LG G5’s modularity is the highlight of the company’s G5 flagship but is actually more to it. The LG G5 has a few accessories, called LG Friends, which will make your experience complete. They were announced alongside the G5 in Barcelona and were meant to really complete the user experience.

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The Meizu m3 – which was announced a couple of days ago, recorded a total of around 450,000 pre-orders in just 24 hours. This was revealed by an official statement by the Chinese company.

Priced at RMB 599 or around $92 (2GB/16GB version) and RMB 799 or around $125 (3GB/32GB version), the device comfortably surpassed the company’s Pro 6 flagship in terms of first day pre-orders – the figure for the latter stood at 300,000.

The handset will be available for purchase starting April 29 from the Meizu Mall and other official re-sellers in China.

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Last week LeEco unveiled three new Android-powered smartphones that have one interesting thing in common – neither of them features a 3.5mm headset jack. Instead, you’re supposed to use the USB Type-C port for all your audio needs.

Rumors from Apple’s supply chain keep talking about the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus also skipping the 3.5mm slot, this time in favor of audio routed through the Lightning port of course.

And now Intel has emerged as another company that wants to kill the 3.5mm headset jack for good – at least when it comes to mobile devices. This port has become ubiquitous in…

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Analyst Pan Jiutang revealed on Weibo today the MediaTek Helio X30 chipset will be manufactured using a 10nm manufacturing process. According to him, the Helio X30 will come with ten CPU cores – the Cortex-A35 will be used for non-demanding tasks, while the heavy lifting will be done by the yet unreleased “Artemis”.

Additionally, the X30 will support up to 8GB of RAM and come with a PowerVR GPU. Jiutang also provides a presentation slide, which shows the MediaTek Helio X30 scores 160,000 points on the Antutu benchmark, beating the Snapdragon 820 by 30,000.

MediaTek’s plans the…

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The V10-like LG X screen is already on sale, but it’s only now that we get the full details on the LG X Cam. This one is more of an affordable LG G5 as it shares its defining feature – the dual camera setup on the back.

It features one 13MP 78° and one 5MP 120° camera (compared to 16MP 78° + 8MP 135° for the G5). There are Pop-out Picture effects similar to the G5.

The LG X Cam itself is a slender 6.9mm and features 3D Arc Glass on the front (with a brushed metal look) and curved glass on the back.

On the front is a 5.2″ 1080p screen, almost the size of the G5 screen (but without…

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Apple’s hardware business may have taken a hit, but its services business keeps growing. Apple Music, not even a year old yet, grew to 13 million subscribers, up from 11 million three months ago.

Chief rival Spotify is at 30 million paying subscribers, Tidal (which also launched about a year ago) is at barely 3 million. Unlike Spotify, Apple Music has no free service and charges $9.99 a month (same as Tidal’s base option).

Apple Music has exclusives to draw in consumers – Drake, Taylor Swift, Dr. Dre, Nine Inch Nails and others. And, of course, over 1 billion active iDevices for…

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Xiaomi has announced that the Gold Edition of the Mi 5 will go on sale later this week – April 29 (10 AM). The announcement came on Weibo.

The new variant will be available in two different versions: a standard version powered by Snapdragon 820 SoC (clocked at 1.8GHz) with Adreno 530 GPU, and having 3GB/32GB memory configuration, and a higher-specced version powered by an overclocked (2.15GHz) SD820 chipset with Adreno 510 GPU, and having 3GB/64GB memory configuration.

As for the price, the standard version will carry a tag of RMB 1,999 (around $305), while the other version will…

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While the Gear S smartwatches had several launches (and the Gear S3 sort-of confirmed), the Samsung Gear Fit smart band has not been updated since its 2014 launch. The new model peeked out from under the covers, giving us an early glimpse of what’s to come.

The band still features a curved Super AMOLED display, but the new model will be even curvier to fit better on your wrist. The other major change is the built-in GPS, which will allow the Fit to perform better as a fitness tracker (better accuracy for running and cycling).

Curved Super AMOLED display • Heart rate monitor

Also,…

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A bit of an oddball of a smartphone coming out of China answers a question we haven’t heard asked. A company called Keyever has come up with a design for a smartphone with a bar form factor and a physical keyboard that runs Windows 10.

The display on the smartphone is a 3.5-inch AMOLED unit with qHD resolution (540x960px), complete with touch support too. The smartphone is said to be powered by one of Qualcomm’s latest 600-series Snapdragons. A generous 3,000mAh battery should be plenty for that display and hardware.

Keyever Windows 10 bar phone

It’s the keyboard that…

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Instagram seems to be testing a completely revamped UI for its app. A few users have tweeted about their app turning completely grayscale, save for the images, of course.

For most parts, the new design is similar to the current one. What is different is that Instagram has dropped the blue bar at the top and the distinct square buttons at the bottom. The bar at the top is now plain white with black text and icons. The bar on the bottom loses its borders for buttons and instead has simplified iconography. This simplification of icons and monochromatic theme continues elsewhere in the…

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