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LG Builds New Glasses-Free 25-Inch 3D Monitor

LG may not be making the same choices as Samsung in regards to its OLED TV, but that does not mean it is slacking off, as its newest product announcement all too clearly shows. The company has announced the impending availability of a new, special monitor, bearing the name of D2500N-PN. The name alone does not exa...

14 February 2012
04:16 GMT

LG’s Optimus Vu Next to Samsung’s Galaxy Note

One of the mobile phones that LG Electronics is expected to bring to the market in the next several months is the LG Optimus Vu, a handset already teased on an official page on the vendor’s website. The smartphone will land on shelves with Google’s Android operating system on board, and will feature a ...

11 February 2012
10:21 GMT

LG Promises Revolutionary Smartphones for the MWC 2012

South Korean mobile phone maker LG Electronics is gearing up for the release of a series of great new devices later this month, during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The handset vendor has already started to send out invitations for the launch event, which will be held in Barcelona on February 27th. Whi...

11 February 2012
02:52 GMT

LG's Smart TVs Play Games with Magic Motion Remote and Stronger Graphics Chips

Smart TVs can already do a lot of things, like access the Internet for social networking and online video or TV broadcast streaming, but there is something even they can't tackle very well yet. That something is games, but LG and Unity Technologies decided to remedy this shortcoming through a new partnership. ...

7 February 2012
11:38 GMT

LG Also Builds a BDXL Writer, an External One with LightScribe Support

Pioneer may have covered the segment for desktop optical disk drives when it launched the BDR-S07, but it is LG Electronics that made a portable BDXL writer. Named BP40NS20, the item has arrived in Europe and, being an external product, is meant as a sort of companion to notebooks and such. It has a price of 109 Eur...

3 February 2012
11:12 GMT

LG Showcases 165-Inch 3D Display at ISE 2012

LG has prepared something “big” for this year’s ISE 2012 fair, namely a 165-inch super narrow bezel 3D display which uses the company’s proprietary FPR 3D technology.Developed by LG, the Film-type Patterned Retarder technology, FPR for short, uses plain-old curved lenses glasses, similar to th...

30 January 2012
12:58 GMT

LG Will Start OLED Display Manufacture in July, 2012

Looks like OLED panels are far enough along in their development that at least one company knows when it will begin the shipment and promotion efforts in earnest. LG has announced that it has decided to begin mass production of OLED panels in July, 2012. For those unaware, LG, like Samsung, had a 55-inch OLED TV ...

27 January 2012
07:21 GMT

LG Develops A540 Glasses-Free 3D Notebook

LG is serious about its effort to help turn 3D into a more readily available technology, so it went ahead and built, among other things, the A540 notebook. The A540 is one of those laptops that possesses every trait needed to make people reconsider their view that a laptop should be as thin and light as possible. ...

23 January 2012
14:11 GMT

CES 2012: LG Has Optimus LTE LU8300 10-Inch Tablet on Display

Without announcing anyone, LG brought to this year’s CES fair a new tablet dubbed the Optimus LTE LU8300 measuring around 10-inches.The tablet was spotted by Mobile Syrup while cruising the LG booth, and sports the Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM8660 SoC, presumably clocked at 1.5GHz, and the MDM9600 baseband.Android 3...

12 January 2012
17:51 GMT

LG Cup Street Fighter IV HD Tournament Debuts on Saturday in Los Angeles

Video game developer and publisher Capcom and consumer electronics company LG have announced that on Saturday the Belasco Theater in Los Angeles will play host to the LG Cup Street Fighter IV HD tournament, which will feature some of the best players in the world and will offer some excellent chances for amateurs to ...

12 January 2012
14:01 GMT

Microsoft Inks Android Patent Agreement with LG

Microsoft managed to sign a new Android patent license agreement with a leading mobile phone maker, this time with LG. The company signed a similar agreement with Samsung in September last year, and has agreements with other popular Android phone makers as well, including HTC and Acer. Over 70 percent of all...

12 January 2012
09:48 GMT

Google TV on LG, Samsung, Sony, Vizio Devices, to Go International This Year

Google TV has had a rough start, if you can call more than a year after launch a 'start,' but Google is still at it. While there are no signs that Google TV is the hot new thing, the big update from last fall did help and more people are buying devices than ever. Still, the future didn't look too brig...

