LG announces new X Note Z350 Ultrabook

This news comes from LG, LG has issued ULTRABOOK, and this is very interesting course, with an elegant design. LG has announced the Z350 Ultrabook X new records with 13.3 inch screen, which is a continuation of an older model Z330. This is based on third generation Intel Core i-series platform [Ivy Bridge] and offers a boot time of just nine seconds.

X Note Z350 Ultrabook, Red Dot Design Awards in get, even though it sort of looks like every other Ultrabook we have seen recently. LG also claims that it is Ultrabook tertipis in the world, with a thickness of only 14.7mm. And at 1.2kg, it is also very light.

X Note Ultrabook Z350, Z350 While running on the processor Intel Core i5/i7, not mentioned from the GPU. It is, however, come with built-in HDD  SSD combo + option.

LG Marquee comes to Boost with no contract

LG Marquee comes to Boost with no contract.The kids get added toys this year, as Sprint’s prepaid brand, Boost Mobile, is accepting the LG Marquee in the advancing weeks.

The LG Optimus Black clone, which was already accessible from Sprint on a two-year contract, is appear beneath Boost's "Shrinkage" plan, and is assuredly allotment of the ancestor company's accomplishment to accomplish added absorption in the contract-less buzz market.

The Boost Mobile adaptation of the LG Marquee will be accessible for $279 from January 23

LG signs patent licensing deal with Microsoft

iD-Gadget Today's --> LG is the most recent above Android architect to assurance a licensing acceding with Microsoft, accordant to pay royalties to thecomputer application giant. That leaves Motorola as the alone one of the Google OS big players that hasn't got a agnate deal.

The accord agency that LG will be advantageous Microsoft a few bucks for every smartphone, book or "other customer devices" it makes that run either Android or Google Chrome OS.
LG signs patent licensing deal with Microsoft
LG becomes the eleventh Android OEM to assurance such a accord with Microsoft. The above Motorola is already actuality sued by Microsoft over declared apparent infringement, so it ability be abutting that account soon.

HTC and Samsung anniversary accept apparent licensing deals with Microsoft, which crave them to advance out Windows Phone accessories and pay for advance and business of the OS. It's cryptic if LG has agnate clauses in its contract.

WindowsPhone update fixes disappearing keyboard

Italian Windows Phone armpit Plaffo, accept accepted letters that a fresh amend for Windows Phone has amorphous to cycle out, starting with the LG Optimus 7 on Vodafone.

The amend issues a cardinal of improvements and added chiefly bug fixes to Windows Phone, acclamation the brand of the abstruse dematerialization keyboard affair that has bedeviled users by ambuscade the on-screen keyboard in accepted use.

There are additionally added aegis axial fixes too, such as the area aloofness affair that Microsoft said acquired "unintended behavior" by sending balance area abstracts about to adjacent corpuscle building and WiFi admission points.

The amend uses the adaptation cardinal to 7.10.8107.79 and the key credibility of the change log are as follows:

• Stops the on-screen keyboard dematerialization aback in use

• Provides a fix for Gmail accompany issue

• Fixes area admission issue. Following the upgrade, sending area advice anonymously to Microsoft apropos adjacent Wi-Fi admission credibility and corpuscle antennas is optional

•Revocation of certificates issued by DigiCert Sdn Bhd to break a botheration of encryption

• Fixes a botheration with e-mail accompanying to Microsoft Exchange Server 2003. Aback you acknowledgment to or advanced an email, the aboriginal bulletin is now included in the response

• Fixes an affair with voicemail notifications

We still don't accept a briefing of the abounding amend agenda for added accessories and the assorted carriers, but accumulate blockage aback actuality and on your Windows Phone accessory to aces it up soon.

Win Rumours' Tom Warren does about affirm that admitting the cardinal of acceptable fixes the amend brings, the above SMS bug that can attenuate the messaging hub from accepting SMS is still present, so with that we achievement a resolution can be begin soon.

Let us apperceive if your Windows Phone has apparent signs of accessible updates.

Android nears 50% mark in the US

iD-Gadget Today's -- > Android nears 50% mark in the US:

        comScore has aloof appear their fresh address on the US smartphone bazaar and it turns out that there are no affecting changes to be witnessed. Android connected to be the fastest growing adaptable belvedere about and alike the barrage of the iPhone 4S wasn't abundant for iOS to bout its growth.

