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The LG G Flex Self-Heals After Scratching, Extensive Bending, And Abuse!

Josh Boram — Thu, 21 Nov 2013 18:56:03 +0000

If you haven’t already heard of the new LG G Flex smartphone, your in for a surprise! While Apple works on its high quality exterior and durability, LG decides to take it to a completely different dimension. With the LG G Flex, you can literally flex it! Other then cool looking curved display, the internals and screen itself are built with the “flex” in mind! The video seen below shows just how crazy and ridiculous this LG G Flex really is. Not only is it flexible, but it is self-healing.

You can see in the video below that the LG G-Flex actually flexes and morphs itself to remove the scratches that are placed on it. Lg actually did a demonstration of the G Flex via an advertisement. In this controlled advertisement, they repeatedly put scratches on the G Flex’s rear panel. After awhile, the back panel actually self-healed and the scratches were nearly gone completely. This technology has never been seen before and were pretty excited to actually see the first actual results. You can see them listed below in the video.

As you can see his environment in New York city was not the warmest and because of that you can imagine the less effective self-healing follows suit. However the concept that is seen in the new LG G Flex is truly incredible. The fact that it works is also truly incredible.

This LG G Flex also stands true to its name. It can actually be flexed fairly well and doesn’t break at all! Although it is unknown as to what happens to the internals, the actual seen abilities that this smartphone does in fact have are incredible!

With the Samsung Galaxy Round being released, the competition is still unknown as to which will win the battle of the “round.” LG may win the “flex”, and “round” battle given the LG G Flex is the first to the table with actual self-healing technology and a flexible shell.

I personally am not extremely excited about a “round” design, however the concept of flexibility and self-healing is something that I think we all can get excited about! My question is when will the iPhone feature such technology? Also how does this self-healing material feel to touch? Will it have the same “quality” feel that all of us want? These are all questions that have yet to be answered by anything but the future. Only time will tell, but were all excited to see what the future brings

Via: Gizmodo

Global Smartphone Usage & Data Revealed In Detailed Infographic Form

Josh Boram — Thu, 14 Nov 2013 00:23:46 +0000

With global smartphone sales on the rise, more people using technology devices, and app usage increasing, its a good idea to look at the facts. As you can see in this infographic, there are more then 4 Billion people currently using activated handsets in the world! This is not only astonishing, but it helps us all see the obvious point that smatphones are becoming the life we live today.

When Android was first starting to gain it’s popularity they lacked the number of apps to sustain a thriving mobile OS experience. However the rise in usage has motivated developers to create apps on Android as well. There are also more Android users currently downloading apps because of that fact that app developers might get more sales via Android. The end result as seen bellow is a thriving Android app store and the data specifically for smartphones indicates a rise to over 700K apps apposed to only 600K in the iTunes store specifically designed for the iPhone. Its important to note that Apple screens their app submissions much more then the Google Play and Android. Some of Androids apps don’t actually work as well as many in the iTunes store because Apple scrutinizes each individual submission to make sure it stacks up their ideals. However Android is growing and gaining traction as one of the largest app stores against their arch-rival, iTunes.

It’s also interesting to note that most smartphone users are from the age of 25 to 34. The rest of the distribution is fairly even with the exception of 13-17 year old teenagers which only take up 6.3% if the handset by age pie. This does seem interesting but the most likely culprit of this is the price to own a smartphone is not affordable for many teenagers that have school expenses and other interests. This may be a little skewed due to the fact that the parents are the ones buying their teenagers the plan, and this the stats may be a little less. However it does seem to indicate that teenagers are not the largest group of people using smartphones. This is some interesting news for sure!

There is also some startling and highly informative data seen below. A special thanks to Coupon Audit for helping us collect and design this informative infographic.

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Three Great Smartphones You Can Buy on a Budget!

Josh Boram — Fri, 11 Oct 2013 01:25:49 +0000

Smartphones are everywhere these days and technology magazines are covered with close-up shots of the latest handset or new version of the iPhone. But for the purpose of today’s post, we’re going to look at the lower-priced end of the smartphone market for those on a tighter budget.

