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by Alex Dobie
Jan 30, 2012
LG has been busy selling various flavors of its high-end Optimus LTE over the past few months, but that doesn't mean it's forgotten about its entry-level line-up. A new budget device, dubbe...
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by Richard Devine
Jan 23, 2012
It's been a long time coming, but European owners of the LG Optimus Black should finally be starting to see some Gingerbread. Optimus Blackl owners in India also should be seeing this update.
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by Kevin O'Quinn
Nov 01, 2011
A few weeks ago LG announced the Optimus LTE for its home market of Korea. It didn't take too long for a video to surface from a Canadian retailer called The Source (which happens to be own...
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by Jared DiPane
Sep 30, 2011
Following up on their rather successful LG Optimus V, Virgin Mobile has announced it will be bringing a full QWERTY slider, the LG Optimus Slider to customers starting Oct. 17 on their website, and ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jul 22, 2011
LG has jumped into Android in a big way, releasing phones this year that cover everything from the entry level in the popular Optimus One line, to the future generation hardware configuration of the O...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Apr 18, 2011
The LG Phoenix, AT&T's post-paid version of the Optimus One, can be had at AmazonWireless for a penny. The phone may be brand new for AT&T, but we've seen (and loved) the whole Optimus O...
Review
by Phil Nickinson
Feb 14, 2011
In the realm of Android Honeycomb tablets -- and it's not like there are all that many out there yet -- things pretty much have, well, looked the same. But the LG Optimus pad brings a bit of dif...
Review
by Phil Nickinson
Feb 14, 2011
We all knew it was coming -- LG was going all-in with 3D screen technology, and they've done it with the Optimus 3D. And, surprisingly, it's not horrible. The phone itself is fairly unremarkable...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 31, 2011
Sure, the dual-core LG Optimus 2X is all the rage right now (be sure to check out our hands-on, benchmarks and gaming tests), but another high-end LG phone is starting to make the rounds. Phandroid g...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 23, 2011
That the LG Optimus One -- one of our favorite entry-level Android smartphones these days -- will be coming to Virgin Mobile as the Optimus V has hardly been a secret. Looks like price may now b...
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by Chris Parsons
Jan 05, 2011
As we're sitting in on LG's CES 2011 conference, it seems the press release for the LG Optimus Black as it's now called has escaped a little early on the LG website. The device may look simi...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 12, 2010
LG quietly announced that the Optimus One line (see our review) has breached the two million sales mark, with sales in North America leading the way. In mid-November, LG announced that the Optim...
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by Phil Nickinson
Oct 06, 2010
We've live at Sprint's press conference (2 p.m. PDT/5 p.m. EDT) at CTIA at the beautiful Moscone West in San Francisco. We're expecting a whole lot of 4G trumpeting, and rumor has it we're abou...
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by Sean Brunett
Sep 24, 2010
LG introduced two new devices to its Optimus lineup last week, the Optimus One and the Optimus Chic. They are both international devices that left those of us living in the United States feeling  ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Sep 20, 2010
It was just a week ago that LG announced the Optimus One and the Optimus Chic, and it looks like the former might be headed to Verizon as the Vortex. That's according to this image handed to the Droid...
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by Phil Nickinson
Sep 14, 2010
LG this morning added a pair of Android 2.2 smartphones to its Optimus line, the Optimus One (P500) and Optimus Chic (E720).The Optimus One (seen above at right) is a 3.2-inch touchscreen device...
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by Phil Nickinson
Sep 07, 2010
LG has announced it plans to use the Nvidia Tegra 2 processor in its Optimus line of high-end smartphones, starting in the fourth quarter of 2010. LG and Nvidia aren't saying whether that means A...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jun 08, 2010
A note to anybody with an Android smartphone: Don't leave it sitting around Paul from MoDaCo, or he's liable to root the thing on principal. Such is the case with the LG Optimus (aka th...
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by Phil Nickinson
May 28, 2010
[YouTube link] And here's a look at the LG Optimus -- aka the GT540 -- which we previously toyed with at CES in January. Nothing's really changed since then. Same 3-inch HVGA touchscreen (no...
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by Casey Chan
Apr 28, 2010
LG is slated to release three new Android phones in the near future but sadly, none of them are currently coming to the US. The first two, the LU2300 and the SU950/KU9500, are very interesting. ...































