LG, Lenovo and others announced as new Windows Phone hardware partners
Other new Windows Phone hardware partners include: Foxconn, Gionee, JSR, Longcheer, and India’s Lava (Xolo) and Karbonn. These manufacturers are joining Nokia (which will be a Microsoft company as soon as its acquisition is completed), Samsung, HTC, Huawei and ZTE - all five have already launched WP devices, although ZTE only made WP7 products.
According to Microsoft, we should see "an incredible new range of devices across screen sizes and price points." Most likely, all the new hardware partners will release Windows Phone devices after the 8.1 update rolls-out to existing phones, meaning as soon as this spring.
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