Aug 23

South Korea brings the big guns to the mobile OS knife fight

Posted in: Android, Chrome, Google, ios, korea, LG, mobilepostcross, motorola, open source, samsung, South Korea, SouthKorea, Today's Chili
Publicly, Samsung and LG tersely supported Google’s union with Motorola (which we’ve taken to calling Moogle) — privately it appears the South Korean giants aren’t as thrilled to be at the mercy of Mountain View’s whim. Imagine their predicament if they were frozen out of Android tomorrow — which is why the Korean government has stepped in to create its own OS. Kim Jae-hong, deputy minister from Seoul’s Ministry of Knowledge Economy, thinks that American dominance in mobile software is generally a bad thing. The minister said that the country would “foster a habitat” for the open-source OS, which might mean incentivized pricing on these devices, and we’re hearing a cloud-based Chrome OS is also in the offing. The biggest news Jae-hong slipped is that Samsung had been very dismissive of a Korean OS until it heard about the Google / Motorola deal. What a difference a Moogle makes, eh?

South Korea brings the big guns to the mobile OS knife fight originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 23 Aug 2011 13:17:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Aug 23

LG unveils A530 3D gaming laptop, tours the world to showcase its wares

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LG A530 3D gaming laptop

LG is taking its Cinema 3D Gaming Festival on the road and delivering demos of it three–dimensional prowess to 20 different countries. To celebrate, the Korean company is unleashing a brand new laptop for those with itchy virtual trigger fingers. The LG A530 sports a 15-inch 3D, HD display with up to a 1920 x 1080 resolution, your choice of Core i3, i5, or i7 processors, an NVIDIA GeForce GT 555 GPU, up to 8GB of RAM and either an HD webcam or dual cameras for capturing 3D video. There’s also one of those fancy hybrid hard drives with 4GB of solid state storage packed in to help bolster the performance of its 750GB worth of platters. The company was strangely mum on price, but the new notebook is expected to land in Europe, the Middle East and Africa this month — American consumers will just have to wait. Check out the gallery below and the full PR after the break.

Gallery: LG A530 3D gaming laptop

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Aug 22

Engadget’s back to school guide 2011: smartphones

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Welcome to Engadget’s Back to School guide! We know that this time of year can be pretty annoying and stressful for everyone, so we’re here to help out with the heartbreaking process of gadget buying for the school-aged crowd. Today, we’re tapping away on our smartphones — and you can head to the Back to School hub to see the rest of the product guides as they’re added throughout the month. Be sure to keep checking back — at the end of the month we’ll be giving away a ton of the gear featured in our guides — and hit up the hub page right here!

Now more than ever, collegiate studies require a wide variety of devices to help you get that prized “A.” The thirst for knowledge you so desperately seek can strike at any time, and you’re not always going to have that desktop or laptop nearby to find the answer to a burning question. Perhaps you just need to hurl birds at pigs for a while to blow off your stress. Whatever the case, you’ll need something to help you study, store (and edit) all of your important term papers, keep you in touch with classmates or family, and everything in-between. What better way to get all of that than with a smartphone? We’ve picked nine respectable candidates that can help you through your upcoming semester — three for each budget level. Oh, and while you’re looking, we’re giving away $3,000 worth of essential back to school gear to 15 lucky readers, and you can be one of them by simply leaving a comment below! So, which phones are most likely to help you get smart? Head past the break to find out.

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Engadget’s back to school guide 2011: smartphones originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 22 Aug 2011 12:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Aug 21

LG sheds light on the Optimus Sol, available mid-September in Europe

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The LG Optimus Sol (aka the E730) received the full hands-on treatment a few days ago, and it didn’t take long for the mystery device to be officially recognized by LG. Named after the Spanish word for “sun,” the phone gained the title for a distinct reason: it’s using a 3.8-inch WVGA “Ultra AMOLED” display, which is supposed to make the screen easier to read in direct sunlight and also offers less image quality degradation. It’s powered by a 1GHz CPU, runs on Gingerbread, features a 5MP camera, and measures out at a thickness of 9.8mm. LG also uses the Sol to introduce a new power management technique it’s referring to as “Dark UI” — by utilizing less white light as the phone is idle, the company hopes to extend battery life by 20 to 30 percent. If you’re interested in picking up what LG is putting down here, you’ll be able to do so in parts of Europe around mid-September, followed by a release to Central and South America afterward. It’ll also be available in black, titan and white color options. Want to know more? Take a look at the full press release after the break.

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Aug 19

FCC Fridays: August 19, 2011

Posted in: HTC, LG, mobile, mobilepostmini, motorola, research in motion, ResearchInMotion, RIM, Today's Chili

We here at Engadget Mobile 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 all the raw info you may want (but probably don’t need). Enjoy!

