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LG has officially announced the global rollout of its phone/tablet device – Optimus Vu, which will start selling in select markets of Europe, Asia, Middle East/Africa and Latin America in September. However, unlike the Korean version which rocks Qualcomm’s dual-core Snapdragon S4 SoC, the newly announced Vu will ship with NVIDIA’s quad-core Tegra 3 CPU…
Nine days before the new Galaxy Note’s official announcement in Berlin, Samsung released a short teaser clip on YouTube. As you’re about to see, the Korean giant wants us to think of their phablet device as a tool for unleashing creativity in everyone of us. To that end, they’ve hired Wim Wenders, director of the…
HTC has disappointed its Desire HD users, having left them without their serving of Ice Cream Sandwich. The Taiwanese company did listen to the community and even responded to the petition signed by more than 15,000 users, but the answer was no – it’s too hard to learn the old dog a new trick. According…
Facebook proudly announced that its App Center has been used by more than 150 million people following its global rollout. Moreover, the service is driving 2.4 times more installs than its previous apps and games dashboard. But that’s not all – the social network is claiming users are also more engaged, with those installing via…
Nokia secured a deal with Zynga to bring their super-popular Draw Something and Zynga Poker games to Nokia Asha Touch devices later this year. Both games will be free to download from the Nokia Store and will be available for the Asha 305, Asha 306 and Asha 311. The Finnish company apparently has big plans…
Virgin Mobile has recently entered the ever-growing mobile market of Chile, and has consequently managed to attract some 65,000 customers in just 4 months. That’s nice pace but in order to keep it up, the company needs more money, and it’s turning to IFC to get “that part” done. Under the deal, Virgin Mobile will…
Samsung Galaxy R, which is an Android-based smartphone that sits somewhere between the original Galaxy S and Galaxy S II, is getting its serving of Ice Cream Sandwich as we speak. Actually only users in select countries like Sweden are included in the first batch, but after that “test phase” (or whatever) is over, it’s…
Nordstrom wants to take part in the growing couch commerce hype, hence it launched a new iPad app to give customers what they want – convenience to shop all of the products they would otherwise buy at a local Nordstrom store (or online) from their beloved tablet. Available as a free download, the application packs…
Samsung will apparently launch a new media player in the next few weeks. Marked as YP-GP1, it looks like the Galaxy S III though it obviously lacks cellular radio. Moreover, instead of packing a 4.8-inch HD 720p screen, it comes with a 5.8-inch one with 560×940 pixels (qHD) resolution, while a dual-core CPU clocked at…
Lenovo is entering the high-end smartphone market, big time. Their latest device, K860 LePhone, is powerful enough to tackle even the big boys like the HTC One X and Samsung Galaxy S III. It comes with a 5-inch HD (1280×720 pixels) touchscreen, quad-core 1.4GHz Exynos 4412 chip, 1GB of RAM, 8-megapixel camera on the back…