Asus is planning to jump in the mix with Windows Phone 7 and seems to be currently working on their own ideas. With the split between Garmin and Asus confirmed, the future of Windows Phone 7 handsets was in question. Not only are they dipping into Windows Phone 7 possibly one day, they are actually already working on an Android powered Asus device. “As always, Garmin-Asus seeks the best for our consumers either on Android platform or on Windows platform. However, we see the potential of Android platform devices, so we are focusing on Android platform currently,” said Steven Tu, marketing manager at ASUSTeK.

“Regarding Windows Phone 7, we haven’t decided yet what we would like to do,” Jonney Shih, the Chairman of the Taiwan-based electronics maker, told Forbes in an interview, but continued  “We try to develop on different platforms.”

The chairman of Asus however confirmed that a Windows Phone 7 handset was still on the way, only in 2011, and will be branded solely an Asus device.  He also mentioned the company was looking at developing handsets supporting LTE. “We hope to have some kind of lead in LTE phones…We are still judging the best timing for that.” he said.

So what does this mean exactly. If you look into the full article on forbes.com it mentions that they will develop 4G phones, is it possible WP7 may be one of these devices? If so what kind of enhanced features would we like to see about having on WP7?

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[Source: Forbes.com & wmpoweruser.com]

Not to be the only company not to have a application hub, LG announces their LG Toolbox. This is much like the HTC hub, that we have seen floating around; LG Toolbox, consists of a number of useful utilities, including:

World Clock which shows the time in a number of European cities, with the user able to add other cities.

Unit Converter offers the possibility to convert different units of measure such as angles, areas, data for the  computer, energy, weight, length, mass, velocity, etc. ..

World Holidays lets you know what are the holidays of every country and is especially useful for travellers.

Date Calculator shows us how many days to a specific date and calculate a number of days into the future.

Sale Price allows us to calculate the price of a product based on the discount rates e.g 15% off.

Level Meter is a complete level, well done and quite accurate, which offers a choice between two different visions.

Flashlite is the now classic torch, a must in all smartphones. It allows light to be shed using the brightness of the  screen with a choice of different colors and also to enable or disable the strobe vision.

Random Number finally, with a nice animated graphics, allows us to extract a random number within a range set by  us.

Read more and see screenshots of all the apps at HDBlog.it here.

Source: wmpoweruser.com

How do you think this will stack up against the HTC hub that is in works, and do you think that it will be a favorable application to own an LG device compared to another device? How do these features rate with you, what would be a must have application for you and your windows phone 7 experience?

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