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Canada’s Koodo Mobile added a new Android smartphone to its offering – LG Optimus Black, which unlike its name says can be yours in black OR white. Available for $250, it offers quite a bang for the buck, including a 4-inch WVGA screen (Nova display), 1GHz processor, 5-megapixel rear-facing camera with LED flash, 2-megapixel front-facing…
You know how they say – better late than never. That seems to be exactly what LG is thinking when it finally decided to release a Gingerbread update for its Optimus Black smartphone. Not sure why it took them so long, but the good thing is that the new Android version is now available to…
While the LG Optimus Black is not the high-end device as it used to be, it’s still pretty solid Android smartphone. And now it’s available for less in the UK, where online retailer eBuyer is selling the unlocked unit for just 189 GBP (about $295). No contract signing required at all — you are free…
LG is pretty crappy when it comes to firmware updates with their Optimus 2X being one of the last devices to get the Gingerbread treatment. Those of you living in Europe with the “world’s first smartphone with a dual-core processor” can finally get Android 2.3 update from LG — in case you haven’t took the…
At the recent Radio Shack Business Summit in Dallas, folks of AndroidCentral managed to catch the still unannounced Sprint’s LG Marquee. We don’t have any details about that phone, but from what we can tell it looks like the LG Optimus Black, which if you recall should hit few U.S. carriers, Sprint included (the fact…
The Sprint roadmap we saw last week has been updated with a few new devices. On top of the phones we’ve already seen, like the Samsung Conquer and the BlackBerry Torch 9850, the LG Optimus Black (listed as the LS855) and the Samsung M930 (a slider we had caught a glimpse of not long ago)…
U.S. Cellular’s roadmap for the rest of the year has been revealed in all its glory, and for a little regional carrier, they’ve got some solid hardware on the way. The Motorola Photon, which just got its Sprint release date yesterday, will be landing on U.S. Cellular as the Electrify in October. The LG Optimus…
Last week Telus was showing off some new toys they’re launching in the fall, including the HTC Status coming to AT&T, alongside two LG Android handsets. The LG Optimus Black you may already know as a lightweight phone with an extremely bright display, but Telus is branding it specifically as their Skype phone, and will…