Like dogs, smartphones grow to reflect their owners – if those owners are savvy enough. Sprint’s new Sprint ID service offers users its American customers curated “packs” of apps, widgets and themes – from employers, brands, sports teams and more – for simple smartphone personalisation.
Want to know when LG’s new Optimus phones, the not-very-cleverly branded One and Chic, will hit local stores? LG spilled the beans at an Australian event that tied in with the global press launch tonight.
That mysterious Optimus Z phone from the other week has been formally introduced by LG, but for now it’s only getting a release in the land of kimchi and soju – South Korea. A global release is expected, however.
The Desire is a spectacular handset, but with premium performance comes premium pricing. That’s probably why Telstra have decided to launch the LG Optimus, a smaller cheaper Android powered handset.
The new Intel Core i5/i7 MacBooks come with “automatic graphics switching technology” to instantly toggle between Intel’s onboard graphics and more powerful Nvidia hardware. Sound familiar? Well, weirdly, it’s not Nvidia’s Optimus switcher – it’s something entirely new.
We’ve seen more than a few Core i5 notebooks recently, all of which have been hamstrung by Intel’s weak integrated graphics. Now, Nvidia’s Optimus enables their discrete GPUs to work in current-generation Intel PCs, whether Intel likes it or not.