Microsoft has once again flexed its Intellectual Property muscle, having signed a new patent licensing agreement for LG that covers the Korean manufacturer’s Android smartphones and tablets as well as its Chrome OS based devices.Microsoft has signed many such deals over the past year, including an agreement with Samsung in September 2011, and, after signing a deal with Compal in October, announced that it receives royalties from over 53 percent of the Android devices sold in the ...

According to a Reuters report, LG is actively seeking partners to help bolster its mobile phone unit, which has been struggling for the past year and a half. LG Mobile CEO Park Jong-seok said that “we’re looking into almost every alliance that the mobile industry can think of” in an interview. LG announced a renewed partnership with fashion house Prada just last month. LG’s mobile unit has lost nearly $1 billion dollars in the past 6 reporting quarters. Tweet Vote on ...

Sprint showed off one of its first LTE 4G smartphones at CES, the LG Viper. We took a quick look at it and here are our thoughts. Tweet Vote on HN ...

The Spectrum is LG’s new flagship 4G LTE phone from Verizon. The display is huge and HD, yet it’s thinner than last year’s Revolution. How does it shape up? Tweet Vote on HN ...

The LG Connect 4G is designed to be a relatively affordable LTE phone for carriers like MetroPCS. While it’s small in size and price, it’s no slouch in features. We spent some time with it. Tweet Vote on HN ...

Today MetroPCS announced the LG Connect 4G smartphone, which was released alongside the Samsung Galaxy Attain 4G . Like the Attain, the Connect 4G offers LTE capabilities, but it features higher-end specs. Tweet Vote on HN ...

LG has revealed a new member of its smartphone family called the Optimus 2. The Optimus 2 looks to succeed the entry-level Optimus One that was introduced in 2010. Tweet Vote on HN ...

LG has revealed details of the LG Optimus 2 on its web site. This follow-up device runs Android 2.3 Gingerbread and features a 3.2-inch touch display with 320 x 480 pixels. The Optimus 2 is powered by an 800MHz processor and supports CDMA EVDO Rev. A networks in the 800/1900MHz bands. Other features include a 3.2-megapixel camera with autofocus and video capture; Bluetooth 3.0+EDR, GPS, and Wi-Fi; and support for microSD cards up to 32GB. LG didn’t say which network will offer the Optimus 2, but its spectrum support earmarks it for a U.S. CDMA carrier. The Optimus 2 appears on the ...

LG has revealed a new member of its smartphone family called the Optimus 2. The Optimus 2 looks to succeed the entry-level Optimus One that was introduced in 2010 Tweet Vote on HN ...

LG already revealed that it plans to upgrade its high-end Optimus smartphones released in 2011 to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, but now we have a more concrete time period that users can expect to get the upgrades delivered to their phones. Tweet Vote on HN ...