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LG’s new CEO promises smartphone profit by 2021 In a press conference at CES 2020, LG Electronics’ new CEO took to the stage and promised the company’s smartphone business will be profitable by 2021, reportsKorea Times. Kwon Bong-seok was appointed in November of last year and is clearly there to reinvigorate the stuttering phone division. LG continues to release high-end phones at a steady rate despite previously suggesting it would slow down and only make them when it was necessary....

Never run out of battery again with ChargedUp on-demand portable power Having spent nearly six years reviewing power banks, finding a device with which to charge my phone is not a hardship. Locating a power bank that actually has some juice left in it is a different matter. Power banks are fantastically useful. It’s not until we run out of battery that we realise just how much we depend on our smartphones – and not just for communication, but for every aspect of our increasingly digital lives....

Samsung’s foldable flip phone might be called the Galaxy Bloom Samsung might be gearing up to call its next folding phone the Galaxy Bloom in a move that will see the company aggressively market the device to young women. That’s according to a report fromSammobile, citing Korean publicationAju News, that says Samsung has modelled the clamshell style device on a compact makeup mirror by French company Lancome. There is no apparent collaboration between the brands for the phone despite the comparison....

Samsung’s latest SSD drive has a fingerprint sensor Samsung has announced theT7 Touch, an external SSD (solid state drive) that has a fingerprint sensor on the casing. The small device (85 x 57 x 8.0mm) supports USB 3.2 Gen 2 standards and is compatible with Windows, Mac and Android. The addition of the fingerprint sensor adds a level of security to external storage thus far only otherwise seen in passwords and PIN locks (the T7 Touch also comes with password protection and 256-bit encryption)....

Uber to introduce three new safety features to its app in India Uber has launched three new safety feature to its app in India,reports TechCrunch. The measures are already in place on the US version of the app but have taken time to come to their second nation. The Ride Check feature checks on the driver and rider in the event of a long unplanned pause in the journey, with several options surfaced including a direct line to emergency services....