Although the handset has been made available only in South Korea, LG confirmed the Optimus LTE II will be launched worldwide, but more details on that will be unveiled in the following weeks.

With 2GB of RAM, LG Optimus LTE II offers an optimal multitasking at running large applications. In addition, the smartphone boasts an incredible 4.7-inch True HD IPS capacitive touchscreen display that supports HD (1280 x 720 pixels) resolution and is capable of emitting 550 nits.

The device is powered by a dual core Qualcomm MSM8960 Snapdragon processor clocked at 1.5 GHz, which is complemented by an Adreno 225 graphics processing unit and 2GB of RAM.

Furthermore, the Optimus LTE II embeds 16GB of internal memory, which can be expanded up to 32GB via microSD card.

Another strong point of the smartphone is the high-capacity 2,150 mAh Li-Ion battery, which is rated by the manufacturer for up to 250 hours of standby time or up to 10 hours of talk time.

LG also confirmed the Optimus LTE II runs Google’s Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system with the new Optimus UI 3.0 on top. The latter offers users a slew of convenient features such as face recognition unlocking, widget size control and easy-to-organize folder management.

It is also worth mentioning the smartphone comes with support for wireless charging, which means it can be recharged by placing it on a wireless battery charging pad.

“The Optimus LTE II is the most powerful smartphone technology currently available in Korea. With a faster LTE network, the barrier for downloading and running very large applications is no longer a significant one for many customers, which is why LG saw a need for more RAM on high-end smartphones,” said Dr. Jong-seok Park, President and CEO of LG Electronics Mobile Communications Company.

Also known as Motorola EX 225, the handset features a compact design and a generous QWERTY keyboard, allowing for more comfortable texting.

Moreover, the MOTOKEY SOCIAL comes with a dedicated Facebook key, which provides one click access to the social network application.

Aside from the portrait QWERTY keyboard, the phone sports a decent 2.4-inch QVGA capacitive touchscreen display that support 320 x 240 pixels resolution and 262k colors.

Surprisingly, the handset is less than 10mm thick. It measures 105.5 x 60mm and weighs only 92g (battery included).

Although the MOTOKEY SOCIAL is no smarpthone, the handset comes with five different home screens pre-installed, a slew of interface themes and direct links to Facebook, Twitter and other popular social networking sites.

In addition, users will be able to browse the Internet with the blazing fast Opera Mini browser. Email services are included as well, such as access to corporate Exchange email via OWA (Outlook Web Access).

On the back, Motorola MOTOKEY SOCIAL packs a 3-megapixel camera with video recording. The phone embeds only 50MB of internal memory, which can be expanded up to 32GB via microSD card.

In the connectivity front, the MOTOKEY SOCIAL does not disappoint as the device comes packed with Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi Hotspot support, Bluetooth stereo functionality, 3.5 mm earphone jack and microUSB port.

Even though the mobile phone is powered by a low-capacity 910 Li-Ion battery, Motorola claims it can provide up to 670 hours of standby time or up to 8 hours of talk time.

“We are committed to launching competitively-priced cellular telephones with the features demanded by consumers who still do not have a smartphone, but need access to e-mail, social network and Wi-Fi hotspot functionality,” said Alexander Zawadzki, Motorola Mobility´s general manager for Peru.

One major takeaway from the collective complaint is Apple’s failure to “adequately ensure that features MobileMe users were paying for would be accessible, including access to their e-mail accounts for which customers pay additional fees.”

“As a result, numerous MobileMe users suffered damage from the inability to access their individual accounts,” reads the suit, filed this week in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California by plaintiff Danyelle Comer.

Since the suit is labeled as “class”, multiple (unnamed) customers are likely to have joined the action as plaintiffs.

Apple “misrepresented” its iCloud service as paying MobileMe customers experienced “devastating consequences,” according to a report by AppleInsider citing the documents in question.

The suit argues that, “Unfortunately for many users it doesn’t ‘just work’ and has resulted in a series of headaches due to lack of syncing ability, lack of email functionality and other complications and losses and corruption of data.”

“In fact,” the complaint stresses, “a number of users have been forced to hire outside technical assistance at significant cost, just to migrate to the iCloud platform or get around it to obtain minimal functionality of emails and other systems.”

The suit further mentions iCloud downtime, which seldom caused the inability to access e-mail and other services, throughout the transition.

The lawyers representing plaintiff Danyelle Comer conclude, stating that “Apple’s most dedicated consumers, including those who paid for MobileMe service have continually experienced problems with iCloud migration, including lack of email for extended periods.”

According to the report quoting the documents, Apple is being accused of “one count of violation of the Magnus-Moss Warranty Act, one count of unjust enrichment, one count of breach of express warranty, one count of breach of implied warranty of merchantability, and violation of the California Consumer Legal Remedies Act.”

The company’s chief financial officer, Peter Oppenheimer, has issued a brochure to Apple’s neighbors in Cupertino, California, dishing out some facts about the new spaceship-shaped campus, and how its existence will affect the area.

