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Verizon LG Optimus Vu apprehended by Android Police, confesses to Ice Cream Sandwich upgrade

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Verizon LG Optimus Vu apprehended by Android Police, confesses to Ice Cream Sandwich upgrade

If the LG Optimus Vu's insistence on running Gingerbread was the sole factor keeping you from its 5-inch HD-IPS display and its goofy 4:3 aspect ratio, your prayers may have been answered. According to a leaked gallery of images at Android Police, the oversized slab's rumored Verizon variant will be running Android 4.0.4. The images don't reveal much else --save for big red's standard logo, prominently stamped above the device's face -- but that's one less negative you can count from our review. Check out a second shot after the break, or the full gallery at the source below.

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LG Optimus Vu review: a 5-inch, pen-enabled phone to take on the Galaxy Note

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Tech companies are no strangers to the game of follow the leader -- industry imitation is, after all, the sincerest sign of a successful product. In the case of the Galaxy Note, Samsung's phablet wonder has been enjoying some unexpected popularity in markets abroad and even here in the US. But the company's ownership of that once-niche category is about to be contested by a surge of copycats, spearheaded by the stylus-toting LG Optimus Vu ($866 unlocked). It should go without saying: this 5-inch not-a-smartphone, not-yet-a-tablet has a steep climb ahead if it wants to oust or even claim equal billing with its successful opponent.

Of course, the Vu isn't launching an attack on all fronts yet as, right now it's a Korea-only affair running Android Gingerbread. (It redeems itself somewhat with an LTE radio.) Though the competition is welcome, the duel is not an even one, given the Vu's unusual mix of internals: a 1,024 x 768 HD-IPS LCD display, dual-core 1.5GHz Snapdragon processor, 32GB of non-expandable storage, an ample 2,080mAh battery and a region-specific T-DMB TV tuner. But could that be enough to dethrone the current category king, or at least present a viable alternative? Join us after the break as we crack this rectangular nut and winnow out the marketing noise.

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LG Optimus Vu review: a 5-inch, pen-enabled phone to take on the Galaxy Note originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 13 Jul 2012 10:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Pantech Vega S5 does Android 4.0 on a 5-inch LCD, facemask not included

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Pantech Vega S5 does Android 40 on a 5inch LCD, facemask not included

The 4.5-inch Vega LTE is not eight months old and the 4.8-inch Vega Racer 2 is still properly wet behind the years. But, the flow of progress abides by no calendars, so welcome the Pantech Vega S5 to the world. It steps up to a full 5-inch IPS LCD with a 720p resolution in a phone that, thanks to a "zero bezel" design, actually has a smaller footprint than the Samsung Galaxy S III. There's a whopping 13 megapixel shooter in there with zero lag, a Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 processor, 16GB of internal storage and a 2,100 mAh battery that's said to deliver 11 hours of talk time. If that sounds like a good combination indeed it could be, but don't spend too much pining -- this handset is destined only for Korean shores.

Pantech Vega S5 does Android 4.0 on a 5-inch LCD, facemask not included originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 02 Jul 2012 07:40:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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New child-friendly Vinci Tab II ‘M’ is smaller, lighter, cheaper

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New childfriendly Vincitab II 'M' is smaller, lighter, cheaper

If your Vinci II tablet was working out your children's arms, more than their minds, then fear not. The makers have just announced the arrival of a new, lighter "M" model. The 5-inch kiddie slate is compatible with the Vinci Curriculum and Kids library apps, and keeps the option for Parent Mode for when Dad wants to check the football scores via the Android-based OS. Designed for users kids on the go, the tablets can also be networked for some little-LAN action. It's still the same 1.2 GHz A8 Cortex running the show, but if you thought that smaller screen might mean more battery, then sadly you're mistaken, with the company's own website estimating just four hours of junior-fun -- half that of the larger version. That said, up for pre-order at $169 ($80 less than the 7-incher) maybe that's enough to soften the already rubberized blow.

New child-friendly Vinci Tab II 'M' is smaller, lighter, cheaper originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 27 Jun 2012 07:14:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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LG Outs 5-Inch 1080p Display: Retina What?

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I’ve got both an iPhone 4 and a 3rd gen iPad, and find that the Retina displays on both of these is about as sharp as my eyes can make out. So the idea of a small display with an even greater pixel density doesn’t seem all that necessary. But this being the world that we live in, some believe that more is always better.

Take, for instance, LG, who has announced a new AH-IPS (Advanced High Performance In-Plane Switching) display capable of true 1080p (1920×1080) resolution in just a 5-inch screen. At that resolution, the display has a staggering 440 pixel per inch density.

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The iPhone 4 “only” has 326ppi, and the new iPad has just 276ppi. So what exactly does that mean? Well, the LG display is going to be insanely sharp. While I don’t necessarily think that the added density is a must, the fact that it runs at a true native 1080p resolution should make for beautifullly crisp and accurate playback of true HD content, without some of the artifacts which occur when up- or down- converting these sources to the odd display resolutions that Apple has chosen for its mobile displays.

That all said, there’s always a chance that Apple has something similar up its sleeves for the iPhone 5. Rumor has it that it will actually have a 16:9 proportion screen, though it would be a 4-inch diagonal, not 5-inch like the LG screen. Either way, I think the pixel density wars are well underway, and it won’t be long before we’re all being asked to upgrade our 1080p living room TVs with their paltry low pixel density to crazy QHD 4K screens. And then 16K HD, and so on. By that time of course, my eyesight will be so bad that it won’t really matter, and you can just set an old 1970s CRT in front of me and I won’t be able to tell the difference.

[via Mashable via Cult of Mac]