LG actually launched their mobile application store a while back, but now the company has updated the store, expanding it to 23 countries. Places like Australia, India, South Africa, and 20 others. There are over 3,000 apps in the store, which are available for feature phones, Windows Mobile phones, with Android applications will expand the library over time.
The leading mobile phone maker notes that it has performed a comprehensive update of its Application Store, and that it can now offer users access to a wider range of fun and useful applications, including a series of games such as The SIMS 3 or Asphalt 4. or popular applications from SPB Series. These solutions are aimed at the company’s mid- to high-end feature phones, as well as at its smartphones. Moreover, the company announced that it plans on adding Android applications to the store later during the ongoing year.
A number of more than 3,000 applications are now available via the LG Application Store. More than half of these software solutions are aimed at feature phones. According to the company, its focus on delivering apps for feature phones was driven by the results of a recent study from Strategy Analytics, which showed that more than 90 percent of feature phone owners in the US and UK would be interested in downloading and installing applications on their devices. Among the apps that interest users the most, we can count SNS (Social Networking Service), IM (Instant Messenger), VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol), and navigation and mapping.
Countries like the UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, and Iran will also be getting the application store later this year. No word of a US launch yet though.
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