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LG X120 Netbook Comes to AT&T in the US

LG Electronics MobileComm U.S.A. has announced the launch of its newest product, the LG X120 netbook, on the United States market via mobile-phone carrier AT&T. According to the company, the new netbook is one of the hot products announced by LG at the Mobile World Congress, 2009, held in Barcelona. A unique feature...

24 November 2009
06:02 GMT

LG Posts Full GW525 Specs on Its Website

South Korean mobile phone maker LG Electronics has unveiled the specifications list of its GW525 handset. The entire list is now available on the LG Mobile Developer Network and shows some rather appealing features for this device, which is reportedly aimed at the markets in South America and North America.“Th...

23 November 2009
14:01 GMT

Full Specs on LG GW620 Android Phone Emerge

Leading South Korean mobile phone maker LG Electronics has officially announced just recently that it will come to the market with a mobile phone powered by Google's Android operating system, namely the LG GW620. The handset was reported to come to the market in Europe and North America, and now its entire list...

23 November 2009
05:34 GMT

LG to Deliver Snapdragon-Based Android Handset

South Korean mobile phone maker LG Electronics has already made a move into the Android side of the smartphone market, with the launch of LG GW620, which is also known around the Web as the LG Eve. However, it seems that the company does not plan to stop only here, but that it will come to the market with yet another...

7 November 2009
05:03 GMT

LG Sells over 30 Million LG KP100 Units

South Korean mobile phone maker LG Electronics announced on Tuesday that it had managed to ship more than 30 million units of its LG KP100, an entry-level handset. According to the company, the number of LG KP100 models shipped shows that it has gained more ground on the market, given the fact that the entry-level se...

14 October 2009
16:51 GMT

LG and Anite Announce LTE Conformance Test Cases Verification

LG Electronics, a South Korean mobile phone maker and technology innovator in mobile communications, and Anite, a leading company in testing technology for the wireless industry, have announced today that they managed to successfully complete the first LTE protocol conformance test cases in the industry. Anite and L...

6 October 2009
02:13 GMT

LG's 2010 Q1 Roadmap Unveiled

South Korean mobile phone maker LG Electronics seems to plan on launching to the market in the early 2010 a handful of mobile phones that will feature touchscreen capabilities, as a recently spotted photo of the company's roadmap for the first quarter of next year shows. Moreover, the names that should stand out...

2 October 2009
05:37 GMT

LG's New Chocolate BL20 Goes Official

South Korean mobile phone maker LG Electronics announced today officially its second New Chocolate phone, the BL20. Following the introduction of LG Chocolate BL40, the new handset comes to the market in a sliding form factor and should become available for purchase in the UK starting with the fourth quarter of the o...

28 September 2009
10:37 GMT

LG New Chocolate BL20 in More Colors, Video Promo

South Korean mobile-phone maker LG Electronics announced not too long ago that it planned to come to the market with new mobile phones that would be included in its Chocolate series, and we already saw the BL40 Chocolate Touch going official, yet now it is time to take a new look at a lower-end LG New Chocolate BL20 ...

19 September 2009
05:03 GMT

Two LG Windows Phones Headed for the US

According to the latest news around the web, South Korean mobile phone maker LG Electronics is set to deliver two new handsets powered by Microsoft's Windows Mobile 6.5 operating system to the market in the United States. The handsets will come for “early adopter customers,” the company seems to have...

14 September 2009
04:01 GMT

LG Intros LG-GW620 with Android

South Korean mobile phone maker LG Electronics announced today the upcoming availability of its first handset powered by Google's Android operating system, the LG-GW620. The new device proves that the company is committed to expanding its smartphone offering, and comes only one week after the announcement regard...

14 September 2009
02:30 GMT

LG to Launch Three Windows Phones Shortly

South Korean mobile phone maker LG Electronics is yet another manufacturer to announce the upcoming availability of its first Windows phones. A number of three new device running under Microsoft's Windows Mobile 6.5 operating system, which will come to the market starting with October 6 this year. Among them, we...

3 September 2009
04:31 GMT

LG Sees Good Q2, Sells 30 Million Phones

South Korean mobile phone maker LG Electronics announced on Wednesday its financial results for the second quarter of the ongoing year and posted record-high earnings in sales and operating profit. Compared to last year's second quarter, the company says, its global sales (including its overseas subsidiaries) we...

