Photos of the LG Fantasy have been leaked, expected to arrive Q1 2012

Already, we’ve seen HTC and Samsung coming strong with their batch of second-generations Windows Phones packing Mango, but we have yet to see anything coming to fruition from LG’s camp. Well, we did get a sneak peek at the LG Fantasy back in July in the form of a leaked rendered shot, but we haven’t seen or heard anything about it since then.

From the looks of it, the Windows Phone Mango smartphone is slowly coming around as actual in the wild photos of the handset have been snapped by an xda-developers member who claims to have hold of the device. Specifically, he claims that a Romanian tester sold him the smartphone, and as you can tell from the snapshots, they look identical to the rendered shot of the handset.

Based on what the buyer can see, he mentions that the device is packing a 4-inch IPS display and Windows Phone Mango. Aside from those two specifics, nothing else in terms of hardware is known – though, it’s expected to be a premium offering from LG.

As for a release time frame, it’s believed to become available sometime in Q1 2012, which means it can possibly launch somewhere between January and March – so let’s hope the wait is going to benefit the handset.

source: xda-developers via WMPoweruser