6 January 2012
10:11 GMT

LG Has a More 'Ordinary' 3D Laptop In the Pipeline Too

After looking at the Super Ultrabooks, an All-in-One 3D PC and even a Glasses-Free 3D Laptop now we finally get to the P535 notebook. In part, the P535 is similar to the A540: they are both 15.6-inch notebooks, they both have 3D support and neither settles for the integrated Intel HD graphics. Granted, buyers of ...

5 January 2012
19:01 GMT

LG Extends CES Lineup With Glasses-Free 3D Laptop

LG is going to bring out all the guns at the upcoming CES trade show, or enough of them so that onlookers won't easily be able to tell the difference. Of course, once they lay eyes on the A540 notebook, they may forget all about LG's other products, for a while at least. This is one of those notebooks wh...

5 January 2012
16:31 GMT

All-in-One 3D PC Built by LG, Set for CES 2012

LG, like so many others, plans to make the best of this year's CES trade show, so it has many things prepared, like an All-in-One PC called V300. Unlike most of its kind, it features support for 3D, via the Film Patterned Retarder (FPR) 3D technology. The IPS display has a native resolution of 1,920 x 1,080 pi...

5 January 2012
08:21 GMT

New LG Windows Phone Emerges Ahead of CES 2012

Next week, South Korean mobile phone maker LG Electronics is expected to unveil to the world a new smartphone that would run under Microsoft’s Windows Phone operating system. The new handset appears to be different from the LG Fantasy smartphone that emerged last year, and should make an official appearance d...

5 January 2012
07:33 GMT

LG Preps New Ultrabooks, Says They're Super

Looks like LG has settled well into its seat on the Ultrabook train, its attitude suggesting it really is enthusiastic about the new product type. As is fairly common, companies aren't waiting for CES to start before they launch their products. Samsung. HP, Velocity Micro and others have already proven this ...

5 January 2012
06:01 GMT

LG Android Smartphone with Intel’s Medfield SoC at CES

South Korean mobile phone maker LG Electronics is expected to show to the world an Android-based handset packing Intel’s Medfield SoC during the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas next month. Apparently, this will be the first Android smartphone that will arrive on shelves with Intel’s mobile appli...

30 December 2011
09:01 GMT

LG Brings 84-Inch 3D Ultra-Definition TV at CES 2012

LG is not going to cut any corners at the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show, not on the display market at any rate. In fact, it would be safe to say that the company is more than ready to humble most every other display maker out there. We already saw how the company is ready to show off a 55-inch OLED display a...

29 December 2011
10:51 GMT

55-Inch OLED Display from LG Appears at CES 2012

It wasn't so long ago that organic light-emitting diodes were used only in small handsets, but the time has come for OLED to earn its place at the summit of monitor and TV display technologies. OLED has an advantage in how it doesn't need special backlighting, meaning that screens based on it are thinner ...

28 December 2011
15:21 GMT

PRADA Phone by LG 3.0 Now Available in South Korea

Today, mobile phone maker LG Electronics made a new handset available for purchase in its homeland market, the PRADA phone by LG 3.0. Released as the result of a collaboration between the South Korean mobile phone maker and the renowned fashion label PRADA, the new handset is set to hit additional markets in Europe...

28 December 2011
06:51 GMT

3D Glasses Finally Stop Looking Bad, LG Makes it Happen

There have been attempts to make 3D glasses less painful to look at, but LG may have just bested them all with its latest announcement. 3D glasses are the only means by which 3D films can be watched on a big or small screen, unless one owns one of those rare, glasses-free models (which aren't perfect). Alas, ...

27 December 2011
04:00 GMT

LG 27-Inch 3D IPS Monitor Has Almost No Bezel at All

People used to not pay much attention to how thick the bezel, the plastic/whatever other material that framed a TV or monitor, was, but that has changed and LG leads the charge towards a time when it is no longer there at all. LG has not precisely made a monitor that has no bezel yet, but it is very close. While t...

22 December 2011
08:21 GMT

LG Adds Intel WiDi Support to 2012 Cinema 3D Smart TVs

Intel’s WiDi seems to get a lot of support in the industry with LG being the latest company to announce the inclusion of this wireless video streaming technology in its products.The Korean company recently said that its upcoming 2012 Cinema 3D Smart TV line-up, which is to be unveiled at CES 2012, will feature ...

15 December 2011
05:19 GMT

The Latest LG NAS Firmware for the Discontinued Models

We present you the latest firmware for LG's line of network attached storage (NAS) solutions. Some of the listed products have been discontinued and that's why we decided to let you download the files, as it looks like there will be no more support development for the end-of-life products.The discontinued s...

