Report: LG said Windows Phone 7 selling below expectations

Mobile phone maker LG said Microsoft's new platform Windows Phone 7 has not done as well as it had expected, according to a report from gadget blog Pocket-lint.

James Choi, marketing strategy and planning team director of LG Electronics global, said in the Pocket-lint report, ?From an industry perspective we had a high expectation, but from a consumer point of view the visibility is less than we expected."

Choi added, "What we feel is that it is absolutely perfect for a huge segment out there," because Google's competing operating system Android is too complicated for some users.

According to Pocket-lint, Choi predicts Windows Phone 7 will start performing better once phone makers start installing it on low and mid-tier market, and that LG intends to continue building phones on the Microsoft mobile platform because it wants a diversity of phones.

LG, a Korean electronics company, makes the Quantum handset with a slide-out keyboard that sells through AT&T.

Here is the Pocket-Lint blog item.

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