LG Optimus Z now available in South Korea
Posted on 29. Jul, 2010 by IBM.
Announced back in April, LG has now launched its so-called Optimus Z Android handset on a pair of South Korea carriers — SK Telecom and KT — bearing model numbers SU950 and KU9500, respectively. You’ve got the usual range of features like a 3.5-inch…
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Rogers’ budget-friendly chatr brand launches in Canada
Posted on 28. Jul, 2010 by IBM.
We knew it was coming, and now it’s official: Rogers Wireless has today launched its entry-level “chatr” wireless brand for Canadians everywhere — and by “everywhere,” we mean Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, and Ottawa (Montreal is coming soon…
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LG’s Application Store launches in places you don’t live for devices you don’t care about
Posted on 28. Jul, 2010 by IBM.
LG’s official Application Store — not to be confused with an App Store, App World, or App Catalog — just went beta is 23 countries with the aim of serving up 4,000 apps to 33 countries (including the UK, Germany, France, Italy, and Spain) by the end…
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LG dLite lands today on T-Mobile for $50
Posted on 21. Jul, 2010 by IBM.
By almost all accounts, LG’s dLite for T-Mobile is an unremarkable midrange clamshell that barely warrants mention, with two notable exceptions. First, it’s just the third LG to ever launch on T-Mobile USA — the others being the GS170 and the Sentio -…
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LG VL600 hybrid LTE / CDMA modem for Verizon clears FCC hurdle
Posted on 17. Jul, 2010 by IBM.
Verizon has yet to publish a list of the launch devices customers in its first commercial LTE markets will be enjoying later this year, but if we had to guess, this sucker is a strong possibility. What you’re looking at here is LG’s VL600, a USB modem…
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How would you change LG’s Ally?
Posted on 16. Jul, 2010 by IBM.
LG didn’t hold back when it came time to market its Ally, but was a tie-in with one of the summer’s biggest blockbusters really enough? We found some rather unforgivable flaws during our testing, but that’s honestly beside the point — we’re here to h…
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NTP awakes, sues Apple, Microsoft, Google, HTC, LG, and Motorola over wireless email patents
Posted on 09. Jul, 2010 by IBM.
Remember NTP? The tiny company with a portfolio of patents on wireless email technology that wrung a $612 million settlement out of RIM in 2006 after years of litigation? Well, get ready to fall in love all over again, because the company just sued Ap…
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ComScore: Android grows US smartphone market share as all others decline
Posted on 09. Jul, 2010 by IBM.
Slip on your fine silk smoking jacket and light up a victory cigar US Android fans, the latest comScore numbers are out for the three-month period ending in May 2010. The most notable trend spotted was a 4 point (up from 9.0% to 13.0%) quarterly incre…
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iSuppli: OLED panel shortage a concern for Android smartphone makers
Posted on 08. Jul, 2010 by IBM.
Everyone wants an OLED display on their cellphone, right? Ok, maybe not everybody, especially when compared to regular AMOLED, but we certainly want, no demand, a 4-plus inch Super AMOLED on our next Android smartphone. Problem is, there just aren’t e…
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LG debuts Optimus smartphone series, Froyo-powered ‘One’ and ‘Chic’ arriving first
Posted on 05. Jul, 2010 by IBM.
While all of you Droid, Incredible and EVO 4G owners wait patiently for an official Froyo update to call your own, LG’s wasting no time introducing its first phones based on the latest and greatest Android build. Over in the UK today, the company has …
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LG confirms Android tablet for Q4 2010 launch, Froyo for Optimus Z
Posted on 05. Jul, 2010 by IBM.
Now this is jolly good news. LG, which already has a Windows 7 tablet in the works, is gearing up to service those with a hankering for some Android in their slate computers as well. Clearly unwilling to fall behind its fierce rival Samsung, LG has ju…
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LG Application Store aims to sate WinMo, Android and featurephone users alike
Posted on 01. Jul, 2010 by IBM.
Like a bad perm in the 1980s, you just can’t be hip in the mobile world these days without an app store. We had secretly hoped that LG would take the wise route, à la Motorola with Android, of supporting a better established app platform and st…
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LG Sentio priced, dated for T-Mobile
Posted on 30. Jun, 2010 by IBM.
Actually, T-Mobile will do you one better than merely putting a date on the release of the low-end Sentio touchphone — they’ll just go ahead and release it today to make it the carrier’s first LG phone ever. That’s right: you can now pick up the Sent…
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US Cellular adds HTC Desire and BlackBerry Bold in August, teases BlackBerry 9670 for ‘later this year’
Posted on 25. Jun, 2010 by IBM.
We were extremely close to cramping our sarcasm muscle with all the faux excitement we had to drum up for the 3.2-inch Acclaim, but US Cellular has now come back with word that it’ll soon count HTC’s Desire among its roster of phones. The Desire, which…
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US Cellular adds HTC Desire and BlackBerry Bold in August, teases BlackBerry 9670 for ‘later this year’
Posted on 25. Jun, 2010 by IBM.
We were extremely close to cramping our sarcasm muscle with all the faux excitement we had to drum up for the 3.2-inch Acclaim, but US Cellular has now come back with word that it’ll soon count HTC’s Desire among its roster of phones. The Desire, which…
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LG leaks in Brazil include Android-powered C710, cute T310
Posted on 20. Jun, 2010 by IBM.
Brazil’s CelularCafe looks to have scored a four-pack of fresh leaks out of LG, most notably a new Android handset being called the C710 that looks suspiciously like Verizon’s Ally but apparently lacks a QWERTY keyboard, steps up to a 5 megapixel cam,…
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AT&T’s LG Prime and Pantech Ease in the wild?
Posted on 18. Jun, 2010 by IBM.
If the Pursuit isn’t up your alley, it looks like Pantech’s got a slightly higher-end phone in store for you: the Ease. We know next to nothing about it, but it’s clearly got a more spacious keyboard than its kid brother — and the silver highlights a…
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