Starting today, T-Mobile customers can register their interest in the world’s first curved self-healing smartphone, the LG G Flex, which will be available to purchase from the operators online store or in any of its bricks-and-mortar stores nationwide in the not-too-distant future. By pre-registering users will automatically receive an email notification the second the official pre-order page goes live, so they are effectively guaranteeing themselves a place in the queue to order this revolutionary handset.

Last week a series of screenshots were posted on Twitter indicating that Samsung’s in the process of working on a major design overhaul for its famous TouchWiz user interface which gets plastered over the top of the traditional Android OS on all of its current smartphones. Today, two new screenshots have emerged showing what appears to be an informative card based UI, similar to what Google created with Now.

Samsung released its relatively impressive compact entry-level Android-powered smartphone, the Galaxy Fame, back in March, 2013, and since then its shown itself to be a big hit with people who don’t require the power that a flagship device has to offer but still seek the software and functionality that one brings. At launch, the handset retailed for £179, and now the popular independent online retailer, Very, is selling the handset with a £80 discount — meaning you can now pick one up for £99.

Today, Huawei discreetly released a slightly more powerful version of it’s flagship smartphone of 2013, the Ascend P6. The revamped handset’s design appears to be identical to the original smartphone, though the technical specifications on the Chinese manufacturer’s website suggest that the S version is actually 0.3mm thicker, but things get a little bit more interesting when you start to look at the internals.

I crossed the 3-million Google+ circles line this morning.

It’s weird and thrilling to have so many “followers,” and to be sandwiched in circle counts between Paris Hilton, who has a couple hundred thousand more circles than I do, and Rihanna, who will probably catch up to me and pass me at some point in the future. (One of the great things about Google+ is that the geeks hold their own against entertainers in popularity.)

But mostly, it’s been an eye-opening adventure for me. Here’s what I learned along the way.