The documents, obtained

by 9to5mac, state that Campus 2 won’t replace the 1 Infinite Loop campus, where the top executives are likely to remain.

“Instead, it will just provide ‘research facility’ office space for an additional 13,000 employees, more than 3,000 more than 1 Infinite Loop. There is 300,000 feet of expansion space for future growth.”

Another key takeaway, “Campus 2 will attain LEED certification and will have no manufacturing or heavy industrial activity onsite. Apple has and will continue to take additional steps to reduce auto use by employees. The roof of the main building is a huge solar array.”

The facility will not be open to the public, which is a huge downer since the building promises to be nothing short of spectacular, from every point of view.

There will be a ‘world class’ auditorium located at the southern tip of the new campus. The hall will host product launches and corporate events.

And, at the north west of the main circular building, the corporate fitness center/recreation center will be established, in a separate structure.

The last bullet points state that “Infinite Loop will remain the official corporate HQ,” and that “Apple intends to break ground as soon as Cupertino approves the changes (scheduled for later this year) and still plans to start occupying the space in 2015.”

Apple is asking its neighbors to issue their questions and potential concerns.

Customers who prefer to make their purchases from Kmart or Target will be able to grab the DEFY MINI beginning May 22 for the same no-term price.

Although it has been tagged as a rugged Android phone, the DEFY MINI is aimed at the entry level market, which is why it’s available for such a low price.

However, for a budget-friendly, Motorola DEFY MINI is quite alright, especially that it is shipped with Android 2.3 Gingerbread on board.

According to Motorola, the smartphone is dust- and water-resistant, so “whether it’s a downpour or a spilt drink, a sandy beach or a pocket full of coins, MOTOROLA DEFY MINI is ready for whatever life throws your way.”

To make things even more interesting for Android fans, the phone’s 3.2-inch capacitive touchscreen display (320 x 480 pixels) features Corning Gorilla Glass coating.

In addition, it provides access to more than 450,000 Google Play apps and games. The handset comes packed with re-sizeable widgets and other innovative features, such as Social Graph and Activity Graph.

Another strong point of the smartphone is the high-capacity 1650 mAh Li-Ion battery, which is rated by the manufacturer for up to 500 hours of standby time or up to 10 hours of talk time.

Motorola DEFY MINI is equipped with a low-performance 600 MHz single-core processor, which is complemented by 512MB and 512MB of ROM. The internal memory can be expanded up to 32GB via microSD card.

On the back, the handset sports a 3-megapixel photo snapper with LED flash and video recording, while in the front, there’s a secondary VGA camera for video calls.

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Samsung has posted on its website a page that enables users to do so, without unveiling the necessary details on the handset’s release date or on the price tag it will feature when launched.

To reserve one Galaxy S III unit, have to pay Rs. 2,000 (around $37/ 29 Euro). They will receive a coupon that can be redeemed when purchasing the device.

Users who would like to take advantage of this opportunity should head over to this page on Samsung’s website to pre-book one unit.

Galaxy S III has created a lot of hype event before being officially announced, and it managed to stir waters after its official unveiling as well.

Samsung and its partners have already started the pre-order period for the mobile phone, and quite successfully, we might add.

A recent report suggests that over 9 million Galaxy S III units have been already reserved all around the world, already making the device Samsung’s fastest selling smartphone.

Running under Google’s Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system, Samsung’s Galaxy S III sports a large 4.8-inch HD Super AMOLED touchscreen display, while being powered by a quad-core application processor.

The handset arrives on shelves with 1GB of RAM and with three options of internal memory, namely 16GB, 32GB and 64GB. Moreover, it can accommodate microSD memory cards of up to 64GB.

The smartphone also comes with an 8-megapixel photo snapper on the back, with LED flash and HD video recording capabilities, as well as with a 1.9MP camera on the front, for making video calls.

Using the NDEV Mobile developer program, which provides developers access to Nuance’s voice recognition and text-to-speech technology, PlaySay integrates Nuance’s Dragon voice technology to connect Spanish and English language learners so they can learn useful phrases and improve pronunciation by practicing with a real-life partner.

PlaySay evaluates users’ pronunciation and enables conversations in an interactive game that instructs users to complete a series of real-world “missions”, all powered by Nuance’s Dragon voice recognition and text-to-speech technologies.

Scenarios include ordering food, introducing yourself, asking someone for help, and others.

Ryan Meinzer, founder and CEO of PlaySay Inc., said “Since my founding of PlaySay four years ago out of my own need to learn Japanese, technological advances in voice recognition by Nuance and cloud technologies have enabled us to create this iPhone app that I am most proud of.”

“With NDEV Mobile’s Dragon Mobile SDK, we have quickly integrated the power of Dragon into our app to expand the functionality and user experience from a non-verbal app, to a social mobile experience that is changing language learning on a global scale,” added Meinzer.

