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We all know about LG Optimus G that was released by the end of last year. Optimus G turned out to be one of the best smartphones in the industry today. It also got featured in our list of most durable smartphones . The power-packed Optimus G has 13 MP camera, 4.7 inch 318 ppi display, which LG markets as ‘true HD’. It is not Full HD 1080p. You can spot the differences in our 4K TV article . Optimus G is also the hardware behind Google’s Nexus 4 . Within a few days, we will see an upgraded version of Optimus G in the form of LG Optimus G Pro. Let’s look at the details here. Technical Specifications LG very recently released the technical specifications of the new Optimus G Pro. Here is a comparison between the models. Feature LG Optimus G Pro LG Optimus G Display 5.5 inch Full HD (1920x1080) 400ppi 4.7 inch ‘True HD’ (1280x768) 318ppi Processor Snapdragon 600 quad-core 1.7 GHz Snapdragon S4 Pro 1.5 GHz Graph...

Recently, there has been a report about HP coming up with an Android tablet . Speculation is that it will be powerful, powered by Tegra 4 , and will prove to be a big win for Google. Is it really the truth? Let’s think about it a bit. HP’s latest product is a Windows 8 powered tablet known as ElitePad. It is a head-on competitor to Microsoft Surface Pro. Here are the technical specifications comparing Surface Pro and ElitePad. Spec HP ElitePad Microsoft Surface Pro OS Windows 8 Pro Windows 8 Pro Display 10.1 inch capacitive multi-touch; 1280x800 10.6 inch; 1920x1080px Processor Intel Atom 1.8 GHz dual-core Intel Core i5-3317U dual-core 1.7 GHz (Turbo Boost up to 2.6 GHz RAM TBA 4 GB Camera 8 MP (1080p) 1 MP (720p) Storage 64 GB 64/128 GB Accessories All sold separately: keyboard, productivity jacket, tablet pen, docking station, ...

Google has been the king of search since its birth in 1997. There have been other search engines worth mentioning, such as AltaVista, Ask, Dogpile, Excite, Yahoo, etc., but none of them stood a chance with Google it seems. Now, as you can see Google is also the world’s most visited website according to Alexa search rankings, moving Facebook (that held the first position briefly) to the second spot. With the ongoing controversies against Google search algorithms and its favoring Google Plus profiles in search results, one comes to ask the question, whether Google is still the world’s best search engine? If it’s not, then what is? We are trying to find an answer to this in this post. If you don’t want to wait till the end, look at the bottom of the article, which will quench your thirst. In our test, we decided to include three other search engines. Bing, obviously; a new search engine called Blekko; and another new search engine called DuckDuckGo. About These Guys! Okay, so as a f...

If you think Apple iPhone is highly expensive, think again. It will not even compare to one of these phones that we have here. There are world’s most expensive cellphones that cost in the range of tens of thousands of dollars to buy. These are not for our general smartphone market, obviously. They are to cater to those individuals with special needs that make a thousand times the average income of the highest-paid guy you personally know. They are high-class luxury cellphones that are mostly handmade with highly expensive materials. Here, we have a list of such ultra-pricey smartphones, including the world’s most expensive smartphone. 7. Vertu Ti Vertu is a luxury phone manufacturer based in England. It was created by Nokia and run as a wholly owned subsidiary until Nokia sold it to a private equity group called EQT VI. Vertu Ti is the latest model from Vertu that runs Android ICS (as opposed to Nokia’s smartphones, none of which uses Android operating system ). Vertu Ti is a full...

Remember how we liked BlackBerry’s new features in the launch last month? Z10 and Q10 are already in the market. In UK, Z10 and Q10 were launched the very next day of the BB 10 keynote on Jan 31. In Canada, the homeland of BlackBerry, the devices were available since Feb 5 th . And in the US, the devices were made available on Feb 10 by a carrier named Solavei, which is a MVNO under T-Mobile (that means it doesn’t have its own network, but operates under T-Mobile’s network). While the official availability may be only in March, Solavei is already selling BB 10 devices, but for a premium price of 999 dollars. That is a thousand bucks for the taste of the new BlackBerry! Is it really worth it? If you note, Microsoft’s Surface Pro tablet PC  costs less than that. We have done an analysis of how the BlackBerry phones have been selling in various markets. The data is not quite available, although we have a little bit. Google's search trends about BlackBerry has been a little bit ...

750,000 is a large number. It is not only the approximate land area of Mexico in sq mi., but also the total number of available Android apps. It is also the tagline of our product of the day—BlueStacks. BlueStacks is a unique application that can be downloaded to your Windows PC or your Apple Mac computer in order to run any of these 750,000 Android apps. Pretty cool, huh? Yesterday, BlueStacks released its application to work with MS Surface Pro, which means the application has support for Windows 8 as well. This means, Android cannot boast having such a vast app ecosystem anymore. It is a pretty big offering indeed. Being able to run any of those 750,000 Android apps is a really nice thing. So, we decided to give it a shot and see how BlueStacks works on a Windows computer. 1. Installing BlueStacks You can download BlueStacks from here , depending on the operating system used. After getting the version, just install the file on your computer. I have installed BlueStacks on ...