23 July 2009
03:57 GMT

LG Sells 5 Million Cookies

South Korean mobile phone maker LG Electronics has announced today that it managed to sell a number of more than 5 million LG-KP500 “Cookie” mobile phones all around the world since the launch of the handset on the market, which was nine months ago. According to the company, this record makes its Cookie d...

20 July 2009
10:04 GMT

LG's GW620 Android Handset Surfaces

Google's Android operating system has just started to gain a little more ground on the market, as more and more handsets that run under it have surfaced, ranging from the officially unveiled ones to those that are leaked or alleged to surface. One of the rumored Android-based devices that should land during the ...

20 July 2009
02:26 GMT

New Photos of LG BL42 Chocolate Leaked

LG's Black Label series of mobile phones seems determined to stay in the headlines this week, with more details on both the recently unveiled LG BL40 and with its “younger” brother LG BL42 making their way onto the web. The South Korean mobile phone maker already announced that it planned to release ...

17 July 2009
09:13 GMT

FCC Clears LG GW600 for AT&T

A new handset coming to the United States market from South Korean mobile phone maker LG Electronics has recently received FCC approval, the LG GW600. The new mobile phone is expected to surface in the country on the airwaves of wireless carrier AT&T, sporting Microsoft's Windows Mobile operating system. The de...

16 July 2009
11:30 GMT

New Photos of LG BL40 Emerge, BL42 Also Spotted

One of the newest cell phones that surfaced again into the wild is the LG BL40, the new flavor of South Korean mobile phone maker's popular Chocolate, and the fourth device in the company's Black Label series. This time around, however, it seems that the phone hasn't been caught on camera alone, but to...

16 July 2009
10:23 GMT

LG MOBILE WORLDCUP 2009 Kicks Off

South Korean mobile phone maker LG Electronics announced recently the launch of its LG MOBILE WORLDCUP 2009. The new edition of the annual festival starts with the first national texting competition in Indonesia, which will end in November in the US at the World Championship, where the world’s fastest texter wi...

15 July 2009
04:35 GMT

Promo Video with LG Chocolate BL40 Spotted

LG Electronics, the South Korean mobile phone maker that announced a little while ago that it planned to become the second largest cell phone vendor in the world, also unveiled a few days ago that it purposed to bring back to the market one of the most successful mobile phone brands it had produced, namely LG Chocola...

13 July 2009
09:34 GMT

LG to Prep Its Own App Store for a Tuesday Launch

South Korean mobile phone maker LG Electronics is the latest cell phone manufacturer to come aboard the application storefront vessel. According to the latest news around the Web, the company is getting ready to bring its software solution portal live on Tuesday, with a great focus on the Asian market, at least at th...

13 July 2009
06:43 GMT

LG BL40 Chocolate Black Label Series 4 Unveiled

South Korean mobile phone maker LG Electronics announced on Tuesday plans to come to the market with a new version of its very popular Chocolate mobile phone. Although it mentioned that the new device should land sometime before the end of August, the company hasn't said too much on the specifications of the han...

8 July 2009
06:58 GMT

LG GW300 QWERTY Phone on Display

LG Electronics seems determined to launch as many new mobile phones as it needs so as to be able to gain that second position on the market and leave Samsung behind. While new phones are always a good thing, especially when they are attractive and easy to use, the idea of teasing users with the upcoming devices seems...

8 July 2009
06:14 GMT

LG GC990 Shows Its 12MP Camera

South Korean mobile phone maker LG has unveiled to the world a brand new handset, dubbed LG GC990 Louvre. The device, showcased at the Korea Products Exhibition held in Warsaw, seems determined to show that Samsung and Sony Ericsson are not the only mobile phone makers that can come to the market with a 12MP camera p...

8 July 2009
03:22 GMT

LG Chocolate Returns in August

South Korean mobile phone maker LG Electronics has announced today that it plans to bring back on the market its highly popular Chocolate device, and that it is currently working on the development of the next-generation such handset. The decision to bring Chocolate back on the market comes from the fact that the dev...