9 December 2011
10:21 GMT

LG’s Smart TVs Become Even Smarter Thanks to Chumby's Ecosystem

LG’s Intenet connected HDTVs have now become even smarter as the company has announced a new partnership with Chumby that will expand the number of apps available to their users.Under this deal, LG Smart TV owners can access more than 1,000 applications, ranging from news and entertainment, social networking, p...

6 December 2011
10:30 GMT

LG Unveils Its Own Ultrabook, the Xnote Z330

After most of the major notebook makers unveiled their vision on how an Ultrabook should look like, LG also came out now with its own take on Intel’s ultra-thin notebook concept by announcing the Xnote Z330 laptop.Borrowing some design hints from Apple’s MacBook Air, the Z330 is built around a 13.3-inch d...

5 December 2011
10:12 GMT

LG DX2500 25-Inch Glasses-Free 3D Monitor Inbound

Glasses-free 3D panels aren't many, and they are actually rather limited, but people who don't expect there to be more than one person in front of the monitor still buy them. This time, it is LG that launched a display of this sort, one DX2500 which features parallax 3D technology. For those who don'...

1 December 2011
18:41 GMT

LG and Prada Announce Partnership and New Phone in Early 2012

We already know that LG and Prada plan to launch a new premium smartphone, the LG Prada K2, but the phone has yet to be confirmed by the manufacturer. Photos and videos showing the Prada K2 leaked more than a month ago, along with the phone’s hardware and software specifications. If anyone still had any doubt...

24 November 2011
03:56 GMT

LG Xnote P330 Is a South Korean Quasi-Ultrabook

LG would have been able to create a laptop more affordable than Ultrabooks by not submitting to the thickness rule, but it chose to go ahead and focus on performance instead. The machine that the company eventually put together is not exactly something that will show up all over the world. Instead, it is restricte...

11 November 2011
18:41 GMT

LG's Ultra-Thin but Powerful 13.3-Inch P330 Notebook Starts Selling in Korea

While Ultrabooks are really a nice alternative for users interested in buying a ultra-thin laptop, there are other notebook models available out there that mange to sport a similar form factor while offering improved performance.The 13.3-inch LG P330 is one of these notebooks as even if it uses a thin and light brush...

7 November 2011
05:48 GMT

LG Getting Close to Eliminatig TV Bezels, New 55-inch Panel Debuts

LG, being one of those companies that likes to have a big name on the display industry, released a new LCD that has an advantage in a certain area, even if consumers aren't going to enjoy it directly that often, in the short term at least.LG has proven that it has made it something of a personal quest to create...

18 October 2011
08:17 GMT

LG Partners with McAfee to Enhance Mobile Security

Consumers and enterprises will soon be able to benefit from enhanced protection features which will be deployed on LG mobile products by extending McAfee's technologies on all their devices that run an Android operating system. “Security and manageability are critical enablers for enterprises of all siz...

12 October 2011
07:39 GMT

LG Claims to Have Made the Least Power-Hungry LCD Yet

LG made many monitors and TVs over the years and, apparently, none of them were quite up to its standard as far as energy efficiency goes, since the company went out of its way to make one that can boast of being the best in that area. Saying that a product is the world's greatest in something, or the first ...

10 October 2011
07:26 GMT

LG Outs IPS5 Series of Professional Monitors

LG Electronics has recently announced the introduction of a new series of monitors based on the in-plane switching (IPS) technology, the IPS5, which promises to deliver accurate color reproduction and wide view angles.This new series comes as the successor of the previous IPS1 and IPS6 display lineup, which have mana...

3 October 2011
10:05 GMT

LG Ultra-Thin P220 Notebooks Gets OCZ Indilinx 6Gbps SSDs

Indilinx has managed to score its first major contract since it was acquired by OCZ earlier this year, as the company's recently released Everest 6Gbps solid state drives have now entered the standard configuration of LG's P220 ultra-thin notebooks. The Korean company will use a custom designed version o...

14 September 2011
10:12 GMT

LG Demos Ivy Bridge Powered Ultrabook at IDF 2011

Intel's Ultrabook concept has managed to gain the acceptance of quite a few notebook makers, and at this year’s IDF, LG has also joined this bandwagon with the Shuriken Eighteen powered by the next-generation Intel Ivy Bridge processors. The first thing that catches one's eye when taking a look at the Sh...

