Brilliant ways to get a flatter belly

Get a flatter belly

Worried why all your ab exercises aren't showing the results you want? Maybe you are missing something. These simple tips will make your workout work better for you...

Begin with small moves
Begin easy — you cannot go on a cyclothon before you know how to cycle and similarly you cannot do 50 crunches the first time you learn how to do it. Work a small range — hold a plank for 20 seconds or do only 10 crunches in the beginning.

Warm enough?
Some people do not realise the importance of a proper warm up before a workout session, and believe that it is a waste of time. But, warming up your muscles prevents injury. A little walking, marching on the spot, rotating your mid-section gently, bending forwards to touch your toe, etc can warm up your core for an ab workout.

Breathe
Oxygen is important for your core muscles, if you want them to work their full capacity. So, don't hold your breath. Inhale when you are doing the easy part of the move, and exhale when you have to exert force.

For example — exhale when you are on the way up while doing crunches.

Don't get distracted
If you thought only your muscles play an important role when it comes to doing those push ups, you were wrong — our mind too plays an important part in workout schedules. So, avoid watching TV while exercising, instead concentrate on the muscles, and feel them move, stretch and contract. It will improve your results.

Be an all rounder
When you want a flat belly fast, the trick is to do movements in all dimensions. Don't just concentrate on crunches — include other exercises and asanas like Vakrasana that help you twist and turn your body.

Balance
For strong abs you should try to incorporate some balance into your routine. Even something as simple as — standing on one leg while the other feet rests on your thigh, arms raised above your head and palms touching — the Vriksasana or the Tree pose.

Rest it out
Your workout will only work for you if you give yourself adequate rest. Overworking your abs won't help. The rest will help the muscles recover and will make them stronger.

Slow and steady
Speeding up your workout will not help. Slow down and you will burn fat better.

Try yoga
Sick of gymming? Try yoga. Most yoga poses are excellent for strengthening the core. Yoga not only exercises your mind along with your body, but it makes you flexible and reduces your stress-levels.

Weight matters
Your abdominal muscles could do better if they are challenged with some weights. With a kilo or so thrown in, your regular workout can give you even better results.

Pay attention to what you eat
If you want washboard abs, you need to eat right — just going through gruelling gym routines day after day, will not work. A city-based nutritionist says, "Make sure your diet consists of plenty of protein, low fat milk and milk products, fruits and fresh vegetables
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Not thinking about leaving handset business, BlackBerry CEO John Chen says

BlackBerry CEO John Chen 

BlackBerry CEO John Chen has taken to the firm's official blog to clarify the Reuters article which said it was thinking about leaving the handset business. In short, it's not. 

Chen writes: "I want to assure you that I have no intention of selling off or abandoning this business any time soon.‎ 

"I know you still love your BlackBerry devices. I love them too and I know they created the foundation of this company. Our focus today is on finding a way to make this business profitable." 
He finishes on: "We have not given up and we are not leaving the devices business." So there you have it. 

Original story...
It would be an understatement to say that BlackBerry has been having a tough time of things lately, as the company made a net loss of $423 million last quarter alone. But new CEO John Chen is committed to turning the company around, even if that means abandoning smartphones entirely. 

As part of an interview on Wednesday Chen claimed that "if I cannot make money on handsets, I will not be in the handset business" according to Reuters. He also claimed that one way or another he'd have to make the decision soon. 

So what would it take for BlackBerry to make money on handsets? Around 10 million shipped phones per year apparently, which isn't a huge quantity, especially when you consider that back in 2011 BlackBerry shipped 52.3 million devices. 

Sinking ship?
But the company is a lot weaker than it once was, down from a 20% smartphone market share in 2009 to less than 2% now. 
Even if the company does continue with consumer smartphones it doesn't sound like that side of the business will be such a focus any more, as Chen claimed that "we are not going to spend any more money to maintain the latest version of Angry Birds." Going forward the company will focus on business clients instead
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Google Android Wear: All you need to know

Google is busy designing a wearable version of its Android operating system.

While we wait for Apple to confirm that it's been making an iWatch, Google is busy designing a wearable version of its Android operating system.

