LG has long been our go-to gadget maker for bonkers phones, with its see-through phones, ultra-wide phones, slo-mo phones and even an ahead-of-its-time watch phone — but this might be the craziest thing it’s made yet. This bendy 5-inch screen is LG Display’s first OLED screen made of plastic, meaning it’s flexible, and crucially for …
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20 May
Samsung Galaxy S4 goes for gold for £1,700
Do you love gold — only gold? Then golden words will pour in your ear when you’re talking on your gold-plated £1,700 Samsung Galaxy S4. The gold-loving mad Midases at Goldgenie are behind the gold-plated S4. These are people who never laid on eyes on something they couldn’t drape in gold, securing backing from James Caan along the way on …
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20 May
CTIA 2013 preview: Spring show quietly fades away
LAS VEGAS — When Ashton Kutcher and Jennifer Lopez are the biggest draws for a technology show, there’s a problem. The CTIA Wireless trade group’s spring show officially kicks off for the last time on Tuesday. It marks an unceremonious end to the conference, which next year will merge with its sister show in the fall to better align itself …
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20 May
Four time
CNET Whether technology saves more time than it squanders is an open question. Some of us may dream of a life off the grid and out of range, but by choice or necessity, we spend much of our waking life connected to the world through some electronic device or another. If your network device of choice is an iPhone, these …
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20 May
Spot expands lineup with satellite
Satellite phones may seem like a niche technology, and in many ways they are. You won’t need one while roaming city streets, but they can be invaluable if you’re ever trekking far from civilization — though that didn’t stop this guy from using the HTC One on Mt. Everest. If you’re an in-the-wilds type, then Spot has a new option …
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20 May
Tough Cat B15 Android phone marks U.S. debut
Now playing: Watch this: Cat B15 is a rugged smartphone 3:26 LAS VEGAS–Caterpillar’s Cat B15 Android smartphone is the newest entrant to the U.S.’ rough and ready durable phone tussle. I got my hands on the B15 this past March when it first appeared on the world stage at Mobile World Congress. This U.S. variant is essentially the same handset, …
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20 May
Lovefilm votes for John Goodman show, buries Zombieland
Amazon’s great TV commissioning experiment has picked new TV shows for its Lovefilm streaming service, with John Goodman-starring political satire Alpha House and Silicon Valley sitcom Betas set for full series online, Reuters reports. Meanwhile, zom-com Zombieland, a follow-up to the Woody Harrelson movie of the same name, has taken an axe to the brainbox after fans panned it. “I’ll …
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20 May
Benchmark test Blu
The original “Spears and Munsil HD Benchmark”, released in 2009, offered some excellent patterns to help setting up TVs, and ingenious test patterns to judge the performance of deinterlacers and scalers. Though anyone could buy it, it wasn’t as entry-level or as user-friendly as “Disney’s World of Wonder” setup discs. The updated second edition adds myriad new setup patterns, and …
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19 May
Pocket Filmmaker: making great holiday pocket films
Now playing: Watch this: Pocket Filmmaker: making great holiday pocket films 4:10 Welcome back to CNET Australia‘s guide to pocket film-making. The Pocket Filmmaker, Jason van Genderen, will be showing you how to turn the smartphone in your pocket into a camera capable of shooting video projects that are worthy of sharing with family and friends, online and even with …
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19 May
Galaxy S4 nears 10m shipment milestone
Samsung’s Galaxy S4 is on target to surpass the 10 million units shipped mark sometime this week, according to Samsung co-CEO Shin Jong-kyun. (Credit: Samsung) Speaking to journalists at an industry function in Seoul, Shin noted that the S4 has beaten all previous shipment records for the manufacturer. “Samsung spent 50 days to pass the 10 million sales mark for …
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