Intel certainly doesn’t want to be left sitting on the bench when it comes to the tablet game, and used the recent Computex expo in Taiwan to show what skills it brought to the table.
Verizon Wireless is set to strengthen its lineup of devices compatible with its exclusive Skype Ltd.'s mobile offering, saying that it will soon expand the platform to its so-called “3G Multimedia” phones. These phones are slotted in below the carrier's smartphone offerings and offer...
LG has announced the Optimus, a smartphone the firm says is “a handset offering an optimal environment for first-time smartphone users with easy and convenient mobile access.” Basically, a smartphone for beginners.The Optimus, previously codenamed the GT540, has - like many of its...
LG was showing off the Remarq mobile phone, its latest little lean, green eco machine at CTIA this week, made from predominantly recycled material. The device, being offered by Sprint, was made using “Earth-friendly engineering,” with a 19.7 per cent recycled plastic casing and...
LG Electronics Inc. said Wednesday that it expects a significant increase in mobile phone sales this year as it rolls out 20 new smartphones and aims to become one of the world's top two sellers by 2012.Associated Press
HELSINKI, Finland - The fall in the handset market stopped in the third quarter, helped by clearing of inventories of unsold phones and booming sales on the so-called grey market in countries like China, research firm Gartner said on Thursday.Reuters
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said about 30,000 LG Electronics Co. Ltd. handsets are being recalled because of 911-calling-related problems."The recalled phones can have difficulty sustaining a connection or have poor voice quality on calls to emergency 911," the CPSC stated in a...
Verizon Wireless will begin selling the Versa by LG Electronics Co. for $200 with rebate and two-year contract on March 1.A multimedia handset with touchscreen and virtual QWERTY keypad that docks into a detachable base with an actual QWERTY keypad may test consumers' interest...
BARCELONA, Spain - The world's handset makers pulled out all the stops this year in their attempts to grab attention and generate interest in their products. At this year's Mobile World Congress trade show, Nokia Corp., LG Electronics Co. Ltd., HTC Corp. and others...
LG Electronics Co. said it will trim $2.2 billion from its overhead, including headquarters and 82 subsidiaries around the globe, citing the global economic downturn that led it to a loss in fourth-quarter earnings.LG is the third-largest handset maker worldwide and third in the...
Can a clever product name translate to market share? And can an unpopular name sink it?Researchers at Strategic Naming Development say yes. In a consumer study, they found the most-favored cellphone names belonged to Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and LG Electronics Co., while the...
LG Electronics Co. said today that its handset shipments grew year-on-year and sequentially on a day when market leader Nokia Corp. acknowledged declines in both metrics.The Korean vendor credited new models launched in Europe and "timely pricing strategies" for its shipment growth, which stands...
A unit of LG Electronics, the South Korean-based multinational giant with a major wireless handset business, and other Asian manufacturers agreed to pay $585 million in fines and plead guilty in connection with the Department of Justice and FBI's probe of price-fixing conspiracies in...
Looking to catch a wave, LG Electronics Co. delivered its first smartphone for the United States market to AT&T Mobility today. The "Incite" is a touchscreen, 3G device running Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Mobile 6.1 with productivity and entertainment features, including a 3 megapixel camera...
LG Electronics Co. said today it will work more closely with Microsoft Corp. on converged devices, likely smartphones the Korean vendor is pursuing. The two parties announced the signing of a "memo of understanding" for "strategic collaboration in mobile convergence" on the occasion of...
The U.S. Department of Justice has given seven companies its approval to move forward with plans to jointly license patents that are essential to deliver radio frequency identification technology.In its decision, the DoJ said the RFID Consortium L.L.C.'s plans could result in cost savings...
Korean vendor LG Electronics Co.'s market share slid as it was hit by a slowdown in Europe and India, but the mobile devices company remained strong in the United States, according to results released today.LG's strength in the U.S. sets the table for Apple...
Despite concerns about the economy, the mobile device market is on track to deliver 13% growth this year, with annual shipments of 1.3 billion units, according to a report from ABI Research.The firm said 301 million units shipped during the second quarter and tier-one...
Klausner Technologies Inc. has filed a lawsuit against Verizon Wireless and LG Electronics Co. Ltd., claiming the carrier's recently launched visual voicemail service for the LG Voyager handset infringes on its voicemail patents. Anticipating the lawsuit, Verizon Wireless filed a lawsuit of its own...
Divergent strategies for handset vendors are reflected in two launches announced today. Palm Inc. will sell its Treo Pro device unlocked and unsubsidized through its online stores and resellers in the United States for $550, while launching it in Europe with Vodafone and O2,...
Three things you need to know about the handset market in the United States last quarter, courtesy of Strategy Analytics: 1) Overall unit sales reached nearly 42 million, up 5.3% over the year-ago quarter, which the market analysis firm said stemmed from "healthy" replacement...
The maturing U.S. handset market continued to chug along in the first half of the year - though slowing relative to years past - and analysts offered an array of views on what forces will shape the market in the second half of the...
Verizon Wireless quietly launched visual voicemail, allowing customers to view caller and voicemail information and listen to voicemail messages in any order on their phone.Voice messages will be displayed on users' phones with sender and time information, and customers can scroll through the messages...