        In the three months catastrophe on November 30, 46.9% of the smartphone users in the US had a Google OS device. That's 3.1 percent credibility college than the Android bazaar allotment for the antecedent three months.

         iOS came in a adequately abroad additional - Apple's proprietary belvedere acquired 1.4 percent point and had a bazaar allotment of 28.7%. RIM's struggles abide as BlackBerry OS absent added 3.1 percent credibility and now alone admiral 16.6% of the US smartphones.

         Symbian and Microsoft didn't accept a decidedly acceptable time in the bazaar either, the two platforms bottomward 0.5 and 0.3 percent credibility of their corresponding bazaar shares.

Top Adaptable OEMs

3 Month Avg. Catastrophe Nov. 2011 vs. 3 Month Avg. Catastrophe Aug. 2011

Share (%) of Adaptable Subscribers

Aug-11 Nov-11 Point Change

Total Adaptable Subscribers 100.0% 100.0% N/A

Samsung 25.3% 25.6% 0.3

LG 21.0% 20.5% -0.5

Motorola 14.0% 13.7% -0.3

Apple 9.8% 11.2% 1.4

RIM 7.1% 6.5% -0.6

But for all the success that Android is having, the additional allotment of the comScore address shows that Apple is the distinct aggregation to annals the better advance in the accomplished three months. The Cupertino-based aggregation now owns 11.4% of the corpuscle buzz bazaar (that includes smartphones and featuresphones) and is breath bottomward Motorola's close for the third spot.

At the top Samsung continued its advance over the additional placed LG and now accounts for added than a division of all adaptable accessories awash in the US.

LG reveals Android ICS update

LG promised us an advancement to Ice Cream Sandwich for their phones appear this year and they plan to accumulate that promise. To advance this, they accept aloof appear a absolution agenda for the Ice Cream Sandwich update.

The updates will alpha rolling out in two waves. The aboriginal beachcomber will activate in Q2, 2012 and it will awning the afterward handsets: the LG Optimus LTE, Prada buzz by LG 3.0, the LG Optimus 2X, the LG Optimus Sol, the LG my Touch Q and the LG Eclipse.

The additional beachcomber of updates will activate in Q3, 2012 and will awning the afterward handsets: the LG Optimus 3D, the LG Optimus Black, the LG Optimus Big, the LG Optimus Q2 and the LG Optimus EX.

This has to be by far the best absolute amend agenda we accept apparent to date from any Android OEM. LG has been apathetic with the Android updates till now, allotment to barrage their phones with an anachronous adaptation instead but like Sony Ericsson they accept boring abstruse the accent of appropriate updates and now assume to be accomplishing an alike more good job compared to the brand of Samsung and HTC.

A Windows Phone running LG Fantasy

LG has been quiet on the Windows Phone advanced this year. The alone access we've apparent from the Korean behemothic was the LG Jil Sander Mobile. The closing is hardly a fresh artefact as it is absolutely based on the Optimus 7 from a year ago.

It appears however, that the aggregation has a cast fresh accessory in the works. A affiliate of XDA Developers has acquired a pre-production assemblage of a yet to be announced, Windows Phone 7.5 Mango sporting, LG smartphone, dubbed (at atomic for the time being) Fantasy. Check it out in the photos below.

We apperceive about annihilation about the specs of the smartphone, save for the actuality that its sports a 4" IPS screen, and Microsoft's most recent adaptable OS on board.

The LG Fantasy will reportedly be apparent sometimes during Q1 of 2012. We assumption that a CES or MWC advertisement is likely. We will awning both live, so apprehend an amend as anon as we get the abounding beat on the device.

LG Prada 3.0 UK in February cost £499.99

iD-Gadget Today's -: Ever back LG and Prada appear the most recent artefact of their collaboration, fashionistas with a aftertaste for Android accept been allurement themselves aloof one catechism - back is it to become available. Well, now we accept the acknowledgment to that and we alike accept a amount tag to go with it.

According to a folio on the Carphone Warehouse website, the LG Prada 3.0 is accepted to appear to the UK in February 2012. The folio has gone MIA back the account about it broke, so it seems like addition appear advice that wasn't declared to be official aloof yet.

Another banker additionally lists the LG Prada 3.0 and while there's affluence to agnosticism about the advice on its folio (the smartphone is said to be in stock) the allurement amount of £499.99 absolutely seems believable.

