SlashGear Morning Wrap-up: September 18, 2012

This morning you'll be greeted with lots of exciting news here at SlashGear. It was a big day today for the folks at Intel who announced their new Motorola RAZR i with Intel inside. On the other side of the smartphone spectrum those iPhone 5 orders are still selling like hot cakes you better hurry and order one soon.Motorola and Intel's joint event today in London unveiled what we all knew was coming, and that was the Motorola DROID RAZR M for the international crowd. They've named it the RAZR i and Intel managed to improve their new mobile processor to 2.0 GHz in this smartphone. For more details on the all new Motorola RAZR i take a peek at our hands-on coverage.

Late last night LG officially announced the new Optimus G smartphone — and boy does it have some impressive specs. With a quad-core 1.5 GHz processor, a 4.7-inch TrueHD IPS+ display, 2GB of RAM and a massive 13 megapixel camera this thing looks amazing on paper. For real world you'll want to check out our LG Optimus G hands-on.

In other exciting news the Nook Simple Touch was hacked to run SEGA games, Contour's new Contour+2 HD camera is on sale now — and has an update for their iPhone app. While we're mentioning the iPhone Apple's Jony Ive has teamed with Bono for a one-of-a-kind Leica M camera for charity. In other news Windows Phone 8X HTC Accord was leaked running with Verizon 4G LTE, and Samsung is calling out Apple's iPhone 4 for looking like their old Samsung MP3 players — Interesting.

Stick around right here at SlashGear for more news all day long.