Prada Phone 3.0 by LG pre-orders start in the UK for £429.99, shipping in early February
The new Prada Phone 3.0 by LG was announced last month, and we’ve already known that it’s due to become available in February. This is the first smartphone to bear the Prada brand, and as such it’s clear to achieve some level of success, at least in circles where anything branded Prada is automatically worthy [...]
Verizon LG Spectrum launches on January 19 with 4.5″ HD screen, 1.5 GHz dual-core CPU, and 4G LTE
Information about the LG Spectrum for Verizon has been leaked quite a few times before, but today we get the icing on the cake: the release date. The LG Spectrum will become available on January 19. Unfortunately we still don’t know exactly how much it will sell for, but expect this high-end Android smartphone to [...]
Mystery LG Windows Phone smiles for the camera, may be unveiled next week
So far, LG has been notably absent from the Windows Phone Mango area of the smartphone space. The only exception being the oddly-named Jil Sander Mobile, which was just a redesigned Optimus 7 from yesteryear anyway. But that will soon change, it seems. The Korean company may launch two new Windows Phones in the near [...]
New Windows Phone update fixes disappearing keyboard and other bugs, can be found in Italy
There’s a new Windows Phone build floating in the wild apparently. It’s 7.10.8107.79, and it’s rolling out as an over-the-air update for LG Optimus 7 devices in Italy at the moment. This is still technically Windows Phone Mango, or Windows Phone 7.5. The 8107 update is a bug fixing release, which manages to squash an [...]
LG Optimus 2 shows up with CDMA support, already listed at CellCom
LG has launched many would-be successors to the hugely popular Optimus One over the past few months. So many, in fact, that we thought we’d never see an Optimus Two. And while the Optimus 2 isn’t an Optimus Two, it’s close enough. Don’t expect much, though. This isn’t that big of an update compared to [...]
New LG Connect 4G MS840 Android phone headed to MetroPCS (Verizon and Sprint, too?)
Several months after launching the LG Esteem MS910, MetroPCS is now getting ready to introduce another LTE Android smartphone from LG, namely the LG Connect 4G MS840. The Connect 4G hasn’t been officially announced, and we don’t know when it could hit the market, but photos of it have appeared over at PocketNow. Reportedly, the [...]
LG to announce Intel Medfield-powered Android smartphone at CES 2012
LG is reportedly getting ready to announce the world’s first Android smartphone that uses an Intel chip. According to Korea Times, which quotes Intel Korea chief Lee Hee-sung, the smartphone will be unveiled by Intel president Paul Otellini at CES 2012 (10 – 13 January), and should hit the market “in March at the earliest.” [...]
UK: LG E906 Jil Sander Mobile with Windows Phone Mango now just £149.99, 50% off the launch price
If you’re in the market for a Windows Phone in the UK and are looking for a great deal, here’s something for you. LG’s first, last, and only smartphone to launch running Windows Phone 7.5 (Mango), the E906 (also known as Jil Sander Mobile) can now be yours for half the price it had when [...]
LG Prada 3.0 launching tomorrow, but only in Korea
Although LG said its Prada 3.0 Android smartphone would be out starting next year, the handset will actually be released tomorrow, December 28 – but only in South Korea (the rest of the world still has to wait for 2012 to get it). Apparently, SK Telecom will be the first to offer the Prada 3.0 [...]
Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich for select LG Optimus phones coming starting Q2 2012
It’s not the first time LG is talking about Android ICS for its Optimus handsets, but this time the company has provided some specific details in a post on Facebook. The first LG devices to get Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich will be the Optimus LTE, Optimus 2X, Optimus Sol, Prada Phone 3.0, T-Mobile’s LG [...]
LG Fantasy with Windows Phone Mango caught in the wild
First seen in a render way back in July, the unannounced LG Fantasy has now appeared in some live photos which, of course, confirm its existence. According to this thread over at the XDA forum, the Fantasy was “bought from a tester developer in Romania.” It should be released in the first quarter of 2012, [...]
HTC Fireball and LG Spectrum may be Verizon’s first LTE-enabled ‘world phones’
Two of Verizon’s upcoming LTE smartphones we’ve heard about over the past few days are the LG Spectrum and the HTC Fireball. These devices will be launched next year by Big Red, and we’re just now starting to hear more and more information about them, mostly via leaks (as usual). Today’s leaked info (courtesy of [...]
Canada: LG Eclypse now available at SaskTel too, yours for $49.99 (and a three-year contract)
The LG Eclypse is an affordable Android-powered smartphone which comes with a physical side-sliding QWERTY keyboard. It was launched in Canada by both Bell and Virgin Mobile earlier this month, and now it has landed at SaskTel as well. If you’d like to purchase an Eclypse from SaskTel, you’ll need to shell out $49.99 if [...]
UK: LG Optimus Black now just £189.99
If you’re in the UK, want to buy a smartphone, and are looking for a bargain, we have something for you. It may not be a top of the line device anymore, but it is great value for the money. We’re talking about LG’s Optimus Black. This Android-powered handset was launched in May, and its [...]
LG Prada 3.0 to be out in the UK in February
Expected to cost about £500 in the UK, the LG Prada 3.0 smartphone will reportedly be released there in February. At least that’s what Carphone Warehouse says. The retailer lets interested customers pre-register for the handset at this webpage. It doesn’t provide an exact price, though. The LG Prada 3.0 currently runs Android 2.3 Gingerbread, [...]
LG Optimus Hub launched in India
Officially announced in September, the LG Optimus Hub is now available in India, giving customers a new choice when it comes to affordable Android smartphones. The Optimus Hub is sold by Indian retailer LetsBuy, which asks 12,990 INR ($245) for it. That’s about the same price Samsung is asking for its Galaxy Ace in India [...]
LG Optimus Black and Samsung Replenish for Boost Mobile pictured
Boost Mobile is getting ready to launch two new Android smartphones: the LG Optimus Black (available at Sprint as the LG Marquee), and the Samsung Replenish (also available at Sprint). There’s no word on when Boost will actually start selling these two handsets, but it’s probably going to happen early next year. Until then, in [...]
LG Prada 3.0 priced at £500 in the UK
LG’s latest fashionable handset, the Prada Phone 3.0, will only be available starting next year. Until then, in case you’re worried its price will be too high, it looks like you shouldn’t be. A search on Google Shopping suggests that retailer The Order has priced the LG Prada 3.0 at £500 (about €595 or $777). [...]
Android Ice Cream Sandwich for Bell’s HTC Sensation, HTC Raider and Galaxy S II to be out in H1 2012
Bell is reportedly getting ready to update three of its Gingerbread superphones to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich in the first half of 2012. The first handset that’s going to get a taste of ICS is the HTC Sensation 4G, in February. The TC Raider should be updated in March, while the Samsung Galaxy S [...]
Verizon LG Spectrum press shots leak alongside full specs
A few days ago we first showed you the LG Spectrum, an Android-powered smartphone headed to Verizon in the near future with 4G LTE support. This in fact seems to be Verizon’s version of the LG Optimus LTE, also released by AT&T as the LG Nitro HD. The pictures from the previous leak weren’t the [...]