Jacklyn Dallas (aka NothingButTech88) joins us to talk about folding phone branding, Black Friday deals and news of future flagships!
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100 million plastic OLED screens for the iPhone 8, says Samsung insider
Samsung has long been told to be the main supplier of OLED displays for Apple’s iPhone 8. But instead of shipping over its more conventional Super AMOLED displays, rumors are now pointing to plastic OLED displays.
A source to The Korea Herald said Samsung Display will use the more flexible OLEDs — found in the LG G Flex devices — as opposed to ones made out of glass to make up to 100 million curved units to ship to Apple for its highly speculative high-end iPhone 8.
Samsung uses P-OLEDs in its curved screen “edge” devices. All Galaxy S8 units are rumored to feature “edge” screens. The chaebol is said to have enough manufacturing capacity for Apple in addition to serving its own needs. Other, lower-end versions will feature LCDs from LG Display and Japan Display — both companies are vying to provide foldable screens to customers soon.
Apple will likely begin to diversify its LED screen sourcing in 2018 when more manufacturers come online with their foundries.
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Xiaomi and Huawei split Korean display divide to make curved-screen phones
Chinese manufacturers have trended away from Apple and more towards Samsung in terms of smartphone design. With the Xiaomi Mi 5‘s fit and finish taking more inspiration from the Galaxy S7 and the Vivo Xplay 5 ...
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Top G Flex 3 features we’d like to see in the LG G5
If you followed Pocketnow’s CES 2016 coverage, you’ll know that LG didn’t follow up last year’s G Flex 2 with a third-generation sequel. That’s a shame, because it likely would have been the star of the show, at least from a smartphone perspective. For two generations, the G Flex line has brought the most futuristic features LG has to offer, including them not in a reference design or engineering prototype, but in a consumer smartphone available to everyday people. With the LG G5
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LG’s rumored 2016 flagship lineup: G5 in April, V10 sequel in H2, no G Flex 3
As the perennial underdog of the Korean smartphone industry, LG isn’t afraid of the occasional gamble and experiment. Oftentimes, these fail, and pulling the plug before sinking too much money into them becomes vital.The G Pro venture was scrapped after a couple of lackluster generations, and rumor has it the same will happen with the G Flex lineup. Which started out rather
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The era of great smartphone battery life has come – and gone
Editor’s note: In the gulf between iPhone releases and in the run-up to the next Windows Phone resurrection, the ratio of Android to non-Android phones in our review inventory continues to rise. As a result, this piece is written from a predominantly Android-centric perspective.Everybody wants awesome smartphone battery life. Whether you’re addicted to the latest power-draining augmented reality game or just trying to get through a day of texting and talking, the panic moment is a familiar ...
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LG G Flex 2 vs LG G Flex: specs comparison
Aesthetically, the LG G Flex 2 may be quite similar to its predecessor (the original G Flex), but on paper, it’s difficult for two phones to be more different. It’s amazing just how much LG has advanced its technology in a bit over one short year, and it’s equally amazing that the original G Flex manages to beat out the sequel in a few areas as well. Find out about it all in our LG G Flex 2 vs LG G Flex specs comparison chart.There’s only one real win for the first G Flex – the clock speed dip doesn’t really matter, as the core changes make that an issue of ...
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LG G Flex 2 vs LG G Flex: CES 2015 comparison (Video)
Do better ergonomics, improved internals, and cleaner software translate really into a better phone? That’s the question we had when going hands-on with the LG G Flex 2 and original G Flex side-by-side, two of a very select group of curvaceous smartphones. We’ve pitted the two together in an impromptu comparison at CES in Las Vegas for a LG G Flex 2 vs LG G Flex video, embedded down below for your viewing pleasure.We found that the first-gen G Flex was a great phone with an even better vision, but also that it had many shortcomings that hindered it when compared to its ...
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LG trademarks hint to the future of the G Flex
The LG G Flex is still regarded as one of the most interesting innovations of our time. By interesting we’re not really calling it the best one, as many of us were disappointed by the quality of the display, but other technologies like the self-healing coating did make LG trademarks hint to the future of the G Flex appeared first on Pocketnow.
Dropping the iPhone 6, reviewing the Moto X, and drooling over HTC Rumors | Pocketnow Weekly 114
Updated with the high-quality edited version of the podcast, which you can stream or download down below (or through your favorite podcatcher app). We hope you enjoyed; we’ll check back in with you next week!If you ask us, the first thing you should do on iPhone launch day is take a long, hard look at the competition. Not because the iPhone is a bad product, but because everyone else tends to step up their game when Apple brings a new phone –or two– to the yard. And that’s more true than ever this year.With that in mind, we’ll talk about all kinds of smartphone ...
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This is how LG could improve the new G Flex
LG‘s G Flex did what no other OEM seemed bold enough to do: make a curved smartphone – and make it flexible! If that weren’t enough, the company managed to include (perhaps out of necessity) a “self-healing” feature. Minor (and even “more than minor”) scratches on the back would simply fade and disappear over time. Outside of a Terminator movie, it doesn’t get much cooler than tech like that!It’s been almost a year since the first-generation G Flex was ...
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Oneplus One watch, a waterproof One M8, & signing away your rights to Facebook | Pocketnow Weekly 107 (Hangout)
Updated with high-quality audio and links to download and stream below! Enjoy!Round smartwatches, roundly terrifying TOS agreements, and roundtable smartphone discussion: ’round here, it doesn’t take much more than that to get a mobile podcast together, and –assuming the Hangouts gods will it– we’ll be proving it to you in less than four hours.On today’s episode, we’re returning to a new favorite in the segments list, plumbing the depths of the podcast inbox to let you know what phone you should buy. We’ll also tell you who won last week’s ...
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LG G Flex KitKat update is being delivered in South Korea
We’ve heard of LG’s plans to deliver Knock Code to the G Flex — and the G2 — and 4K video capabilities have been rumored to land with a software refresh not so long ago. Well, as it turns out, LG’s flexible curved smartphone is getting its Android KitKat update; however, for the time being, only devices in South Korea are on the distribution list. The changes and additions, aside from ...
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LG G Flex Knock Code coming in April, G2 will get it as well
LG has taken it’s Knock-On from the G2 to the next level, as we’ve seen the new Knock Code in action with the occasion of our G Pro 2 hands-on video in Barcelona (alongside the G2 mini, F Series and L Series devices). This new way of unlocking the device is able to recognize one of close to 80,000 combinations of tapping the screen to life. Next month (April), LG will start bringing Knock Code to other devices in its portfolio, via a software update. The G2 and G Flex are specifically being ...
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Pocketnow Weekly 086: @evleaks
“What would you say to the people who think that what you do is illegal?” ” … I would tell them that I don’t want to answer this question.” When you’re interviewing the world’s most notorious phone leaker, he’s bound to duck a question or two. But cautious though he is, Evan Blass –formerly of Pocketnow and currently known across the web by his pen name
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