LG Pulls Out the Big Guns With Dual-Core Android Phone
Like some geekier version of the Cold War, the mobile phone arms race of 2011 has manufacturers stockpiling as much brawn as possible into the limited space of a handset. And with its G2x Android smartphone, LG has outed itself as a superpower. LG’s flagship phone is running on Nvidia’s Tegra 2 dual-core 1-GHz processor. Are two cores really better than one? After playing with the...
Read MoreSmartphone Sales Increase Over 70% Last Year
Smartphone sales are skyrocketing with a 72.1 % increase in sales last year, according to Gartner’s end-of-year report. The phone market has massively increased in size and complexity, accounting for a fifth of all mobile sales last year – and “all” is one point six BILLION brand new handsets. The complexity comes in with a radical rearrangement of the old order:...
Read MoreLG Aims to Get Greener with Eco-Magnesium
Most mobile phone manufacturers do a fairly poor job of being kind to the earth. LG isn’t at the bottom of the pack but their eco-friendliness is fairly middle-of-the-road. The company hopes to change that and put itself ahead of the competition within the next year or two by switching to greener chemical compounds inside of all of its phones. One of the chemical compounds that exists...
Read MoreLG’s Budget Optimus T and Optimus S Announced for USA
Like Samsung’s Galaxy range, new examples of LG’s Optimus phones keep popping up around the world! The latest pair are the Optimus T and Optimus S, this time destined for T-Mobile and Sprint in the USA respectively, although we wouldn’t be surprised if either one appears elsewhere at a later date too. The Optimus T’s spec sheet reads as follows: Google Android 2.2. A 3.2...
Read MoreLG Optimus 7 Windows Phone 7 prototype flicks photos to TVs, launches October
We were a bit surprised to find LG's prototype Windows Phone 7 device for developers, soon to be unveiled officially as the Optimus 7 when released in its production form, hanging out in the wilds of IFA. Nevertheless, there it was, streaming DLNA content to a WiFi enabled TV. LG worked with Microsoft to develop a custom DLNA media sharing capability for its GW910 handset. Just one of the ways...
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