LG officially unveils its G3 smartphone with 5.5″ display, laser-assisted camera and metallic skin

LG has officially lifted the lid on the much-leaked G3 smartphone, the company’s latest Android-powered device to feature rear-mounted volume and power buttons. Unveiled globally today at simultaneous events around the world, the announcement confirms many of the rumors seen running up to the launch and that keen buyers in Korea will be able to get their hands on the device from this week. It’s due to start rolling out in other markets in June, LG confirmed. Clearly building on its experience with the previous generation G2, LG has tweaked the overall experience of the G3 to provide more refinement....



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Songkick’s personalized concert alerts service now has 10 million unique monthly users

Songkick today revealed that its music concert, tours and festival discovery service has grown to 10 million unique monthly fans. In short, that’s an awful lot of people who are syncing their favorite artists and staying notified whenever they announce a new live performance. Songkick says the company has created over $100 million in ticket revenue since its inception, and is already on course to match that total by the end of 2014. ➤ Songkick [Blog] Featured image credit: Shutterstock



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Mozilla’s Firefox OS developer smartphone Flame is now available to pre-order for $170

Mozilla today opened pre-orders for the Flame, its first official developer handset for Firefox OS. The mid-range handset can be pre-ordered right now for $170 through everbuying.com and should take roughly four weeks to ship. The non-profit says the Flame reflects the middle-of-the-road hardware that it’ll be targeting with its partners over the next 12 months. Firefox OS is tailored towards customers in emerging markets, so it’s unsurprising to see the company avoid high-end parts for its new Flame handset. The device features a dual-core 1.2 GHz Qualcomm MSM8210 Snapdragon processor, 8GB of internal storage and between 256 MB and...



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Hands-on with The Order: 1886, the steampunk-inspired PS4 shooter that’s now slated for 2015

PlayStation developer Ready at Dawn has pushed back its alternate-history shooter, The Order:1886, until an early 2015 release. The game had previously been touted as one of the key exclusives this year for the PS4. The Order: 1886 follows a group of elite soldiers in a fictionalized version of 19th-century London. Members of The Order fight against monsters and humans with the help of a substance called “Blackwater” that prolongs their lives, heals them and gives them special powers. We sat down for a quick hands-on with The Order at a Sony pre-E3 event earlier this month. The game certainly...



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BBC iPlayer for Windows Phone 8 gets live TV and adaptive bitrate player, but sheds radio content

More than 12 months after its initial debut, the BBC today updated its iPlayer app for Windows Phone 8 with a long-awaited feature: Live TV. It’s bizarre to think that this wasn’t available before, but starting today Lumia device owners can download the app and watch their favorite channels live over the internet. The latest version also includes an adaptive bitrate player, so video playback should remain buttery-smooth regardless of the viewer’s connection. The BBC says its upgraded iPlayer app should be more stable than the previous version and work with a wider range of Windows Phone devices – although...



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Research projects that Twitter will hit nearly 400m users by 2018, with over 40% in Asia-Pacific

Marketing research firm eMarketer has released its first-ever forecast of Twitter users worldwide, and projects that the social network will have nearly 400 million users by 2018, with over 40 percent of them in the Asia-Pacific region. By the end of this year alone, the Asia-Pacific region will account for 32.8 percent of all Twitter users, exceeding its 23.7 percent share in North America, according to eMarketer’s estimates. This is despite a ban on the social networking site in China, which has one of the region’s largest portion of internet users. eMarketer notes that if China opens up to Twitter...



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Moto E review: The new standard for entry-level Android smartphones

Motorola’s Moto G smartphone shocked everyone. Mid-range handsets rarely delight avid smartphone enthusiasts, as they’re often riddled with compromises and offer little in the way of innovation. The Moto G bucked this trend with stellar performance for its low-cost price-tag, alongside a clean design and minimal tweaks to the Android experience. Now, Motorola is back with the Moto E, an entry-level smartphone that aims to supersede the higher-end feature phones and bevy of slow, cheaply made Android handsets. With the tagline “goodbye dumphone,” Motorola is pitching a low-end smartphone for the masses. This is about mid-range performance, coupled with a...



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