LG commits to upgrading Optimus Ones to Gingerbread, angry hordes abate
Well, we've got to hand it to LG for quickly doing the right thing here by keeping people informed and ultimately making the best decision for its customers. Just two days after a Facebook spat that suggested the Optimus series of midrange Android handsets wouldn't be getting Android 2.3 Gingerbread thanks to a seemingly made-up 1GHz processor requirement, they've reversed the decision, saying that "all" of the models that fall under the Optimus One guise (presumably including the Vortex , Optimus T , Optimus S , Optimus M , and Optimus U ) would be getting upgraded. Here's the full statement: "LG will upgrade all Optimus One smartphones currently using the Froyo OS to the next version of the Android OS, Gingerbread.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: confusion, decision, gingerbread, guise, hordes, misunderstanding, optimus-ones, thing, upgrade, vortex
Facebook phone rumors resurface, Mark Zuckerberg fails to deny them
Let's try to untangle this Facebook mobile phone mess, shall we? Mark Zuckerberg has recently sat down with Michael Arrington of TechCrunch -- the source of the original rumor -- to try and dispel some of the confusion that has arisen as a result. The first thing the Zuckmeister says is that Facebook isn't looking to build its own OS or hardware and is absolutely opposed to competing with the likes of the iPhone and Android
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: arrington, confusion, elements, facebookphone, from-the-start, Mobile Phone, social integration, social-networking, sources, speculation, techcrunch, zuckmeister
Nokia (N9 / N8-01?) prototype sized up against iPhone 4 and EVO 4G on video
Setting aside the naming confusion , this Nokia prototype procured by Negri Electronics just keeps attracting our attention. Though we saw plenty of it in an earlier video , this latest rendezvous between Finnish hardware and camera lens includes a few familiar suspects to offer us the best size comparison we've had so far. Squaring up against a 3.5-inch iPhone 4, the QWERTY slider from Nokia seems barely any larger from the front though quite a bit thicker from the side -- an expansion justified by its inclusion of a physical keyboard
Categories: htc, Mobile Phone Tags: apple, comparison, confusion, departing, htc, htcevo4g, iphone4, negri electronics, negrielectronics, result, rm-626, size-comparison, slider, symbian3, video
Motorola A955 Droid 2 teased, definitely different from the Xtreme
Telling the blurry spy shots apart and keeping the codenames straight as we lead up to this Android duo from Motorola for Verizon next month has been next to impossible, but we think we're getting the hang of it here. What you're looking at above is apparently the A955 Droid 2, a phone whose keyboard we saw a little while back
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: confusion, looks-different, motorola, result, shots, verizon, vzw
Motorola publishes schedule of Android upgrades for its handsets, steers clear of specifics
Remember last week, when Motorola said it was releasing an Android 2.1 update for the Droid, but then totally didn't ?
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: 2.1, clarification, confusion, droid, engadget, entry, exactly-solve, facebook, moto, motorola, news, result, software-update, softwareupdate, specifics