Android Wear is a new platform that extends the company's leading software to the body starting with the wrist in the form of smartwatches. As Android head Sundar Pichai penned in the announcement, these app-driven time pieces understand the context of the world around you and deliver messages and reminders beamed directly to your wrist.

Convenient Google Now notifications are literally on hand thanks to Android Wear, and the ability to seek out additional information with voice controls outfits everyone with the all-encompassing power of the search engine.

It's shaping up to be as fashionable as it is functional thanks to support for both round and square watch faces, as seen on the circular Moto 360 and boxy LG G Watch.

What Android Wear does
Android Wear is intended to provide "information that moves with you" and puts the entire world inches from your suddenly-free fingertips.

It doesn't just tell the time. The wearable operating system makes suggestions based on time and it factors location into its context-sensitive data.

The best everyday habit example involves riding on a bus and seeing a Google Maps-powered notification countdown to an unfamiliar destination. "4 stops to: Jackson St." intelligently reads the watch. The guessing game is taken out of a public transit commute.

The new technology can also tip off wearers to dangers that lurk, as demonstrated in Google's first Android Wear video. A "Jellyfish warning" prompt can be seen with a surfer's flick of the wrist.

A relevant list of nearby beaches saves the video's early adopters who can surf without worrying about the sting of the boneless and brainless ocean creature.

All of a sudden, digging a rectangular smartphone out of your pocket and pulling up a much more involved map or notification app seems so pedestrian.

Making time for families
Google seeds the idea that Android Wear can alleviate our addiction to smartphones in an effort to make more time and eye-contact with our families.

A parent is able to attend breakfast with his family while keeping a close eye on the estimated commute time to work thanks to an on-wrist Google Now notification.

"No surprises" is the unofficial goal of Android Wear. Leaving too early and breezing through traffic would have filled this parent with breakfast-skipping regret. Leaving too late would've started his day with traffic-influenced anxiety.

'Okay Google' on the wrist
Even more touching is the dad who receives a Google Hangouts message right on his Android Wear smartwatch while bathing his son. "Dude, this game is insane!" writes the token friend who doesn't have such responsibilities.

The dad doesn't run to a TV or have to awkwardly palm his smartphone with soapy hands for an update. "Okay Google, what's the Syracuse score?" he asks his watch without pressing a button.

A scorecard of 28-27, naturally in favor of his college basketball team, pops up. He cheesily shouts "Yay" while raising his hands. His young, halfway washed son does the same without us knowing if he really knows why. He could easily be cheering for having more time with his dad.
The increasingly familiar "Okay Google" voice prompt opens up a world of possibilities beyond sports score updates.

Android Wear smartwatches can handle questions like, "How many calories are in an avocado?" to more personal queries like, "What time does my flight leave?"

"Okay Google" can also accomplish tasks outsourced from a smartphone. Calling a taxi, making restaurant reservations, setting alarms and sending - not just receiving - texts is all possible to do hands-free with the Android Wear operating system.

Google Wear fitness apps
Google's Android Wear smartwatches can solve everyone's pesky pedometer gripes, whether it's always losing the easy-to-misplace device or not having it on you at all times.

This should remedy the problem we have with Samsung's S-Health app in Galaxy S4 and the forthcoming Galaxy S5. These phones aren't on us all the time and therefore robbing us of our workout goal.

Latching a smartwatch to our wrist can count every step and chart whether or not we're meeting our exercise goals. Google promises that it'll connect to our favorite fitness apps for real-time speed, distance and time data while walking, running and cycling.

This puts the Android Wear platform in direct competition with the Fitbit Force, Nike FuelBand SE and the activity tracking newcomer the Samsung Gear Fit.

But the Fitbit and FuelBand lack smartwatch capabilities and, as stylish as the Gear Fit may be, it's only accessible by Samsung smartphones, not all Android devices. That leaves the door wide open for Google.