Phones

Read – Pantech P9060
Read – HTC PH85110
Read – Huawei U5300
Read – Huawei G6609
Read – Huawei G7300
Read – Huawei C5630
Read – LG C395
Read – LG 910G
Read – LG P690B
Read – RIM RDC70UW
Read – Motorola XT531 (Fire XT)

Peripherals
Read – Huawei E397

FCC Fridays: August 19, 2011 originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 19 Aug 2011 10:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Aug 17

T-Mobile announces deal to sell prepaid at Family Dollar, costs more than a dollar

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A Radio Shack lost is a Family Dollar gained. Now that T-Mobile’s ended its allegiance with The Shack, the carrier’s looking for a few new companies willing to hoist its prepaid service up on a pedestal. Family Dollar, following in the footsteps of 7-Eleven, will be the next business to dole out the LG GS170 blister packs on T-Mo’s behalf. The phones will be sold for $30 and come with a $50 / month plan that consists of unlimited calls, texts, and 100MB data. With such a large emphasis now being placed on its no-contract offerings, we can’t help but wonder if this is the result of T-Mobile making an adjustment in its strategy. Any other companies want a piece of the prepaid pie? The press release can be found beneath the break.

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Aug 15

M-Disc holds your data ‘forever,’ we go hands-on for a few minutes (video)

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It was two years ago when we last wrote about Millenniata and its Millenial Disc for ultra long-term data storage of somewhere between “1,000 years” and “forever.” If you’ll recall, it works using a “synthetic, rock-like” layer that your data is “etched” into, rather than burned onto like other writeable discs so files don’t corrupt over time. Since then, the disc’s been given DoD certification for data retention in extreme conditions and redubbed M-Disc, while Hitachi-LG has signed on to produce drives. We recently got the chance to check out a few of these discs and see whether this tech will fly like a Frisbee or sink like a stone.

Gallery: M-Disc Hands-on

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Aug 14

How would you change T-Mobile’s G-Slate?

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Splurged on a T-Mobile G-Slate, did you? Here’s your opportunity to voice your opinion to LG (and anyone else who’ll listen). Sporting an unorthodox aspect ratio and an affinity for a carrier that may not exist on its own by this time next year, it’s certainly one of the odder slate options on the market. Combine that with the inability to buy a WiFi-only model, and you’ve got yourself firmly into niche territory. That said, we’re confident that LG moved quite a few of these, and chances are that some of those buyers are reading these words right now. If that’s you, we’re interested to hear how you’d do things differently the next go ’round. Are you a fan of the form factor? Pining for a matte panel? Would you have preferred a WWAN-less variant? Is the UI everything you’d hoped for… and more? Go on and drop your thoughts in comments below — mama always encouraged the art of getting things off your chest.

How would you change T-Mobile’s G-Slate? originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 14 Aug 2011 23:29:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Aug 12

LG P220 ultraportable specs and shipping date revealed, still no price tag

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We didn’t have a great deal of info about this ultraportable when we went hands-on at Computex 2011, but we knew we liked its thin bezel and Air-like (though plastic) design. LG has now revealed the final specs and also announced it’ll launch the P220 in Korea this month and in Europe shortly afterwards. The Core i7 that powered the model we saw previously has been switched out for a Core i5, but unfortunately this doesn’t seem to have done a great deal for battery life, which LG says is around the 5.5-hour mark. In terms of ports, there’s nothing faster than USB 2.0, and the color range will put some people off too: white pearl, pink pearl or blue pearl, and definitely no lobster red. There is some good news though: that slimline bezel surrounds a full 12.5-inch IPS widescreen display despite the smaller chasis, with a claimed viewing arc of 178-degrees. Crucially, weight comes in at just under three pounds and the waistline is a mere 0.82-inches. LG hasn’t revealed pricing yet, but the company will need to keep a close eye on the forthcoming Ultrabook range if it’s to stand a fighting chance.

LG P220 ultraportable specs and shipping date revealed, still no price tag originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 12 Aug 2011 06:29:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Aug 11

LG, Sony drop patent infringement lawsuits, strike cross-licensing agreement

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The testy patent battle between LG and Sony has finally come to an end, now that the companies have decided to lay down their arms and call a truce. In a statement issued today, an LG spokeswoman declared that the two parties have “agreed to drop patent infringement lawsuits against each other,” adding that they’ve struck a cross-licensing deal on the TVs, smartphones and other gadgets in question. A Sony representative confirmed this, but did not offer further details. The spat began back in December, when Sony filed a complaint with the ITC over a handful of allegedly patent infringing LG mobile devices. The Korean manufacturer later struck back with an ITC complaint of its own, targeting Sony products like the Bravia and PlayStation 3. Now, however, the two have apparently learned how to play nice, though details on their settlement remain scarce. As soon as we have them, we’ll pass them along.

LG, Sony drop patent infringement lawsuits, strike cross-licensing agreement originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 11 Aug 2011 02:01:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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