LG and Verizon have announced their latest smartphone, the LG Spectrum 2, and the handset is now available from Verizon’s website, it looks like it will only be sold online and not in Verizon’s retail stores.
The LG Spectrum 2 is available for $99 after a $50 mail in rebate, when you sign up to a new two year contract with Verizon, and the handset comes with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.
LG Spectrum 2
Other specifications on the LG Spectrum 2 include a dual core Snapdragon S4 processor and 1GB of RAM, it also features a 4.7 inch HD multi-touch display and 16GB of built in storage.
The LG Spectrum 2 also comes with a microSD card slot which can take up to 32GB cards, plus NFC, 4G LTE and Bluetooth 4.0, you can find 0ut more details over at Verizon Wireless.
The SIM free version of the HTC One X+ went up for pre-order in the UK earlier this month, and now the handset is available and it retails for £474.98 including taxes. The HTC One X+ features a 4.7 inch HD multi-touch display, processing is provided bu a quad core NVIDIA Tegra 3 processor and the device comes with Android 4.1 Jelly Bean.
HTC One X+
Other specifications on the HTC One X+ include an 8 megapixel camera on the back plus a 1.6 megapixel camera on the front, there is also 1GB of RAM and a choice of either 32GB of 64GB of storage.
The HTC one X+ comes with a micro USB 2.0 port, Bluetooth and 802.11 a/b/g/n WiFi, you can find out more details about the SIM free version of the handset over at Unlocked Mobiles.
Samsung recently launch their new 5.5 inch Galaxy Note
II smartphone, they also have a 10.1 inch Galaxy Note in their line up
and now it would appear that Samsung are working on a new Galaxy Note
device which will feature a display of between 7 inches and 9 inches.
The guys over at Sammobile have discovered a new Samsung Galaxy
note device with the model number GT-N5100 which has just received DLNA
certification, and it is rumored to come with a HD display and the same
processor that is in the Samsung Galaxy S III.
This
new Samsung Galaxy Note device is rumored to feature Samsung’s EXYNOS
4412 processor, clocked at 1.6GHz, unfortunately those are the only
details that are available at the moment, as soon as we get some more
information we will let you guys know.
Yesterday Microsoft launched the latest version of their mobile OS,
Windows Phone 8, and now they have released a video which shows off
many of the new features that are available in Windows Phone 8.
The video below shows off a lot of the new features in Windows Phone 8 and also compares it to other mobile operating systems, like Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android OS.
It
will be interesting to see if Windows Phone 8 is able to make Windows
Phone devices as popular as Apple’s iOS smartphones and Google’s Android
smartphones.
Microsoft has announced their new Office for Windows Phone 8, which will come pre-installed on every new Windows Phone 8 device, and it features a number of office apps.
Microsoft
Office for Windows Phone 8 comes with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and One
Note and you can save your documents to Microsoft’s SkyDrive and then
access them from your PC or from Office 365.
Whether
you’re using SkyDrive or Office 365, getting access to your Office
content is just part of the phone’s easy set up. Windows Phone 8
auto-discovery gets you connected to your accounts, so you can get
things done from any place, at any time.
The Office Hub –
your go-to spot for Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel – is
redesigned with a simple and fluid navigation. Finding and accessing
your personal and work d
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One of the new features in Windows Phone 8 is the ability to share
things with other devices using NFC, and now we have a video of Windows
Phone 8 sharing in action with an Android smartphone.
The video below was put together by the guys over at Android Central
and it shows how things can be shared between a new HTC Windows Phone 8x
and a Samsung Galaxy Nexus.
Not everything can be shared between the two platforms at the moment,
so basically you would not be able to share a file or a photo between
Windows Phone 8 and Android.
We have been hearing rumors for a while that Google would launch a 32GB model of their Nexus 7 tablet, the device is now official, and they have also announced a 32GB Nexus 7 HSPA+ model.
There are now three different models of the Google Nexus
7 to choose from a 16GB WiFi only model which retails for $199, a 32GB
WiFi only Nexus 7 which will retail for $249 and a 32GB WiFi and HSPA+
model which will retail for $299.
The
32GB WiFi+ HSPA Nexus 7 tablet is unlocked, which means that you can
use the device with any mobile provider, and the new models will go on
sale in the US, Canada, UK, Spain, Australia, France, Germany and Japan
on the 13th of November.
All models of the new Nexus 7 tablet will come with Android 4.2 Jelly Bean, you can find out more details over at ... Read more »
As well as announcing the new Nexus 10 tablet Google
has also announced their latest Nexus smartphone the Nexus 4, which was
developed by LG for Google and it comes with a new version of Android,
version 4.2 Jelly Bean.
We
have been hearing rumors about the Google Nexus 4 for the last few
weeks, and now we have confirmation of the devices specifications which
include a 4.7 inch display with a resolution of 1280 x 768 pixels and
320ppi.
The
Google Nexus 4 is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 pro processor
clocked at 1.5GHz, it also feature 2GB of RAM and a choice of either 8GB
or 16GB of storage, there is no microSD card slot.
Other
specifications on the Google Nexus 4 include a front facing 1.3
megapixel camera for video chat and a rear facing 8 megapixel camera for
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EE which is a partnership between mobile carriers Orange and T-Mobile
has launched the UK’s first 4G LTE mobile network in the UK today, the service launches in eleven cities around the UK.
The
eleven cities where EE’2 4G LTE is available include Cardiff, Bristol,
Birmingham, London, Leeds, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Manchester, Liverpool,
Southampton and Sheffield.
EE
have also re-branded a number of their existing stores across the UK
and there are now more than 700 EE stores around the UK, and their CEO
had the following to say about the launch.
"Today is a landmark day for our company, the UK mobile industry and, most importantly, the country’s businesses and consumers.
"But
this is just the start as our 4G network will continue to grow st
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On Friday Apple put their new 7.9 inch iPad
Mini up for pre-order, and shipping of the device quickly slipped to
two weeks on many of the available models, although there were still
some of the device available to pre-order for delivery on the 2nd of
November.
Apple’s
store online is now showing all of the versions of the iPad Mini with a
shipping date of at least two weeks, so it looks like Apple has sold
out of th
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