LG G Watch pricing, launch plans get confirmation

The first Android Wear smartwatches are just around the corner, with both the LG G Watch and Motorola Moto 360 getting ready to make their commercial debuts. For the G Watch, we’ve already heard the manufacturer confirm availability for sometime this quarter, but just when? Could the watch launch this month, like we’re hearing the G3 will? Even if does, when might ...

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Android Silver: Google’s plan to replace the Nexus family?

Earlier this month, rumors started talking about a possible effort from Google called Android Silver, a project that would involve a handful of Android smartphones running near-stock builds and being offered as part of a premium smartphone-owning experience: users would enjoy things like enhanced support for data migration to the new phone, one-on-one customer care, and even loaner phones when yours goes lost – all in all, some real white glove, concierge-level stuff. At the time the report was a little shaky, but today new details arrive, both expanding upon what Android Silver ...

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Sprint finally comes clean about Harman/Kardon HTC One M8

Earlier this month, back when sales of the HTC One M8 were just starting to expand to include non-Verizon carrier in-store availability, we checked out an interesting story about Sprint’s version of the Android flagship. A rumor suggested that Sprint was going to get a special edition Harman/Kardon One M8, but then a close look at the currently available Sprint M8′s software appeared to reveal that a number of ...

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Samsung, Apple see global share of smartphone market decline

Smartphone companies are busy right now revealing their latest quarterly figures. We just saw LG take advantage of its latest financial disclosure, slyly announcing the G3 in the process, and now we’re taking a look at Samsung’s numbers. While the company’s still turning a massive profit, it’s not making quite as much money as it once did, with a nearly six percent drop in profits compared to this quarter last year. But for the bigger story we have to look beyond Samsung’s own sales and to the ...

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LG confirms G3 launch plans, debut just weeks away

Rumors have been pretty confident that we’re nearing the launch of the LG G3, and despite the phone’s ancestors hitting the scene a little later in their respective years, for 2014 we’ve been looking for LG to move things up, perhaps in an effort to be more competitive with the One M8 and GS5. With what threatens to be the first 2K-screened smartphone to hit US carrier shelves, LG might even have a fighting shot at stealing some spotlight away from its peers. But will ...

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