LG today announced that all of its Android-based smartphones are eligible for 50GB of free online storage from Box. LG customers with devices running Android 2.1 and up can sign up for he storage directly from their handset. LG is advertising the deal as a benefit to its business customers, but all of LG’s Android smartphones can take advantage of the offier. The storage can be used for image, music, document, and other files, which can be accessed from LG’s Android smartphones as long as the phone has a network connection available. LG says registration for the free storage ...
Cincinnati Bell Launches HTC Radar 4G
Cincinnati Bell today announced the launch of the HTC Radar 4G Windows Phone. The Radar is free after a rebate to new customers who switch carriers to Cincinnati Bell. Current customers can get the Radar for $99.99 after rebate. It’s available starting today. Tweet Vote on HN ...
LG Nitro HD for AT&T
Phone Scoop was able to spend some time with the LG Nitro HD. This new Android phone from LG brings an HD display and LTE to the table. Here are our first impressions of the Nitro. Tweet Vote on HN ...
ALCATEL OT-355 QWERTY PHONE
Orange UK has listed the new Alcatel mobile phone, the Alcatel OT-355, which is the design resembles the previous model, the Alcatel OT-255.The handset is a budget phone with a QWERTY keyboard and a small color screen.Alcatel OT-355 phone is equipped with 0.3 megapixel camera, microSD card slot (up to 4GB), music player, and FM tuner with support for RDS. The battery is enabling up to 9 hours in talk time, up to a week of standby time. There is not reported on pricing but offers the Alcatel OT-355 to Pay As You Go ...
Alcatel Lucent runs first rural UK LTE pilot
French vendor Alcatel Lucent running LTE trial in rural Wales in 800MHz band already vacated by digital switchover.The UK’s first rural Long Term Evolution (LTE) trial has kicked off in the Preseli Mountains in West Wales to evaluate whether ’4G’ LTE is economically and technically viable for rural areas with no broadband coverage, or with broadband speeds lower than 2Mbps.The three-month pilot is being carried out by telecoms equipment vendor Alcatel Lucent and communications technology provider and media services company Arqiva.The trial uses the 800MHz spectrum band, ...
Alcatel OT-880 Smartphone
The Alcatel OT-880 is an advanced type of smartphone. Alcatel goes a step further and aims at the user that wants to get the most value for his money with the Alcatel OT-880 Crossover Experience. And he also gets more than he would normally expect. What to think of a Smartphone with a touch screen and a complete QWERTY keypad? The combination of both is equal to having the best of both worlds, at least in the experience of the basic level consumer that has both for the first time. In any case, the Alcatel OT-880 Smartphone offers flexibility and makes it possible to update social networks ...
Alcatel OT-710 Smartphone
We will highlight a few Alcatel Smartphone. Such as the new Alcatel Touch Experience, or Alcatel OT-710, a new Smartphone from Alcatel which emphasizes Fun and Experience. The Alcatel OT-710 is a cheap alternative for a Smartphone, but is equipped with a relatively large display. This is obviously not a high-end cell phone, but that is also not the part of the market that Alcatel is focusing on, or hoping to claim a market share of. The Alcatel OT-710 Touch Experience will be successful for its price / quality ...
Alcatel Smartphones
Next to a large pile of cell phones that were already available on the market last year, we still saw a nice series of Alcatel Smartphones in a small demo space in the Mobile World Congress complex. According to a spokesperson from TCT Mobile, especially the Alcatel One Touch Tribe and the One Touch Mini were successful last year. To match this success a bit, TCT Mobile introduced a new series of Alcatel cell phones. Alcatel’s most important spearheads are an excellent price /quality ratio, user-friendliness, and a unique design. But aren’t these the features that every cell ...
LG announces Ice Cream Sandwich upgrade line-up
LG has announced the full range of its smartphones that will get the tasty Ice Cream Sandwich update in 2012 alongside the LG Optimus 2X.It’s basically just high-end smartphones that were launched this year, so we’ll see Android 4.0 land on the LG Optimus Black, LG Optimus 3D and, in the US, the LG Optimus LTE.The company already announced that the LG Optimus 2X will be seeing Ice Cream Sandwich hit its innards when it was forced to clear up rumours to the contrary. Tweet Vote ...
LG Extravert Hits Verizon’s Prepaid Lineup
Verizon Wireless recently added the LG Extravert to its lineup of prepaid cell phones. The Extravert is a sideways slider with full QWERTY keyboard for messaging and a 2.8-inch WQVGA touch screen (400 x 240 pixels). It runs on LG’s feature phone touch OS and is limited to 1X data. The Extravert claims to be green, with 30% of the battery cover coming from recycled materials, and no cadmium, lead, or mercury in the battery. The box it ships in is made from 76% recycled materials, and the in-box materials is made from 60% recycled materials. The Extravert features a 2-megapixel camera ...