During the CES 2012, Verizon Wireless showed the upcoming LG Spectrum LTE 4G smartphone with a 4.5-inch Ture HD IPS touchscreen with 1280×720 and 329ppi screen density. The new phone supports Verizon’s LTE 4G mobile network and gives users access to the ESPN ScoreCenter application for ScoreCenter stats, images and videos in 720p HD. Its screen is protected by Corning Gorilla Glass.

AT&T launches its third 4G LTE smartphone, the LG Nitro HD which is the carrier’s first smartphone to have  a true HD screen. The new Nitro HD comes with a 4.5-inch True HD AH-IPS (Advanced High-Performance In-Plane Switching) touchscreen with 1280×720 HD resolution (ie.329ppi) and 500 nit brightness. It supports AT&T’s LTE 4G high-speed data network.

Google and Samsung have announced the Galaxy Nexus, the first smartphone running the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich OS. The phone features a 4.65-inch 1280×720 HD Super AMOLED touchscreen, a 5 Megapixel main camera with LED flash and zero shutter lag, a 1.3 Megapixel front camera for video chat, Bluetooth 3.0, integrated NFC and 802.11 a/b/g/n (2.4GHz/ 5GHz) WiFi connectivity.

Some details of Sony Ericsson’s upcoming Xperia SO-02D Android phone for NTT DoCoMo have been leaked. Codenamed NOZOMI, the SO-02D is an Android 2.3 smartphone coming in November this year. It is suggested that the device will have a 4.3-inch 1280x720p touchscreen.

Cincinnati Bell has brought Motorola’s Milestone XT720 Android smartphone to the America. The regional operator offers the phone at $199, after rabates and discount with a …

Verizon Wireless and Motorola finally made the Droid X (aka Shadow, Droid Extreme) Android smartphone official. The new phone sports a TI OMAP3630 45nm processor running at 1GHz with ARM Cortex-A8 microprocessor core, POWERVR SGX graphics core and IVA 2+ hardware accelerator.

Motorola announced in the UK its new Milestone XT720, one of the world’s slimmest 8 Megapixel Android smartphones and the first to have a Xenon Flash. This XT720 is basically the Europe version of the Korea-bound MOTOROI and the upgraded version of the XT701 for Asia.

Samsung announced the new OmniaHD I8910, the brand new replacement of the Samsung Omnia. The OmniaHD features a 3.7-inch 16million color AMOLED QHD touchscreen display and a 8.1 Megapixel auto focus camera that can record 24fps 1280x720p HD video clips. The camera offers also Face Detection, Smile Shot, Blink Shot and Panorama Shot functions.