This is a bit bonkers. LG has somehow convinced the Guinness organisation to give its Optimus 2X Android mobile a “World Record” – for being the first mobile phone with a dual-core processor to hit the market.
They even got a certificate for this spurious first. We preferred Guinness when it was about how many car tyres Geoff Capes could balance on his head.
We’re happy to award the girl on the right the “Lumpiest Knees” award.
Huawei’s latest budget phone appeared out of nowhere a couple of weeks ago, announced as an exclusive by UK network Vodafone a day before going on sale — with a bargain price of £130 attached to the Ascend G510 should you buy it on a pay-as-you-go basis. It’s the natural replacement for the £100 Ascend [...]
We bought one of these using our actual money. We couldn’t quite believe that budget hardware maker Kogan was able to sell a 5″ Android phone for £119 plus delivery from Hong Kong so had to get one to have a look at the thing under our usual LABORATORY CONDITIONS. First impressions of the Kogan Agora [...]
The Panasonic Eluga marks the company’s return to the European mobile phone scene years after several years of absence, and it’s come back to us with a moderately high-spec Android model that features a rather stylish, slim case.
The HTC One V is HTC’s third entry in its high-profile new HTC One range, offering a smaller 3.7″ display running on a single-core 1GHz processor. It is is very much the “affordable” option in HTC’s newest Android series, but…
The HTC One S is the piggy in the middle of HTC’s 2012 line-up, offering a 4.3″ AMOLED display inside a very slim and stylish aluminium chassis. The end result is a phone that’s very, very slim and stylish.
HTC’s new quad-core monster, the 4.7″ flagship for 2012 that introduces the Tegra 3 processor to mobile phones, updates HTC’s range to Android 4.0 and brings us the supposedly streamlined version 4.0 of HTC’s Sense user interface.
HTC’s new quad-core flagship phone doesn’t just feature Android 4.0, a 4.7″ display and Nvidia’s newest Tegra 3 chipset – there’s also an entirely new 8megapixel camera in the phone, powered by a system HTC is calling ImageSense. And this camera is one of the many highlights of the new Android phone, offering the perfect [...]
Sony returns with an all-new mobile design for 2012, pairing a dual-core processor with a 720p display. It’s a lovely phone, but is it enough to end our Samsung and HTC obsession?
We’ve spent most of the last week captivated by the staggeringly sharp screen of the new Sony Xperia S, while putting together what will hopefully be something resembling a review for you all to read very shortly. In the meantime, to be getting on with, here are a few sample photos and videos, taken using [...]
LG’s updated Prada phone comes with an absolutely crazy black & white theme, but is it just for fashionable suit wearers who want to make themselves look a bit more interesting?
£30? For a phone case? It had better be good.
Si
/ April 30, 2011Guinness World Records were officially deemed worthless and a laughing stick from the moment Microsoft got one for SHIPPING 10m Kinect units, but pretending they had sold them all (with over 4m Kinect stuck in retail unsold).
Guinness Fail…
Nick
/ April 30, 2011Who else would make Kinect ?!
Nick
/ April 30, 2011Maybe I can be in the Guiness book of records for being me longer than anyone else
Ben Marvin
/ April 30, 2011I’m confused. Was it not the first dual-core phone? Or is that not worthy of a record?
Speaking of, do they have an official record for thinnest smartphone? That record seems to change every day.
Gary C
/ April 30, 2011Yes, it was. It’s just… being “first” to do something isn’t really a record, is it? The first man to run 100 metres isn’t still the world record holder, is he?
Anyway. Seems a bit silly, that’s all.
Nick
/ May 1, 2011Yeah, you get a lot of kids on forum sites saying “first!” on the postings hardly a record a really.
dinesh
/ August 29, 2011wel.. m not with you….designing a phone is not silly….but innovating the new technology in a new way is a success…which Lg did…n that cmpny claims for.it…….
John Mac
/ May 1, 2011I disagree. Roger Bannister with first sub 4 minute mile, Yuri Gagarin first man in space, etc. – all valid records (which can NEVER be beaten, unlike times to do something which will be beaten over and over – the point is, its still a record.
Gary C
/ May 1, 2011Well, those are more like “milestones” than records. I think we need a McWhirter family member to adjudicate on this.
Rik Hemsley
/ May 3, 2011Roy Castle just texted me to say it’s only a record if it required dedication.
Gary C
/ May 3, 2011“World’s first successful post-death text message”
anonymous coward
/ May 2, 2011Almost 1000 posts about people having problems with this phone on http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=997705 . An amazing record yet to be broken too. Congratulations.