LG debuts Life Band Touch
LG is finally dipping its toes into the wearable technology world with the announcement of its Life Band Touch wristband. With its matte black finish and touchscreen interface, this activity tracker looks appealing. Being able to track your heart rate and calorie consumption, the device seems very similar to other activity trackers such as Nike’s Fuelband but there are some “cool” features that make it stand out from the fitness crowd.
One of the neatest features is that the heart rate monitoring doesn’t occur on the wrist, but works through “Heart Rate Earphones” which checks the wearer’s pulse through blood flow in your ear! It also comes with the standard smartwatch features such as notifications, tells time, and plays music
The Life Band Touch can sync with either Android or iOS devices using Bluetooth 4.0, although nothing specific has been said about what type of devices, smartphone or tablet, it will work with. As CES continues hopefully more details emerge as far as pricing and availability.
Source: LG
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LG CES press event liveblog
We hope you like TVs, because we have a feeling LG’s got a lot of ‘em to show, including huge, 4K, curved affairs that we’ve already seen teased by the company in the run-up to CES. That’s not all, however, because the company is likely to show off some new audio hardware, possibly (finally?) a webOS TV too. We haven’t heard much in the way of mobile surprises, but hey, you never know. Join us at 8AM PST — we’ll be there, and we’ll even bring the coffee.
Filed under: Displays, Home Entertainment, Software, HD, Mobile, LG
LG Lifeband touch and Heart Rate Monitor earphones aim to help you keep fit
Televisions aren’t the only thing LG brought to CES this year — it’s lugged along a couple of wearable fitness devices, too. In fact, we’ve already seen one of them. The company’s FuelBand competitor showcased at CES last year resurfaced as the Lifeband Touch, a fitness band with a swipe-friendly OLED touchscreen that displays physical activity info and calories burned. Naturally, it pairs up with Android and iOS devices to get incoming calls and text information, but if you want to make the most out of it, you’ll need to pair it with the company’s second CES wearable: a pair of Heart Rate Monitor earphones. Aside from functioning as normal earbuds, they can track heartbeats by measuring signals from the inner ear. The South Korean company has yet to set a release date for either device, but we’ll update you when we hear more.
LG spills price, release details on its Ultra HD, OLED (flat or curved) and webOS TVs
As usual, LG has encouraged our speculation by slowly revealing details about many of the new TVs it’s bringing to CES and today during its press conference we’re finding out the rest, including price and release windows. First up is its impossibly large 105-inch curved LCD, an ultrawide screen that may actually deliver on its promise of a cinema experience in the home. While this doesn’t have a specific release period, LG is anticipating an MSRP of about $70K so it won’t come cheap, but its unique 5,120 x 2,160 resolution is impressive enough to merit consideration — if you’re not convinced don’t worry, there are a number of other options. If you’re looking for a new OLED TV instead, LG is also setting high water marks there with its Ultra HD 77-inch curved model. It combines ultra high resolution with the company’s best display technology and high dynamic range algorithm for a picture that should be stunning. Of course, that comes with a similarly eye popping price of $29,999 when it starts rolling out during the second quarter of this year, but delivering on the promise of one of our favorite displays from last year isn’t cheap.
For those that want the latest in TV technology but prefer a flat viewing surface, LG is also almost ready to deliver its conventionally-shaped Gallery OLED TV in the US. The 55-inch EA8800 doesn’t have the all the pixels of its predecessors above, but with an MSRP of $8,999, it’s a bit closer to our price range and hopefully, new production plants will make the price fall even faster. Of course, there’s a possibility that our favorite part of the announcement is the most easily obtained, as LG has revealed that webOS is coming to most of its new Smart TVs this year.
Purchased from HP and adapted to work on TV, the experience begins with a user-friendly tutorial and setup process, and moves on to a connected TV system that could surpass the others in the field right out of the box. The webOS Launcher is built for multitasking with apps and live TV, all built around the concept of past, present and future. This platform is LG’s first compatible with apps built on HTML standards (Netflix, Hulu Plus, Facebook, GetGlue and others are already lined up), which should hopefully attract more developers to the platform. We’ll have to get our hands on it to verify the company’s pledge that it’s “Making TV Simple Again,” but so far it appears to have a good start — check after the break for a few more screenshots.
Filed under: Home Entertainment, HD, LG
Get your CES 2014 liveblogs right here
We realize that not everyone can be at CES this year – after all, that Las Vegas Monorail only holds so many people at any one given time – but here’s the next best thing. As per usual, we’ll be liveblogging the week’s biggest press conferences, so you can follow the action from the comfort of your own computer. Speaking of making things a bit more comfortable for you, the reader, we’ve compiled links to all of our liveblogs for this year’s show just after the break.