QR codes, music and Chromecast
The company multitasks in demonstrating Android Wear fitness capabilities with a woman who runs to the boarding line for a departing flight. She's able to keep count of calories burned while flashing a QR code in front of the airline employee in order to board the flight.
Google's Android Wear introduction video also illustrates how music on another device can be activated through an Android Wear watch. Calling it "key to a multiscreen world," the watch promises to cast movies to a TV, presumably with its inexpensive Chromecast streaming device, and the video hints at the ability to open garage doors with smart home connectivity.
"There's a lot of possibilities here so we're eager to see what developers build," wrote Pichai toward the end of his announcement post.

Third-party apps in development
Android Wear is made even more convincing as a smartwatch because developers will be able to easily translate their apps from Google's mobile ecosystem.

One of the first third-party apps diving right into Android Wear is Pocket. Formerly known as "Read It Later," this deferred reading app saves longer-form articles for later consumption on a big screen.


It shouldn't take long for your favorite apps to appear on the Moto X or LG G Watch, whereas developers may struggle to navigate Samsung's Tizen platform that's limited to its Galaxy devices.

Android Wear smartwatches so far
The Android Wear smartwatch selection is limited at the moment with LG and Motorola showing off their respective designs. Samsung, HTC, Asus and Fossil are confirmed to have something up their sleeves.

The Moto 360 was front-and-center in the smartwatch announcement, even though Google has offloaded Motorola to Lenovo. There's good reason for highlighting this time piece: it's ambitious.


As the name suggests, Moto 360 has a beautiful circular face that contrasts with other watches we've seen like the square Pebble Steel and wrist-conforming Samsung Gear Fit.

Moto 360 has been confirmed to be orientation-free so that left and right-handed wearers won't see a single difference. The digital screen can be flipped and the classic-looking single knob is symmetrical. Just flip the entire thing around to get the knob on the right side.

Even better is that this beautiful watch face is rumored to comprise of an OLED screen to increase battery life that sits behind sapphire glass. That's the same protective glass that's expected to be in the Apple iWatch.

Sticking with that authentic watch styling, there are no charging contacts or USB ports to be found here, Motorola confirmed. Its so-far-secret charging method is a "special sauce," which alludes to Qi wireless charging for Moto 360 or possibly Kinetic charging.

It doesn't feature a privacy-invasive camera like the Galaxy Gear and Gear 2. This just didn't fit into the classic design, according to Motorola. Also, unlike Samsung's watches, it supports more phones than its own Moto X.

Moto 360 is compatible with Android 4.3 phones and tablets that use low-powered Bluetooth 4.0 for battery life conservation. That means even if you own a brand new iPhone 5S, it won't work with this Android-only device.

It blends familiar Android menus like Google Now and Hangouts messages with a sophisticated-looking digital watchface, and Motorola is promising just-as-premium strap materials that remain comfortable.

The company promises a variety of styles when it ships globally later this summer, starting in the US. To that point, we gleaned both a metal and flexible rubber wristband from the Moto 360 prototype render.

LG is only beginning to talk about its Android Wear watch, dubbed the LG G Watch as if it's a typo with too many Gs. Just as awkward is the fact that the Moto 360 dissed square-faced smartwatches in its unveil.



That happens to be the exact design of the LG G Watch. It doesn't seem to be offended. The company is determined to prove that it's hip to be square by a July release date.

It's square face, only seen in full in one official photo so far, is completely buttonless and roughly the same size as the Samsung Gear 2 and Gear 2 Neo.

Like the Pebble Steel, this smartwatch will follow the trend of supporting swappable bands for a more personalized look and feel.

The LG G Watch price is confirmed to be £180 in the UK. That translates to about $301 and AU$322, but it could be cheaper in the US and Australia as UK prices haven't been fairly converted recently.

Where Android Wear stands
Android Wear shows more promise on day one than Google Glass has in its year of availability because it's not a stretch to imagine donning Moto 360 or the LG G Watch.

There are still plenty of questions left to be answered like what are the Android Wear smartwatch specs, how long is the battery life and cost. Google can own the wrist, like it's starting to control the TV apps ecosystem with its inexpensive Chromecast, if the price is right.

