LG at Mobile World Congress 2012
LG has unveiled a host of new handsets at Mobile World Congress 2012 in Barcelona. All of the new phones run Android, with the Optimus 4X and Optimus L-series handsets sporting Android 4.0. The 4X HD is a powerhouse, pairing a quad-core 1.5GHz Tegra 3 processor with a 1280 x 720 IPS display. The Optimus Vu looks to challenge the Samsung Galaxy Note for supremacy in the 5-inch market, though offers an iPad-like 4:3 display ratio. The Optimus 3D Max offers a spec bump over the original Optimus 3D, along with NFC capability, though you'll be stuck on Android 2.3 for now. Finally, the Optimus L7, L5, and L3 bring a touch of style to the company's Android range. Keep track of all LG's announcements right here.
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LG Optimus 4X HD out in Europe today
If you live in Europe and your head hasn't been turned by a certain other quad-core phone from a Korean manufacturer, you may be interested to know that LG's Optimus 4X HD is now rolling out across the continent as expected. The company announced that Germany will get the Tegra 3-powered device first of all before it comes to the Netherlands, Sweden, the UK, and Italy. Releases in Asia, Central and South America, and Eastern Europe will then follow.
We haven't been particularly enamored with...
LG Optimus L7, L5, and L3 hands-on photos and video
If the Prada phone wasn't your thing, perhaps its three cousins from LG are up your alley. The L-Style lineup comes in three sizes, each targeted firmly at the middle of the market if the specs and styling is anything to go by. All three feature faux-leather rear panels that are textured with vertical lines — it's the sort of thing that's easy to make feel cheap and crappy but LG has pulled it off for the most part.
The L3 is the low-end of the bunch, both in terms of size and specs. It's...
LG Optimus 3D Max hands-on photos and video
LG's Optimus 3D Max doesn't have the highest-end specs of LG's offerings here at MWC, but it is a marked improvement over its predecessor, the Optimus 3D. That said, you have to really want the 3D in order to accept a phone that's still stuck on Android 2.3. The phone overall feels decent enough, with a small bump on the bottom of the soft-touch rear panel.
Spec-wise, the Optimus 3D Max is not especially notable beyond the fact that it can do 3D on its "brightened" 4.3-inch display. When not...
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LG Optimus Vu hands-on photos and video
The LG Optimus Vu is not a shy phone / tablet. Like the Galaxy Note, it has a large 5-inch screen, but its 4 by 3 aspect ratio makes it a very difficult device to hold in one hand. Being only 8.5mm thin certainly helps the phone-tablet hybrid feel like it's something you could carry around, but if you have designs to use this LTE phone with anything fewer than two hands, we have bad news for you. The Galaxy Note feels big, this feels massive.
The Vu has a small button on the top that brings...
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LG Optimus 4X HD hands-on photos and video
LG's Optimus 4X HD is here with a 1.5GHz quad-core Tegra 3 chip inside and a 4.7-inch 1280 x 720 IPS display on the outside. This flagship device, only the second (official) Tegra 3 phone we've seen after Fujitsu teased one at CES, runs Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich with an LG skin on top.
We played with the 4X for a few minutes here in LG's booth ahead of the official opening of Mobile World Congress tomorrow, and it definitely feels like a departure from every other Optimus model we've...
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LG Optimus 4X HD announced with quad-core Tegra 3, Android 4.0
Whether you're ready for a deluge of quad-core Android handsets or not, LG is getting things started with the Optimus 4X HD. Inside, its Nvidia Tegra 3 processor is clocked at 1.5GHz, sits behind a 4.7-inch 1280 x 720 IPS display, and within an 8.9mm-thin body. Thankfully, it will launch with Android 4.0, which should sing quite nicely on the quad-core chip along with 1GB of RAM and 16GB of internal storage. If you weren't aware, Tegra three actually offers a "companion core" with its...
