Virgin Mobile and Boost Mobile unveil holiday smartphone deals
Pre-paid carriers get the shopping season started with deep discounts on smartphones You didn’t think Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals were limited to smartphones with contract, did you? Indeed, both Virgin Mobile and Boost Mobile have announced their promotional prices for devices over…
T-Mobile’s Black Friday deals feature plenty of ‘zero down’ savings
Save up front with instant discounts and free shipping on a variety of Android smartphones T-Mobile’s Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals are almost entirely comprised of zero down payments and free shipping. Not that we’re complaining one bit; who doesn’t want some extra money…
U.S. Cellular’s prepaid smartphones now offered through Amazon
Today sees U.S. Cellular expanding its prepaid reach by offering devices to customers through Amazon.com. Effective immediately, customers can purchase a prepaid device through Amazon.com and activate it on any of U.S. Cellular’s prepaid plans. No, they’re not all Android-powered,…
Engadget’s smartphone buyer’s guide: fall 2013
As the leaves turn to gold and flutter from the trees, the Engadget team digs out their scarves and mittens to get ready for the mad rush of phone launches that take place ahead of the holiday season. We’ve seen big devices (both large and high-pr…
Poetic Slimbook Case for Google Nexus 5 for $3.95 (80% OFF)
Protect that brand new Nexus 5 smartphone with one of these Poetic Slimbook Cases. These guys are warrantied for three years, provide front and back protection, and don’t add much bulk whatsoever. Head over to Amazon and you’ll find this guy going for less than $4 right now, a…
Engadget’s 2013 Holiday Gift Guide: Smartphones
Welcome to Engadget’s holiday gift guide! Head back to our hub to see the rest of the product guides as they’re added throughout the month.
Who doesn’t want a new smartphone? Even if you love the handset in your pocket, there’s bound to be a newe…
LG To Scale Down Smartphone Business To Focus On TVs
With the release of two well-received Android smartphones, the LG G2 and the Google Nexus 5, you might be thinking that LG was doing quite well in the smartphone space and ready to make more waves. Not so according to Korean news site, ET News, who is reporting that LG is going to scale down…
LG promises to stop your Smart TV spying on you
In light of accusations that its Smart TVs were sending private data to its servers, LG has admitted that some of its sets are behaving in ways they shouldn’t be. In a statement, the Korean manufacturer conceded that it has been collecting channel…
LG Nitro HD hands-on
AT&T stole some of LGs thunder earlier this week when it unveiled the companys LTE flagship — the Nitro HD — before the handsets official coming out soirée. Well, tonight LGs gone and thrown that fete anyway, introducing us once again to its 4.5-incher. But you have to wonder why the companys even bothering to roll out yet another Gingerbread-baked device when Samsungs Galaxy Nexus is already out of the gate and leading the Android charge with ICS — not to mention the current availability of rival heavyweights like the Rezound and Droid RAZR. Still, the phones packing some very respectable specs, with a “true” HD 1280 x 720 IPS display, dual 1.3 / 8 megapixel shooters, a hefty 20GB of storage and a dual-core 1.5GHz Qualcomm APQ8060 processor running the show. Is it too late in the game for LG to make its beast matter? Follow past the break as we gather our first impressions of this tardy to the party entry.LG Nitro HD hands-onRight out of the box, youll notice the Nitro registers as a featherweight. Read more 
LG Nitro HD: Optimus LTE for AT&T Revealed
With yesterday’s launch of the LG Optimus LTE on Bell Canada, there was some speculation that the Korean manufacturer could also bring the 720p HD handset to AT&T; after all, the two carriers share the same bandwidth. Well it turns out that the phone long known as P930 is indeed coming stateside as the LG Nitro HD, bringing a 1.5GHz dual-core processor, eight-megapixel camera, and support for AT&T’s nascent 4G LTE network (as well as its 4G HSDPA network at 21Mbps).
The 4.5-inch Nitro also packs 1GB of RAM, 4GB of ROM (plus microSD expansion), Bluetooth 3.0, and an 1830mAh battery. It will be interesting to see whether this device will be able to beat the Galaxy Nexus to market as one of the first US HD smartphones — although, as The Verge points out, the 1280 x 720 screen here offers a better subpixel configuration than the Pentile Matrix employed by Samsung’s first Ice Cream Sandwich. (Speaking of Ice Cream Sandwiches, this actually appears to be the mystery phone that we spotted yesterday wrapped in a Mophie case; at least out of the box, however, it looks like Nitro and the Optimus LTE on Bell will be Gingerbread-powered.)
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