Google preps its latest Nexus phones: Is pure Android overrated?

Google's latest Nexus devices land Sept. 29 and a big part of the pitch will revolve around the pure Android experience. That experience isn't what it used to be. Google next week will unveil its latest Nexus phones and you can expect two versions with partners LG and Huawei. These devices are…


The G4 Beat is a smaller and cheaper version of LG's best smartphone

The G4 is unequivocally the best smartphone that LG has ever created. In our review, we said it had everything. With so much going for the G4, it's no surprise that LG is milking its success with smaller, more affordable models, such as the newly announced G4 Beat. Announced on Thursday, the G4…


LG G4 has Quad HD display and leather back, LG confirms

LG just can't wait to tell you about its upcoming flagship phone. Scheduled for arrival on April 28, the LG G4 has seen plenty of official details spill out over the last few weeks. On Thursday, LG added another, formally confirming that the G4 will feature a "vegetable-tanned leather cover." A…


Meet LG's four new midrange phones: Magna, Spirit, Leon and Joy

LG got a head start on the smartphone rush that comes with Mobile World Congress by announcing four new smartphones: the Magna, Spirit, Leon and Joy. The phones, which range in size and specs, are designed to provide you with affordable, midrange features in more premium-looking housing. All four…


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…


LG's quantum-dot TV gets real

As promised, LG has unveiled its quantum-dot TV. The UF9400, unveiled at CES in Las Vegas, is one of the first TVs to incorporate the tech, which is said to enhance color greatly. The 65-inch TV is fundamentally an LCD panel, but it incorporates a layer of quantum dots, which are extremely small…


LG Just Combined Tamagotchis With Smartphones

LG has created a new line of smartphones with… personalities. The company is calling them Aka phones (pronounced ‘ah-kah’) and, thanks to sleeve covers embedded with smart chips, the phone changes between four pre-set personalities. They have names. Eggy is the yellow one, and he “falls in love…


3G-capable LG Smartwatch Appears in an FCC Filing

LG's apparently gearing up to release a new smartwatch in the US other than the G Watch R -- one that's 3G-capable, just like Samsung's Gear S. A document that's just passed through the FCC points to an oval/rectangular LG smartwatch (57.7 x 35.5 mm) slightly smaller than the Gear S (58.3 x 39.8…


5-inch LG G3 S mini version of LG G 3

If you like the look of the LG G3 (and who wouldn't? The camera uses lasers!) but your wallet is less keen, then meet the LG G3 S. The G3 S is also known as the G3 Beat in Asia. It's a mid-range 4G Android smartphone that follows the trend of scaled-down, cheaper versions of flagship phones -- in…