LG LG is making its best case yet for a potential blockbuster smartphone: laser beams. The Korean electronics conglomerate on Tuesday introduced the G3, its latest flagship smartphone, in a massive global unveiling. The point of the six-city launch event: to demonstrate that LG and the G3 should be considered in the same stratus as …
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Jason Cipriani/CNET Having a device become unresponsive can be a frustrating experience. Just over the weekend I was testing an Windows Phone 8.1 device, answered an email, and sat the phone back down. A few minutes later I tried to check my email, but found the device to be unresponsive. No matter what I did I couldn’t get the screen …
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Andrew Hoyle/CNET Singapore was one of the six cities around the world in which LG launched its new flagship, but one of the only countries to reveal pricing. The 16GB version of the G3 will retail for S$868 (around $690, £410) without contract, while the 32GB will go for a slight markup of S$928 ($740, £440). LG’s Australian website has …
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CNET Today, LG debuted it’s newest newest global flagship phone, the G3 . The Android smartphone is a followup to the LG G2 from 2013, which had an unique design which moved the power/lock button and volume controls from the sides of the phone to the back of the device, below the camera lens. The G3 sports that same design, …
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iPhone 5S home button with Touch ID. Apple A fresh research note from KGI Securities says all future iPhones and iPads will get Touch ID. Apple is planning to put Touch ID in “every non-iPod iOS device launched this year,” including both iPhone 6 versions, the second-gen iPad Air and an updated iPad Mini with Retina display, KGI Securities analyst …
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Is your neck being damaged by your phone? Ultherapy/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET Have you ever looked at your lover, noticed a double chin tending toward triple, and thought: “Where did that come from?” Have you ever nuzzled into your loved one’s neck and espied a new and slightly off-putting freeway system of wrinkles has formed in recent times? There …
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The new LG G3, on sale in South Korea on 28 May. LG The LG G3 was unveiled in London, New York and San Francisco on Tuesday, and the new flagship Android phone is hitting shop shelves tomorrow. The G3 goes on sale in South Korea in just a few hours on Wednesday 28 May, before hitting 170 countries around …
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The Colfax backpack has an internal charging system. Co.alition Today, you have to worry about charging your phone, tablet, laptop, wireless access point, Bluetooth headset, and more. Tomorrow, maybe you’ll just have to worry about charging your backpack instead. A Colorado company called Co.alition started raising funds on Kickstarter on Tuesday for that idea, a gadget backpack called Colfax. The …
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Envivio’s software can encode UltraHD video with HEVC compression at 60 frames per second. Envivio A French broadcaster just cut all the cables for 4K TV. Using new compression technology called HEVC or H.265, TDF is broadcasting the French Open tennis tournament live over the air at the very high resolution of 3,840×2,160 — four times as many pixels as …
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David Katzmaier/CNET Fourteen days into my experiment of replacing my flat-panel Panasonic plasma at home with a curved Samsung LED LCD, I’ve come to a couple realizations. First, I want my plasma back, but for reasons that have little to do with geometry. I mostly miss its superior picture quality, particularly for off-angle viewing and uniformity. Second, despite the radical-looking …
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Google From today, Australians can purchase the device in Dick Smith, JB Hi Fi and on the Google Play store for an RRP of AU$49. The device, which launched in the US in July of last year and 11 countries in Europe in March, is a dongle that plugs into an HDMI port. It then allows users to stream content …
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James Martin/CNET Apple plans to launch a new smart home platform at next month’s Worldwide Developer Conference that will allow iPhones and iPads to control a home’s lights, security system, and other connected appliances, according to a Financial Times report. The new “software platform,” which will be unveiled at WWDC on June 2, will be built into the iOS devices, …
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The LG G3 will hit US carriers in summer 2014. Andrew Hoyle/CNET Editor’s note: This is an ongoing story and will be continually updated as more information about the LG G3’s US pricing and availability is released. Listen up LG fans because all the waiting and guessing games are over. That’s right, LG’s latest superphone, the G3 , just became …
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An image of the wearable device from one of Samsung’s patent applications. Screenshot by CNET/Nic Healey Patent applications from Samsung suggest the company is looking at moving beyond the touchscreen for its next wearable device. Spotted by blog SammyToday, the eight patents draw a picture of a smartwatch that uses a wide array of different sensors to accept interface options. …
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Intel’s Moorefield processor powers KDDI’s LTE-capable Asus MeMO Pad. It runs Android 4.4. KDDI Intel is now very serious about getting both its processors and LTE into tablets. And its latest 64-bit chip, codenamed Moorefield, is expected to make a high-profile appearance at the upcoming Computex conference. Moorefield, aka the quad-core Atom Z3560/Z3580, is designed for devices 8 inches and …
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