A couple of the largest phone shops in the UK have stopped stocking Google and LG's sweet Nexus 4, with both Carphone Warehouse and Phones 4U no longer listing it. This has led people who like to think about things to think it means a Nexus 5 launch at next week's Google I/O event is practically guaranteed. Read More >>
Featured comment by RayLWithCheese:
"Be surprised if it was a new phone unless its the rumour 4S (ha!) update, given its only been out for roughly 6 months.
6 months is a long time th..." More »
Twitter leaker-supreme @evleaks has been at it again, posting photos of a buttonless, 5.5-inch phone bearing the LG logo, a very blue screen, and not a hell of a lot else. Read More >>
Google and LG might be about to repeat the Nexus 4 trick again this year, with rumours from Korea suggesting the pair will launch some sort of "Nexus 5" at some point -- and they're discussing working together on other forms of hardware, too. Read More >>
Featured comment by Boopop:
"I tried to buy one for about 20 mins on release day but didn't get anywhere.
A month or so I got a GS3 for £250 instead. Better deal I think. Now ..." More »
LG is going to have a more robust plastic display to battle Samsung's alleged plastic OLED Galaxy Note III, with the company planning to launch a device with a flexible OLED display before the end of the year. Read More >>
One of the biggest joys of owning a dog is that if you spill food on the floor, you can call them over and have it taken care of in no time. And that has to be what inspired the latest version of LG's RoboKing voice-activated vacuum cleaners. Read More >>
Featured comment by pretpat:
"I have a roomba and it has a built in timer so I can let it run when I'm not home. Why would you want to voice start it when you are sitting at home w..." More »
Police have raided one of Samsung's offices in Asan, South Korea, after being tipped off about the possible theft of OLED TV technology from rivals LG. Read More >>
The enormous Samsung banners in New York's Times Square are telling everyone that the company has something big to announce later tonight -- but fierce Korean rival LG has trumped it by whacking its own ads right above one of Samsung's. Read More >>
You might call it a lack of ambition. Or you could just call it being very pragmatic. At a recent roundtable with reporters in Tokyo, the head of Sony's mobile business professed his desire to be the No. 3 player in smartphones behind Apple and Samsung. BlackBerry's CEO said the same thing heading up to the launch of BlackBerry Z10. Breaking the Sampple duopoly is no easy task, given that IDC says the two companies account for more than 50 per cent of smartphones sold worldwide. Read More >>
A Samsung Galaxy phone won't go to sleep as long as you're staring at the screen. An LG Optimus handset lets you run apps in tiny windows on top of the desktop, while Motorola RAZR devices can perform key tasks according to a schedule. Some call the proliferation of custom features Android fragmentation, but I call them innovation, as OEMs are adding functionality faster than you can say Google. Read More >>
Featured comment by Oflife:
"Re Live Zoom, I discovered completely by accident that you can do the pinch to zoom when playing back video on iOS. Try it!" More »
If you want the biggest, bestest, thinnest and most expensive-est television in the land, you have until July to organise your funds. That's when LG is launching its 55EM970V over here, with the 55" OLED set now available for pre-order at, appropriately given its £10k price and luxurious nature, Harrods. Read More >>
LG has been showing off the first example of wireless Ultra HD steaming at MWC: it can take video from a phone, playing at 1080p, upscale it on the fly, and show it off at 4K on a TV. Read More >>
LG has just announced that it has acquired the much-troubled webOS from HP. But instead of using it to power smartphones or tablets, it's planning to roll out smart TVs which will make use of the OS. Read More >>