LG Phones Launching Own App Store

LG is planning to beta-launch its own mobile phone applications store tomorrow (14th July), with the focus initially in Asia with the service being expanded to 24 countries. LG expects to offer up to 2,000 applications on its site by the end of year with at least 100 programs available free of charge to LG handset users.

"As we've announced earlier, LG is planning to invest heavily in the smartphone market going forward, with ten smartphones being introduced this year alone" said Dr. Skott Ahn, CEO of LG Electronics. "As the trend has shown, the appeal of smartphones is in the diversity and usefulness of the applications. Opening our own Application Store will allow us to offer the best content and applications for our devices so that LG phone owners will get the best possible ownership experience."

The LG Application Store will remain in beta test stage until further notice and will be available at www.lgapplication.com.

Posted to the site on 13th July 2009