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by Jaime Rivera | May 23, 2013 7:00 PMRead On
Watch today's Pocketnow Daily as we talk about LG's demo of a smartphone with no bezel, and the possibilities of it ever happening. We later talk about Samsung, the sales results of the Galaxy S 4 and their future Developer Edition. We later go through how the Facebook phone is now being pulled away from the UK because of the obvious bad results on sales, even though they don't tell you that. We then cover HTC, their results with the sales of the HTC One, and their new HTC Desire 600. We end today's show talking about the iPhone 5S and iPad 5, manufacturing dates and even some changes ...
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by Stephen Schenck | May 23, 2013 10:52 AMRead On
For all the progress that's been made over the years towards slimming down the bezel surrounding smartphone screens – the gap between the display and the phone's edge, we still haven't seen anything that quite looks like an all-screen phone face. Sometimes manufacturers come close, especially on a phone's side edges, but up top and down below we're generally still left with expanses of open space. Maybe we won't be for long, though, as LG has just demonstrated a smartphone screen with some stunningly thin bezels, reportedly just one millimeter wide. The device above was shown off at the ...
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by Jaime Rivera | May 22, 2013 7:00 PMRead On
Watch today's Pocketnow Daily as we talk about LG's new Optimus GJ and what's different from the previous Optimus G, if there really is any difference. Then we talk about Microsoft and how it had to water-down its YouTube app for Windows Phone 8 due to a petition from Google. Speaking of Google, their new Google Drive is next as it got significantly revamped in mobile. The Nokia EOS project is next as we go through a possible launch date. We end today's show talking about how the news show an HTC quietly sinking due to some major departures in their staff. All this and more after the ...
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by Stephen Schenck | May 22, 2013 1:19 PMRead On
Waterproof smartphones: so hot right now. Sony got things rolling in 2013 with the Xperia Z, and with models like the Galaxy S 4 Active looming over the horizon, it doesn't look like waterproof phones are going away anytime soon. The latest to go official comes from LG, which today revealed the waterproof Optimus GJ. As the name implies, this handset shares much in common with last year's Optimus G. That means the same quad-core Snapdragon S4 Pro, 2GB of RAM, and 4.7-inch 720p display. Like some of those G variants, the GJ also has a 13-megapixel main camera. Unlike the original Optimus G, ...
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by Stephen Schenck | May 22, 2013 7:03 AMRead On
A lily white version of Google's Nexus 4 has been teasing its existence for months now. We've had the chance to look at it from seemingly every angle under the sun, and it's pretty darn attractive. Of course, the big problem is that, now half a year since the Nexus 4's retail launch, this white version has yet to go official. As such, the white Nexus 4 has been tied to any number of rumors of refreshed Nexus 4 hardware, the idea being that Google would use the phone as an instrument by which to introduce some other new Nexus 4 feature, like proper LTE support (as opposed to any radio ...
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by Stephen Schenck | May 21, 2013 10:42 AMRead On
Earlier this month, LG distributed invitations to a May 30 event where news about a "G" phone was teased. When first hearing about this, we speculated as to just what LG might hope to reveal, with something like the regional launch of the Optimus G Pro for China high on that list. Still, images of an unknown LG smartphone kept appearing, and we couldn't quite shake the rumor that LG might be planning on getting an early start to announcing the Optimus G II, and would use this event to do so. Well, it now seems like we should have just stuck with our guy on this one, as LG has now confirmed ...
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by Stephen Schenck | May 16, 2013 5:03 PMRead On
Over the last few days, you may have noticed a number of new pics and video surfacing of the white edition of the Nexus 4. We've brought you coverage of these kind of spottings in the past, but no matter how many times they pop up, they never seem to lead anywhere. Is this latest volley a sign that the phone's actually about to drop? At least one rumor claims that's what's going on, and that the white Nexus 4 could introduce the Android 4.3 that was a no-show at Google I/O. According to unnamed sources, Android and Me reports that Google intends to start selling the white Nexus 4 through ...
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by Stephen Schenck | May 16, 2013 7:04 AMRead On
Competition is one of the most powerful forces driving the mobile industry. It fuels innovation, keeps prices reasonable, and opens up worlds of options. Whether we're talking about OEMs, carriers, or the companies crafting mobile platforms, competition is awesome. That said, having more options isn't necessary always a good thing, and when there's already a healthy amount of competition going on, just throwing more contenders in the ring doesn't always lead to positive results. That's what I'm thinking about this morning, specifically when it comes to LG and tablets. LG, Back In The Game ...
