LG unveils leather-clad G4 with monster 16-megapixel camera
LG's G4 is finally here. After weeks of online teases and leaks, the Korean electronics company officially unveiled its new flagship Android phone on the top of 1 World Trade Center in New York City. As expected, the G4 is indeed a smartphone powerhouse that boasts significant improvements over…
Report: Samsung Galaxy S6 mobile carrier preorders are breaking records
The Samsung Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge were only officially announced last week, but preorders for the new smartphones are reportedly breaking company records already. While Samsung was recently dethroned as the leader of smartphone sales, preorders from mobile carriers for the latest Galaxy S6 and S6…
Alcatel's Idol 3 lets you make calls while holding it upside down
BARCELONA — Alcatel is pulling out all the stops at this year's Mobile World Congress. The company, which was once known as a manufacturer of feature phones but shifted its strategy to smartphones in recent years, has never quite had a flagship device that could compete with the iPhones and the…
The Huawei Watch is the most watch-like Android smartwatch yet
BARCELONA — There's an old mantra that if a chair looks and feels sturdy, you're likely to think it's worth more than a lighter one. We rely so much on determining quality by holding something in our hands and if it doesn’t feel right, why even bother? While smartwatches have been the budding belle…
Meet Runcible, a Smartphone that Looks Like a Pocket Watch
To find the future of the smartphone, a startup is reaching 500 years into the past when the most advanced gadget told you only the time. Monohm, based in Berkeley, Calif., plans next week to officially introduce a device dubbed Runcible. Named after a nonsense word by an English poet, Runcible was…
LG G Flex 2 upgrades the curved phone, but it's on the slow side
It looks like curved phones are here to stay. The first curved phones debuted in 2013, a product of flexible displays and the desperation of smartphone manufacturers to differentiate. The LG G Flex was among them. It was also a gigantic underpowered beast of a phone, and although its curved screen…
Sony SmartEyeglass Now Available for Pre-order
Mere weeks after Google stopped selling Google Glass, Sony jumped on the smart eyewear bandwagon. Its SmartEyeglass Developer Edition, a pair of augmented reality glasses, are available for pre-order in the UK and Germany for $840 (£540 or €670), starting Tuesday. SmartEyeglass, which connects to…
HTC One M9 to Boast 20-megapixel Camera, Smartwatch Coming too Says Report
The HTC One M9 could be just weeks away, and is set to bring with it HTC's first smartwatch. That's according to the latest rumors surrounding the follow-up to last year's HTC One M8. The new flagship is likely to be a big deal for the troubled Taiwanese company, but with Samsung's dominance over…
Coolest toy of the year: Google and Mattel give the old View-Master an exciting VR twist
Google and Mattel on Friday unveiled a new View-Master toy infused with virtual-reality technology. The Internet search giant and the toymaker plan to use Google's Cardboard virtual-reality platform to offer virtual reality, augmented reality and "photospheric" images, using a smartphone as the…
Sony Xperia E4 Promises 2-day Battery Life
Sony has a new competitor in the increasingly crowded mid-range smartphone space: The Xperia E4, a stylish, 5-inch phone with exceptionally long battery life. According to Sony, the device's 2,300mAh battery can deliver two days of "active use" battery life and Sony claims you can extend that even…