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by Stephen Schenck | May 23, 2012 7:24 PMAlong with the Galaxy Nexus, Sprint offered subscribers their first chances to grab an LTE-capable phone (in anticipation of the carrier starting service) with the LG Viper 4G LTE. We saw the Android launch back in April, sporting a dual-core 1.2GHz Snapdragon, a four-inch WVGA screen, and a gigabyte of RAM. If all that sounded good to you, but you look for phones that are on Team QWERTY, you might want to check out the LS860 Cayenne, tipped for future arrival at Sprint. The Cayenne is, based on what leaked specs are available, a duplicate of the Viper, with the addition of a sliding QWERTY...
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by Stephen Schenck | May 23, 2012 7:02 PMLG's latest Android, the Optimus LTE2 with its hefty 2GB of RAM, launched in South Korea earlier this month. We're sure that many of you have been wondering what that sort of extra memory would mean for your own Android experience, and those of us in the West may soon be getting just such an opportunity to check-out the phone firsthand. Some new documentation reveals LG's works on its model VS930, which very well may be the LTE2 for Verizon. The VS930 appears in a new GCF listing, which would suggest plans for service in Europe, so where do we get Verizon from? Well, the "VS" in the model n...
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by Michael Fisher | May 22, 2012 1:09 PMAnyone remember the latest attempted mobile 3D resurgence? It wasn't that long ago; just last summer we Americans saw the release of the Evo 3D as a follow-up device to the best-selling smartphone in Sprint's history. The "Evo" branding marked this device for a premium slot and guaranteed its title as one of the most anticipated phones of 2011 (in the US, anyway). Even though I was deeply invested in another platform at the time and had no real use for 3D, the device piqued my curiosity. Indeed, we pegged 3D as one of the trends of 2011 at last year's MWC, alongside "Android" and the more g...
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by Stephen Schenck | May 21, 2012 5:56 PMLate last week, we started hearing some new rumblings about Verizon's plans for bringing global roaming to some of its Android lineup. We already knew that both the Motorola Droid 4 and LG's Spectrum would make the cut, and Verizon would activate their roaming abilities at some point in the future. The new leak that brought the issue back to the forefront last week concerned HTC's Rezound, with an in-store display advertising the pending arrival of global roaming as one of the handset's features. There were also rumors accompanying that find that Motorola's Droid RAZR (Maxx) would join this gr...
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by Anton D. Nagy | May 19, 2012 10:04 AMThe LG Optimus Elite is available on Virgin Mobile since Wednesday for $149.99 and, while its specs aren't of the high-end kind, the phone packs Near Field Communications (NFC), which is a first for Virgin Mobile. As such, the carrier is trying to push both this hardware feature and Google Wallet by throwing in some bonuses. If you purchase and activate an LG Optimus Elite on Virgin Mobile from May 18 to July 18, 2012, you can get $25 credit on your Google Wallet account. You have to activate your Google Wallet and Google Wallet prepaid card within a week of activating the Optimus Elite on ...
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by Anton D. Nagy | May 19, 2012 2:25 AMThe LG Optimus LTE II, with its 2GB of RAM, tried to steal a little bit of spotlight from Samsung and its Galaxy S III announcement in London, as we learned initial details about the phone on May 4, and follow-up capabilities shortly after. Needless to say that the main selling point of the phone is the fact that it is "the world’s first smartphone offering 2GB RAM for optimal LTE connectivity, speed and stability". It is powered by a 1.5GHz Dual-Core Qualcomm MSM8960 processor and has a 4.7-inch True HD IPS Display with 1280 x 720 resolution. Other features include 2GB of RAM, 16GB Interna...
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by Stephen Schenck | May 17, 2012 7:59 PMAfter hearing earlier this month about LG's plans for bringing 2GB of RAM to Android smartphones with the release of its Optimus LTE2, we got word last week of what could be another-such 2GB handset, the LG LS970 "Eclipse 4G LTE". Even more so than the LTE2, the Eclipse sounds like it could be a real powerhouse, with a quad-core Snapdragon S4 at its heart. At the time, we got a quick look at what was supposed to be the phone's rear cover, and today even more imagery of the Eclipse emerges, giving us a peak under the hood. If you had any doubt that the phone's battery might not be removable,...
