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You have to hand it to LG; they certainly think big. Y’see, a news story’s popped up on Unwired View, and it seems that by 2012, they’ve set their sights on overtaking Samsung, and becoming the second biggest phone manufacturer in the world.

That’s some goal, that is!

SO, how do they plan to achieve this milestone? Well, by making lots of new phones, and, it seems, going for proper, full-on high-enders. First on their ‘do this to rule the world’ list is a new Black Label phone. Some of you may remember the Black Label brand, as it was the one they used on things like the LG Shine. However, they don’t just plan on making any old Black Label phone, they’re after making one that’s a direct competitor for the iPhone. Whether that’ll be followed by its app store, though, is another thing entirely, but I wouldn’t put it past ‘em.

Ooh, imagine something like the LG Viewty Smart, with seven hundred million apps added to it. That’d rock.

Next on the list is another Prada phone. The first LG Prada was really rather pretty, the second one (the one with the QWERTY keyboard) was even better, so here’s hoping for something rather special from them for Mark III. As for their smartphones, they say they’re going to focus on Windows Mobile and Android.

The most surprising news, however, is that LG plan on setting up their own super-duper premium brand. You know the type I mean. Luxury phones, akin to the Vertu series. I’m not convinced that’ll help them up shoot up the manufacturer league table, but hey, at least it gives me another luxury phone brand to mock, and shout at for being too expensive.

Unless of course they make a really, really powerful luxury phone, then I might be annoyed. Whether these plans will actually get them into the number 2 spot is hard to predict, but we should get some cracking good phones out of them while they’re trying to get there!

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