The LG revolution, Verizon's first voice-over-LTE-capable device, will be available on May 26 for $249.99. The Revolution is also one of the thickest smartphones we've ever held; those looking for a thinner Verizon LTE device should consider the Droid Charge. The phone runs on Android 2.2 with a 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon CPU with 512MB, plus there is a 16GB pre-loaded microSD card for storage. The display is 4.3" with WVGA 800x480 resolution. The camera on the back is 5MP, and the front-facing camera is 1.3MP. There's also an HDMI output which can feed 720p to a flat panel or projector. ...

After an early leak, Netflix teased us when its Android app all of a sudden started working, letting subscribers briefly stream its content to their smartphones. Since that brief window at the end of March, things have been largely quiet, as Netflix prepared a list of compatible Androids and readied for the app's official release, supposedly to happen after the app premiered on the LG Revolution. Well, the Revolution was rumored to arrive today, but we haven't seen it do so yet. Netflix must be in no mood wait even longer, as it's gone ahead with publishing its app anyway, now available in ...

File this under rumor with a capital R: the latest shots of the LG Revolution display a date of May 25, 2011, which may suggest that Verizon will release it on that day. Such a move would not be unprecedented: both HTC and Samsung are known to use launch or release dates in press image screenshots, and even LG itself did so as recently as the Optimus 2X, first outing the phone in a December 13th, 2010 press release. However, there are probably even more examples of the company not employing such a tactic, so perhaps we're grasping at straws here. First introduced as part of Verizon's ...

LG and Verizon introduced the LG Revolution Android smartphone with the occasion of this year's CES back at the beginning of the year and now, three months later, the smartphone was captured while being tested out before the actual release. Pictures of the actual device have surface as the smartphone met its testers which means that the actual release is getting close. According to the Verizon leaked roadmap, the LG Revolution should be available at the beginning of May. Running Google Android 2.2 Froyo (at the moment, hopefully soon to be updated to Gingerbread), the LG Revolution is a 4G ...

Looks like Verizon's future short term roadmap has been leaked and it contains orientative dates, subject to change, of the upcoming devices the carrier has in store for April and May. According to the table attached, April 7 is the date to watch for Samsung's 4G LTE device, called the Droid Charge, with its 4.3-inch display and4G LTE compatibility. Same day the Casio Commando (image) should hit too, a rugged Android device a la Motorola Defy. A week after, on April 14, it's time for the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play which we knew to expect on the carrier. April 15 looks to be the date for the ...

LG's Revolution is poised to make a big impression on smartphone buyers, as it's in line to be the first Android allowed to stream Netflix content, as well as to be the first Verizon device to use voice-over-LTE once the service becomes available. The first round of FCC documentation for the Revolution has now been published, including a document discussing a missing feature we hadn't touched upon in previous Revolution coverage: wireless charging. Charging phones by means of magnetic induction is a bit of an under-deployed feature, notably popping up in Palm hardware. In February at the ...

Verizon has been taking a lot of flak from AT&T lately for the current state of its network, with its inability to handle a voice call simultaneously with data. Understandably, the company is already looking towards the future to explore new ways to manage the transmission of both voice and data feeds. Voice calls are still digital data, but those connections are broadcast and routed via a different system than internet-bound packets. We've seen evidence that Verizon is working on a 3G solution to carry both voice and data over the same radio session, and now it looks like the company has ...

Thanks to the need of smartphone OEM employees to share test photos amongst one another, sites like Picasa and Flickr are full of images captured with unreleased and, in some cases, unannounced devices. Most of these shots are about as inartistic as you can imagine: picture after picture of people's keyboards, mice, and coffee mugs -- when they're not macro shots of the wall. However, there are always a few gems among the junk, and we've managed to collect decent snaps of almost every handset announced at CES. (Full disclosure: we cheated with the Inspire 4G and Thunderbolt from HTC by ...