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Articles tagged with: Lg
LG Re-announces Details of Android Based Smartphone
lg has re-announced the launch of its first Android based smartphone, the lg GW620 which comes with the increasingly commonplace social networking tools built into the operating system. The handset was originally announced in September, and is already on sale in Europe. more
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Handset Manufacturers to Support the Joint Innovation Lab Widgets Standard
The Joint Innovation Lab (JIL) had announced that handset manufacturers, lg Electronics, Research In Motion, Samsung Electronics and Sharp will support its widget specification in future mobile handsets from Q1 2010. more
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LG Shows Off Latest TouchScreen Phone
lg Electronics has shown off its latest touchscreen phone, the lg GD510, or more simply, "Pop", which is says is the most compact 3-inch full touchscreen phone ever made. lg's consumer research showed that a large group of consumers wanted the functionality of a full touchscreen phone without the extra bulk and unnecessary features that resulted in higher prices. According to the research, many users were also put off by the complexity of feature-laden phones but still desired the easier navigation and larger screens of full touchscreen phones. more
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LG Shows Off First Android Based Smartphone
lg Electronics has shown off its first Android based mobile phone, just a week after it announced plans for three new Windows Mobile based smartphones. The new android OS based lg-GW620 features a 3-inch full touchscreen and slide out QWERTY keypad. more
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LG Announces Three New Windows Mobile Based Smartphones
lg Electronics has announced the imminent launch of three new Windows phones in the next few weeks. The three devices will kick off lg's most aggressive smartphone strategy to date, which will ultimately result in a total of 13 new lg-branded Windows phones launched globally before the end of 2010. more
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First Active Handover Between LTE and CDMA Networks Demonstrated
lg and Nortel have demonstrated the world's first 3GPP standards compliant active handover of a data transmission between a LTE network and a CDMA network. Inter-technology handover allowing mobile users the ability to move between LTE and CDMA networks without losing data connectivity means that operators can run these networks concurrently without impacting services. This will help to ensure that users have full network coverage while taking advantage of LTE speeds, wherever initially available. more
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Worldwide Mobile Phone Sales Down 6% - Smartphones Up 27% in Q2
Worldwide mobile phone sales totalled 286.1 million units in the second quarter of 2009, a 6.1 per cent decrease from the second quarter of 2008, according to Gartner. Smartphone sales surpassed 40 million units, a 27 per cent increase from the same period last year, representing the fastest-growing segment of the mobile-devices market. more
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Orange Selling 3G Wrist Watch Phone
Orange France has announced that it will start selling a 3G phone in the shape of a conventional wrist watch. The lg GD910 is the world's first 3G touch watchphone and is available from the Orange France website. more
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Shipments of Cell Phones Return to Growth in Q2
Global shipments of cell phones in the second quarter climbed 4.7 percent compared to the first, marking the first sequential increase for the market since the third quarter of 2008, according to iSuppli Corp. Worldwide shipments amounted to 265 million units in the second quarter, up from 253 million in the first. more
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Smartphone Growth Encouraging - Cell Phone Market Still Expected To Shrink in 2009
The worldwide mobile phone market recorded another quarter of year-over-year decline in the second quarter of 2009 (2Q09). According to IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, handset vendors shipped a total of 269.6 million units worldwide, down 10.8% from 302.2 million units in 2Q08. The second quarter results are an improvement from the 17.2% decrease seen during 1Q09, but ongoing challenges stemming from the economic crisis remain a factor to watch. more
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