Then there's the question of iOS compatibility. Would this Android-powered watch ever be able to connect to an iOS device? Google has made plenty of its gadgets, app and services work with Apple's iPhone and iPad hardware.


We're looking forward to seeing how natural the "Okay Google" voice commands turn out, whether or not some of the watches will be waterproof and if Nest creates an Android Wear project of its own.

Expect to hear more about Android Wear and see the unveiling of the first Wear apps at the company's Google IO 2014 conference in June. More details will literally be on hand then.

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Samsung beats Apple in advertising spendings in India

Samsung India spent four times as much as rival Apple in advertising campaigns in India in 2013.

KOLKATA: Electronics and mobile handset maker Samsung India spent four times as much as rival Apple in advertising campaigns in India in 2013, according to three people aware of the expenditure details, in what is being billed as the biggest marketing war of the year. 

At Rs 400 crore, Samsung's advertising budget for mobile phones and tablets dwarfed Apple's Rs 90-100 crore expenditure on promoting its iPhones and iPads in the country, the industry executives said, adding that Sony pumped in Rs 150 crore during the year to promote its Xperia smartphones. 

While Apple refused comment, a public relations firm representing Samsung India said the company could not respond as its offices in Delhi-NCR were observing a holiday on Thursday. 

These figures, however, give a sense of the scale at which the three companies compete in India, one of the fastest growing markets for mobile phones. 

According to the executives, when Apple unleashed a Rs 10-crore advertising campaign in India in the first quarter of 2013 for promotional offers such as the iPhone 4 buyback and cash-back schemes, market leader Samsung followed suit with a similar campaign that cost Rs 20-30 crore. 

Samsung also beat Apple in expenditure on ads for a single product launch. According to the executives, Samsung has spent Rs 50-60 crore on advertisement for each new flagship model it launched in India. The Galaxy S4 and the upcoming Galaxy S5, for instance. In comparison, Apple spent half the amount when it launched iPhone 5S and 5C in India last year. For the first time, the Apple opted for radio campaigns and billboard advertisements. 

Not to be left behind, Sony India has chalked out a Rs 200-crore advertisement plan for smartphones this year, according to its business head (mobile division), Sachin Rai. The company's total marketing budget for this business is of Rs 350 crore. "For instance, we would launch our biggest campaign with Z2 slated for launch soon," Rai said. 

According to research consultancy Gartner, smartphone sales in India increased 166% in the fourth quarter of 2013 from a year ago, the highest globally. 

For Samsung India, sales of smartphones and tablets accounted for about three quarters of its total revenue of Rs 38,000 crore in 2013, according to executives. In comparison, for Apple India, the contribution of this segment doubled to 80% in 2013-14 from a year ago. For Sony India, sales of smartphones accounted for 35% of the company's revenues and are expected to increase to 50% this fiscal. 

"As the fortune of Apple, Samsung and Sony are now tied to the mobility business in India and the fast adoption of smartphones in the market, the marketing war of these giants has reached a peak this fiscal," said Himanshu Chakrawarti, CEO at The Mobile Store, the country's largest cellphone retail chain. 

"These brands are also jostling for more brand presence inside the stores such as more display space and in-store branding."
 

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Heartbleed bug threat spreads to firewalls and beyond

The Heartbleed vulnerability went undetected for about two years and can be exploited without leaving a trace.

BOSTON: Hackers could crack email systems, security firewalls and possibly mobile phones through the "Heartbleed" computer bug, according to security experts who warned on Thursday that the risks extended beyond just internet web servers. 

The widespread bug surfaced late on Monday, when it was disclosed that a pernicious flaw in a widely used Web encryption program known as OpenSSL opened hundreds of thousands of websites to data theft. Developers rushed out patches to fix affected web servers when they disclosed the problem, which affected companies from Amazon.com and Google to Yahoo. 

Yet pieces of vulnerable OpenSSL code can be found inside plenty of other places, including email servers, ordinary PCs, phones and even security products such as firewalls. Developers of those products are scrambling to figure out whether they are vulnerable and patch them to keep their users safe. 

