Phones

LG Electronics has officially unveiled two additions to the Optimus series of smartphones - the LG Optimus Pro (LG-C660) and the LG Optimus Net (LG-P690). They will run on the Android "Gingerbread" 2.3 platform.

An interesting article on Android sourced from Jacob Aron, technology reporter of New Scientist. He writes that Android users risk exposing their Google calendars, contacts and other personal details when logging on to unencrypted Wi-Fi networks, say researchers at the University of Ulm in Germany. A weakness in ClientLogin, the authentication system used to access Google services, means that 99.7 ...

Worldwide smartphone sales will reach 468 million units in 2011 (a 57.7% increase from 2010, according to Gartner) and Android is set to become the most popular operating system (OS) worldwide – it will account for nearly half of the market if you believe Gartner’s figures. “By 2015, 67 percent of all open OS devices will have an average selling ...