Monday January 6th
- 11:00AM ET: LG CES press event liveblog
- 3:000PM ET: Live from ASUS’ In Search of Incredible event at CES 2014
- 4:00PM ET: Live from Intel’s CES 2014 press conference
- 5:00PM ET: Samsung CES 2014 press event liveblog
- 8:00PM ET: Sony CES 2014 press event liveblog
Filed under: Cellphones, Desktops, Laptops, HD, Mobile, Samsung, Sony, ASUS, LG, Intel
LG teases webOS for most of its smart TVs, Life Band Touch with Android, iOS sync
LG has already shown quite a bit of its hand ahead of CES (105-inch curved LCD; OLEDs OLEDs and more OLEDs; Ultra HD televisions of all sizes) but with its press conference now just hours away, it’s showing off a bit more. Now we have an official pic or two of the webOS interface on a TV, and LG’s blog indicates it should appear on more than 70 percent of the smart TVs it’s releasing in 2014. The webOS launcher is teased as offering all the voice search and gesture recognition features we’ve seen on LG TVs in the past few years, and enhanced multitasking between apps and live TV. There’s even an animated “Bean Bird” character to walk users through initial setup and pair the magic remote.
That’s not all that’s new however, as LG also confirmed it will launch the Life Band Touch. Similar to Nike’s FuelBand, this wearable (pictured after the break) promises far more features powered by its ability to sync with both Android and iOS devices over Bluetooth 4.0. It has touch controls for music playback and incoming calls on the synced device, and can be used with special heart rate monitor earbuds. There are a few other products mentioned as well, check back tomorrow at 11AM ET for all the information from CES as we liveblog LG’s press conference.
Filed under: Displays, Home Entertainment, Wearables, HD, LG
Source: LG Korea, Korea Newswire
Dish’s ‘Virtual Joey’ is a streaming app for smart TVs that takes the place of a set-top box (video)
Assuming you’re not a home-theater gear head, we’ll start this post by giving you a quick history lesson. Back at CES 2012, Dish Network announced a whole-home DVR setup, including the Hopper DVR and a multi-room extender, called the Joey. Then, at last year’s CES, Dish introduced a version of the Hopper with Sling built in, allowing you to send both live and recorded shows to a mobile device. This year, Dish is turning its attention back to those Joey boxes except, well, it doesn’t necessarily have any hardware to show for it.
The company just announced the “Virtual Joey” a smart TV app that will come built into select LG televisions, and which will take the place of a physical Joey extender. To be clear, you’ll still need a Hopper DVR to anchor the whole experience, but this would at least mean you have one less piece of hardware taking up space in your house. According to company reps, the app will come to 2013 and 2014 LG smart TVs, though it’s working to ink deals with other manufacturers as well. We hope to get an in-person demo here at CES, so hang tight for some hands-on!
Filed under: Home Entertainment, HD, LG
Source: Dish
LG’s latest 84-inch 4K TV breaks cover at CES
Sure, a 105-inch curved, ultra-widescreen TV is LG’s pride and joy at CES 2014, but it’s also brought along a handful of flat Ultra HD televisions along for the ride. We’ve just laid eyes on the 84-inch variant of the 4K (3,840 x 2,160) set and came away fairly satisfied. Sure, the LCD panel isn’t nearly as vivid as an OLED one, but it still manages to handle itself adequately while keeping a thing profile. Hidden from sight is the “Tru-ULTRA HD Engine Pro” chip, which handles upscaling anything SD, HD and “True HD” (read: 1080p) content. The set itself doesn’t have an extravagant stand or frame as is often the case with UHD sets, but its sleek body and pair of thin, side-mounted speaker bars would look right at home in any (exceptionally large) entertainment center. To lay eyes on the panel for yourself, check out the gallery below.
LG’s 105-inch UHDTV isn’t coming to CES alone: flat 65-, 79-, 84- and 98-inchers on the way
Possibly concerned that merely showing off a giant 105-inch curved, ultrawidescreen (with a resolution of 5,120 x 2,160 it’s being marketed as 5K) Ultra HD television would be perceived as overkill, LG just announced a few more super high-res displays it’s going to show off this week. Alongside the 105UC9, the UB9800 4K Ultra HD series includes flat LCD televisions in 65-, 79-, 84- and 98-inch sizes. Other than their 3,840 x 2,160 resolution, the calling card of this line is its “Tru-ULTRA HD Engine Pro” chip that handles any upscaling from SD, HD, or “True HD” (1080p) sources, and has “4K Motion Estimation Motion Compensation (MEMC)” for 4K source content.
Filed under: Displays, Home Entertainment, HD, LG
Source: LG
LG G Flex headed to AT&T, T-Mobile – report
AT&T and T-Mobile are the first two carriers in line to offer the recently introduced LG G Flex smartphone. According to a recent tweet from @evleaks, the pair of GSM-based carriers will support the device under the model numbers of D950 (AT&T) and D959 (T-Mobile). It’s not immediately clear when either will introduce the smartphone but with CES taking place in a matter of days we might expect press releases in the near future.
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