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Great news for you owners of the LG Optimus family of handsets. The South Korea-based manufacturer today confirmed that all of its high-end smartphones which were introduced this year (the Optimus 2X, the Optimus Black, the Optimus 3D and the Optimus LTE) will get the bump to the latest version of Android, Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0 The company…
We’d be lying if we said we were surprised but AT&T has officially announced the LG Nitro HD. The US version of the LG Optimus LTE is dripping with high-end specs and should prove to be a nice hit for AT&T when it lands on December 4th for $249. The Nitro HD sports a 4.5…
Cricket Wireless keeps expanding its Muve Music portfolio. After Samsung Vitality and ZTE Score, they’re out with the ZTE Chorus, a low-end Android smartphone that comes with the carrier’s popular music plan. Specs wise, ZTE’s baby sports a 3.2-inch WQVGA touchscreen, 3G data, 2-megapixel camera, 600MHz processor, Bluetooth, SRS WOW HD sound technology, 3.5mm headset…
Recycling companies are looking forward to the hot shopping season with many folks getting new gadgets for the Christmas. Staples wants a piece of that action too, hence it has partnered with Gazelle to make it easy for its customers to sell off their old phones and other consumer electronics. The new Staples Tech Trade-In…
LG has announced an event for December 1st and may intro the US version of the Optimus LTE, otherwise known as the Nitro HD for AT&T. The handset itself is filled to the brim with high-end specs and should serve AT&T well as one of its newer LTE devices. The Optimus LTE sports a 4.5…
Motorola unveiled a new device for the Far East region, or so we think. The name of the phone is Motorola XT615 and it will first be available in Taiwan through Taiwan Mobile starting mid-December. We’re talking about a solid mid-range device with specs that include an 800MHz processor, 512MB of RAM, 1GB of ROM,…
The Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) announced that Wi-Fi CERTIFIED Wi-Fi Direct has been incorporated into its Interoperability Guidelines. Wi-Fi Direct is a certification by the Wi-Fi Alliance for products that can manage device-to-device connections without the presence of a hotspot network. Through incorporation into the DLNA Interoperability Guidelines, Wi-Fi Direct will expand on the…
NVIDIA Tegra 2 has found its place on the Popular Science magazine’s Best of What’s New 2011 list. The first commercially available ARM-based dual-core processor is now used in over 60 phones in 70 countries, and in more than 20 tablet models available in 60 countries. If you remember, everything started with the Motorola Xoom,…
iZettle, the maker of a Square-like accessory for accepting smart card payments while on the go, has officially opened its doors for business after successful completion of the test phase. Their key selling points are ease of use, and the lack of starting costs and fixed fees. Instead, iZettle takes 2.75% of a sale, plus…
Intel Capital, the chip-makers VC arm, unveiled a $100 million Intel Capital AppUp Fund, which will invest in software tools and services companies developing applications and digital content for the mobile and PC ecosystem based on Intel architecture. Right from the start, they announced the first two companies to invest in: Urban Airship (Portland, Ore.)…