7 July 2009
10:22 GMT

LG GT500 Gets Launched on T-Mobile UK

T-Mobile UK is reported to have added yet another touchscreen mobile phone to its offering, namely the LG GT500. The new device comes to the carrier's users as a mid-level handset, while sporting a 3-inch touchscreen display that can boast a 240 x 400 pixel resolution, along with a 5-megapixel photo snapper and ...

7 July 2009
10:02 GMT

LG's GD910 Watch-Phone to Hit the UK in August

LG showed its GD910 watch-phone to the world a while ago, and, although the handset was expected to come to the market sometime this summer, no exact details on the release were given until now. According to the latest news on the web, the new watch-phone will become available in the UK as soon as August. The devic...

7 July 2009
09:01 GMT

LG Plans High-End Phones to Bring Down Samsung

It's always nice to hear what mobile phone makers plan to bring to the market in the future, so as to prepare ourselves to make upgrades for our existing handsets, or to switch to another manufacturer, leaving the brand that we are already using aside. And when it comes to choosing a better device, it seems that...

4 July 2009
03:48 GMT

LG's 3D S-Class UI Wins iF Communication Design Award

South-Korean mobile phone maker LG Electronics announced recently that its 3D S-Class User Interface, which could be seen in its LG ARENA (LG-KM900) handset, had won the iF Communication Design Award 2009. According to the company, LG ARENA received the Gold award in the Product Interfaces category, in which all grap...

2 July 2009
04:23 GMT

LG to Leave Samsung Behind in 3G Phone Area

According to the latest news around the Internet, LG Electronics is expected to soon leave behind rival Samsung when it comes to the manufacturing of 3G mobile phones. It seems that the handset manufacturer might be able to outpace its co-national rival company courtesy of the high demand the technology is expected t...

26 June 2009
11:14 GMT

LG Electronics Licenses ARM Technology for DTV Development

Cambridge, England, UK-based ARM has just announced that one of the world's leading vendors of consumer electronics, LG Electronics, has recently licensed the ARM technology for use in its upcoming line of digital TVs (DTV). According to both companies, this solution will enable consumers to take advantage of a ...

22 June 2009
06:44 GMT

The World's First LTE Modem Comes from LG

The first steps towards the deployment of the next-generation Long Term Evolution (LTE) technology have been already made, and while a lot of carriers already announced plans to roll out networks based on the 4G standard, other companies also stated that they would support the technology in their own way. A wide rang...

19 June 2009
08:46 GMT

LG GT500, LG GW550 and LG GW520 in the Spotlight

South Korean mobile phone maker LG Electronics came to the ComunicAsia 2009 expo in Singapore with a nice series of mobile phones, some of which we already reported on, namely the Windows Mobile-powered LG-GM730, or the LG-GD900 Crystal. At the same time, the company also introduced other handsets, such as LG GT500, ...

17 June 2009
10:05 GMT

LG Unveils New Handsets at CommunicAsia 2009

South Korean mobile phone maker LG Electronics has announced today that it will introduce its latest mobile phones and that it will discuss its strategic direction for the ongoing year at CommunicAsia 2009 in Singapore. In addition, the company has also added that the new mobile phones that it will have on display co...

16 June 2009
09:39 GMT

80 Phones in 2009, Says LG

According to the latest news on the Wed, South Korean mobile phone maker LG Electronics plans to release to the market in 2009 a number of 80 handsets, 12 of which will be smartphones. In addition, the company's vice-president of marketing strategy for Mobile Communications, Ma Chang-min, is also reported to hav...

12 June 2009
08:06 GMT

GW520 and GT505, New Social Networking Phones from LG

South Korean mobile phone maker LG Electronics announced recently the release of two new mobile phones meant to offer users the possibility to always stay connected with their online communities, no matter where they are, the LG GW520 and LG GT505. The new devices feature not only push updates from social networking ...

1 June 2009
08:40 GMT

LG Sells 20 Million Touch Phones in 26 Months

South Korean-based mobile phone maker LG Electronics announced recently that it managed to top 20 million touchscreen mobile phones sold all around the world, only two years after launching its first such device on the market. Since the release of its LG-KE850 Prada Phone in March 2007, the company succeeded in setti...