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LG announces L-Style Android phones: 4.3-inch L7, 4-inch L5, and 3.2-inch L3
In a press release today, LG announced three new devices that will be hitting the show floor at MWC next week. From left to right in the picture above they are the L3, L5, and L7. All three devices will feature LG's Floating Mass display technology — the displays on the devices appear to be floating — a reference to the closeness of the actual display to the glass. This is the same technology found in LG's Prada 3.0 phone, whose styling seems to have carried over to the new devices. In...
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LG makes the Optimus Vu official: 5-inch display and LTE in an 8.5mm-thin package
When LG surprised us with a teaser for the Optimus Vu smartphone, touting its 4:3 aspect ratio display, we expected an official announcement to come at Mobile World Congress. It turns out LG had another surprise in store, officially announcing the phone in a press release. Many of the previously-rumored specs proved accurate: the phone features a 5-inch 1024 x 768 IPS display, a 1.5GHz dual-core Qualcomm processor, an 8-megapixel camera, and will support LTE. What's new is the storage...
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LG X3 screenshots reveal stellar Quadrant scores and Android 4.0
We've been hearing a lot about the rumored LG X3 leading up to its expected introduction at Mobile World Congress, and now MoDaCo has uncovered a few more specs we hadn't heard before. Apparently, the battery powering this quad-core phone will be rated at 2,000mAh battery on board; the processor will be clocked at 1.5GHz when running on a single core and 1.4GHz when running between two and four cores. The reporte also corroborates specs we heard earlier: the X3 should include a quad-core...
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Optimus 3D 2 pictured again before MWC, rumored to be thinner and lighter than the original
What you see above is supposed to be LG's Optimus 3D 2. The biggest change between the this and its predecessor, the Optimus 3D, is that it's rumored to be 2.1mm thinner and 20 grams lighter, which lines up well with earlier rumored specs for the device (we reportedly saw the gunmetal gray version of the phone, known as the CX2, last month). While you can't see them in this picture, the Optimus 3D 2 most certainly has capacitive touch buttons (we think the new white sheen masks them in this...
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LG Optimus Vu pictured next to Samsung Galaxy Note, may come with a stylus
We're not sure what focus group studies are providing fuel for this race toward 5-inch smartphones, but at least now we can compare two of the most fashionable candidates side by side: LG's Optimus Vu and Samsung's Galaxy Note. The first image of the two jumbo Android smartphones has emerged from Korea, showing LG's squatter 5-inch device is a little wider and bulkier than Samsung's more elongated 5.3-inch tabletphone. This is partly down to the unconventional 4:3 aspect ratio of the Optimus...
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LG teases new 5-inch, 4:3 aspect ratio Optimus Vu smartphone
LG has posted a teaser for the Optimus Vu, a smartphone with a 5-inch, 4:3 aspect ratio display. Details from the video itself are scarce, but Datacider and Google Pad are reporting that the phone will feature a 1024 x 768 IPS display, a 1.5GHz dual-core Snapdragon processor, 1GB of RAM, 8GB of internal storage, and an 8-megapixel camera. NFC support is also said to be on board, but both sites are stating that the device will ship with Android 2.3 Gingerbread rather than Ice Cream Sandwich,...
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LG CX2 images and details purportedly leak, said to be 'Optimus 3D 2'
We recently got a look at what LG is reportedly calling the X3 smartphone, and now images of what could be the company's successor to the Optimus 3D have surfaced. According to details obtained by PocketNow, the new 3D phone — currently referred to as the CX2 — appears focused more on form factor than any substantive horsepower upgrades. It is said to feature a 1.2GHz dual-core processor, a minor bump from the 1GHz dual-core processor of the original Optimus 3D, with the same 8GB of...
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Image of LG X3 surfaces, rumored specs include 720p display and quad-core processor
If PocketNow's latest intelligence is accurate, LG's preparing a monster of a phone — the X3 (pictured above) is rumored to include a quad-core Tegra 3 processor along with a 4.7-inch 720p display. The X3 also is reported to feature dual cameras (8MP on the back, 1.3MP up front), 16GB of storage plus a microSD slot, and it should launch with Ice Cream Sandwich on board — this despite the fact that the device includes 3 capacitive buttons rather than the software buttons featured in the...
