LG to open ‘App Store’ in July, invites Apple’s anger

It’s no surprisal that LG has announced plans to open an app store next month. Given that Apple, RIM, Nokia, Palm, Samsung and now Sony Ericsson all rich person app stores either up and run or in the line, it was only a matter of time before LG pulled its socks ‘app’ and made an entering at the app party.

What’s surprising though is that LG has decided to go with the potentially litigious and not to mention unoriginal epithet of ‘LG App Store’. Legal ramifications aside, there’s no reading of what kind of apps volition be available from launch, or even how many. All we know is that the portal vein volition be called ‘LG App Store’ and is due to launch in July. Contrast this with the proclamation made by Sony Ericsson last week. We learned that some 45,000 free apps were be prepared to be launched through Sony Ericsson’s PlayNow Arena portal vein, and that they would run on a overplus of operating systems, including Windows Mobile River, Symbian, and Sony Ericsson’s proprietorship OS. Nokia’s Ovi Store launched with some 25,000 apps, but if you drumhead on over there now, there’s not much departure on – you can practically feel the Amaranthus albus rolling by. We expect more details to emerge finisher to the time, and we promise that LG has a bettor beginning than Nokia did with Ovi. The LG Arena, with its rotating customisable menus, multi format video recording play back and sum memory of 32GB is a great earphone that would really benefit from access to a decent app store. Dare we say it, the Arena could well return some of the shine off the recently announced iPhone 3GS…