LG tells the story behind development of QSlide multitasking of Optimus G

LG is really proud of the work that it has done with the Optimus G. The quad-core powerhouse, as it was earlier confirmed will even be the base for the next Nexus device from Google.

What that device won’t have, however, is LG’s multitasking feature dubbed QSlide. To emphasize the importance of that QSlide, LG has shared the story of its creation in an interesting video.

For those that aren’t yet familiar with the feature, it allows you to have multiple apps displayed on your screen. Unlike Samsung’s solution on the Note II, where you have them side by side, LG’s take is more interesting and overlays the apps on top of each other allowing you to change the opacity of the one on top.

Sounds interesting? Go ahead and watch Sebastian Hochan Song, one of QSlide’s developers, telling you all about it. The video is just below for you to feast your eyes on.

LG Nexus 4 name confirmed via EXIF info, Pictures landed on Picasa

 

The purporting LG Nexus 4 has surfaced another time, this time is a pictures purporting to be from the LG Nexus have shown up before, but their EXIF data referenced the “Mako” codename. This is the first time we’ve seen pictures tagged “Nexus 4,” a name first heard when leaked in retailer listings. French newspaper Le Figaro has claimed the Nexus 4 will be revealed on October 29th.

This embedded image information is very easy to fake or tweak, mind you, so we may see more developments on the subject of the next Nexus’ name.

Remember that rumors says that the Nexus 4 packs a Snapdragon S4 Pro chipset with four ferocious Krait cores inside, an 8 MP snapper, 2 GB worth of RAM and a 4.7 True-HD IPS display of 768 x 1280 pixels resolution and most importantly, has Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean on tap.

An unverified October 29 date has been pinpointed as the day Google will step forth and unleash the Nexus 4 to the world.

We’ll keeps you updated when the event will take place.

 

Source : Droidlife

Purported LG Nexus 4 / LG E960 Mako gets a full blown review

The rumored LG Nexus 4 / LG E960 Mako keeps talking about himself. After teasing us with a few images every other day, Belarusian website Onliner.by has now uploaded a full review of what has come to be known as the LG Nexus 4. After the some leaked camera samples by the Belarusian site Onliner.by, it’s time for a benchmark.

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The Nexus 4 disappoints in the synthetic benchmarks department. The AnTuTu and Quadrant scores are way low for something with a quad-core Snapdragon S4 and 2GB of RAM under the hood and even slower than the scores of the international One X with the Tegra 3 processor.

All of this can be put down to this being a prototype device and things could improve considerably in the final version. That could also explain why this particular unit had just 8GB of internal memory. With the launch of the next Nexus being said to be on October 29, we don’t have to wait long to find out what the real deal would be like.

To read the full review of this prototype, click on over here.

Purported LG Nexus 4 / LG E960 Mako samples

The rumored LG Nexus 4 / LG E960 Mako is spotted again, but this time we have some samples of it’s 8MP sensor. And here’s the shots.

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The alleged LG Nexus 4 / LG E960 Mako : spotted in other HQ pictures by the Belarusian tech site

The rumored LG Nexus 4 / LG E960 Mako is spotted again in some leaked photos by the Belarusian site Onliner.by, that has snapped some highquality pictures of the prototype unit. And this time we can see in the pictures a comparaison between the the Galaxy Nexus & the LG Nexus 4, and we can see from the images just how similar the LG Nexus 4 is to the Galaxy Nexus. The all-black, featureless face has become a signature of the Nexus line of phones since the Nexus S. The Nexus 4 looks practically identical to the Galaxy Nexus from the front, save for a chrome ring around the bezel. It even has the notification LED in the same place as the Galaxy Nexus.

                                   

On the left-LG Nexus4,right-Galaxy Nexus          Galaxy Nexus - LG Nexus 4

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According to the site the specs match many of the previous leaks, and says that the LG Nexus will be similar to the Optimus G, will have a 1.5GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon CPU, a 4.7-inch display (1280×768) of resolution, a 2GB of built-in RAM, and has only 8GB of built-in storage, an 8MP camera. And runs the newly-released Android 4.1.2 .

Via : Onliner (Belarusian)

Another leaked images of the LG Nexus 4 phone (E960 Mako) ?

The rumored LG Nexus 4 or E960 Mako is spotted again in some leaked photos, and it’s turn of the Belarusian site Onliner.by to snap some pictures of the prototype unit. According to the site the specs match many of the previous leaks, and says that the LG Nexus will be similar to the Optimus G, gathering a 1.5GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon CPU, a 4.7-inch display (1280×768) of resolution, a 2GB of built-in RAM, and has only 8GB of built-in storage, an 8MP camera. And runs the newly-released Android 4.1.2 for now, so unfortunately until now there’s no mentions of an Android 4.2 .