Of course, there's some adventitious that both of those about-face out wrong, but we accept a anticipation that this won't be the case.

February isn't that far abroad so we won't accept to delay continued to acquisition out.

Meanwhile you may allotment your thoughts on the LG hypothesis that is abstraction up. An ultra-slim Prada-branded Android smartphone for £499.99, anyone?

LG Spectrum is Optimus LTE

The LG Optimus LTE is already accessible in four carrier-bound versions - two for the Korean market, one for Bell in Canada and the LG Nitro HD for AT&T. It seems Verizon is activity to action the aberrant accessory as well, the rumors so far advance the name LG Spectrum.

LG Spectrum

The Spectrum appearance basically the aforementioned specs as all the added Optimus LTE accessories - a 4.5" HD IPS LCD screen, a dual-core 1.5GHz Scorpion processor, Adreno 220 GPU, 1GB RAM, an 8 megapixel camera with 1080p video recording and LTE abutment (simultaneous with voice) in accession to the affluent connectivity options.

The date on the awning in the leaked photo is February 14th 2012, absolutely abutting to the MWC 2012, but we doubtable the official advertisement could appear on CES or alike earlier.

By the way, we accept the Optimus LTE LU6200 in our office. The Verizon Spectrum should attending absolutely the same, so actuality are a few alive shots for you to enjoy.

LG Optimus LTE LU6200

We are activity to adapt our acceptable hands-on video anon and the all-embracing analysis will appear anon after.

LG Prada 3.0 is a super sleek droid

LG has clearly aerial the blind of the best recent smartphone to appear from their affiliation with Prada. LG Prada 3.0 is a cool abbreviate adherent with hot-looks and a accurately able chipset beneath the hood, which seems to accept a little article for everyone.

LG Prada 3.0 is congenital about a 4.3" NOVA affectation of WVGA resolution. This one is alike more good than the NOVA awning on the LG Optimus Black as it offers 800 nit brightness. The smartphone has a TI OMAP4430 chipset with a brace of 1GHz Cortex-A9 CPU cores to do the abundant lifting, so it's no slouch either.

LG Prada 3.0

One of the best absorbing genitalia about the LG Prada 3.0 is its acutely abbreviate anatomy with a contour of aloof 8.5mm. Still, LG managed to clasp an 8 megapixel primary camera with 1080p video recording and a 1.3 megapixel front-facing snapper inside.

The LG Prada 3.0 specs area highlights accommodate HSPA+ (up to 21Mbps), Wi-Fi a/b/g/n, GPS, Bluetooth and FM radio.

There is no ambition absolution date or estimated appraisement advice aloof yet, but those ability be reveled at the LG Prada event, which will booty abode after today in London.

Prada phone by LG

Next Prada phone by LG to land December 14, we'll be there
It's consistently a acceptable affair to accessible our mailbox and get a abruptness allure to a hot fresh accident set on announcement article fresh and exciting. Well we aloof got afraid today by an allurement to an accident captivated by Prada and LG on Wednesday, December 14 in London.

To get appropriate bottomward to it - we apprehend to see the chichi LG Prada K2. It should affection a 4.3" IPS LCD capacitive affectation of WVGA (480 x 800) resolution, 8 MP analyzer on the back, Android beneath the awning and a attenuate contour of 8.8 mm.

We're cat-and-mouse to see what affectionate of processor it will advance and the exact cardinal of cores . The Prada phones were amid the aboriginal non-Apple accessories to use capacitive awning technology aback in 2008 and 2009, you know.

We'll be there to awning the event, so be abiding to analysis aback in 12 canicule from now.

LG patent licensing with Microsoft

 LG signs patent licensing deal with Microsoft
LG is the most recent above Android architect to assurance a licensing acceding with Microsoft, accordant to pay royalties to thecomputer application giant. That leaves Motorola as the alone one of the Google OS big players that hasn't got a agnate deal.

The accord agency that LG will be advantageous Microsoft a few bucks for every smartphone, book or "other customer devices" it makes that run either Android or Google Chrome OS.

LG becomes the eleventh Android OEM to assurance such a accord with Microsoft. The above Motorola is already actuality sued by Microsoft over declared apparent infringement, so it ability be abutting that account soon.

HTC and Samsung anniversary accept apparent licensing deals with Microsoft, which crave them to advance out Windows Phone accessories and pay for advance and business of the OS. It's cryptic if LG has agnate clauses in its contract.