LG Optimus Vu 2 leaks, to come soon with 5-inch screen, S4 CPU and 2GB of RAM

Although you might think that LG’s focus these days would be only to prepare the launch of the Optimus G, one very solid contender for the title of world’s most powerful smartphone, the Koreans seem to be readying other high-end devices as well.

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Sony Xperia T unboxing video, exclusive James Bond content leaked

The Sony Xperia T is expected to land in stores in select European markets in the coming days. So it’s really about time that we finally see the unboxing video of the James Bond phone.
Since we have yet to get our hands on the phone to do the ritual ourselves, the deed was done by the folks at Telekom Presse. Check out the video below.

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Iran at it again, trying to box in the Web with its domestic network

The Internet is used for various tasks and its longevity comes from the careful view that diversity, rather than an overlord with pruning shears, should be the sole life-force. The social experiment has been going strong for sometime now, but things may change for Iranians soon: an officials statement by a man known only as Khoramabadi, has said Google and Gmail will be blocked until further notice (read:probably forever).

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Samsung is apparently working on a Tizen powered Galaxy S3

Once upon a time, there was a Finnish handset maker called Nokia. They were working on a Linux powered operating system called Maemo. Intel, one of Nokia’s friends, was also working on their own Linux based operating system called Moblin. Both of them decided to get together one day and combine their operating systems into something called MeeGo. But then something bad happened.

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Is Samsung ready to add voice calling to their ChatON service?

Several years ago, in an attempt to save some money, a couple of developers wrote a cross platform messaging application called WhatsApp. To say it’s taken the world by storm would be an understatement. Now in case you’re one of the few people don’t know what WhatsApp is, here’s the basic idea: Operators charge too much for text messaging, so let’s all install an application on our phones that will send messages using mobile data. And instead of using a username and a password to authenticate ourselves, let’s just use our phone numbers. That’s it. There have been multiple clones since then, most notably Viber. Apple’s got iMessage, but that only works on their device.

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MOGA Bluetooth gaming controller set to drop soon

Gaming and Android have become good buddies lately. On tap this year, we have OUYA and XBMC. We’ve also seen the likes of Ringbow, DRONE and Gameklip. People like games, but they don’t always prefer to use the touch controls on their phone for hours on end. Thumb cramps anyone? This is the niche where the MOGA Bluetooth controller sits nicely.

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Happy Fourth Birthday Android!

Can you believe it has been four years since the little green Android shuffled out of Google HQ, smiled sweetly and then launched its assault on the smartphone market? According to IDC, in the second quarter of 2012, there were 104.8 million Android smartphones sold, representing a 68.1 percent share of the market.

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Globalfoundries says their new 14 nm transistors can boost battery life by 60%

Globalfoundries is a company that deals with the fabrication of chips. Companies like Qualcomm or Texas Instruments design chips, but then they have to send those designs to someone like Globalfoundries to make the physical products that handset makers then put into their devices. The chips in today’s flagship phones are made with transistors that are either 28 nanometers (Snapdragon S4) or 32 nanometers (Samsung Exynos 4 Quad) in size. Making transistors smaller has numerous advantages.

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iPhone 5 vs Galaxy S3 benchmarking – which one is better?

Now that the iPhone 5 has been officially launched in several markets, we’re able to compare it with the hottest Android handsets in town. In fact we have already pitted it against the Samsung Galaxy S3, Galaxy Note and Galaxy Nexus, the HTC One X and the LG Optimus 4X HD. In case you’re also interested in durability tests, you’ll also have to see our iPhone 5 vs Galaxy S3 drop test performed right on iPhone 5 launch day.

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Apple’s desperately trying to recruit former Google employees who worked on Google Maps

Apple released a new version of iOS last week, and chances are you’ve heard that the Maps application in it is a bit … broken. For reasons that haven’t been officially stated, Apple decided to stop working with Google on Maps. Instead they built their own application that integrates fancy new features like “Flyover”, but at a huge cost. The actual mapping data, as in where streets are, where cities are, where major points of interests are, and so on and so forth, a lot of that stuff is either inaccurate or completely missing.

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