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LG D830 packs 13MP camera, 4K playback and slow-motion recording

January 13, 2014 By Brandi McCants Leave a Comment

The next flagship from LG, codenamed the LG D830, is going to be a monster when it comes to photography and video, amongst other features currently being leaked. We are not sure if this will be named the LG G3 or LG G 2 Pro, we believe the G 2 Pro will come before the actual annual flagship.

This new leak reveals two features on the LG D830, the amazing camera and the smartphones ability to render HTML5 incredibly well, hitting high on the benchmark scores. We do not normally see leaks on HTML5 benchmarks, pointing at the LG D830 having some new features to make it work so well.

On the camera side, the LG D830 will come with a 13MP rear camera, capable of 4K playback and 120 frames slow-motion recording. The 4K playback feature is a little odd, considering the lack of devices that actually support this resolution.

The slow-motion recording is a nice feature, Apple uses it on the iSight iPhone 5S camera and there are other smartphones that support the slow-motion capture. We hope LG work on actually getting the best picture quality, the LG G2 had some shoddy images in low-light.

Other than that, the LG D830 will come with a 1080 x 1920 full HD display and Snapdragon 800 processor, alongside 2GB of RAM. We guess the battery will be huge, same as the LG G2 that is capable of lasting a full two days without charge.

It is a natural progression on the codename, the LG G2 was named the LG D802 and the Nexus 5 was named the LG D820/21. It was not hard for anyone to spot the pattern in LG’s smartphone code-names.

This does not seem like a full flagship upgrade, rather it will be the LG G 2 Pro until the LG G3 comes along in August, with a 2K display, octa-core processor and some other new features.

LG pre-emptively reveals 105-inch curved 4K LCD TV for CES 2014

December 23, 2013 By Nicholas Anderton Leave a Comment

Last year, the big news on the block at CES was 4K, a new display standard all TV manufacturers were jumping on board, revealing expensive and odd looking televisions that cost the same as BMW or full degree in college.

The margins on these TVs are very thin, sell 100 of them in one area and you’ve made enough to be happy. The size of the TVs shown at CES 2013 ranged from 55″ to 95″ with all of the manufacturers trying out different designs and panels to make them stand out.

This year, LG may have taken home the crown already for the most dazing and outlandish 4K TV, pre-emptively revealing the 105-inch curved 4K LCD TV, a television big enough to act as a cinema for a lot of people – and not actually be big enough for most families front room.

The LG TV may be out of this world for many and we doubt the South Korean company is going to announce some amazing price point they managed to reach – rather they bring the price up to show the premium quality of this curved television compared to others in the market.

Design wise, the LG 4K TV looks incredible, the screen fits edge to edge with almost no bezels on the sides or top. At the bottom it looks like LG has either added anodised aluminium or a huge speaker spanning the width of the TV and the height of about 1/8, which would offer incredible sound.

Nobody may ever see or hear about this LG 4K TV again once CES 2014 is over, but LG is one to always want one up on Samsung and other competitors and this early move pushes the closer to this years prize of “worlds most well designed 4K TV you will never own” award.

Samsung proposing 4K foldable smartphone screens by 2015

November 6, 2013 By Mary Duncan Leave a Comment

Samsung has a busy few years ahead, after their CEO announced 4K foldable smartphone screens will be a thing in two years time. Samsung already develops some of the highest resolution displays on the planet, with the 5-inch 1080p panel and the 2560 x 1600 tablet panel.

To make a 4K smartphone screen, the company would need to pack four times more pixels into the same sized screen they have today. Pixels on a screen are already indistinguishable and the human eye cannot see a single pixel of a 440ppi screen, it is literally impossible.

Since TVs are starting to move into 4K and other media services state they will offer 4K video support, it is only a matter of time before the large screen 4K treacles down to the smaller five/six-inch displays currently available with many Android smartphones.

Samsung also has another additional challenge, making the 4K screen fully flexible and foldable, like the demos at CES showed. Samsung’s Galaxy Round was a little letdown when the screen was not flexible at all, but simply curved with a plastic back.

In 2015, Samsung hopes to be able to make a foldable display that will fit inside your pocket. The South Korean mobile giant believes they can reach 2K (2560 x 1600) by 2014 on smartphones and push the boundaries once again in 2015 to hit 4K.

Samsung is also looking to create ARM processors with 64bit architecture before 2015. Apple and Qualcomm already do this and the only thing Samsung needs to achieve is for the processor to be compatible with ARM’s instruction set.

This is an exciting time for mobile devices on a power front, perhaps not on an innovation front. 4K may be the next best thing in displays, but it is not exactly incredible for the end user, who will see a big drop in battery life and not a huge amount of resolution change, considering they cannot see the big different between 720p and 1080p.