Tag Archives: LG

HTC, LG, Motorola and Nokia talk tablets at Open Mobile Summit London

Published on Tuesday, May 17th by Cian O' Sullivan

The device manufacturers are out in force for this year’s Open Mobile Summit London, June 8-9.

Corporate Vice Presidents of Motorola, LG Electronics and Sony Ericsson join HTC’s President Europe and CCS Insight’s Ben Wood in London to explore the future of devices. High on the agenda is the race to catch Apple in the tablet wars. Continue reading →

Posted in Press Release | Tagged HTC, LG, Motorola, nokia, open mobile summit | 1 Comment

Masabi provides iPhone experience on Nokia 6300

Published on Thursday, March 3rd by Tony Dennis

Rating:Train ticketing app for ancient handsets

Here’s a company which has recognised that millions of Britons are being left out of the mobile data revolution because their handset is an ordinary phone not the latest all-singing, all dancing smartphone. Mobile ticketing expert, Masabi, has just announced that it has extended the reach of its ticketing app to owners of boring mobile phones including entry level phones from the likes of Nokia, Sony Ericsson, LG and Samsung. Basically, all you need to have is a mobile phone with access to the Internet correctly installed. To test the theory, try texting the word ‘TRAIN’ to the shortcode – 86688. Continue reading →

Posted in Featured, LG, Mobile applications, Mobile barcodes, Samsung, Sony, nokia | Tagged 6300, aztec, barcodes, Ben Whitaker, LG, Masbai, nokia, Samsung, Sony, thetrainline.com, ticketing | 1 Comment

Lusting for latest Android? Vodafone can help

Published on Wednesday, February 16th by Tony Dennis

Rating: Swift round-up Android devices for UK
With all the myriad of handset and tablet launches taking place in Barcelona, it’s quite easy to lose track of where you are as a regular consumer. When can you get your hands on this stuff and from where? So full marks to Vodafone for pointing out what its [...]

Posted in HTC, LG, MWC, Samsung, Sony, Vodafone, android | Tagged Arc, chacha, Desire S, Froyo, Galaxy Tab 10.1, gingerbread, google, honeycomb, HTC, LG, Nexus S, Optimus 3D, Samsung, Sony, Wildfire S, Xperia Neo, Xperia Play | 1 Comment

T-Mobile launches cheap Androids for Christmas

Published on Monday, November 1st by Cian O' Sullivan

T-Mobile USA is heading into the holiday season with a line-up of affordable Android devices. From Wednesday, T-Mobile will be selling the T-Mobile Comet, LG Optimus and Motorola DEFY – all Android smartphones – for less than $100 each. Continue reading →

Posted in Press Release | Tagged android, comet, DEFY, LG, Motorola, optimus, smartphone, t-mobile | 1 Comment

LG embeds mobile music discovery from Shazam on Android

Published on Thursday, September 23rd by Cian O' Sullivan

One of the most consistently popular apps around is Shazam – the music discovery application. Today it has announced that global mobile manufacturer LG will be preloading the app on its Android devices around the world, starting with the GT540. Continue reading →

Posted in LG, Mobile Music, Mobile applications, Music, android, mobile news | Tagged android, App, application, LG, mobile app, mobile application, mobile device, Mobile Music, mobile phone, Music, Shazam | 1 Comment

LG gives specs/release dates for Froyo phones

Published on Tuesday, September 14th by Tony Dennis

Rating: One has better battery life than Chic

A smartphone for everyone is the slogan LG is utilising to push sales of its latest Android Froyo 2.2 handsets – the Optimus One (due October in Europe) and the Optimus Chic (due November). And the company confidently predicted that it will sell 10 million units of these phones worldwide in an online press conference today. The Korean handset manufacturer is also very heavily promoting the ‘with Google’ branding on the Optimus One. Continue reading →

Posted in LG, Mobile Devices, android, google | Tagged 2.2, android, Chic, Froyo, google, LG, One, optimus, Voice Actions, voice search | Leave a comment

LG to provide details of 2 Froyo handsets – by video

Published on Friday, September 10th by Tony Dennis

Rating: online demos of LG Optimus One & LG Optimus Chic

Reading through the doublespeak email which just landed on our desks, details of the LG Optimus One and LG Optimus Chic will be released to journalists on September 14th [2010]. Which is next Tuesday. Nowhere in this teaser does LG hint what kind of devices we’re talking about. However, the previous Press blurb says this about the, “Two Android-powered smartphones in the pipeline – LG Optimus One with Google and LG Optimus Chic – incorporate the speedy Android Platform 2.2 (Froyo).” Continue reading →

