LG will let 4,000 people test the LG G4 for 30 days before its release

What better way to judge the worth of your flagship smartphone than to let people who plan to buy one test it out ahead of launch? LG’s taking the chance to do that for the LG G4, as the company has announced that they’ll be letting 4,000 lucky people test the phone for 30 days ahead of its launch.

Folks in 14 different countries are eligible, including Turkey, Indonesia, Singapore, United States, China, India, Brazil, Canada, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Mexico, Japan, South Korea and Hong Kong.

So what do you have to do to get a chance? We’re not exactly sure just yet. LG says you’ll have to apply and they’ll pick 4,000 people based on their response, and you’ll also get to increase your chances by sharing those responses on various social networks. What sort of response, exactly, they didn’t say, but we’re told to keep an eye out on their social network accounts over the next couple of days for more details.

Being able to test out a major flagship device before its launch by writing some words? Not a bad deal, even if it’s only for 30 days. And who knows? Perhaps you’ll end up liking it enough to buy one once they’re finally available. LG has confirmed that the LG G4 will be fully unveiled April 28th, so stay tuned to see what’s in store.

[via LG]

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.

[Apple]

OnePlus 2 price confirmed to be more than $322, company pissed off because people are skeptical

Yesterday it was revealed that the OnePlus 2 would use a new version of Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 810 chipset. It’s “v2.1″ and they’ve gone through some revisions to make sure the chipset has no overheating issues.

And everyone proceeded to call them liars. And now they’re mad. No, really, they are actually mad. They maintain that the Snapdragon 810 is a great chipset, and that there won’t be any performance sacrifices made in order to keep the heat down.

Their claims don’t seem unfounded, with AnandTech’s analysis showing that this version of the Snapdragon 810 actually has a 33% advantage in memory bandwidth and a slight increase in clock speed for its GPU.

The biggest reason they’re pissed off is because they feel they really didn’t push the limit in going with the Snapdragon 810, but that would be a very narrow way to look at it. For starters, the Snapdragon 810 is still a top-line chipset despite some of its early issues.

They also revealed that it costs more than the Snapdragon 801 ever did, noting that their phone will most certainly cost more than 2 as a result. How much higher? They weren’t at liberty to say just yet, but we’re hoping they’ll look to keep their trend of accepting razor-thin profits up, so we won’t be expecting it at much more than 0.

All of that is to say that it’s too early to pass a judgment on a phone we haven’t even seen yet (well, that’s not entirely true — the phone in the image above is an actual OnePlus 2 prototype, but it’s kind of hard to tell) so hold your horses and wait for all the details to come to light.