ComScore: Android and iOS gallop ahead, US smartphone usage approaches 100 million

Feb 03, 2012 No Comments

The latest report is in from ComScore, and as you might expect, the news is sunshine and roses for the crews at Google and Apple. Both companies platforms charted some worthwhile month-over-month gains, as Android is estimated to account for 47… Tweet This Post

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IDC: Nokia, Samsung, Apple are the new top 3 handset makers

Feb 02, 2012 No Comments

The latest figures are in from IDC: the top three global smartphone makers are Nokia, Samsung and Apple, in that order. Drilling down into the figures finds some surprises: Cupertino’s third-place with only 8… Tweet This Post

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Living In A Smartphone World: Apple Number-Three Among ALL Mobile Players

Feb 02, 2012 No Comments

It was five years ago that Nokia (NYSE: NOK) executives brushed off the idea of Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) as “not a threat” to Nokia’s top position in mobile sales. After all, Apple was only making smartphones and Nokia was still leading in that still-niche category, as well as mobiles overall… Tweet This Post

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LG finally shows a profit from cellphones, record high flat-panel shipments in Q4 earnings

Jan 31, 2012 No Comments

LG has revealed its earnings statements for the fourth quarter of 2011 and the full year, and it managed to notch an operating profit of 23 billion won ($20.5 million), boosted by a 10 billion won operating profit in its handset division… Tweet This Post

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FCC Fridays: January 27, 2012

Jan 27, 2012 No Comments

We here at Engadget tend to spend a lot of way too much time poring over the latest FCC filings, be it on the net or directly on the ol’ Federal Communications Commission’s site. Since we couldn’t possibly (want to) cover all the stuff that goes down there, we’ve gathered up an exhaustive listing of [...]

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Android Smartphone Round-Up: December/January Edition

Jan 27, 2012 No Comments

We took a break from the Android round-up in December because, well, to be honest I was on vacation. But January gave us a few extra smartphones and the holidays are over, so we’re back. What we’ve got for you today leans into more expensive turf, and unfortunately, our favorite Android devices for the past [...]

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Is this an image of the LG Optimus 3D 2?

Jan 23, 2012 No Comments

What you see before you is either the deranged rantings of a lunatic, or the second generation of LG’s Optimus 3D, erm, 3D smartphone. Currently codenamed “CX2,” the handset’s packing a new NOVA autostereoscopic display for better brightness, an unnamed 1… Tweet This Post

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TouchTV comes to LG Smart TV, iPads: catch news clips at home, on the go

Jan 22, 2012 No Comments

If you swing past your local Best Buy and pick up one of those new-fangled LG Smart TVs, you’ll find TouchTV’s news-clip collection platform available inside. That way you’ll be able to watch the trendiest (or at least the most watched) current-affairs clips without having to wait the twenty seconds or so before your rolling [...]

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FCC Fridays: January 20, 2012

Jan 20, 2012 No Comments

We here at Engadget tend to spend a lot of way too much time poring over the latest FCC filings, be it on the net or directly on the ol’ Federal Communications Commission’s site. Since we couldn’t possibly (want to) cover all the stuff that goes down there, we’ve gathered up an exhaustive listing of [...]

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LG X3 supposedly leaks, to challenge HTC Edge as first quad-core phone?

Jan 20, 2012 No Comments

Your next tablet is going to rock a quad-core chip, so why not stuff that same silicon into your next phone too? Per PocketNow, that’s apparently what LG has up its sleeve with the forthcoming X3. Evidently, the four-core Tegra 3 device will also tote a 1280 x 720 4… Tweet This Post

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LG makes Optimus Pad LTE official, 8.9-inch IPS tablet coming first to South Korea

Jan 17, 2012 No Comments

You’ve already seen this little guy in the wild, but LG has gone ahead and made its first LTE tablet very official — ladies and gentlemen, meet the Optimus Pad LTE. The 9.3mm thin slate packs a 1.5GHz dual-core Qualcomm CPU and an 8… Tweet This Post

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CES 2012: HDTV and connected devices round-up

Jan 16, 2012 No Comments

The Consumer Electronics Show is always a big deal for HDTVs and the devices that plug into them, and the 2012 edition was no different. With the majority of households already owning an HDTV, manufacturers are pressed to convince you to upgrade, and are pulling out all the stops… Tweet This Post

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