Flexible display prototypes by Samsung LG Display is aiming to ship the first flexible displays for mobile applications this year, beating Samsung to the market. Flexible displays have been a common appearance at consumer electronics shows and in technology predictions columns for the past couple of years. Samsung in particular has touted its upcoming flexible OLED displays, branded Youm, as the next big thing for mobile devices. At CES 2013, the Korean conglomerate showed us how Youm could be integrated into innovative product designs, like foldable tablets and smartphones with intelligent bezels.

Excited about the upcoming Gameloft title, Modern Combat 4: Zero Hour? You should be. In order to pump fans up about the game, the developers have released what they are calling “the Modern Combat 4: Zero Hour dev diary.” Below you find the first part in what will be several videos that help give us a deeper look at MC4.  More than likely, the videos will lead up to the official release later this fall.

The newly unveiled LG G Flex 2 isn’t just a smartphone for display buffs, the handset is also packing Qualcomm’s latest and greatest 64-bit Snapdragon 810 processor. However, all may not be well with Qualcomm’s latest high-end SoC, as more rumors have surfaced suggesting that the chip is struggling with some performance impacting production issues. As a quick recap, the Snapdragon 810 features eight CPU cores in a big.LITTLE configuration, arranged as four heavy lifting Cortex-A57s and four energy efficient Cortex-A53s for the less demanding background tasks.

Motorola’s newly-announced budget handset, the Moto E (2015), is now available on both Sprint Prepaid and Boost Mobile for only $99. This is the 4G LTE-capable device we’re talking about here, so it will work on both Sprint and Boost’s 4G networks. If either of those carriers aren’t your style, the new device will also be available on Virgin Mobile beginning Monday, March 9th for the same price. The second generation Moto E is quite a nice step up from last year’s model.

When the Nexus 6 was released last year, Google and Motorola took the Nexus line up a notch, bringing the world a powerful Nexus device that was more comparable to its competitors than ever before, though it still lacked in a few areas such as camera, and offered a less premium plastic build. With the Huawei-built Nexus 6P, Google finally offers a pure Android experience in a premium flagship package, with the line no longer lacking in key aspects when compared to its high-end competition.

The Nvidia Shield TV is our favorite media streamer. Even though the set-top box is well over three years old at this point, Nvidia continues to support it, bringing Android 8.0 Oreo to the device a few months ago. Now, the Shield TV is getting some love from Amazon, in the form of both Amazon Music and a global rollout of the Nvidia Shield TV skill in the Amazon Alexa app.

TL;DR A report from Gizmodo proves that some US schools are buying phone-cracking hardware for decrypting students’ phones at school. School officials do not need warrants to seize and search smartphones owned by students. Over at Gizmodo, there’s a new report related to smartphone security. The report shows how certain schools here in the United States have purchased phone-cracking systems from companies such as Cellebrite. These tools allow school officials to decrypt students’ smartphones and retrieve data those students may have erased.

Do you remember the Android gaming box called Gamepop that was set to take over your living room gaming experience? It was big news early last year, but it sort of fell off the radar. But you’d be wrong to consider Gamepop a dead concept, as their current round of funding just got a big bump by Samsung. With Samsung’s contribution, Gamepop’s manufacturer, BlueStacks, adds $13 million to their total raised in their current campaign to deliver Gamepop as a white-label solution for TV makers and cable providers.

OnePlus just launched a new mid-ranger in the OnePlus Nord CE (the “CE” stands for “Core Edition”). Meanwhile, the Google Pixel 4a from last year is still a viable competitor. But who would win in a OnePlus Nord CE vs Google Pixel 4a bout with the Speed Test G suite? Well, that’s exactly what we set out to determine. Our own Gary Sims pit the two phones together to see which one offers the best raw processing power.

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