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by Stephen Schenck | January 27, 2014 2:59 PMRead OnAfter hearing LG go official with its introduction of the G Flex to US markets at the CES, the last couple weeks have been bringing us the specifics on how different carriers planned to welcome the phone. First we heard from Sprint, and then AT&T followed-up last Monday – the only holdout was T-Mobile. Today the carrier finally comes through with the news of how its subscribers will be able to get their hands on the G Flex, and also announces another new LG Android, the Optimus F3Q. T-Mobile's G Flex pre-orders open today, with the phone ultimately arriving on February 5 – that's a ...
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by Stephen Schenck | January 16, 2014 2:56 PMRead OnWe're already looking forward to future flagships from LG like the rumored G Pro 2, and the the story's still not done so far as the international launch of the G Flex goes (with the US chapter just now being written), but there have been more than just high-end LG smartphones on our radar. Last year, we started hearing about a new lower-end model for T-Mobile, notable for (if nothing else) its slide-out hardware keyboard, a feature that's been flirting with extinction for years now. While we had a nice render of this LG F3Q to check out back then, a new one has just arrived, purporting to ...
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by Stephen Schenck | January 8, 2014 9:21 AMRead OnJust yesterday we were talking about BlackBerry's commitment to phones with hardware QWERTY keyboards, and how such devices will be the company's main focus going forward. Even with such smartphones dwindling in number lately, there have been recent signs – like that one from BlackBerry – that interest still continues. Last month we saw a render of the keyboard-packing LG F3Q leak, and today we start getting a sense of how that model will arrive, thanks to a new T-Mobile leak. As you can see below, it looks like we're looking at plans to make the F3Q available as of January 22. We ...
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by Stephen Schenck | December 6, 2013 10:52 AMRead On
Last winter, LG was getting a large chunk of its 2013 lineup ready to show off, including the new Optimus F series. While far removed from being flagships, this family of mid-rangers was at least a little more capable than the Optimus L club, and the F phones supported 4G LTE communications. We haven't paid the F3, F5, and F7 a whole lot of attention in the months that have followed, but today we find our thoughts back on this hardware as we see a leak of a supposed Optimus F3Q with hardware QWERTY keyboard. Yup, despite fewer and fewer handsets in this form factor launching as time goes ...
