LG apparently couldn’t wait until Mobile World Congress on the 27th to unveil their new smartphone, the Optimus Vu. It has a massive 5-inch IPS LCD display that uses a 4 to 3 aspect ratio at 1024×768 and works with a stylus. This phone is similiar to the Galaxy Note in that it blurs the line between phone and tablet.
Steve Jobs personally blocked the release of the iPhone 5, but his successors haven’t wasted any time in moving ahead with its launch. It’s reported that both Sony and Hitachi are producing 4 inch screens and prototypes have already arrived at Apple’s Cupertino headquarters. The launch will happen as early as March according to some reports.
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There are several apps out on the market that claim they can increase your battery life by “calibrating” your battery. These are completely false, and the people that say it helps alot are victims of the placebo effect.
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Samsung is busy dishing out touchscreen phones one after the other, but it hasn’t exactly forgotten about those who can’t just do without a physical keyboard when typing on their handsets. To address the need of keyboard diehards, Samsung has released Captivate Glide for the AT&T network.
My friend Austin had a nice surprise new year’s morning, his new iPhone 4 was melted to the charger. Luckily it wasn’t sitting on anything combustible to start a fire, but it did ruin the phone.
The Droid 3 is the latest in the Droid series, known for their slide-out keyboards. The Droid 3 has the same great keyboard as earlier models, but packs a faster dual core 1Ghz processor and Android 2.3. The camera
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The Samsung Galaxy Nexus is the third incarnation of the Google Nexus series. The first two being the Nexus S and the Nexus One, neither of which sold very well.
The Galaxy Nexus hopes to change this though, being the first phone to run the new Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.
Motorola’s Razr brand was one of the most coveted slim phones way back, and two years ago, it was the turn of the Droid smartphone to become the company’s flagship model. Fast forward to present day – enter the Droid Razr – combining the sleek profile of the Razr and the powerful features of the Driod as Motorola seeks to keep in step with leaders in the smartphone market. Read the rest of this entry »
If you’ve been holding off on getting a new smartphone now may be the time. For a limited time Amazon wireless is running a special where many new smartphones are only a penny with a new activation. These include the Droid Incredible 2, Thunderbolt 4G, Droid X2, and Atrix 4G.
If you already have a new smartphone you may want to try out some of the new black friday apps to help sniff out other deals. The top 5 (in my opinion) are:
