Rumors have been flying the entire year, claiming LG is the manufacturer of the TV inside Apple HDTV. Out of all of the big named display manufacturers, LG has the tightest relationship with Apple.
Among the products LG manufactures for Apple are the iPhone Retina Displays, iPod Touch, a few and iPad displays. In addition to these ties with Apple, a $500 investment has been sunk into LG displays by Apple in 2009. The total money invested was in exchange for an exclusive access to the 27-inch displays which are now known as Thunderbolt Displays, used for iMacs. It was only a temporary arrangement, though.
Sony, on the other hand, while manufacturing OLED’s, has no such relationship with Apple, particularly regarding displays. Finally, Samsung, a third OLED manufacturer, is battling Apple over patent infringement. +Continue Reading
LG is far from the top of anyone’s list when it comes to great smartphone companies. It has been a long time since they have done anything noteworthy with phones. Now the company wants to re-invent itself by designing and releasing the Nitro HD.
LG has not put itself on the line with a new smartphone flagship product in such a long time. Yet, they are taking the risk to try to re-enter the market with a bit of a punch this time, in the form of the Nitro HD smartphone.
The Nitro HD sells for $249.99, when a contract is signed. This is a rarity among phones. It is AT&T’s first phone equipped with a 720p display. It is also among the only three phones in the world that can utilize the AT&T LTE network. That having been said, the specs are more than adequate, but the phone itself really required more care before releasing on the public. +Continue Reading
Think about the conveniences that smartphone and laptops have afforded: we can program our DVR while at the airport or in our cars home from work after getting the weather forecast for the next few hours while simultaneously downloading videos from friends and coworkers.
Given the particular developments made recently with product recognizing programs that operate using video technology and the live streaming info feeds that we’ve become accustomed to, appliance giant LG has made a bid that the next things that homeowners will want connected to the Internet will be their appliances; at least the Vice President Kim Young-Soo believes so.
Originally in 2000, Kim Young-Soo and his company LG released a fridge that was Wi-Fi enabled. While only ten years back, the technology simply wasn’t well received. +Continue Reading
The LG Optimus 3D is another addition to the LG’s 3D approach to the market. At the Mobile World Congress 2011 LG came out with another of their 3D product, this time a 3D phone with a dual core 1 GHz TI OMAP 4 processor. It has many technologies which are ‘first’ in the market. Tri-dual configuration is one of the first things they are introducing besides 3D which means dual-core, dual-channel and dual-memory which is expected to offer smoother experience than the other smartphones that are using a 1GHz dual core processors.
Another cool addition are the two 5 megapixel cameras that can record 3D videos and play it directly to any 3DTV. Unlike the other dual core smartphones, the dual channel and dual memory will give a significant boost in the data transfer between memories and give it a unique performance display in multitasking, HD viewing or web browsing. +Continue Reading
LG G-Slate or Optimus Pad is another one of the first Honeycomb devices coming to the market in the Q1 of 2011. This year at CES the whole Honeycomb attention was pulled by Motorola Xoom, a tablet that is also getting a good support from the Google themselves.
Now what is the key point of this tablet? Why will it get a special attention? This device has such a point and it’s the 3D. The 3D functionality will not be only in displaying, but also in taking pictures. It has some really good specs though we have already seen such specs in the highly anticipated Xoom, but the thing we will be looking for-is the performance, usability and seamless utilization of Honeycomb OS, the first OS from Google which is optimized for tablets. +Continue Reading
Finally with the official announcement of Optimus 2x, LG brings the dual core mobile out of the rumor mills. LG Optimus 2X is the world’s first smartphone which features a dual core processor. Along with the extreme smooth performance it packs some high definition multimedia features. The NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor enables you to browse through files and multitask freely without any lags.
It also features a 4-inch WVGA screen and HDMI output. They have already showed in a demo what it can do by gaming in an HDTV with this phone connected via HDMI. That was a real eye-catching show. +Continue Reading
After HTC, LG is the next mobile manufacturer that made a new mobile phone ready for the next generation of OS: LG Optimus 7. They are wiping off the idea about what they had previously when LG mobile phones meant java only phones with more app unfriendliness. After some successful Androids now they are showcasing the new lines of Windows Phone 7 devices which till now are not letting them down. The LG Optimus 7 is a meant for Windows Phone 7 OS having a 3.8-inches capacitive touch screen and a 1Ghz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor. Though this phone’s specs do not go with manufacturers phones, such as HTC, LG managed to run the giant Microsoft OS pretty smooth. +Continue Reading
Rumors have been flying the entire year, claiming LG is the manufacturer of the TV inside Apple HDTV. Out of all of the big named display manufacturers, LG has the tightest relationship with Apple.
