LG To Make A Microsoft Smartphone

[Mike Temporale]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://rcrnews.com/cgi-bin/news.pl?newsId=17364' target='_blank'>http://rcrnews.com/cgi-bin/news.pl?newsId=17364</a><br /><br /></div>"LG Electronics Co. Ltd. becomes the latest mobile phone manufacturer to team with software giant Microsoft Corp. as it gears up to release its new LG-SC8000 smart phone running Microsoft’s Pocket PC operating system. LG will release the device in its home market of South Korea. <br /><br />The advanced handset features an integrated megapixel digital camera, support for CDMA EV-DO networks, an Intel Corp. processor and a sliding keypad design. The phone is scheduled to be available next month."<br /><br />I'm a little confused. Is this a Smartphone or a Pocket PC? It mentions a sliding keypad, and the term smart phone, but they also mention the Pocket PC OS. :?

[Jason Dunn]

It's a Pocket PC Phone Edition device - the mainstream media seems to call anything that is capable of making a phone call a "smartphone". :roll:

[freitasm]

That's right. These guys can't see the difference... And the headline says "smart phone", so it's not a type or a brand it's a phone with smart capabilities.

They'll learn...

[Mike Temporale]

I see know that they have added a picture to the news story that it's not a smartphone. :( too bad.

[rbrome]

This is pretty old news - I thought this phone was out already? Anyway, I played with it at CES back in January, and it's definitely Pocket PC, although with a huge # of tweaks. Here's some pics:

http://www.phonescoop.com/articles/ces_2004/index.php?p=kor