Even though it will become available only on November 2, the LG Optimus G is available for pre-orders and we've spent some quality time with the device for our review. While the phone is an excellent performer due to the Snapdragon S4 Pro SoC, power users will probably want to tweak it further. However, this might be difficult. According to official wording from LG, "the Optimus G doesn’t support an unlocked bootloader". This means that until the community manages to hack it open (or someone over at AT&T or LG changes their minds) there will be no custom ROM flashing and alike. Even ...

"Once we get a slow news week, we're gonna talk about this in-depth." That's been the go-to fallback phrase for the Pocketnow Weekly for the past few weeks, and as the holiday shopping season approaches, we doubt that's going to change anytime soon. On this installment of the densest podcast in mobile tech, we talk about the LG Optimus G and the Nexus 4, HTC's new Butterfly J, Apple's forthcoming iPad Mini, and the Microsoft Surface pre-orders and pricing. Plus, Brandon Miniman continues last week's riffing regarding pen-based input methods, and special guest Joe Levi the Android Guy, ...

We've heard official wording from AT&T about their flavor of the LG Optimus G, which we've recently unboxed. November 2 and $200 on contract are the things to remember about it and now Sprint is also weighing in on the first device to rock the Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro SoC. The Now Network, which recently announced its deal with Japanese carrier Softbank, will offer the LG Optimus G for $200 on a two-year agreement on November 11. In case you need a reminder of its specs, aside from the exciting SoC, the Optimus G also features a 4.7-inch TrueIPS display with HD resolution, 32GB of ...

There's been so much talk lately about the Optimus G being the source of the hardware for the rumored Nexus 4, that it's been easy to forget that the Optimus G is a phone of its own, and one that's nearly about to arrive. We've been expecting the phone for both AT&T and Sprint, and while Sprint issued its own announcement about the Optimus G last week, it still wasn't ready to provide a release date or pricing. Today, though, AT&T steps forward to finally deliver some answers along those lines, revealing how the Optimus G will make its retail debut. Starting tomorrow, you'll be ...

That chill in the air as fall arrives doesn't just mean shorter days, longer nights, and time to break out your sweater collection; with the clock running down on 2012, it's high time we learned of a new Nexus smartphone. There are some hard-to-ignore rumors that a big change to the Nexus program could be on the horizon, and we'll be seeing a bunch of handsets crowned with Nexus names, but one way on another, at least something's bound to be on the way. When that new Nexus finally does get here, will you be buying one? The problem with talking about plans to purchase the next Nexus is just ...

It looks like the floodgates are open when it comes to rumors about the next Nexus phone(s); just hours after we shared the latest leaked specs with you, giving us a little insight into just how the supposed LG Nexus would differ from the already-revealed Optimus G, a couple new details have arrived, focusing on just how the smartphone would launch. Those last rumors mentioned that the phone might go up for sale sometime around mid-November. Now CNET's coming forward with a source of its own claiming that the phone will be formally announced near the end of October. That would be ...

Watch today's Pocketnow Daily as we talk about Microsoft's press invites for their official Windows 8 announcement on October 25th along with the first day of sales for their Surface tablet. Then we go through their other press invites for the Windows Phone 8 launch on October 29th. We then talk about the rumors of an LG Optimus G-based Nexus device in the making. Later we go through AT&T's decision to serve as the guinea pig for the launch of the Samsung Galaxy Camera. We end today's show by talking about the launch of the Nokia Lumia 920 in the US, and sadly, as an exclusive to ...

LG's quad-core Optimus G is ultimately destined for US shores, but just how till it get here? We've known to expect the phone to arrive sometime in November, after the handset launches in Japan this month, but haven't had access to the details. The picture's still far from complete, but a couple US carriers just made it clear that the Optimus G will be a part of their lineups in the near future. LG released a statement confirming AT&T and Sprint as homes for the Optimus G, with AT&T separately preparing its own statement to announce the news. Unfortunately, this far out everyone ...