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LG Optimus 4X HD out in Europe today

2012-06-11T01:40:26-04:00

LG Optimus 4X HD

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 any LG phones in a while, but this one could be different - we mostly liked the Optimus 4X HD's industrial design when we used it at Mobile World Congre …

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LG Optimus L7, L5, and L3 hands-on photos and video

2012-02-26T09:34:59-05:00

Gallery Photo: LG L-Style L7, L5, and L3 hands-on pictures

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 running Android 2.3 on an 800MHz processor. Most small phones we've seen at this size - it's a 3.2-inch QVGA device - have been a bit thicker than the L3, w …

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LG Optimus 3D Max hands-on photos and video

2012-02-26T08:56:58-05:00

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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 viewing 3D, the WVGA screen is passable, but viewing 3D content is as headache-inducing as ever. We think that the 3D Max is slightly better for viewing …

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LG Optimus Vu hands-on photos and video

2012-02-26T08:46:23-05:00

Gallery Photo: LG Optimus Vu hands-on

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 down a custom menu where you can select different pen sizes and colors, and then you can doodle on the screen. We use the word "doodle" intentionally, bec …

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LG Optimus 4X HD hands-on photos and video

2012-02-26T08:39:08-05:00

Gallery Photo: LG 3D Max Hands On

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 used in the past - the texturing on the rear and the clean squared-off styling is definitely indicative of a high-end device (which the 4X certainly is). In …

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LG Optimus 4X HD announced with quad-core Tegra 3, Android 4.0

2012-02-22T23:22:49-05:00

Gallery Photo: LG Optimus 4X HD press images

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 "4-plus-1" setup that can be used in low power situations to help the phone sip on the 2150mAh battery instead of gulp at it, extending battery life. DLNA and M …

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LG announces L-Style Android phones: 4.3-inch L7, 4-inch L5, and 3.2-inch L3

2012-02-21T03:34:48-05:00

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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 addition, LG is claiming they feel thinner than they actually are. All three will have a thin, square, metallic design, with a warm, leather-like back panel.

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LG makes the Optimus Vu official: 5-inch display and LTE in an 8.5mm-thin package

2012-02-19T01:03:16-05:00

LG Optimus Vu

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 capacity - the phone will come with 32GB of storage - and the full dimensions. The phone measures in at 5.49 inches by 3.55 inches, making it wider than the al …

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LG X3 screenshots reveal stellar Quadrant scores and Android 4.0

2012-02-15T09:30:29-05:00

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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 Tegra 3 processor, 4.7-inch 720p display, Android 4.0, and dual cameras (8MP in the back, 1.3MP up front).

There's also a few new revealing screenshots - pa …

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Optimus 3D 2 pictured again before MWC, rumored to be thinner and lighter than the original

2012-02-13T11:03:03-05:00

LG Optimus 3D 2 press (rumored)

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 press photo), and according to ETNews, the phone will have a glasses-less 3D IPS display, HDMI, and DLNA when it debuts at MWC 2012 later this month in B …

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