LG Claims 3m LTE Smartphone Sales, Plans To Double Its International Focus
LG has claimed that it has sold more than 3 million LTE-compatible smartphones worldwide, and revealed plans to extend the sale of its LTE range to 10 new countries, taking the total to 20. The Korean manufacturer’s devices are currently available in 10 markets — with a particularly focus on Korea and the US — but it is stepping up the sales efforts. A number of as yet undisclosed countries in the Middle East are among those it will begin selling to before the end of the year, LG said in a company announcement translated by the Korea Herald.
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Facebook To Launch Smartphone Next Year, Poaching Apple Engineers To Help The Cause
Facebook has been a hot topic lately. They recently went public and have been purchasing several companies – namely Instagram for $1 billion. Over the past couple of years the massive social network has been subject to rumours of getting into the smartphone game by producing their own device. Nothing has yet to surface and the closest product to make it to market was the HTC Status that included a “dedicated Facebook button.” Earlier this year an overseas report via DigiTimes suggested that HTC and Facebook have plans to develop a “customized smartphone” that is rumoured to launch “in the third quarter of 2012 at the earliest.”
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How The Future of Mobile Lies in the Developing World
In less than three decades, the mobile phone has gone from being a status symbol to being a ubiquitous technology that facilitates almost every interaction in our daily lives. One month after the world’s population topped 7 billion in October 2011, the GSM Association announced that mobile SIM cards had reached 6 billion. A 2009 study in India illustrated that every 10 percent increase in mobile penetration leads to a 1.2 percent increase in GDP.
TechCrunch
LG Display Debuts Five-Inch Retina Display Killer With 1080p HD Resolution And 440ppi Pixel Density
Smartphone displays are becoming larger in size, and along with that, we're seeing a nice trend that's bringing greater pixel density. While LG Display's newly-announced 1080p HD mobile display isn't the most pixel dense that we've seen -- a distinction that belongs to Toshiba -- the five-inch panel is more appropriate for consumer applications and boasts an impressive pixel density of 440ppi. Its 16:9 aspect ratio was designed with HD content in mind.
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