LG has announced that its recently unveiled G5 flagship smartphone is going to land in the US sometime in early April. Oddly enough the company hasn’t revealed the actual release date for the handset, but that could very well be April 8 – because the G5 is launching on that day in both Canada and the UK.

You’ll find the G5 in stock at such carriers and retailers as AT&T, Best Buy, B&H, Sprint, T-Mobile, US Cellular, and Verizon. Prices are still not known though.

Emulating a promotion that we’ve seen run many times for last year’s G4 and V10, LG will give people who buy a G5 in the US a free second battery and charging cradle. This offer will be available for a limited time, but the company hasn’t said exactly how long you’ll have to take advantage of it.

At the same time as the phone, LG will also release the G5 Friends in the US. These are the modular accessories that were presented at MWC last month. Some of these help ‘transform’ the G5 into things like a “DSLR style camera” or a mobile virtual reality viewer.

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Only two days ago we got a glimpse at the upcoming LeEco Le 2 Pro smartphone, through some leaked images showing it. Back then we found out a couple of its most important specs, and today thanks to a new leak we get a more complete list.

LeEco is the Chinese company formerly known as LeTV, which grabbed the international spotlight when it was the first to release a device powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 820. And it looks like it really likes that chipset, since it’s going to use it again in the Le 2 Pro.

The image you can see above purportedly shows the back label from the box of the Le 2 Pro, which helpfully lists the handset’s specs. The Le 2 Pro should thus come with a 5.7-inch QHD touchscreen, a 21 MP rear camera with LED flash, an 8 MP selfie snapper, the aforementioned Snapdragon 820 SoC on board, 4GB of RAM, 64GB of built-in storage, LTE support, a USB Type-C port, Dolby Audio, and a 3,100 mAh battery.

It will obviously run Android, but which exact version isn’t clear yet. Nor is how much it will cost, or when it’s getting official. Or, for that matter, whether it will ever be sold outside of China. Anyway, its specs certainly make it worthy of the flagship moniker.

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The Microsoft’s Lumia 950 XL is the face of the new Windows series and a reboot of the company’s smartphone business. Microsoft may have been slow in adopting new tendencies and features, but it made sure everything is done right with the Windows 10 Mobile premiere.

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The Huawei Mate 8 is the latest phablet by the Chinese phone manufacturer. It’s a premium device all around and it surely doesn’t come cheap. But for the price you pay for it, you are certainly treated to an excellent user experience and some of the best specs in the industry.

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The latest iPhone rarely needs an introduction – it’s always one of the most anticipated flagships each year and often sets the bar for the premium smartphone niche. Fans know Apple has put its heart in it and media’s reviews, whether praising or not, usually don’t matter and don’t affect masses’ decision.

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The Samsung Galaxy Note5 is the latest in the line that introduced us to the concept of a phablet in the first place. Following the Galaxy S-line’s adoption of glass and metal, Samsung’s taken the premium build to the Note series.

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LG issues a serious challenge to other makers on the camera and audio battlefields with the V10. The phone is also LG’s first to feature a fingerprint reader since 2009’s GW820 eXpo (not counting the Google-designed Nexus 5X).

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Huawei’s first foray into the smartwatch world, the aptly named Huawei Watch, is now seeing its first decent price cut ever. The device normally starts at $349, but you can now pick one up from Amazon for as low as $269.99. You do have to act fast, however, as this deal is only valid today.

The cheapest version is represented by a silver stainless steel watch with a leather strap. If you want a stainless steel link band instead, you’ll have to pay $279.99 ($120 less than usual). The silver model with a stainless steel mesh bracelet now costs $314.99, down from $399.99. If you get the black watch with a black link band you’ll shell out $319.99 ($130 off), while the gold-plated watch with brown leather band goes for $589.99, $110 less than before.

The Huawei Watch comes with a 1.4-inch 400×400 AMOLED touchscreen, the Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 chipset (with a 1.2 GHz quad-core Cortex-A7 CPU), 512MB of RAM, 4GB of storage, IP67 certified water and dust resistance, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, a heart rate monitor, and a 300 mAh…

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Apple has finally made the date of its spring event official. It’s going to happen on March 21, so the rumors we’ve heard so far about the date being either March 15 or March 22 were off, but not by a whole lot.

The event invite, which you can see below, is as vague as possible, in typical Apple fashion. We shall however be ‘looped in’ on that occasion, as you can see.

Apple is expected to announce both a new 4-inch iPhone and a 9.7-inch iPad Pro. The former will probably be called iPhone 5se or just iPhone SE, and will be incredibly similar in looks to the iPhone 5s from 2013. The internals will be updated, however, with rumors mentioning the A9 chip, as well as the camera system from the iPhone 6. It will also have NFC and Apple Pay support.

The next 9.7-inch Apple tablet will reportedly ditch the Air branding and instead be introduced as a smaller variation of the 12.9-inch iPad Pro. That makes sense considering that it’s been rumored to borrow most of the standout features of that bigger model. The 9.7-inch device shall also have a Smart Connector, quad-speakers, but in a first for an Apple tablet is also apparently going to sport a LED flash for its main camera.

The Apple Watch could get some refreshed accessories, but we don’t expect an entirely new model to be announced this month. We should also see new iterations for MacBook hardware, in both the Air and Pro lines (perhaps even a Retina MacBook Air). There’s always the possibility of new software-related stuff to come…

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