Dual-SIM phones – or phones that can fit in two SIM cards for people with two numbers — have been out for years now, but this is definitely rare. In case fitting two SIM cards into a single phone wasn’t enough numbers to handle, how about three? LG is reportedly going to release the LG A290, a triple-SIM phone, in Russia next month.
The LG Prada 3.0, the next phone to come out of LG and designer brand Prada’s pipeline (and the first smartphone in the line) is about to land in the UK via T-Mobile. Officially launched in December and already out in Korea, the stylish smartphone has also been reported to be out by the end of January at third-party retailers, but will be bundled with a contract from the carrier in February.
LG has announced a sequel to last year’s Optimus Pad tablet (known as the G-Slate when it came out on T-Mobile in the US). Called the Optimus Pad LTE, the new slate retails the 8.9-inch, 1280 x 768 IPS screen found on the original, but upgrades the rest of the spec with 4G LTE internet access and a performance jump from a 1GHz Tegra 2 to a dual-core 1.5GHz Snapdragon.
LG hasn’t made any official announcement, but this makes it official: LG has put up a page for the Optimus 2 smartphone, a follow-up to the entry-level Optimus One phone they first unveiled back in 2010. Like the original, it’s still a relatively basic smartphone that sacrifices tech for a bargain price featuring a compact screen and an 800MHz processor, which is a step up from the original’s 600MHz chip.
After announcing that they’ll be showing off a 55-inch OLED TV at CES in Las Vegas next week, LG has described another huge screen in store for the trade show: an 84-inch 3D LCD TV. It’s not just huge and it won’t just give you 3D goodness (via passive Cinema 3D glasses) – this thing is crisp, thanks to a 3840 x 2160 resolution that packs in four times the pixels of your usual 1080p HDTV.
