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LG is working with Google on the next Nexus phone [Rumor]
This is getting interesting. First we heard rumors that Google’s next Nexus phone would once again me made by LG. Then after some time, the fabled X Phone from Motorola, which is running stock Android, shows up on camera. Now, there is word that LG is indeed working with Google [...]
Read More »How to root LG Escape P870 on Android Ice Cream Sandwich [Guide]
Have an LG Escape P870 that you’re looking to root? This guide will help you! Follow the instructions below and before you know it, your LG Escape P870 will be rooted and ready for custom ROMs and even some mods!
Disclaimer: This guide is intended as a helpful “how to”. [...]
Read More »How to root LG Connect 4G on Android Gingerbread [Guide]
Have a LG Connect 4G you’re looking to root? This guide will help you! Follow the directions below and before you know it your LG Connect 4G will be rooted and ready for modding!
Disclaimer: This guide is intended as a helpful “how to”. dotTech and its writers are not[...]
Read More »How to root LG Optimus 3D P920 on Ice Cream Sandwich or Gingerbread [Guide]
Have an LG Optimus 3D P920 that you’ve been wanting to root? This guide will help you! Follow the instructions below and before you know it, your LG Optimus 3D P920 will be rooted in no time at all.
Disclaimer: This guide is intended as a helpful “how to”. dotTech [...]
Read More »How to root LG Optimus L5 on Android Ice Cream Sandwich [Guide]
Have an LG Optimus L5 that you’re looking to root? This guide will help you! Follow the directions below and in no time at all, you’ll have your LG Optimus L5 rooted and ready for custom ROMs and mods!
Disclaimer: This guide is intended as a helpful “how to”. dotTech [...]
Read More »How to root LG Spectrum 2 on Android Ice Cream Sandwich [Guide]
Have an LG Spectrum 2 that you’ve been itching to root? Consider this your lucky day. This guide will help you root your LG Spectrum 2 easily. In almost no time at all you’ll have a rooted Spectrum 2 that you’re free to flash custom ROMS and mods to! Let’s [...]
How to root LG Optimus G E975 on Android Jelly Bean [Guide]
Recently picked up an LG Optimus G3975? Want to root it? This guide will help you with that endeavor. Follow the guide and before you know it your LG Optimus G E975 will be rooted!
Disclaimer: This guide is intended as a helpful “how to”. dotTech and its writers are [...]
Read More »How to root LG Optimus F7 on Android Jelly Bean [Guide]
Just picked up a shiny new LG Optimus F7? Want to root it? This is your lucky day. This guide will show you how to easily root your Optimus F7 in just 4 steps!
Disclaimer: This guide is intended as a helpful “how to”. dotTech and its writers are not[...]
Read More »This is getting ridiculous. LG also building a smart watch along with Apple, Samsung, and Google.
The headline says it all — this is getting ridiculous. A report out of The Korea Times says that LG is also building a smart watch. The company joins Apple, Samsung and Google as companies who are heavily rumored to be working on a smart watch. Well, maybe except for [...]
Read More »Is this Google’s next Nexus phone, the LG Nexus 5? [Rumor]
Disappointed by Samsung’s Galaxy S4? Looking for a more pure Google experience perhaps? Well, if this anonymous source that sent in a scoop to Android and Me isn’t messing with us, we might be looking at Google’s next Nexus phone.
The source claims to work for Google and says that [...]
Read More »HTC and LG crash Samsung Galaxy S IV party with Optimus G and HTC One ads [Image]
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Samsung has received kudos for its clever marketing over the past few years, especially its attacks on Apple vis-a-vis iSheep ads. It looks as if Samsung is not the only one with marketing chops — HTC and LG know how to get in on the action, too.
At the time [...]
Read More »LG has acquired webOS from HP, and they plan to use it for TVs
I was wondering why that affordable new HP Slate7 tablet was running stock Android. It seemed too good to be true that another manufacturer was embracing a pure Google experience. But it turns out that HP didn’t really have much choice.
LG has acquired webOS from HP, which you might [...]
Read More »LG announces Optimus G Pro with unique curved glass, looks exactly like Samsung Galaxy Note II
LG has announced their oft-rumored Optimus G Pro along with its new and not-so-new specs. The device has a 5.5-inch 1080p display, and LG notes that they used a curved glass on the phone to give a sort of “2.5D” effect. Its CPU is the new Snapdragon 600 running at [...]
