China will soon get LG’s first smartphone running on the Android based OMS (Open Mobile System) platform. To be launched with China Mobile, the new GW880 smartphone has a 3.5-inch WVGA touchscreen display, a 5MP camera with Flash, GPS, Bluetooth Mobile TV 512 MB ROM and 256 MB of RAM.
The phone supports GSM and TD-SCDMA connectivity, but what it lacks is WiFi. Considering that China Mobile’s OMS (or OPhone) platform has an iPhone like interface, the GW880 will probably be cheaper, or so to say, the poor man’s iPhone.
Though China has a number of mobile phones running on Android, like the anticipated Sunno S800 that promises to dual boot with Android and Windows Mobile, a phone from a globally reputed manufacturer makes things different.
The LG GW880 is expected to be made available sometime later this year, but the price has not been announced yet. The phone may never be sold outside of China, but we hope that LG’s experience with Android in China will help it create better Android based phones in the near future.