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LG’s new Nexus 5 may launch with Android 4.4 KitKat right out of the box, but owners of the company’s flagship G2 won’t have to wait too long for the update. According to leaked information from French operator SFR, the G2 will get the release in either November or December.

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Juan Perez-Gonzalez must have thought he had hit the jackpot when he stole a truck full of LG smartphones worth $12 million, but his luck soon ran out when he crashed into a utility pole in Louisville, Kentucky, and was caught by police.

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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.

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We already know that LG is working on its first smartphone with a curved-glass OLED display; the company itself has confirmed it, and we’ve seen a number of leaked press renders. And now the device has been pictured out in the wild with a 13-megapixel rear-facing camera, and buttons on its back.

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When it comes to smartphone displays, how many pixels is too many? Most of us believe the current crop of 1080p displays shipping with today’s flagships provide more than enough for our handheld devices, but Chinese manufacturer Vivo disagrees.

The company has begun teasing the Xplay3S, its new smartphone that will become the world’s first with a 2K display.

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