Who's the person responsible when a smartphone company really nails a handset launch? Who do we blame when a product bombs? While there are any number of engineers, designers, marketing folk, and executives involved with the release of a new device or service, when it comes to giving one of these corporate entities a face, more often than not we look to the company's CEO. Sure, up on this same level we can find all matter of presidents, board members, and chairpeople (persons?) overseeing a company's business, but in the end it's the Chief Executive Officer making the managerial decisions ...

After months and months of waiting, we finally heard LG announce the white edition of the Nexus 4 earlier this week. We learned that sales would begin in Asia, and we'd slowly see its availability grow over the next few weeks. For Android fans in the States, at least, we've been wondering when that might mean we'd see the white Nexus 4 join its black sibling in the Google Play Store. As it turns out, that day is today, and Google's sweetening the deal with a free accessory. The 16GB and 8GB white Nexus 4s are now available for purchase through Google's online storefront, currently shipping ...

Which side of the story you tend to believe, and how you interpret it, about LG Mobile Europe VP Kim Won's interview, regarding the LG Nexus 5, is completely up to you. We can all agree though that Kim Won never denied the possibility of a new Nexus phone, and didn't necessarily speak about future plans. According to a recent report (and an automated translation), the company is currently testing an LG Nexus 5 prototype. The trials have been allegedly ongoing for a month now, but there are no details as per when Google and LG will (if ever) unveil the phone. Regardless of the report's ...

Well, we can put those June 10 rumors to rest as LG announces white Google Nexus 4. The company just issued a press release unveiling the pale version of the latest Google Nexus phone, which was no stranger in the past months. "Nexus 4 set the standard for Android 4.2 Jelly Bean smartphones. Nexus 4 White delivers the same Google experience to consumers in a stylish and attractive color option”, LG Mobile's CEO and president, Dr. Jong-seok Park. Expect the exact same specifications as found on the black Nexus 4, meaning the 4.7-inch 1280-by-768 True HD IPS Plus display, Qualcomm ...

A white Nexus 4 is something the market has been waiting for since day-one. The pale phone is back in the rumors recently and, whether it will disappoint or not, it is expected to land soon with a point-update of Android. According to a recent report the white Nexus 4 you see above and below is allegedly the official press render of the device. There's really nothing special about it except for the fact that it is, well, white. Apparently the phone's model number is E960W and according to the report, specs will be the same as in the case of the black variant (including 8-, and 16GB ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...