So like always take this rumors with a pinch of sault, because until now we don’t have any officialisation not from Google nor LG, but at this rate we’ll probably have more details at any time.

Via : Onliner (Belarusian)

Android 4.1.2 goes official

Back to previous rumor we’ve been seeing a mysterious Android 4.1.2 update mentioned in a unreleased devices in the past few hours.

Now Google makes thing in the right way, and released the new Android OS updates, carrying the digits 4.1.2 .

Google’s Android Open Source Project chief engineer Jean-Baptiste Queru has posted word via the Android Building group that version 4.1.2 of Android is being released to the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) today.

Here’s the words :

” We’re releasing Android 4.1.2 to AOSP today, which is a minor update
on top of 4.1.1.
As a note to maintainers of community builds running on Nexus 7:
please update to 4.1.2 at the first opportunity. Future variants of
the grouper hardware will have a minor change in one of the components
(the power management chip) that will not be compatible with 4.1.1.The build number is JZO54K, and the tag is android-4.1.2_r1.

Enjoy,
Conley and JBQ
—
Jean-Baptiste M. “JBQ” Queru
Technical Lead, Android Open Source Project, Google. ”

Still, we haven’t seen the update reach our own devices yet, however some Nexus 7 owners already report getting 4.1.2 on their tablets with a pleasant surprise in store: in addition to the expected bug fixes and performance boosts, the software lets the home screen rotate to landscape mode on the smaller Jelly Bean slate.

Via : Android Police , Google Groups , [Image credit : EETimes]

Leaked images of the LG Nexus phone ?

Back to a few days ago we’ve heard about a new Nexus Phone that this time will be made by LG, and that will be based on LG’s latest flagship the Optimus G.

The rumor mill seems to be true (or untill now it goes to have a confirmation soon, or not). According to the latest reports of an XDA-Developers forum goer has posted a collection of photos for the E960, which appears to be a variant of the Optimus G — until you realize that it’s using software navigation keys, doesn’t quite resemble the international or AT&T Optimus G models and is oddly badged as the “Full JellyBean on Mako”.

According to the NenaMark2 benchmark score uploaded on the Nena Innovation AB website, the LG device has a display resolution of 1280 x 768 (it shows up as 1196 because of the space taken up by the navigations keys). It also has a 1.5GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor with Adreno 320 GPU, which means it is the same APQ8064 found on the Optimus G.

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That’s all we can say for now. We are definitely hoping to see more of this phone in the coming weeks and learn more about it, especially on what’s ticking inside that sleek body.

And we’re quite sure that we’ll hear more about it until Google or LG confirms it.

Sources : 1 , 2 , 3 , 4

LG Optimus G joins AT&T and Sprint smartphone lineup

AT&T and Sprint Wireless will offer the LG Optimus G in the United States. AT&T will be selling the 8MP version of the smartphone, while Sprint will entice you with a 13MP snapper on the back of the Android powerhouse. Of course, both versions of the handset will feature LTE connectivity.

The rest of the LG Optimus G’s specifications are already quite familiar to us. They include Qualcomm’s beastly Snapdragon S4 Pro chipset with four 1.5GHz Krait CPU cores, two gigs of RAM, 32GB of further expandable memory, 4.7″ HD display, 2100mAh battery, and Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.

Exact pricing and availability of the LG Optimus G in the United States are yet to be known. We doubt it will be long before it hits the shelves though. In the meantime, check out our extensive preview of the smartphone over here.
Source : AT&T, PR Newswire

LG is working on a Nexus phone, to be an Optimus G-based droid

A rumor about an Google Nexus Phone made by LG has been surfaced. A tipster has contacted AndroidAndMe to give it a first hand account of what the LG-made Nexus is like.

Reportedly looks like about the same (in about the same size) as the current Galaxy Nexus phone. There’s a silver band running around the perimeter of the phone, similar to that of the iPhone 3G and a Nexus logo on the back similar to the Nexus 7 (with the “x” styled to look like the four-colored Nexus logo).

The tipster claims that the LG Nexus is running Android 4.2 Key Lime Pie, which at the moment is hard to distinguish from 4.1 JB . AndroidAndMe was also sent an 8MP photo with the appropriate EXIF data, though they couldn’t share it “due to the nature of the photo”. Still, the photo points to the LG Optimus Nexus  using the 8MP version of the Optimus G camera (as opposed to the 13MP one).

All that is far from confirmed but the rumor mill is really insistent that LG will be making the next Nexus phone. We also heard that “Nexus” phones might be built by multiple makers, so the LG Nexus might not be the next Nexus phone, just one of a generation of Nexus phones.
Via : Androidandme