"I am waiting for a patch," said Jeff Moss, a security adviser to the US Department of Homeland Security and founder of the Def Con hacking conference. Def Con's network uses an enterprise firewall from McAfee, which is owned by Intel's security division. 

He said he was frustrated because people had figured out that his email and web traffic is vulnerable and posted about it on the internet — but he can't take steps to remedy the problem until Intel releases a patch. 

"Everybody is going through the exact same thing I'm going through, if you are going through a vendor fix," he said. 

An Intel spokesman declined comment, referring Reuters to a company blog that said: "We understand this is a difficult time for businesses as they scramble to update multiple products from multiple vendors in the coming weeks. The McAfee products that use affected versions of OpenSSL are vulnerable and need to be updated." 

It did not say when they would be released. 

The Heartbleed vulnerability went undetected for about two years and can be exploited without leaving a trace, so experts and consumers fear attackers may have compromised large numbers of networks without their knowledge. 

Companies and government agencies are now rushing to understand which products are vulnerable, then set priorities for fixing them. They are anxious because researchers have observed sophisticated hacking groups conducting scans of the internet this week in search of vulnerable servers. 

"Every security person is talking about this," said Chris Morales, practice manager with the cybersecurity services firm NSS Labs. 

Cisco Systems, the world's biggest telecommunications equipment provider, said on its website that it is reviewing dozens of products to see if they are safe. It uncovered about a dozen that are vulnerable, including a TelePresence video conferencing server, a version of the IOS software for managing routers. A company spokesman declined to comment on how those issues might affect users, saying Cisco would provide more information as it became available. 

Oracle has not posted such an advisory on its support site. Company spokeswoman Deborah Hellinger declined to comment on Heartbleed. 

Microsoft, which runs a cloud computing and storage service, the Xbox platform and has hundreds of millions of Windows and Officer users, said in a statement that "a few services continue to be reviewed and updated with further protections." It did not identify them. 

Officials with technology giants IBM and Hewlett-Packard could not be reached. EMC and Dell said they had no immediate comment. 

Security experts said the vulnerable code is also found in some widely used email server software, the online browser anonymizing tool Tor and OpenVPN, as well as some online games and software that runs internet-connected devices such as webcams and mobile phones. 

Jeff Forristal, chief technology officer of Bluebox Security, said that version 4.1.1 of Google's Android operating system, known as Jelly Bean, is also vulnerable. Google officials declined comment on his finding. 

Other security experts said that they would avoid using any device with the vulnerable software in it, but that it would take a lot of effort for a hacker to extract useful data from a vulnerable Android phone
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Google adds app scanner to make Android phones safer

Google said it would “continually” scan Android devices to catch and remove malicious apps from them.

NEW DELHI: Google on Thursday said that it would "continually" scan Android devices to catch and remove malicious apps from them. In the last few months, Android has been criticized by security researchers for having relatively poor security compared to other mobile operating systems like iOS and Windows Phone. Most of the criticism is targeted at the easy availability of malicious Android apps that can trick users by impersonating valid and popular apps. 

Just days ago a paid anti-virus app was found in the Play store. However, despite its price of nearly $4, the app turned out to be fake and did not offer any security feature to phone. Google later removed the app from the store. 

Currently, all Android phones are set to install apps downloaded from outside the Play store. If users change these settings and install apps using APK files, they have to agree to a pop up telling them that Google will verify the app. 

"Building on Verify Apps, which already protects people when they're installing apps outside of Google Play at the time of installation, we're rolling out a new enhancement which will now continually check devices to make sure that all apps are behaving in a safe manner, even after installation," said Rich Cannings, an Android security engineer. 

"Because potentially harmful applications are very rare, most people will never see a warning or any other indication that they have this additional layer of protection. But we do expect a small number of people to see warnings (which look similar to the existing Verify apps warnings) as a result of this new capability," added Cannings. 