Posted in LG, Mobile Devices, android | Tagged android, Froyo, Garson Yu, LG, Optimus Chic, Optimus One, yU+Co | Leave a comment

Top 5 mobile phone makers battled by Apple, Motorola

Published on Friday, July 30th by Cian O' Sullivan

The five most powerful mobile phone makers in the world are being hassled by smaller companies, according to the International Data Corporation (ID). Its Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker shows that worldwide interest in smartphones is shaking the boat, and threatening the security of the Top Five. Continue reading →

Posted in Mobile Devices, mobile news | Tagged Apple, HTC, LG, mobile, mobile device, mobile phone, Motorola, nokia, RIM, Samsung, smartphone, Sony | 5 Comments

Mobile abuse: teens and parents are both naughty when texting

Published on Thursday, July 15th by Cian O' Sullivan

Mobile phone maker LG has run a survey about SMS that it calls the “Text Ed Survey“. It’s designed to give parents a better idea of what it is that teenagers actually use their texts for. And it has turned up some surprising results about the parents as well! Continue reading →

Posted in LG, Mobile Messaging, Mobile Stats, mobile news | Tagged LG, mobile, mobile text, parent, sexting, SMS, survey, teens, text | 5 Comments

Hot news for mobile advertising and marketing: iAds, Domino’s and LG

Published on Tuesday, July 13th by Cian O' Sullivan

Here’s the GoMo News round up of the best mobile marketing and advertising stories that have broken this morning and overnight. There are worries over iAds; preparations for more mobile marketing; Domino’s Pizza praising mobile social marketing for sales growth; and more… Continue reading →

Posted in Mobile Ad&Mktg, Mobile Marketing, mobile news | Tagged advertising, call loop, iads, LG, marketing, mobile, mobile advertising, Mobile Marketing, pizza | 3 Comments

There’re other mobile app download sites besides just iTunes

Published on Thursday, June 17th by Tony Dennis

Rating: We know who No.1 is but who is No.6? Patrick McGoohan?

Whilst researching GetJar’s place in the mobile apps market, this GoMo News hack discovered there’s no really comprehensive guide to online sites which offer mobile phone app downloads. This is a swift fix for that omission. Continue reading →

Posted in 3, Apple, Mobile Content, Mobile OS, Mobile Operators, Mobile applications, Sony, Vodafone, Windows Mobile, android, mobi sites, nokia, orange | Tagged 3 UK, Alex Blackman, android, AndroidLib, Cyrket, getjar, Handango, itunes, LG, market, nokia, orange, Ovi, Patrick McGoohan, pocketgear, Prisoner, Samsung, Semantico, Sony, Vodafone 360. Palm | 1 Comment

Mobile devices and smartphone news: Windows Phone, LG, Qualcomm and dead bees

Published on Wednesday, June 2nd by Cian O' Sullivan

There have been some great stories happening the world of mobile devices and smartphones over the last day – here we’ve gathered the ones that caught our eyes the most. There’s a new phone launch from LG, along with smartphone moves from Microsoft and much more… Continue reading →

Posted in Mobile Devices, Mobile Operators, mobile news | Tagged india, kobian, LG, Microsoft, mobile, mobile device, mobile phone, qualcomm, smartphone, t-mobile, windows phone | Leave a comment

The death of Nortel is going great for Ericsson and LTE

Published on Wednesday, April 21st by Cian O' Sullivan

It’s sad to see a once proud company crumbling slowly, but it has turned out very nicely for Ericsson. What am I talking about? Canadian company, Nortel. The massive telecoms equipment maker filed for bankruptcy last year, and has been selling off bits of itself in order to fulfill its debt obligations. And today Ericsson has announced that it has finally managed to break into the Korean market – by buying out Nortel’s interests there. Continue reading →

Posted in Mobile Operators, mobile news | Tagged ericsson, korea, LG, LTE, mobile carrier, mobile network, mobile operator, Nortel | 2 Comments

Real world data offered by DeviceAnywhere Metrics

Published on Wednesday, March 24th by Tony Dennis

Rating: Shows what 10K developers are up to in USA

A interesting snapshot into the requirements of mobile app developers working in the US market is being provided for free by testing specialist, DeviceAnywhere. The company fully admits that the data is not perfect but on the other hand it does show where there is significant demand from developers. The two areas where the data is weak cover location based testing and the Apple iPhone. Continue reading →

Posted in Mobile OS, android, iphone, mobile analytics | Tagged android, DeviceAnywhere, Faraz Syed, iphone, LBS, LG, Motorola, RIM, Samsung | 2 Comments