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  • Here’s A Closer Look At The LG G Flex

    2014 will either be the year of the wearable or the year of the flexible display. Until manufacturers can combine both into a single product, they’re going to try to sell you one or the other. While Samsung has both a wearable and a flexible display on tap for 2014, LG may be going the solo route with the LG G Flex.

    Revealed in late 2013, the LG G Flex is an LG G2 with an inwards curved display. The company notes that this makes it easier to hold, but it’s easy to be skeptical when it looks so stupid. It doesn’t help that the G Flex borrows the G2’s stupid design gimmick of putting the volume and power buttons of the back of the device.

    In preparing for its US launch, LG has anticipated that many would feel the G Flex looks pretty stupid. That’s why it has prepared a new product video that compares the curve in the G Flex to the curve in a perfectly sculpted jaw. If you have a jaw fetish, this may be the phone for you.

    The LG G Flex will be available with AT&T, T-Mobile and Sprint. AT&T pre-orders open on January 24 and Sprint will have it on January 30. There’s no date yet for the device’s launch on T-Mobile.

    Image via LGMobileHQ/YouTube

  • First Galaxy Round Ad Is All Kinds Of Weird

    First Galaxy Round Ad Is All Kinds Of Weird

    Earlier this month, Samsung introduced the world to the first curved smartphone with the Galaxy Round. It’s a Galaxy Note 3 with a slightly curved display that supposedly makes it easier to hold. Now the company has put out its first ad for the device, and it’s a little weird.

    In the ad below, you’ll see the Galaxy Round being compared to the following items – a baby’s hand, a shell, an egg, a lemon, an avocado, a microphone, a matryoshka and more. What do all these items have to do with the Galaxy Round? They all have round edges and that’s about it.

    Samsung is solely selling this device on the fact that it has a rounded front. Does it make the device easier to hold? Probably not. Will you be paying more for the curved display? Of course you will.

    I’m still confused as to what the point of the Galaxy Round is. Sure, a curved display is cool, but we were kind of expecting the curved displays we’ve seen at trade shows. You know, the displays that can curve around an entire wrist to form a smart bracelet of sorts. The Galaxy Round just seems like a gimmick doomed to failure.

    But hey, at least it’s not as stupid looking as the LG G Flex.

    [Image: SamsungMobileKorea/YouTube]