While the whole world goes crazy over the newly launched iPhone 4 and iPad, Apple is already hard at work to continue their innovations. Remember the small 5-inch like touchscreen panels that surfaced on the web? It’s confirmed to be from Apple. Taiwanese web site DigiTimes reported that Apple has placed new orders with Taiwan-based component makers, for 5.6-inch, 7-inch, and 9.7-inch iPad models. What’s more, these screens might also be OLED based. Rumors have it that these 5.6-inch and 7-inch models are meant to target the ebook market.

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Doesn’t mean much to end users, but this is still a big news, to me at least. NTP is a small technology company with a portfolio of dozen of patents. This including wireless email technology that harvested them a $612 million settlement out of RIM in 2006 after couple of years of litigation on court. Well the company is ready to set cruise control for a sweet ride over to the court again, as it’s suing nearly everyone from Silicon Valley, and around. Apple, Google, Microsoft, HTC, LG, and Motorola is getting sued for the same wireless email technology patent that cost RIM over half a billion dollars. That’s a huge load of money, and they’re getting ready to times it by a half a dozen at least.

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These days, smartphones are getting rather snappy with their heart. It would be rather dated if your product does not feature at least 1GHz CPU, unless you’re aiming at the budget market. Looking at the runaway success of Apple and its iPhone, Intel is throwing in their Moorestown CPU into the smartphone warzone.

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Wait, let’s clear that up before we move on. LG has stated clearly that “Optimus” means “best” in Latin. But who really cares? Everyone knows it’s a gigantic robotic truck. Anyway, LG is getting ready 2 Optimus phones, the ‘One and the ‘Chic’. There’s no spec out yet, so we don’t really know much the difference between them. All we know is, they’re having Android 2.2 Froyo as lunch.

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HDMI cables have been out for quite some time now since 2003, and there’s lots of electronic devices that’s based on HDMI. There’s also other new cables like the DisplayPort, which is mainly for computer display, though DisplayPort has been upgraded to support audio frequencies too. But now, a group of consumer electronics company has grouped to create yet another new standard A/V cable base on Ethernet, and called it HDBase-T.

HDBase-T is an effort from huge electronics product manufacturers like Samsung, LG, Sony, and even Valens which manufacture semi conductors. The concept is based on Cat5e/6 cables, and by using a slight tweak, they’re able to use Ethernet cables to transmit audio and video signals. The only main advantage would be that it can also transfer small amount of power, 25W to a maximum of 50W, whereas HDMI can’t. Also, Ethernet cables can be rather long and cheap.

But when you start to mass produce products based on such standard, and some consumers actually go and use some cheapo China-made Cat5e cables, things won’t go very well I assume, with lots of noise on screen and signal lost complains from consumers with no knowledge of these things. Then again, the standard will only start lifting on 2011, therefore its too early to guess what’ll we end up using. Perhaps half way down, another standard has been found?

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DMB 2.0 is a Korea ultimate upgrade of the actual DMB service. It lets you watch TV, VOD, listen to Radio and Surf the web (DATA). And today, LG has released the company and Korea first DMB 2.0 capable phone, the LG-SU420. The LG-SU420 features a 3.2” WVGA touchscreen, Wi-Fi, Support DivX, Dolby Mobile, Mp3 files, has a GPD, Bluetooth. Available now via SK Telecom. More pictures after the break. Read more…

The LG ultra-slim EX series LED LCD Monitor is available in 20, 21.5 and 23” – codenamed under EX205, EX225 and EX235 respectively. They are only 17.5mm thin which 5ms response time and a 1.5 million contrast ratio (Dynamic) providing you crisp and clear picture quality. More pictures after the break. Read more…

LG has released its new business phone in Korea, it is the ‘LG-LV7400′ which features global roaming service in 210 countries. The phone comes with 2.8-inch LCD screen and a large keypad plus a non-glossy finish and red LED light. Besides those, it also includes ‘Mobile Franklin Planner’, web browser, mobile messenger, text viewer, Outlook Sync and more. The ‘LG-LV7400′ is available in black, white and pink, priced below 500,000(KRW).

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LG has released two new Smartphones for US carrier Verizon Wireless.

The enV TOUCH (LG-VX11000) comes with 4” WVGA LCD with a 3.2-megapixel camera module and AF (Intelligent Shot), as Dolby Audio for its basic DAP functions

The enV3 (LG-VX9200) comes with 1.56” LCD, 3.0-megapixel camera module.

They have different front panel, with full touchscreen LCD for the enV TOUCH and a regular keypad for the enV3, there’s a full QWERTY keyboard when fully opened.

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Here comes the Korean, LG Korea has released its new X Canvas 50 and 60PS70 (50” and 60”), featuring a stunning 600Hz PDP panel and the awesome “Time Machine” features, an embedded DVR system that allows you to record HD Video on either its 160GB internal HDD or on any external USB 2.0 HDDs. Read more…