By Aldo Panessidi
The world's greatest tech show - CES 2012 - kicked off on Monday,  January 9th... and will run until Friday January 13th.
With more than four decades of success, the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) reaches across global markets, connects the industry and enables CE innovations to grow and thrive.   The show is produced by Consumer electronic Association, the preeminent trade association promoting growth in the $186 billion U.S. consumer technology industry. CEA represents more than 2,000 corporate members involved in the design, development, manufacturing, distribution and integration of consumer electronics products. All profits from CES are reinvested into industry services, including technical training and education, industry promotion, engineering standards development, market research and legislative advocacy.
This year's show is held at the Hilton Casino and Hotel in Las Vegas and will cover more than 1.8 million square feet which is equivalent to 35 American football fields with over 2700 [...]

By Megan Fleet
Every brand and company has its shtick, its M.O., its press friendly sound bytes. Google is no different when espousing the virtues of its Google Android operating system at each event they are able to use a soapbox and spread their smartphone evangelism. The main gospel is the Android culture of openness and the lack of limitations is to the benefit of the consumer.

This is great PR spin. And this writer truly loves a good euphemism laced with truth. So, while Android is more open that its competitors, it is comparative. When held up to open-source software like Linux, it is actually quite closed. Hence, a Hollywoodesque Benniffer moniker is bound to catch: Clopen.
At the moment, Google makes the Android OS source code available to companies and individuals to customize to their liking. Very open and transparent, non? Flip side of this coin is the Google mobile suite [...]

By John Castell
 
With the big mobile conference in Las Vegas this coming February that is certainly going to drum up a big buzz for the upcoming 2012 device releases; to this end, you may get inundated in the coming months about what the year will bring. With great mobile innovations like dual-core processors and 4G LTE brought to market in 2011, this year in review was impressive. While hard to trump, the 2012 line-up is being touted as bigger and better.  Here is a snapshot of unlocked cell phones to be dialed into.

LG Optimus LTE

LG is looking to break into the 2012 smartphone market with vengeance as some of the LG Cell Phone lineupe rocking the latest in Android OS: 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich). Using the power of social media, the manufacturer announced via Facebook that in the second quarter of 2012 a number of their LG  Optimus cell [...]

By Megan Fleet
January 3, 2012

There are those moments where no news is good news. This is generally not the case in the technology world; in particular within mobile technology market space... which is constantly evolving, improving, and innovating to keep pace with a tech savvy and tech hungry consumer base.  A market base growing at an exponential rate as unlocked cell phones becomes more and more available to consumers in India, Africa and China. Thankfully the advent of tablets and a plethora of mobile accessories such as cases, skins,  screen protectors, desktop chargers as well as  Bluetooth Headsets keep our little hands busy while awaiting the latest smartphone relases.
With that in mind, the jury is still out on the lack of an LG Windows Phone release in the United States in 2011.... the last LG Windows Phone seen state side was the Quantum back in 2010. This handset wasn’t [...]

Aldo Panessidi
Black Friday and Cyber Monday are typically two of the biggest shopping days of the year, and as consumers continue to use mobile devices more frequently to make online purchases, 2011 is shaping up to be huge for online shopping. A new study from ad network InMobi found that an estimated 60 million people will use a mobile device for online bargain-hunting this coming Black Friday and Cyber Monday, and 21 million of them will make purchases on their devices and associated mobile accessories.

Typical deals are shoppers looking for
 
A new survey found that Black Friday bargain hunters will be on the lookout for tablets more so than any other mobile device next Friday. Among those polled, 32% said they would be hunting for a Black Friday deal on a tablet and tablet accessories this holiday season. 25% of respondents said they would scout for deals on HDTVs, 24% said [...]

The Google Android operating system is used by many manufacturers as the default software for the top of the line mobile phone offerings. The beauty of Android is that it is light and can be used on less than powerful devices. Of the phone available, we’ve selected what we consider the best Android phones for those on a budget but want the experience of a smartphone.

Unlocked LG Optimus One
Most high end Android phone do not do so well on the battery life side of things. One of the benefits of a lower end phone is the battery consumption needed to perform various tasks. The Unlocked LG Optimus One has a 1500mah battery that is capable of holding a charge of for days and giving you 48 hours of talk time. Other features of the phone including a 3.2 inch screen display as well as a 600mhz cpu processor. You also [...]

The unlocked LG (Thrill 4G) is a device that has been highly anticipated by many. It has a number of great features into a comment at LG tries to regain market share that they had previously admitted disappointing efforts. The company has made it a real goal of theirs to ensure that they are able to put together excellent devices that users will want to have in their pockets. The LG Thrill 4G is one of a number of devices that they have released that seems to reach and maybe even surpasses the expectations of their users.

The device comes with a 4.3 inch 800 x 480 pixel screen that is able to display bowl two-dimensional and three-dimensional content on the fly. It weighs a total of 5.9 ounces, and is comparable to many of the higher end smart phones that are currently out there.
 
The device will also run on Android [...]

The unlocked LG Optimus Black is a phone that has received a lot of attention over the course of the last two years. There are number of benefits that are provided by the phone, then you should always look to look into the benefits are provided when you unlock the phone. There are a number of reasons why the LG Optimus Black has become very popular within the unlocking community. First of all, the phone is very slim weighing only 3.8 g. This is definitely on the lower end of the smart phone waits, and you can bet that the phone is very popular for this reason. The design of the phone is excellent, and the curves usually make it very comfortable to hold and dependent on the phone.
Running on the latest and greatest software, the phone has become very popular in the short amount of time. There was a [...]

The LG Optimus 2X unlocked is a wonderful device that is received well in most circumstances. You can bet that the LG Optimus IIx is going to continue to be a popular phone moving forward. Being built around a dual core processor, the LG Optimus 2X is on a higher end Android devices. The dual core processor makes it one of the top performing devices within its class for its price range. Although many consider the unlocked LG Optimus 2X to be a midrange phone, it really performs more like a high-end phone. It continues to be a top-of-the-line device that is hard to match in most circumstances. The design of the device is great, and the sloping glass of the display gives it a very unique look. It does resemble some of the previous LG Optimus devices, but does have a number of things that set it out. First [...]

The unlocked LG Optimus is a device that has been highly popular since it was first announced by the company.  There are a number of things about the phone and make a differ from the previous releases.  The phone will be running on the Android 2.2 operating system, and while the specs are really not that impressive overall, there are much better than you would expect from a phone so slim.  The phone is great because the LG Optimus is much thinner than other phones on the market.  At its thickest point of his 9 mm thickness.  Out of smallest point the phone is only 6 mm in thickness.  They’re making by far one of the smallest phones with LG is ever released and is easily the most impact the mobile phone that they have released so far.  That should make the phone a highly popular phone in the unlocking [...]