Read More »Apple and Samsung accounted for 103% of mobile phone profits in 2012
Before looking at any statistics, most people are aware that the current dominators of the handset market are Apple and Samsung. Just how dominant were the two rivals during 2012? According to Canaccord Genuity, Apple and Samsung accounted for 103% of handset profits for the entire year.
Apple had 69 [...]
Read More »Consumer Reports ranks iPhone 5 last among the top smartphones
With the iPhone 5 selling over 50 million units just in the last quarter alone, you’d think it was the top smartphone on the market, right? Consumer Reports doesn’t seem to think so.
The magazine has been bringing reviews for almost 80 years now, so their opinion carries a lot [...]
Read More »How to root Sprint and AT&T LG Optimus G [Guide]
So you have your LG Optimus G, one among the most powerful smartphones currently in the market, waiting to get rooted, for more power. Wait no more and read on to find how to root your Sprint or AT&T LG Optimus G.
Disclaimer: This guide is intended as a helpful [...]
Read More »Samsung ad mocking iSheep is the most popular tech ad for 2012
Remember that ad Samsung ran earlier this year mocking iPhone 5 fans for standing in line for a smartphone when “the next big thing” (aka Galaxy S III) is already here? Yeah, well, according to Visible Measures (a video advertising firm) that ad is the most popular tech ad for [...]
Read More »Nexus 4 has an LTE chip built-in — so why doesn’t it support LTE?
iFixit has got their hands on a Nexus 4 and took it apart. Most of what they found was expected: NFC, battery, GSM/EDGE chips, processor, etc. One thing, however, did surprise — an LTE chip.
According to the iFixit teardown, the motherboard of the Nexus 4 comes with a Qualcomm [...]
Read More »LG makes the bottom of an elevator transparent using “lifelike” IPS monitors, scares the crap out of the people inside
What is one of the best ways to market a product? Show it in action. What is the best way to prove to the public that your IPS displays are of touch-notch, “lifelike” quality? How about… troll elevator passengers.
LG wanted to show the world that their IPS monitors are [...]
Read More »How to install ClockworkMod Touch recovery on LG Optimus 4X HD [Guide]
ClockworkMod (CWM) recovery is one of the most popular custom recoveries for Android devices. CWM recovery gives your device exposure to advanced tools and tasks such as backing up your entire device or specific parts of it, upgrading/updating ROM’s, installing custom ROM’s, SD card partitioning, etc. ClockworkMod Recovery Touch gives [...]
How to root LG Optimus 4X HD (P880) [Guide]
Rooting is one of those simplest things which opens up a whole new world of extensibility to any Android device. Rooting your LG Optimus 4X HD will help you to break the ‘shackles’ and to taste the juice of your phone to the maximum extent. Just as with anything tasty, [...]
Apple tops J.D. Power customer satisfaction study, Android is a distant second
Who is the most satisfied with their smartphone? iSheep? Fandroids? According to the 2012 Wireless Smartphone Satisfaction Study by J.D. Power and Associates, people who purchase Apple are.
In its study J.D. Power asked consumers to rate their smartphone on four criteria (performance, physical design, features, and ease of operation) [...]
Read More »What does Apple’s victory against Samsung mean for Android? [dotTech Explains]
Appeal aside, Apple has effectively defeated the largest Android manufacturer — and coincidentally Apple’s biggest competitor — in the United States. There are the obvious upfront consequences of this loss, such as Samsung paying Apple a handsome sum of a little more than $1 billion and potential injunctions against guilty [...]
Read More »Apple and Microsoft team up against Google and Android for Kodak patents
Apple vs Samsung is raging, as is Microsoft vs Motorola. Time to open a new front in the war of smartphones: Android vs Micro-ple.
Eastman Kodak Co., once a booming photography company, is filing for bankruptcy. As part of the bankruptcy proceedings, Kodak is sell 1,100 patents it owns. On [...]
Read More »Patent troll NTP wins war against Apple, Google, Microsoft, Samsung, and other major tech companies
Who has three letters in its name and just brought down the hammer on pretty much every company in the mobile device industry? No, it isn’t Apple. Or Google. Or Microsoft. Or Samsung. Or [insert name here]. That would be NTP my friends.
NTP Inc. is a patent “holding” company [...]
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