LG announced “the world’s first quad core smartphone” at Mobile World Congress in February of this year. Dubbed the Optimus 4X HD, it still hasn’t hit the market, meanwhile the HTC One X has, and it has the same quad core NVIDIA Tegra 3 inside. Anyway, just like the HTC One X has a dual…
Canada’s Koodo Mobile adds LG Optimus Black
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…
BlackBerry PlayBook gets the official Wikipedia app
We all need to check some information with Wikipedia from time to time. Instead of visiting the website whenever that’s needed, some of us (I know I do) fire-up the dedicated Wikipedia app to get the information faster without loading any side graphics. Up until this point, such an app wasn’t available for BlackBerry PlayBook…
Sony’s PlayStation Suite developer program now in open beta
Sony has expectantly opened its PlayStation Suite developer program to the general public. Still in beta, it allows developers to grab the SDK and create apps and games that can work on PS Vita and a number of PlayStation Certified devices like the new Xperia range, as well as Xperia Play and Sony tablets (S…
Samsung applies for 3 additional Galaxy names: Metrix, Velvet and Legend
With so many different Galaxy smartphones and tablets, Samsung is obviously seriously committed to its Galaxy branding. Recently we’ve seen them securing new names for unannounced products and now they’ve filed for another three: Galaxy Metrix, Galaxy Velvet and Galaxy Legend. Now just because someone secured names doesn’t mean they’ll actually launch such products. More…
Panasonic Eluga now available in the UK
Well that was faster than expected. Panasonic Eluga, the Japanese company’s first Android smartphone for the European market, is already available in the UK, with Expansys already taking orders for both black and silver models. Each model is available for 364.99 GBP, which translates into some 445 EUR or $589. That may sound kinda steep,…
Reuters: ZTE is going to come out with two Samsung Galaxy Note competitors this year
Late last year, in October to be precise, Samsung started selling a 5.3 inch smartphone called the Galaxy Note. I’ll be the first to admit, I laughed at that thing until my sides hurt, but recently I’ve had a change of heart. Someone I know got one and he was kind enough to lend me…
Rumor: The iPhone nano is going to happen this year, seriously
For as long as we can remember, there have been rumors circulating around the internets that Apple was going to build a low cost iPhone for cost sensitive consumers. Later we found out that Apple’s strategy to reach more users was to simply keep on selling the older models, but at a significant discount. Take…
Baidu to launch a $160 smartphone running their own custom Android ROM
Ever heard of Baidu? They’re the Chinese version of Google. Like Google, they started out with a search engine, but these days they offer a whole swath of cloud services such as email and even social networking. Back in September 2011, the company announced Baidu Yi OS, which can best be described as Android, except…
Rumor: Microsoft to start pushing out the Windows Phone Tango software update this month
Since Windows Phone first started shipping back in Q4 2010, there have been two software updates: NoDo, which added copy and paste and CDMA support; and Mango, which added multitasking, a newer version of Internet Explorer, and a whole bunch of UI tweaks. Now there’s a third update scheduled to go out this month called…









