And they say that Android is a fragmented platform. Without knowing the entrails of the deals that Microsoft will have made with the manufacturing companies that have helped it get out of the quagmire in which the Redmond were in this mobile telephony, there is no doubt that some have tightened the nuts to capture some type of benefit. Considering this as valid, the Korean LG must be one of those that has put the points on the i's when it comes to agreeing an agreement with Microsoft. And it is already beginning to be noticed, at least as far as the lucrative mobile applications sector is concerned.
This is what is deduced from the existence of an LG Apps Store within the Marketplace of LG Quantum and LG Optimus 7, mobiles equipped with Windows Phone 7. For now, in the United States, these LG terminals that use the Microsoft platform for smartphones have had access through the official operating system store so that their users can have a little more options compared to other manufacturers. However, for the moment the offer is limited, although it is expected that the virtual shelves will be filled with more content in the coming weeks.
As we said, the number of applications available in the LG Apps Store section is quite short, observing only seven downloadable options in the catalog. Among them, the ones we see are of a fairly standard type, without distinguishing for the moment any really new or original application.
For example, we have an app, simply called Panorama Shot, with which we can take panoramic photographs on an imaginary axis of a maximum of 180 degrees, with which we can simulate the two-dimensional sensation of a semicircular image.
Another is Voice to Text, a dictator of texts to convert them into messages (similar to what the HandCent SMS application for Android includes). Play To is an application, on the other hand, designed to concentrate mobile functions on wireless multimedia tasks through DNLA. Or we could also consider ScanSearch, LG's proposal to the very interesting world of augmented reality applications.
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