21 May 2009
08:53 GMT

LG Xenon Goes to Canada, LG Renoir to China

LG Xenon has been introduced in the United States not too long ago, through the wireless carrier AT&T, and is now available in Canada as well, via Rogers Wireless. The touch screen quick-messaging phone can be acquired from the carrier for $80 upon the signing of a three-year contract agreement. The device comes w...

13 May 2009
11:07 GMT

China Operators to Get LG 3G Phones

Korean mobile phone maker LG Electronics, the third largest handset developer all around the world, has announced today that wireless operators in China have chosen it to supply them with third-generation (3G) mobile phones. As many of you might already know, the Chinese government granted mobile phone carriers in t...

28 April 2009
03:37 GMT

LG Versa Gets Its Game Pad Controller

According to the latest news on the web, the Korean mobile phone maker LG Electronics has finally made available the game pad module meant to work with its LG Versa handset, which the wireless carrier Verizon added to its offering as its Most Versatile Phone (MVP) due to the variety of functionality additions it supp...

24 April 2009
04:10 GMT

LG Phones and AT&T Services Featured in MTV's 'The Phone'

AT&T and LG Electronics MobileComm U.S.A. Inc. announced on Tuesday an integration with the new series “The Phone” from MTV, executive produced by Justin Timberlake and which premiered yesterday. Game contestants will use LG mobile phones that support AT&T services, while the competition simulates the pos...

22 April 2009
04:08 GMT

LG Electronics Posts Better-Than-Expected Q1 Results

Korean mobile phone maker LG Electronics announced today its financial results for the first quarter of the ongoing year, and posted higher-than-expected revenues for the time frame. The Mobile Communications Company reported $3.02 billion in sales (KRW 4.25 trillion), which marks a 16.8 percent growth compared to th...

21 April 2009
10:31 GMT

LG Lotus in Red Goes Live on Sprint

Another new mobile phone that made it to Sprint's lineup is the LG Lotus, which is now available in red for the carrier's users. The device comes with a unique square flip form factor, while also including a full QWERTY keyboard, and can be purchased either in a funky textured purple, tattooed red paisley o...

21 April 2009
09:19 GMT

LG Officially Intros Viewty Smart

Korean mobile phone maker LG Electronics announced on Monday the release of its second Viewty phone, dubbed LG Viewty Smart or LG GC900, a device that comes to the market with an 8-megapixel photo snapper that sports auto focus and Schneider-Kreuznach lens, as well as an Intelligent Shot Mode meant to automatically a...

21 April 2009
02:56 GMT

LG Sells 20 Million QWERTY, Sees 2 Million Orders for Arena

LG Electronics seems to have a great time as a mobile phone maker lately. Not long after announcing that its Cookie phone sold in more than 2 million units and that it expects to be able to ship more than 10 million units of the device in 2009, we also learn that the company has recently passed the 20 million mark wh...

16 April 2009
10:58 GMT

LG Viewty II Spotted as Viewty Smart

We've seen the LG Viewty II handset in the wild in a series of leaked photos a few times before, and we even spotted it at some trade shows, yet the Korean mobile phone maker hasn't said anything official about it until now. This time around, the device has been spotted on LG’s German blog, and it see...

15 April 2009
10:07 GMT

LG GW610 to Come as a Windows Mobile Handset

Korean company LG Electronics and the Redmond software giant Microsoft announced in February at the Mobile World Congress that the mobile phone maker would come to the market with an entire series of smartphones running under the Windows Mobile operating system, and it seems that the first steps in that direction hav...

14 April 2009
06:17 GMT

Samsung and LG to Launch LTE Handsets Next Year

LTE (Long Term Evolution) is one of the 4G technologies that are expected to become quite popular this year and in the years to come. A lot of industry players have announced plans to support it – in the detriment of WiMAX, another 4G standard –, including wireless carriers around the globe, as well as mo...

14 April 2009
03:40 GMT

LG Plans to Sell 10 Million Cookies in 2009

The LG Cookie (LG-KP500) has been available on the market since October 2008, and its maker, the Korean-based LG Electronics, announced today that the attractively priced full-touchscreen handset had been sold in more than two million units worldwide, although the market was affected by the economic turmoil. Accord...

9 April 2009
12:11 GMT


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