LG shows off another piece of the LG G4, this time it’s the camera

At the end of this month LG is set to announce the LG G4, but until then they can’t help themselves from announcing parts of the device. So far we’ve seen the display, new UX, and a close-up of the sensor. Today LG is sharing even more information about the new camera.

The new camera module for the G4 is 16MP with a f/1.8 aperture. The wider aperture will allow the G4 to take in 80% more light than the camera on the LG G3. Inc case your forgot, the G3 had a really nice camera (which was also used on the LG G Flex 2). LG also announced that the front-facing camera will be 8MP. We should be looking at a phone with a really nice set of cameras. Hopefully the real-world results live up to the specs.

We’ll know more about the G4 after LG’s event on April 28th. Are you excited about the LG G4?

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LG teases the G4’s smooth leather back in latest promo, another look at UX 4.0 too [VIDEO]

Man, it feels like LG is really dragging this one out. To help steal some of the limelight away from the recently launched HTC One M9 and Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge, LG has been teasing the upcoming G4… hard. They’ve practically shown off all of the phone’s features — 16MP camera with f/1.8 lens, 5.5-inch QHD display, UX 4.0 — all while keeping the actual phone’s design mostly under wraps. Well, that’s if you don’t count the massive G4 leak we saw over the weekend.

In their latest teaser video, LG is barely even attempting to hide the phone at all, showing off its all-leather back option in a 15 second promo. The video gives us a quick peek at both the front and back of the device, while leaving little to the imagination. The LG G4 is scheduled to be unveiled on April 28th, but at this point, there wont be much more to actually reveal.

UPDATE: Looks like there’s a new LG UX 4.0 video too. The video highlights the G4’s Quick Shot, Gesture Interval Shot, and Ringtone ID features. Check it out below.

Flickr 4.0 brings another major redesign, improved search, Auto-Uploadr, and 1TB of free storage

In case you haven’t been keeping track, almost every year now Flickr undergoes a dramatic redesign in hopes of enticing fans of photos sharing services like Instagram or even Google+. It was almost 2 years Flickr 2.0 introduced its biggest changes, offering up new Android apps and giving users 1TB of free storage to store all their photos. Around this same time last year, the photo service fine tuned their apps’ design with Flickr 3.0, aiming for something more akin to Instagram (but with much higher quality uploads).

Today, Flickr is announcing another big change, one that sees yet another complete UI overhaul to both their online site and mobile apps. Because Flickr knows you’ve got thousands of photos and videos spread across multiple devices — and 1TB of space to store them — they wanted to make easier than every to store and organize them online.

That’s why Flickr is introducing their new Auto-Uploadr, a little something built into their new Android and iOS apps (there’s a desktop app too) that simply auto uploads all your photos and videos to Flickr. The photos are all marked private by default, so you don’t have to worry about anyone viewing them (unless you choose to share them). The best part is Flickr’s new editing tools are no longer permanent, meaning the original unedited file is always available.

Once uploaded, Flickr’s new unified search features — which can find photos based on landmarks, location, or even color palette — make it easier than ever to keep everything nice and tidy. They can even detect and avoiding uploading duplicate photos, so don’t worry about backing up everything all over again.

You can find the new Flickr 4.0 update right now on the Google Play Store. As always, it’s completely free to use is a compelling option for those looking to backup and share their photos online.

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Apple made another Android app and it’s to help people ‘Move to iOS’

They didn’t talk about during their keynote this morning, but apparently Apple’s got another Android app in the works and it’s called Move to iOS. Like the name suggests, Apple wants to make it easier to make the switch to iOS, and it’s doing that by creating an app that moves most of the stuff from your Android device on over to an iPhone or iPad.

Move to iOS will import all of your contacts, message history, photos/videos, bookmarks, mail accounts, calendars, wallpaper, songs and books (DRM free ones) wirelessly. The app will also suggest previously installed apps to download from their own App Store, as well as add any paid apps to a Wish List so you can easily find them again.

While we, personally, wouldn’t make a permanent switch to iOS, we won’t knock anyone else for wanting to try new things. Android isn’t for everyone (and neither is iOS) so I can see something like this coming in handy.

The app isn’t available yet, but it looks to be one of the new apps Apple has planned for iOS 9 which launches later this year.

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Another high-end HTC One device launches, and we’re still wondering why it isn’t the HTC One M9

Seriously, HTC, this is just getting ridiculous. The Taiwanese company has revealed another new smartphone as part of 2015’s One lineup. It’s the HTC One ME, and just like the HTC One E9++ and HTC One M9+, it outclasses HTC’s supposed “flagship” HTC One M9 in every way.

It does so with a 5.2-inch 2560 x 1440 display, 3GB of RAM, 32GB of storage, a front-facing UltraPixel camera, a fingerprint scanner and 2,840mAh battery. The only thing you could knock it for is using MediaTek’s octa-core Helio X10 chipset over something from the Snapdragon family, but MediaTek chipsets aren’t even bad these days.

Like many of the other variants, this one is only slated for a launch in China right now, which is fascinating considering that market now has access to 3 of HTC’s 2015 devices while most others only have the HTC One M9.

[via HTC China]

The Saygus V2 gets another massive delay to Fall 2015 (and a sketchy IndieGoGo campaign, to boot)

The Saygus V2 is a very cool phone that’s very real, but it’s also very late. And that is starting to get very annoying. The company has announced yet another delay, with this particular instance pushing the phone’s arrival back to Fall 2015.

Reasons for the delay were credited to unforeseen hiccups in manufacturing, which is not all that uncommon for companies without much experience. It’s not like we’ve never suffered a delay before, so we suppose we’ll just have to cope the best way we know how.

What we’re more concerned about, however, is that the company has thrown up a new IndieGoGo campaign for the thing with a lofty million goal. It’s being used as an avenue for folks to learn about the phone and place orders for it that are lower priority than those who were able to pre-register for the device earlier in the year.

That campaign’s million goal was over 80% fulfilled the second it went live, with funds being pledged at least two days before the campaign even kicked off. A vast majority of those pledges came in at 9 a pop, to boot. It’s possible IndieGoGo allowed Saygus to backload the campaign with the funds they secured from the pre-registration users in order to make their current campaign look more legit. But in doing so, it actually doesn’t.

Whatever the case may be, the Saygus V2 is so far off at this point that it will be silly to continue calling it the world’s most advanced smartphone by the time it’s out. Half the specs touted (seeSaygus V2 specs) are either matched or bested in other OEMs’ 2015 flagships, and Saygus’s plans to add a last minute USB Type-C port to the phone don’t do much to persuade us not to go with something that’s already on store shelves. Want to know more about this phone? We got our hands on it back at CES so be sure to check that out and decide if it’s worth jumping through hoops for.