While Android is safer operating system than something like Windows, it is important for users to follow safe practices. Ideally, you should only install apps that come from the Play store. If you have to install an app using APK method - downloading an APK file and then copying it to the phone - make sure that you trust the source from where you are downloading the APK file. In some cases, cyber criminals use modified APK files of popular games and other apps to distribute malware on Android device
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LG G Flex review: Futuristic smartphone, hefty price tag

LG G Flex review: Futuristic smartphone, hefty price tag

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Smartphone technology is evolving everyday. It has reached a stage where phones and tablets sport more powerful processors than PCs and laptops. Device makers introduce features with their flagships that may or may not be of use to end users. However, there have been very few experiments with the form factor of smartphones since the full-touch slab design became mainstream. Flexible materials have been showcased and prototyped, but the last few months have seen the first few commercially available devices that sport flexible materials including a flexible, curved display.

LG G Flex is the second phone after Samsung Galaxy Round to boast of this unique form factor. The phone features the curved from top to bottom and offers some amount of flexibility. While people were skeptical if the phone will make it to all markets, LG decided to launch it widely, though it comes at a steep price. Does the LG G Flex offer enough reasons to buy a curved smartphone? We try to find out in our review.



Build & Design
LG G Flex's unique design catches your eye the very first time you look at the phone. Instead of the conventional flat, slate-like design, the phone is curved at the back in a concave form, vertically (top to bottom). In addition to being curved, the phone can be flattened out to a limited extent by applying pressure when it lays on its front. LG has reduced the flexibility of the phone and it bends as long as the pressure is applied. Making the phone more flexible would have made it appear flimsy.

Putting a flexible display alone would not have made the phone flexible, so LG also had to make the phone's battery and other components flexible.

The phone is comparatively larger than most smartphones and some phablets in the market.

LG claims that the curved form factor makes it ergonomically better for use while talking. However, we feel that the large footprint negates this effect, especially if you have a petite face. We didn't notice any major difference while using the phone for calls. Having said that, the sound output stays consistent and doesn't get muffled even when the phone lies at its back due to the curved design.

The front is dominated by a 6-inch OLED display with a 2.1MP camera and the sensor array placed just above the display. The right edge is barren while the left edge features the micro sim card tray.

The back reminded us of the LG G2 as it features the volume rocker and power keys, just below the 13MP camera lens and LED flash. We're not fans of LG's placement of these keys ,but it does make sense on the G Flex due to its bigger size.

However, the materials used on the G Flex give a special ability to repair minor scratches inflicted on it. While it looks like it's made of glossy plastic, it also comes with a 'self-healing' coating that allows the phone to repair itself. In our tests, we discovered that it doesn't repair all types of minor scratches. Some scratches made by keys and coins did not disappear while others did. You may not need a case to protect it, but you still need to be careful if you're someone who dreads scratches at your phone's back.

The build of LG G Flex is a refreshing change from the usual but apart from a few, we don't see many advantages of its curved form factor.



Display
LG G Flex sports a 6-inch plastic OLED flexible display with a 720p resolution. The resolution seem to be a little underwhelming for a large screen phone, but in everyday use we did not notice a big difference. The display offers vibrant colours, excellent viewing angles and high brightness levels. Text and images look sharp and crisp (though not as sharp as a 1080p display) and watching videos made for a pleasurable experience. While the display is not as flexible as it would have been before being attached to the phone, the curved form factor makes viewing angles better as the screen is at an equal distance from the eyes at all points. Sunlight legibility was also good.

LG includes a special Gallery app that utilizes the curved display and allows you to browse videos and photos. It also includes lock-screen wallpapers that take advantage of the screen and produce a parallax effect when you slightly tilt the phone. Unfortunately, we found these feature to be gimmicky and still don't see a use case for the curved screen. Perhaps, future iterations of the phone will give us more reasons.

LG G Flex doesn't include Gorilla Glass protection, a standard feature found in all flagship smartphones that makes their display resistant to scratches and minor bumps.

Camera
LG G Flex sports a 13MP rear camera and a 2MP front-facing camera. The camera modules are similar to that of the LG G2 except that the G Flex doesn't include Optical Image Stabilization or OIS which means that the phone is more sensitive to shakes while taking photos. It also affects the phone's ability to capture pictures in low-light conditions.



