LG unveils Optimus Vu II...

With the Samsung Galaxy Note II becoming available around the world, LG has unveiled their second generation phablet, the Optimus Vu II. Design wise, the Vu II retains the 5-inch 4:3 ratio display but gains, wait, looses some bezel to make the phone smaller.

Specs wise, as I've said the Vu II retains it's 5-inch display with a unusual 4:3 aspect ratio and a resolution of 768x1280, the Vu II gains some horsepower from Qualcomm's S4 Pro quad-core chip clocked at 1.5GHz and paired with 2GB of RAM. Camera's on the device include a 8-megapixel rear-facing camera and a 1.3-megapixel front-facing camera for video calls. Internal memory hasn't been specified but expect it to be around 16GB.

The phone will be available in Black, White and Pink and be priced at 966,900 won (around £628) but no officially pricing or release date has been stated.

More Oppo Find 5 details revealed...

Oppo has been gaining a lot of attention over the last week when initial details of a device, namely the Find 5 included a 1080p display and Qualcomm's newest quad-core krait processor. Well, more details have been revealed which say the device may have 2GB of RAM, 12-megapixel rear-facing camera and a massive 2,500mAh battery.

2,500mAh of battery capacity doesn't sound like much when we see that the Galaxy Note 2 has 3100mAh of battery capacity. Lets hope that this doesn't mean the device will have rubbish battery life because the battery is said to be un-removable.

HTC's phablet spotted in the wild...

A picture of possible HTC's upcoming phablet has been leaked by the good old folks at TechOrz. Weirdly, they are calling the device the "Endeavour C2" which would mean that this is the HTC One X+. Either/or, the picture looks more like a phablet shape. Looking at the screen size which looks big, being around the 5-inch mark.

The announcement of both devices may come soon to refresh HTC's one series and bring sales to the Korean company after a failing 2012 and end less lawsuits.

Lenovo 5-inch smartphone announced...

Lenovo have announced that they will be entering into the "phablet" market, with their new 5-inch smartphone named the LePhone K860. The phone is being called a "music phone" by Lenovo which presumably means that the phone will have some sort of sound enhancement.

The device itself is 9.6mm thick and packs a 5-inch display with a resolution of 720x1280, powered by Samsung's quad-core Exynos processor clocked at 1.4GHz with 1GB of RAM. Camera's include a 8-megapixel rear-facing camera and a 2-megapixel front-facing camera for video calling. There has been no word of how much internal memory storage the device has but it has a 2,250mAh battery and runs on Android 4.0.4.

Galaxy Note 2 picture leaked... again.

After yesterdays leak, another leak of the Galaxy Note 2 has been brought before us from KnowYourMobile. The picture looks trustworthy but we'll have to see at Samsung's pre-IFA show to see if this is the real deal.

The handset featured in the picture looks quite credible to the specs and look that we're rumoured. What seems odd to me is the extended bezel at the top and bottom but this could be to keep it in style with the Galaxy Note 10.1 which has just recently been released.

Thought: Do we want bigger screens?

It seems every successor to a old phone always includes a bigger screen evidently seen in the Galaxy S series. The original Galaxy S had a 4-inch screen then the S2 had a 4.3-inch and now we have the S3 and it's massive 4.8-inch. It seems people's line in declaring a device's screen size to big is about the 4.6-4.7-inch mark.

Look at when the Galaxy Note was unveiled, so many people wined about it's massive 5.3-inch screen. However, Samsung is still undeterred possibly unleashing a 5.5-inch Galaxy Note successor. If the market goes the way it does we could be seeing 5-inch displays becoming mainstream, not that it's necessarily a bad thing, I mean a bigger screen bring better functionality and this was what the Galaxy Note was praised for when reviewers got a hold of one.

What do you think? Leave your comments below and let me know what you think.