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by Stephen Schenck | May 16, 2012 11:14 AMThe arrival of Ice Cream Sandwich has afforded LG the opportunity to try its hand at a new take on a custom user interface, which it's simply calling the Optimus UI 3.0. The software is debuting this week with the release of the Optimus LTE II, and in anticipation of its arrival, LG is taking the time to talk a little about some of the features we can look forward to from the UI. Some of these features we've heard about before, as we learned about some of the features the LTE II would deliver, like camera software that responds to voice commands. That also includes a pick-the-best-shot feat...
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by Anton D. Nagy | May 16, 2012 3:51 AMThe LG Optimus Elite was announced for Sprint on April 17, with an availability date set for May 18, but with the same occasion Sprint confirmed the Optimus Elite for Virgin mobile, without giving out any specific details though. However, the phone on Virgin is now available three days before its Sprint cousin and it's going for $149.99. Under the hood the LG Optimus V successor features improved specifications over its predecessor while still keeping them modest: a 3.5-inch screen with HVGA resolution, 800MHz processor, and a five-megapixel autofocus main camera with flash. One thing to no...
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by Anton D. Nagy | May 15, 2012 2:53 AMLG announced the Optimus 4X HD, the South Korean manufacturer's first quad-core phone, just before this year's MWC allowing us to prepare for the personal hands-on encounter with the device while in Barcelona. As a quick reminder of its specs, the phone packs a 4.7-inch IPS display with a resolution of 1280 X 720, quad-core nVidia Tegra 3 SoC clocking at 1.5GHz, 1GB of RAM, 16GB of internal storage, eight-megapixel main camera, 1.3-megapixel front-facer and Android 4.x Ice Cream Sandwich with a 2,150mAh battery. While we didn't know much about availability from the announcement -- and we c...
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by Anton D. Nagy | May 12, 2012 5:18 AMUsers of the Verizon LG Spectrum were looking forward to receiving the VS920ZV5 update even though it's not the official Ice Cream Sandwich update that should be rolled-out sometime in the future, according to the carrier's official upgrade list. Documents for a new update which should arrive over-the-air have been published and this time it's update VS920V6. Needless to say that it is still not Android 4.0, though the changes appear to be rather important. Android will be version 2.3.6 and your Google applications (Play, YouTube, Gmail, and Talk) will be updated, aside from all the changes...
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by Stephen Schenck | May 11, 2012 4:16 PMThe road that leads to Ice Cream Sandwich has been a bumpy one for LG's Optimus 2X. Shortly after Google's official ICS unveiling with the Galaxy Nexus, we started hearing from manufacturers about their own plans for bringing ICS to existing handsets. Some early comments from LG on its Facebook page made it seem like ICS on the 2X just wasn't going to happen. Later, we saw that note deleted, and further news from LG revealed that it still hadn't made its mind up about the 2X and Android 4.0. That uncertainty didn't last long, though, and by November the manufacturer had confirmed that the 2X w...
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by Stephen Schenck | May 10, 2012 8:08 PMLG's Optimus LTE2, with its 2GB of RAM, has recently been revealing to us the manufacturer's latest efforts to step-up its Android game. While the phone sounds like it will have more than enough memory, some users might have been disappointed that the rest of the phone's rumored hardware isn't quite up to that same level of excess. Well, if that's what you're into, we might have just the LG phone for you, as some new leaks make the company's model LS970 out to be quite the Android powerhouse. The LS970 will apparently come with a Qualcomm APQ8064 under its hood. That's one of the company's ...
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by Stephen Schenck | May 9, 2012 7:39 PMLate last week, we received some of the first news we'd heard of LG's upcoming Optimus LTE2 Android, including the impressive spec of having a whole two gigabytes of RAM, doubling the memory capacity of most of the high-end phones we see. At the time, we didn't have much else to go on, but now some additional LTE2 information has leaked, helping to complete our picture of the handset. The LTE2 will supposedly be powered by a Snapdragon S4 MSM8960 SoC; the MSM8960 Pro might have been a nice treat, but we know the MSM8960 to be a more than capable processor. We knew the phone would have a Tru...
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by Stephen Schenck | May 4, 2012 11:15 AMIf you had been hoping that yesterday's announcement of the Galaxy S III would confirm some of the more fanciful hardware claims we heard things like a revolutionary long-range wireless charging tech or that 1080p display that kept popping-up in rumors you were likely a bit let down. Instead, we're going to have to look elsewhere for devices that continue to push hardware limits. The Galaxy S III may not be arriving with 2GB of RAM, but if you're looking for an Android with memory to spare, LG has its Optimus LTE2 for you to check out, launching in Korea this month. The massive amount o...
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