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A picture of the LG G4 emerges: is that a curved smartphone?
Apple shows their Apple Watch and the new Macbooks
The Sony Xperia M4 Aqua Is a Powerful Waterproof Phone

A picture of the LG G4 emerges: is that a curved smartphone?

Posted: 10 Mar 2015 11:47 AM PDT

We have a new round of leaks concerning the LG G4, of impending release this summer. This time around is a picture of what the phone will look like via a leak.

The next LG phone is coming, and thanks to the team at OnLeaks we have an idea of what the phone might end up looking like. This team is rather reliable, having leaked the HTC M9 and the Galaxy S6 before anyone, and now they’ve impressed the world with a picture of a curved smartphone which they claim is the LG G4.

According to the OnLeaks team, the new smartphone will become curved in the same fashion the LG Flex 2 was, and will be bigger than the LG G3, although slightly thicker too.

This might sound like an alarm bell to some: the tendency is to create slimmer, smaller phones, at least when it comes to flagships, but if LG is willing to let go of that in order to give this phone a particular characteristic, we’ll just have to wait and see. These guys know what they’re doing, they created the Nexus 5 after all.

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Apple shows their Apple Watch and the new Macbooks

Posted: 10 Mar 2015 09:06 AM PDT

The latest Apple event at San Francisco introduced everything we had been waiting for. The new Macbooks, a new and cheaper Apple TV, and the controversial Apple Watch are all here.

Tim Cook and his team got on stage to show how to take calls from the Apple Watch and talk to Siri without having to touch anything: similar to what the Android Wear devices can do right now. The Apple Watch features running apps, song recognition, payment via Apple Pay, animated and customizable backgrounds… the Apple Watch hasn’t even come out and it’s already poised to be a hit. With only 18 hours of battery, users can charge it with a magnetized cable, but not via induction. It will come in three versions of two sizes each (male and female): Apple Sport, with plastic straps and aluminum body starting at $349 USD, the Apple Watch in iron, ranging from $549 to $1099 USD depending on size and design, and the expensive Apple Watch Edition, a premium 18 k gold watch (both straps and body) that will sell for $10.000 USD as a limited edition. It can be reserved or tested in Apple stores from the 10th of April onwards.

In less expensive news, Tim Cook spoke of Apple TV, which is going down in price to $69 USD, and will have access to HBO Now (which costs $15 a month), featuring all contents, namely the latest season of Game of Thrones.

When it came to Macbooks, they’ve been improved to last 10 hours with a full battery charge. They use a new touchpad and i5 and i7 processors in the case of the MacBook Air. Yet the big news were the new Apple Macbooks, 24% slimmer than the previous Air models, and will weigh only 900 grams. They will feature one USB-C reversible connector, adaptable to any previous format which might be uncomfortable for those who use pendrives), along with a new touchpad that can feel the pressure of our fingers on the pad itself. It will use a 12′ retina display, and it’s not only ridiculously small but also strange: it doesn’t feature any moving parts (say, a fan), and is built entirely out of metal. The new Macbook comes in two varieties of Space Grey silver and… gold. The new Macbook features an Intel Core M, 8GB Ram and Intel HD graphics 5300 video. It will retail for $1399 USD in the 256GB version, and $1799 in its 515GB version.

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The Sony Xperia M4 Aqua Is a Powerful Waterproof Phone

Posted: 10 Mar 2015 06:00 AM PDT

As Sony looks to revive its ailing smartphone business, the Japanese company announces the Sony Xperia M4 Aqua waterproof smartphone.

It’s been widely reported these past few weeks that Sony’s profits aren’t looking so hot. By the time the current financial year ends on April 1st, Sony will have lost over $1 billion, losses that would be significantly worse had it not been for the phenomenal success of the PlayStation 4 which had sold just over 20 million units as of this month. One reason for their financial instability is their smartphone business; Sony just can’t compete with Apple, Samsung and co. and everyone is telling them to sell it off. Alas, those at Sony are a stubborn bunch which is why they have now announced the Sony Xperia M4 Aqua which partners processing power with a waterproof body.

On the inside, the Xperia M4 Aqua is powered by an octa-core Snapdragon 615 processor (two quad core processors of 1.5 GHz and 1.0 GHz) and has 2GB of RAM. Essentially, this means that Sony’s phone is a stellar mid-range effort that will be able to handle most intensive apps with little to minimal trouble. The phone also has a a 13 megapixel camera on the back and a 5 megapixel camera up front – these are great specs on their own but given that Sony’s camera business is another thing keeping them afloat right now, your selfies and Instagram updates are certainly in good hands.

As for the waterproof side of things, the Sony Xperia M4 Aqua is offering a waterproof phone without any of those usual annoying rubber fixtures. However, waterproof does not mean indestructible and so Sony has advised the following: don’t submerge the phone in water deeper than 1.5 metres, don’t put the phone in salt water and don’t put it in chlorinated water (swimming pools etc.) and if you do get chlorinated water on it, you have to rinse it off afterwards. You’ll also need to make sure the phone is dry again before you charge it: this seems obvious but if you don’t want to accidentally blow the electrical socket/your phone up or endanger yourself, you should heed Sony’s warning.

Also providing a good reason to buy the Sony Xperia M4 Aqua is its price. Sony is selling the handset for a reasonable 299 Euros and it will be available in 80 countries (excluding the United States).

Source: Sony

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