It certainly has been a while. The latest phone from LG is the newly announced Lancet for Verizon Wireless — a 4.5-inch device that runs Microsoft’s mobile operating system, Windows Phone 8.1.

The phone is Verizon’s first Windows Phone (WP) handset of the year, and one of three WP phones in its lineup altogether, next to the Samsung Ativ SE and the HTC One M8 (for Windows).

As for LG, it hasn’t launched an WP phone for several years (we reviewed the LG Optimus 7, for example, back in 2010). Two years ago, the company wasn’texactly enthusiastic about releasing a WP 8 device, though a company representative did say that it will be on board, “When there’s a significant market for it.”

For all its implications, however, the device is rather midrange. It has a 4.5-inch LCD display and is powered by a 1.2GHz quad-core processor. It’s equipped with an 8-megapixel rear camera, a 2,100mAh battery, and 8GB of internal storage with the option to expand up to 128GB via a microSD card.
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