LG Optimus GK with 5" 1080p display goes official in Korea

LG officially took the wraps of the Optimus GK Android smartphone. Made for the Korean carrier KT, the newcomer packs all the functionality of the LG Optimus G Pro, but in a smaller body with a 5" display. Like its bigger brother, the LG Optimus GK is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 chipset, whose four CPUs tick at 1.7GHz. There is 2GB of RAM and 16GB of built-in...

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The smartphone revolution is complete! Sales top feature phones for first time

Samsung has helped to put smartphones on top for the first time In our tech-focused minds its sometimes easy to forget that not everyone is packing a cutting edge, top of the range smartphone in their jeans pocket or even wants one. So when IDC announced on Friday that sales of smartphones had overtaken feature phones for the first time ever, our initial...

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LG Optimus F5 to begin European roll out in France on April 29

French to get the first crack at the Optimus F5 LG's Optimus F5 handset has been sitting tight since its unveiling at Mobile World Congress in February, but the company is finally ready to unleash it on the world, or at least parts of it. The mid-range, LTE-enabled handset will arrive in France on April 29, the company announced in a press release this weekend,...

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Weird Obama bug is the latest issue to plague Apple's iMessage app

Another iMessage bug spotted The Apple iMessage client for iPhone and Mac OS X is apparently experiencing a strange bug which omits the last word of a sentence when specific phrases are in use. Oddly, any message involving President Barack Obama or the phrase 'The best prize is a surprise' will leave out the last word of the message for both the sender and...

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Alleged image of Samsung Galaxy Note III appears online

The rumors of the next generation Samsung Galaxy Note phablet are growing thick and fast. An alleged image of the Galaxy Note III phablet has appeared online, sporting a 5.9-inch display. According to a report from MyDrivers, the upcoming Galaxy Note phablet will feature a Full HD display and packs a punch with the company's own Exynos 5410 Octa processor, with...

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HTC One to get new mics after the current stocks are exhausted

HTC has clarified that the injunction filed by Nokia for the dual-membrane microphone in its flagship smartphone in The Netherlands is against STMicroelectronics (a supplier of components to HTC) and not against the Taiwanese company itself. According to the statement for the preliminary injunction, the microphone in the HTC One will be manufactured exclusively for...

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More Samsung Galaxy S4 Exynos 5 Octa benchmarks surface

The fourth generation Galaxy S smartphone was launched with two different processor variants, one with Snapdragon 600 chipset on board and the other with the company’s own Exynos 5 Octa platform. The folks at FoneArena have got their hands on the Exynos 5 variant of the device and put the smartphone through quite a few synthetic benchmark tests. As the name suggests,...

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