The phone includes the same app that we've seen on the LG G2. It offers different modes and controls for granular settings. G Flex also adds a Face Tracking mode that is capable of detecting faces and alerting you when it detects a face through the LED notification light integrated with the phone's power button, helping you take better selfies. In our use, the feature worked as promised.

LG G Flex takes good quality pictures in the daylight delivering good level of detail, accurate colour reproduction and satisfactory contrast. The G Flex camera takes decent low-light shots but zoom in to 100% and you'll see details missing and some noise.

The front camera takes good quality selfies and offers a great video chat experience.



The phone is capable of recording 1080p video and we were satisfied with the quality of audio and video captured through it.

User interface
LG G Flex runs Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean, which was a bit disappointing as new phones are shipping with Android 4.4 KitKat, the latest iteration of the OS at this time.

The interface is similar to LG G2 with Optimus UI layer masking Android and enabling customization. The phone features the same bells and whistles that we've seen in the G2, including support for gestures, sensors that keep the screen on or pause videos depending on whether you're looking at the phone and multitasking features that allow you to move between three open apps or run two apps simultaneously. All these features work as promised but we're not sure if you'll use them on a regular basis in the long run. However, there are a number of customization options including themes, the ability to create your own icons and even change the skin of navigation buttons.

The phone also comes with KnockOn, LG's version of double tap to unlock and lock the phone, and Guest Mode for offering select apps to friends or kids when they wish to use your phone.

LG G Flex includes its own voice assistant in addition to Google Now. It was able to understand our accent and was handy for tasks like launching apps, setting a reminder and checking the weather.

For single-handed operation, the phone's keyboard and dial keypad can be aligned towards the right or left sides.

LG G Flex also offers a Quick Remote app to be used with the phone's Infrared Blaster. It enables the phone to act as a universal remote to control audio, video, DTH receiver and home appliances. We found it easy to configure the app and use the phone as a remote.

As we mentioned earlier, the phone includes a special Gallery app called Q Theatre that lets you browse photos, videos and YouTube in an interface that takes advantage of the curved display.

Overall, LG's UI skin is deeply integrated with the phone with all native utility apps looking different from stock Android ones, so purists will be disappointed.

Performance
LG G Flex is powered by a 2.26GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 processor coupled with Adreno 330 graphics and 2GB RAM. We did not notice any lag whatsoever while navigating through the phone's menu, launching apps and switching between them.

In synthetic benchmarks, the phone scored 34,540 in Antutu, 19,997 in Quadrant and 60 in Nenamark 2 tests.

The phone offers 32GB internal storage. Unfortunately, you can't expand the storage as the phone doesn't come with a memory card slot. It offers NFC, Bluetooth, WiFi and GPS connectivity options.



LG G Flex offers excellent call quality and signal reception and we did not encounter issues while making calls even in areas where cell signal is relatively weaker. The phone was able to lock to GPS without any issues. It also offers FM radio.

The external speaker on the phone offers loud sound output.

LG G Flex is backed by a 3500mAh battery (non-removable) and will last you a day and a half even if you put the screen brightness at the highest level and use 3G data all the time. You'll be able to make about 2-3 hours of phone calls, play some casual games and browse the web in this time period. The phone can play video continuously for 8 to 9 hours.

Gaming
We were able to play games like Temple Run 2, Riptide GP2 and Asphalt 8(with Visual Quality set to High and Engine at 100%) without encountering any frame drops or freezes.

Verdict
At a price of nearly Rs 70,000, it is difficult to recommend LG G Flex over other top-of-the-line premium smartphones. The only novelty that the phone offers is its curved display. However, we feel it's still not ready for prime time as LG is not able to offer any significant use case for it. The self-healing back also has its limitations.



Most of the features of the phone are offered by LG's own flagship smartphone, G2, which is available at a much lower price. It offers the same level of performance, as well.

Having said that, G Flex, is an amazing piece of engineering and we'll have to credit LG for bringing this innovation to the Indian market. We are looking forward to the phone's next iteration to see how it evolves in terms of hardware, features and applications centred around the curved display.

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