Nokia C3

This model is slightly unusual in that it features a full four-line QWERTY keyboard, as did some of the earlier Nokia 6800 series handsets. This makes typing texts and online social messages far easier than with a touchscreen. It is touted as an entry-level social networking and messaging smartphone, similar to the style of Blackberry handsets.

The C3 weighs in at 114g and featuring a two-megapixel camera, built-in Wi-Fi, 2.4-inch screen and an internal memory of 55 MB. Whilst it features 2G connectivity, it does not support 3G. This handset has a Nokia BL-5J 1320 mAh battery and features a sturdy metal back plate.

This is a well-crafted and functional phone for a very reasonable price. If affordability and durability are among your criteria, this should certainly be one of the handsets you look at. This sturdy model will have decent resale value if you decide to sell your Nokia C3 handset later down the line when you next upgrade.

Samsung Galaxy Ace 2

Samsung has introduced the Galaxy Ace 2 as a successor to the hugely successful Galaxy Ace. The updated tech specs include 3G connectivity, in-built memory capacity of 4 GB and 768 Mb of RAM. The Ace 2 also features Android 2.3 Gingerbread, a five-megapixel camera with a flash, dual standby SIM (GSM + CDMA) and a 480 x 800 pixel, 3.8 inch display.

This affordable smartphone weighs only 122g and includes most of the features of its more expensive relatives. The 800mhz dual-core processor provides a vast improvement on the performance of the preceding Galaxy Ace.

It may not be quite as durable or affordable as the Nokia model but it has more going on inside. The Galaxy Ace 2 provides something for everyone in a neat package, including a camera, games, media, internet connectivity and more.

LG Optimus L3

This is another budget smartphone running on Android and takes its design inspiration from LG’s more expensive models. But does the performance match up?

This palm-sized mobile is one of the most attractive low-priced Android phones out there. The dimensions are 102mm x 61.6mm x 11.7mm and weighing in at only 110g, it is the lightest of the three phones examined here.

The model features a 3.2 inch screen with 320 x 240 pixel resolution, a fast internet browser, a three-megapixel camera and 1540 mAh battery. As for the operating system, the L3 uses its own Optimus UI 2.0 Lite in conjunction with Android Gingerbread, a combination which does not become bloated and slow.

Of these three attractive prospects in the lower end of the smartphone market, choose the Nokia C3 if you’re purely looking for affordability and durability (with a nifty keyboard). If you want more processing power, you should check out the Samsung Galaxy Ace 2. And don’t overlook the LG Optimus L3 if it is style points you’re looking to score.

If you have more money, you can buy an iPhone from Apple. If you don’t have a huge budget, one of the above phones are a great choice!

LG Copies Apple’s Marketing Stunt: Lost LG Nexus 5 Found In Bar! [VIDEO]

Josh Boram — Tue, 17 Sep 2013 20:46:19 +0000

Someone left their LG Nexus 5 in a bar and now LG is all over the news. Do you remember the news blast a few years back about the “lost iPhone 4 in bar” ? Apple made thousands of headlines and made tech history with this and got millions of dollars in free advertising. The iPhone 4 sold like crazy and it was partially fueled by the media-blitz of the “lost iPhone 4 found in bar.” It seems that Apple’s marketing stunt was copied by another competitor.

This report comes from RedmondPie reporting that a LG Nexus 5 running the new Android KitKat 4.4 was found unattended in a bar. Can you believe that? It was just left unattended in a bar? Now its on the news.

Could LG and Android be copying Apple’s clever marketing stunt to get free media coverage? These smartphone-times are different. Companies are forced with rising competition to do some crazy things and this stunt seems to be getting a little old. In fact the “lost iPhone 4 found in bar” back a few years ago was also a little old, but now this! Come on LG!

You can see the Video showing the lost LG Nexus 5 found in bar report.

Could this really be real? Is this really a mistake by the LG Quality Check team, or is it an inside plan by LG to get more media exposure. To be honest thats sure what it seems! Especially when a nearly identical circumstance happened a few years back a few months prior to the launch of the iPhone 4. I guess LG thought that this clever marketing stunt by Apple was worth repeating, OR someone is stupid and left it in a bar.

Do people really just “leave” their prototype phones sitting in bars? It seems to me that this has to be an inside plan by LG.

What do you think?

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