“Through Dragon’s voice technology, the gaming, social and educational elements of PlaySay come together to promote an engaging user experience,” said Matt Revis, vice president and general manager, handset business, Nuance Mobile. “As the NDEV Mobile developer program rapidly expands, we’re thrilled to see a diverse range of apps like PlaySay take advantage of Dragon to provide a unique, fun and intuitive way of engaging consumers.”

PlaySay is free and works with iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPod touch (3rd generation), iPod touch (4th generation) and iPad. The app requires iOS 5.0 or later.

Apple’s site shows a Beta sign wherever a Siri banner is displayed, indicating that the service is still a work-in-progress.

Apple originally got sued in March by a New York man who claimed the Siri commercials were not reflecting reality.

“On many of Apple’s television advertisements, individuals are shown using Siri to make appointments, find restaurants, and even learn the guitar chords to classic rock songs or how to tie a tie,” reads the complaint.

“In the commercials, all of these tasks are done with ease with the assistance of the iPhone 4S’s Siri feature, a represented functionality contrary to the actual operating results and performance of Siri.”

Apple took its time to digest these claims and has now come up with an answer: too bad!

Well, they didn’t exactly phrase it that way, but surely that’s what they meant when Apple’s lawyers said, “[The plaintiffs] offer only general descriptions of Apple’s advertisements, incomplete summaries of Apple’s website materials, and vague descriptions of their alleged—and highly individualized—disappointment with Siri.”

“Tellingly, although Plaintiffs claim they became dissatisfied with Siri’s performance “soon after” purchasing their iPhones, they made no attempt to avail themselves of Apple’s 30-day return policy or one-year warranty—which remains in effect,” the statement continued.

Apple’s legal also stressed that, instead of taking their disappointing hardware back to their local Apple store, “they seek to take an alleged personal grievance about the purported performance of a popular product and turn it into a nationwide class action under California’s consumer protection statutes.”

“The Complaint does not come close to meeting the heavy burden necessary to sustain such claims.”

The world’s first smartphone top comes with 2GB of RAM inside, Optimus LTE2 is expected to arrive in South Korea sometime this week.

Today, the company issued another press release, which offers more details on the smartphone’s specs, but the device is dubbed “LG Optimus LTE II.”

Anyway, official word is that the Optimus LTE II boasts a hyper-vibrant 4.7-inch True HD-IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen display that supports 720 x 1280 pixels resolution and 16 million colors.

Moreover, it appears that for whatever reasons the smartphone is 10g heavier than the device announced two weeks ago. It is also worth mentioning that the Optimus LTE II will be shipped with the new Optimus 3.0 UI, which has just been detailed.

LG has also confirmed the smartphone will be powered by a Qualcomm’s Snapdragon S4 processor clocked at 1.5 GHz, complemented by an Adreno 225 graphics processing unit and 2GB of RAM.

No word on the storage amount, but it will come with microSD card slot for memory expansion up to 32GB. There’s also an impressive 8-megapixel rear camera with autofocus, LED flash and full HD (1080p) video recording.

In addition, the phone’s 2,150 mAh Li-Ion battery has been rated by LG for up to 255 hours of standby time or up to 10 hours of talk time. Obviously, continuous usage time will be much lower.

Obviously, the smartphone’s main selling points will be LTE support and Google’s latest Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system.

For the time being, LG confirmed the Optimus LTE II would be launched in South Korea through five carriers. We’re not sure whether this handset will be available outside the country as well.

The latest operator to pick the Galaxy Q is Videotron. Customers can now purchase the smartphone for a reduced price of $39.95 CAD for $239.95 CAD outright.

Samsung Galaxy Q combines the advantages of a full QWERTY keyboard with the blazing fast speeds and impressive features of the Android mobile platform.

Unveiled back in August, the smartphone was initially delivered with Android 2.2 Froyo operating system on board, but Samsung deployed a Gingerbread update in the meantime, so Videotron customers can be sure they will get it with Android 2.3 onboard.

On top of the stock Android OS, Samsung integrated its own proprietary TouchWiz UI, which might not be pleasing for some customers who prefer simplicity above all else.

Another strong point of the device is the full slide-out QWERTY keyboard that is perfect for those who write often to their friends.

In addition, Galaxy Q provides quick access to thousands of applications and games via Google Play Store, formerly known as Android Market.

Samsung’s Android phone also comes with pre-installed services such as Google Mobile, which allows users to access maps and other localization information.

The smartphone sports a 3.2-inch capacitive touchscreen display that supports only 320 x 480 pixels resolution. On the back, the Galaxy Q packs a 3-megapixel photo snapper with LED flash and video recorder.

Although the Galaxy Q embeds only 170MB of internal memory, storage amount can be expanded up to 32GB via microSD card.

It is also worth mentioning that the phone’s battery is rated by the manufacturer for up to 240 hours of standby time or up to 4 hours of talk time. Check it out here.