulness outside of what they design.
@apairofdocs I agree.
Video takes an eternity to load.
Jesus Christ you people are dumb. Look at the names for their phones when they aren't on US carriers. VX73768 and that kind of crap. When it gets a carrier it'll get your precious catchy name.
You should be waiting for the HTC one anyway.
@nutbunnies
Not everyone, just TheLondonExchange, but he hates anything that doesn't have an apple logo on it or is from MS.
@hated one
In 2007 the revolution began with... a grid of icons ;o
Come 2010, the next revolution will be... a grid of icons inside a grid of icons xD
I love that old 80s Kool-aid commercial where the Kool-aid Man breaks through the wall into some family's living room and they were actually happy about it.
@hated one
A "basic feature" that the iPhone JUST got, but WinMo has had since the beginning...
Save you guys time I dub the "LG Aero", lol seriously name recognition can be good and bad. And since this will be the first of the Window 7 phones any name will do wants it is reviewed it will gain its own name then. Even though I had no problems with but for kicks I would name it "Windows Vista" catch phrase "too smart for the average consumer."