14 September 2011
08:38 GMT

IFA 2011: LG Brings Things Back to Normal With 23-Inch IPS Monitor

So many things have been shown at this year's IFA trade show, especially on the display market, that the new 3D monitor that LG put on display might be one of, if not the most normal of them all.One of the things on display at LG's booth in Berlin, Germany, is the Cinema 3D D237IPS.We actually have two fel...

5 September 2011
11:15 GMT

IFA 2011: LG Shows Off Huge 72-Inch 3D TV

It appears that LG is thinking big at this year's IFA trade show, as its collection of displays now welcomes what an official announcement dubs the largest FULL LED 3D TV in the world. The 2011 edition of the IFA trade show is underway, with many new products, and even some older ones, put on show for all to...

3 September 2011
05:52 GMT

IFA 2011: Close Up Video of LG's PenTouch Technology

Those that read about LG's new TV and would have liked to get a better idea of what they can actually do with it now have that wish fulfilled, as we managed to shoot a video of the PenTouch technology in action. Since the IFA trade show is underway in Berlin, Germany, there are many companies there, showing ...

3 September 2011
03:51 GMT

Huge LG Plasma TVs Have Stylus Touch Support

TVs are normally used as a means to tap into the wealth of multimedia channels available worldwide, but LG went one or two steps further when it built the PenTouch plasma line.That LG would release a new series of plasma TVs is definitely not shocking in and of itself, since this happens on a fairly regular basis.Wh...

2 September 2011
06:25 GMT

LG Spending Targets for 2012 Fall Sharply

LG may have launched two new monitors just a short time ago, but the LCD market is, overall, not doing too well, a fact reflected in how the company decided to revise its financial expectations for next year.Liquid crystal displays are everywhere nowadays, the same way virtual memory server mostly any electronic out...

29 August 2011
10:50 GMT

23-Inch LG Monitors Presented, IFA Awaits

People may or may not know that the IFA trade show is on the way, but IT players definitely do, though not all are reacting by hoarding their products, since LG came out and launched a pair of LCDs instead of waiting.Whenever an IT electronics show approaches, IT companies have a tendency to slow down in their produ...

29 August 2011
03:41 GMT

LG Aurora Xnote S Notebook Previewed Fashionably Early

LG may not have been pulling out as many guns as some of tis rivals lately, but it did not sit aside either, having issued an official announcement now that the Aurora Xnote S laptop line is ready to rumble.One would think that, after all the other product launches, Samsung would take a break and enjoy the show. ...

26 August 2011
07:42 GMT

IFA Approaches, LG Prepares Scanner-Mouse Hybrid

Of all the hybrid devices launched so far, one might say that the one LG is preparing might be a bit outside the sphere of easily imagined concepts, even though lasers have come to play a part in the operation of both.The issue of hybridization is one that can be raised on more or less every single level of the IT i...

24 August 2011
08:05 GMT

South Korea Announces New Mobile OS Development Plans to Rival Android and iOS

For those who thought that having five mobile platforms available on the market is enough, think again. South Korean government plans to develop its own mobile operating system that will protect local smartphone manufacturers against Apple's patents war. It appears that South Koreans move was a direct result ...

24 August 2011
07:51 GMT

Korea Gets LG Xnote A530 3D Notebook

Coming to promote the alleged greatness of the 3D display mode, LG has taken the liberty of taking a stand on the Korean market and releasing its first 3D notebook there, the so-called Xnote A530.3D videos, especially movies, have become much more widespread and spoken of over the past year, compared to a short time...

23 August 2011
05:01 GMT

LG Xnote P220 Shipping Date Revealed, Pricing Still Unknown

After announcing the Xnote P220 in Korea, LG has now come forward with new information regarding the release date and the specifications of this new ultra-portable notebook built around a high-quality 12.5-inch IPS display.The Xnote P220 comes as the successor of the P210, and it features pretty much the same design ...

12 August 2011
08:27 GMT

Sony and LG Make Peace, Enter License Deal

Coming to offer an episode of mild peace in the saga of IT lawsuits are Sony and LG, whose patent litigations have ended in a cross-license agreement that both parties agreed to.One thing about the IT industry is that there are so many companies whose interest and product portfolios overlap that it is more or less i...

11 August 2011
05:54 GMT

LG Xnote P220 Finally Nears Availability

Having already unveiled it back in June, LG Electronics brought forth the Xnote P220 ultrathin, a small machine that, unfortunately, has not been described in full, despite being supposedly ready for availability.For a product to be unveiled months before its actual market availability is part for the course on the ...

10 August 2011
06:09 GMT


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