Tag: LG

Each year, LG holds its National Texting Championships in New York City, and SMS fiends gather from around the country to battle for thumb-dexterity supremacy. This year's champ, 15-year-old Kate Moore of Des Moines, Iowa, took the title, but her path to victory was not without some serious obstacles. Literally. LG, in a nod to texters' dangerous tendency to multi-task, forced contestants to run ...

One of the most talked about products from this year's Consumer Electronics Show was LG's Dick Tracy-esque watch phone prototype. The device can link to your headset via Bluetooth, or you can fulfill all your crime noir fantasies and talk directly to your wrist. Necessary? Probably not, but the touch screen device's sleek interface has to be seen to be believed: Check out our hands on video with ...

Has your $2,500 XEL-1 display already started to show a case of the dimming blues? If so, and if you can go without seeing Cookie Monster in his natural hue for a few more months, you may have another OLED replacement option after this summer. LG is indicating it will begin producing a 15-inch panel in June of this year. No word on whether it'll match the Sony's 1,000,000:1 contrast ratio, but it ...

Yup, it's official. LG will be showcasing the world's first Netflix-enabled HDTVs at CES this week. The so-called Broadband HDTVs will arrive in plasma and LCD flavors, though exact screen sizes and model names have yet to be disclosed. They'll arrive with Netflix streaming software baked right in, meaning that no external set-top-box will be required to suck down Watch Instantly material. Best ...

Not content with just making soap opera hair look like watery strands of gold, LG is also planning to trump last year's round of ultrathin LCD TVs by bringing the planet's slimmest LED-backlit LCD TV to Las Vegas. Expected to garner fingerprints from every nationality at CES 2009, the LH95 will check in at just 24.8-millimeters thick (0.976-inches) and boast a 2,000,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio ...

It was deliciously inevitable that a watch phone would eventually show up that could actually "pack it all in," and it looks like LG has actually accomplished that feat in its LG-GD910 model. Of note, the phone packs a touchscreen LCD, 3G data, and a built-in camera for videoconferencing and being a general badass. Sure, browsing to your favorite gadget blog might be a tad bit difficult on that ...

We think that phones like the Touch Pro and X1 sort of limit the market for pricey dumbphone QWERTY sliders, but be that as it may, LG clearly has every intention of making the Prada II one of its headline devices in the waning months of 2008. The rumored 7.2Mbps HSDPA 850 / 2100, Wi-Fi, TV-out, an FM radio, and a 5-megapixel camera have all been confirmed to go along with the full keyboard for ...

Christian Siriano is best known for winning the fourth season of pravo TV hit 'Project Runway' and teaching fans everywhere how to discern between those that are "fierce" and a "hot tranny mess" (his catch phrases on the show). Now, Christian has designed a new scarf for the new LG Lotus mobile phone. The Lotus is a small square phone explicitly marketed to a fashion forward crowd, and Mr ...

var digg_url = 'http://digg.com/gadgets/LG_s_New_Blu_ray_Player_to_Stream_Netflix'; We've been following the rumor since January, today it's official: LG's BD300 Network Blu-ray Disc Player will begin streaming Netflix movies in the US this September. The player will cost "well under $500" and allow Netflix members to stream more than 12,000 standard definition TV and films through the ...

Digital dexterity is no match for ring-side reporter Mo Rocca. Thumbs fly, collars pop and hearts break in our exclusive, behind-the-scenes coverage of the 2008 LG National Texting Championships. Pro-texter Morgan Pozgar walked out with a cool $25,000 after beating out the competition at last year's tournament, and she returns this year to defend the much-coveted title. For 2008, the stakes ...

phoneArena is reporting that the latest incarnation of Verizon's Chocolate series, the clamshell Chocolate 3, will be available on July 14. It's said that the phone will run $129 on a two-year contract after the redemption of a $50 rebate -- not exactly cheap, but where else are you going to find a Verizon phone with an FM transmitter in baby blue? That's what we thought. [Source: Phone Arena] ...

Look, LG, it's all well and good the Secret has a touchscreen and that sweet DivX-capable 5 megapixel camera, but making a viral video that can only be described as early-'90s softcore voodoo porn and ends with a sheepish phone call from the dude's mother is probably not the best way to highlight those qualities. Video after the break -- warning, it's just a hair on the NSFW side. ...

First impressions mean everything. But what if you declare yourself by the cell phone you use? What do these handheld packages of personality say about you? The folks at Forbes.com say the answer is obvious depending on how stylish, functional or simply fun your cell phone is designed to be. Take, for example, the Nokia N95, a sleek-looking phone designed to capture and upload images and text ...

LG is going into full tease mode, releasing an image capturing the angles of what's to be the next model in its Black Label line. The details are few, but the mobile pictured above is a lithe slider set for worldwide release over the summer and third quarter of the year. It's slim and dark (a stark contrast to the gold and gaudy 'Ironman' phone), with a case made of nearly indestructible carbon ...

Regardless of whether or not Jon Favreau's movie version of 'Ironman,' which opens on May 2, turns out to be any good, you can bet that a certain limited-edition, 18-karat gold Ironman/LG Shine handset will be a hit, at least among the lucky few who have a chance to win one. According to LG, the phone is worth about $2,000, and the gold covers the entire back end, as you can see from the above ...