LG’s finally announced the device we’ve all been waiting for, their flagship Optimus 4X HD. Before we get to that, let’s cover the other smartphones LG has announced during the past few days. First up is the Vu, a 5 inch monstrosity with a 4:3 aspect ratio and a stylus that’s a direct competitor to…
Rumor: Is the Nokia Pure View running Windows Phone?
Nokia’s rumored to be announcing three new smartphones next week at Mobile World Congress. One will be the global variant of the Lumia 900, which is supposedly going to be called the Lumia 910 and will differentiate itself from its American cousin by not having 4G LTE, but instead featuring a 12 megapixel camera; another…
Video: Texas Instruments wants you to remember that more cores aren’t necessarily better
Next week you’re going to hear everyone in the mobile industry trumpet NVIDIA’s quad core Tegra 3 as the best thing since sliced bread. Why? Because four cores simply have to better than two cores, right? Texas Instruments, in what can best be described as a public service announcement, just uploaded a video to YouTube…
LightSquared fires 45% of their employees after realizing they’re never going to launch
LightSquared, the operator that refuses to die, has just let go 45% of their 330 employee strong work force according to Reuters. The decision comes after the FCC basically told them that there’s no way in hell they’re going to be allowed to build a wireless network, because today’s GPS system is far more important…
Rumor: Google to sell Android powered glasses by the end of this year
The first computers barely fit into a space the size of your apartment. With time they obviously got smaller, and if you consider that the smartphone in your pocket is a computer, then we’ve definitely made some progress. And yet, how come computers haven’t become small enough that they disappear? Google is apparently working on…
Ubuntu for Android: This, ladies and gentlemen, is the future of computing
Chances are there’s a smartphone in your pocket right now that has a fast processor, at least half a gigabyte of RAM, and it’s connected to your operator’s wireless network. So why isn’t that device your one and only computer? Simple really, the screen is too small and you can’t bang out long emails with…
Rumor: Panasonic to launch an Android phone with a Lumix camera next week
Panasonic is going to enter the European smartphone market this year with the Eluga. It’s sexy, has an eating disorder with its 7.8 mm thin body, and it’s even water resistant, but we want more. According to the folks at Pocket-lint, Panasonic will announce a phone that’s even higher end than the Eluga at Mobile…
Video: Nokia teaser confirms that we’re going to see a camera focused flagship at MWC
Nokia’s just uploaded a 22 second video to YouTube that’s basically a series of images paired up with text that confirms what we’ve been reporting for a few weeks now, that Nokia is going to launch a camera focused flagship device at Mobile World Congress next week. According to the rumors currently floating around the…
LG Optimus 3D Cube: Landing in South Korea next month for $750
LG’s officially announced four new smartphones before Mobile World Congress kicks off this coming Monday. It started with the 5 inch 4:3 aspect ratio Vu, then yesterday with the L3, L5, and L7, and now today we have the Optimus 3D Cube. Looking at the name of the product itself, it’s not too hard to…
Rumor: Next iPhone to show up in September or October, just like the iPhone 4S
Every iPhone until the iPhone 4S has come out in either June or July. For reasons we may never come to understand, today’s iPhone, the iPhone 4S, came out in October. That thew a lot of people off, and we have numbers to prove that: iPhone sales in Apple’s fiscal Q4 2011 came in at…