LG has today unveiled the G Flex, its first smartphone with a 6-inch curved plastic OLED display. It’s the “world’s first real curved smartphone,” according to LG — which has clearly chosen to ignore the recently-released Samsung Galaxy Round — and it boasts a “self-healing” back cover that has the ability to recover from daily wear and tear.
Sprint together with Samsung is in the process of rolling out an interesting Over The Air update for its carrier-branded version of the South Korean company’s flagship Galaxy Note 3. In terms of its content, the upgrade brings a shedload of call audio improvements and a brand new Handwriting Mode.
A leaked press render has emerged on the internet, showcasing Samsung’s mammoth Galaxy Mega 6.3 running Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean skinned with the latest version of the South Korean company’s TouchWiz UI, together, with some of Sprint’s traditional service applications, thus confirming weeks of suspicion suggesting that the handset is headed to the popular U.S. carrier.
We can’t wait for Google to unveil its new Nexus 5 (I’m getting pretty impatient now, actually), but it may not be the end of the current Nexus 4. While the search giant hasn’t offered the device for a number of weeks, there a number of indications that it might be coming back — with 4G LTE onboard.
Canada’s largest mobile carrier, Rogers, has officially announced that it will soon be adding two of HTC’s most impressive mid-range Android-powered handsets, the One Mini and the Desire 601, to its rapidly growing lineup of 4G-enabled smartphones.
