LG has yet to find the same success in the smartphone market that Samsung, HTC and Motorola have seen, but the company’s managing director Kwon Bong-suk told a Korean news website that LG will soon introduce a game-changing “thinking smartphone.” The executive confidently stated that the next mobile innovation doesn’t necessarily have to come from Apple, saying that LG can identify with the “universal value” that all consumers seek. Unlike its competitors, LG will refrain from adding more features and entertainment options to its devices, instead looking to build a product that will be responsive to a user’s particular needs. Bong-suk also noted the importance of the low-end market and said the company is interested in releasing a smartphone for $100.
Google CEO Larry Page talks Android activations and Motorola acquisition
Google CEO Larry Page stated in a blog post on Thursday that the company’s Android platform is “on fire.” The CEO boasted that there are now more than 850,000 Android devices activated each day through a network of 55 manufacturers and more than 300 carriers. Page called Android a “tremendous example of the power of partnership, and it just gets better with each version.” He went on to explain his excitement for the Motorola acquisition and “the opportunities to build great devices capitalizing on the tremendous success and growth of Android.” The CEO then reiterated the benefits surrounding Android’s open ecosystem, maintaining that “we have no plans to change that.” The Mountain View-based company in February stated that Android activations were
Android 4.0 arriving for HTC Rezound today, Droid RAZR update delayed
April 4th has come and gone, and sadly, both the Droid RAZR and RAZR Maxx remain without their promised bites of Ice Cream Sandwich. The latest communique from Best Buy confirms the delay, and similarly, a tweet from Motorola Mobility adds that a new …
Best Buy Acknowledges Delay Of April 4th Ice Cream Sandwich Update For RAZR And RAZR MAXX
Yesterday, Ice Cream Sandwich was supposed to roll out to Motorola’s RAZR and RAZR MAXX on Verizon, according to a shot of Best Buy’s internal system. However as you’ve probably noticed, April 4th passed with no update in sight. Today we have another look at Best Buy’s internal systems, which confirms that the Ice Cream [...]
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UK Motorola RAZR MAXX pre-order price emerges
The Motorola RAZR MAXX is coming to the UK and Europe, without the battery-guzzling LTE radios of the Verizon version, but complete with the gianormous 3300mAh battery. Today British retailer Clove Technology give us the first indication of when we…
Motorola DEFY MINI announced for Greece
Motorola has announced that the DEFY MINI will be available in Greece in mid-April. This follows their announcement that it will also launch in Italy this month, and has already been released in Brazil. Spec-wise, this is a decidedly mid-r…
Motorola Motoluxe launching in Hungary this month
Hot on the heels of the Motoluxe announcement for Poland comes word from Motorola that the Motoluxe will be available in Hungary this month, too. This mid-range device lacks the dust and water resistance of the DEFY MINI, but it does have a larg…
DROID RAZR/MAXX Soak Test Set To Begin Tomorrow, But It’s Not Ice Cream Sandwich
DROID RAZR and RAZR MAXX users excited for an Ice Cream Sandwich update by last week’s Best Buy screenshot should brace themselves for some bad news – it looks like the aforementioned devices won’t be getting Ice Cream Sandwich just yet after all.Acc…
Motorola Webtop 3.0 beta captured on video, running off Droid RAZR with ICS
We were pondering Motorola’s LapDock widget just recently, after seeing a similar Phone-becomes-PC concept based on Ubuntu. Now, due to some happy coincidence, a video has appeared on YouTube claiming to show a leaked update to LapDock’s accompanying …
Android and iOS account for more than 80% of U.S. smartphone market
Over the past three months, Apple’s iOS operating system and Google’s Android mobile platform both continued to grow — according to comScore, they now account for a combined 80.3% of the U.S. smartphone market. The research showed that 234 million Americans aged 13 and older use mobile devices. Samsung is the most popular manufacturer with a 25.6% share of the U.S. mobile market, followed by LG with a 19.4% share and Apple with 13.5%. Motorola and HTC round out the top five with 12.8% and 6.3%, respectively. More than 104 million Americans now own smartphones, up 14% from November, with Google Android’s operating system surpassing a 50% market share for the first time ever. Apple’s iOS platform ranked second with
