Nokia 8, Galaxy Note 8, accessibility rate | #PNWeekly 266 (LIVE at 3pm Eastern)

The Nokia 8 has just been launched, the Galaxy Note 8 needs launching and we'll launch into accessibility issues in our show this week!

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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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The LG G Flex 2 is the best smartphone of 2015 (so far)

Some phone makers have to scramble to combat the wave of people reporting its new models are bending… other manufactures embrace it as a feature! The latter being the case for LG’s latest smartphone, announced at CES 2015, the G Flex 2 – and based on its spec sheet and our hands-on experience, it’s already the best smartphone of 2015.Will it bend?

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What about a plastic, self-healing screen? (Poll)

Update: Y2K bug fixed. Poll is now open! Let’s take a trip, you and I. We’re going to hop into our DeLorean and head on back, not to 1955, but rather back to the future. I’m not really sure what year we’re going to go to, but it’ll be right down the block from fantasy land as well. There’s some funky times up ahead. Fasten your seat belts. We’re going to go to a time in which we can, as a consumer, own a smartphone with a screen that heals itself. It’s really not so crazy, but it would require a bit of tweaking to today’s technology. But first, let’s establish some ...

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Self-healing cases should be standard on every smartphone and tablet

Scratches. I hate scratches! I hate them on my screen. I hate them on my case. I hate scratches! To help combat scratches on screens we have devices with Gorilla Glass and oleophobic coatings, but the backs of our phones and tablets seem to get nicked, marred, scratched, even gouged, and the only thing we can do is put them in some sort of protective case. Why can’t there be a self healing phone? I was first introduced to self-healing materials when I saw an educational program about a gas tank that can ...

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