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by Stephen Schenck | May 10, 2013 3:34 PM
Read OnLast week an image of an unknown LG smartphone surfaced, apparently an Android model under development. There wasn't much to see other than a sleek design and thin bezel, leaving us wondering if it might just be the Optimus G II, if not a new Nexus model. Today, we get another glimpse at the handset as we continue to wonder about how it will arrive. With the screen turned off, it's harder to appreciate the thin bezel on this mystery LG Android this time around, but at least we get to check out the phone from a slightly different angel. The one big development that's occurred since we had ...
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by Jaime Rivera | May 8, 2013 7:00 PMRead On
Watch today's Pocketnow Daily as we talk about Google's new offer to iOS developers to use Chrome as their navigation tool. LG is next as we talk about their probable tablet plans for the fall, along with their scheduled event for May 30th. Then let's talk about the HTC First which now gets a big price cut on AT&T, for reasons we can only assume. Samsung is next as we talk about the new galaxy devices that they'll release in the next coming months, and no, by new galaxy we don't mean the Galaxy S 4. We end today's show talking about Nokia, their EOS project, and how this can all become ...
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by Michael Fisher | May 8, 2013 1:35 PMRead On
At Pocketnow, we have a responsibility to try the new, the fresh, and the weird - and that latter swamp is exactly the one Managing Editor Anton D. Nagy waded into with his recent review of the ASUS Fonepad - the tablet with an earpiece. Or the phone with a tablet screen. Whatever you want to call it, we've covered it - and Tony has some thoughts about using a seven-inch smartphone in this edition of one of your favorite tech podcasts. After we clear the giant-phone convo, we've got more to say. Lots more. And, doubtless to the relief of thousands, very little of it involves Samsung's ...
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by Stephen Schenck | May 8, 2013 1:07 PMRead On
The best way to describe LG's tablet releases is probably "few and far between." We first heard of the Optimus Pad all the way back in 2010, and it's been over a year since the company launched the Optimus Pad LTE. Since then, we've heard LG talk about putting all tablet development on hold. Has it finally started reconsidering things? A new report out of South Korea claims that LG is eyeing a reemergence onto the tablet market, and it could do so sometime in the third quarter of this year. Unfortunately, we're at a serious loss for details. There's no word on size, SoC choice – heck, we ...
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by Stephen Schenck | May 8, 2013 12:22 PMRead On
LG sure has been keeping us busy with its smartphone events lately. It kicked-off the month with its Optimus G Pro launch for AT&T, and today we learn that it has another event scheduled to take place before the month's out, capping things off with a May 30 gathering in Macau, China; what could we hope to see? Well, as you'll notice on the invitation above, it's clear that we're dealing with something from the Optimus G family. Of course, that still leaves plenty of options, so what might be the most likely? That Sprint-bound model from yesterday is likely out of the running, because ...
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by Stephen Schenck | May 7, 2013 11:25 AMRead On
Qualcomm's Snapdragon 800: if mention of that chip doesn't send a little shiver down your spine, you just haven't been playing close enough attention to this year's hot new SoC launches. Announced back at the start of the year alongside models like the Snapdragon 600, the 800 is set to be Qualcomm's 2013 heavyweight. We've heard that the chip is moving out of sampling and into mass production sometime later this month, so we could be seeing the first devices powered by the 800 show up as soon as late summer. All that remains to be seen is who will be first to really harness that 800 power. ...
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by Joe Levi | May 7, 2013 7:27 AMRead On
If recent rumors hold true, Google and LG could be working together on the next Nexus smartphone, possibly dubbed the Nexus 5. Before we dig into that rumor and what it could mean, let's look at some history. Google first partnered with HTC to build their "Nexus" line of smartphones. I put "Nexus" in quotation marks because I consider the T-Mobile G1 (aka the HTC Dream) to be a "Nexus" phone. It was the first commercially available Android-powered smartphone and it ran the "pure" Android experience. That sounds like a Nexus to me. Up next was another HTC phone, this time the Nexus One. ...
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