LG sets to marry the traditional wristwatch with the smartwatch to bring about the Watch W7-- a "hybrid" Wear OS device featuring physical watch hands on top of the circular 1.2-inch LCD display.
As the first LG smartwatch since the 2017 Watch Sport and Watch Style, the Watch W7 is the result of a collaboration with Swiss movement maker Soprod SA. As such it truly mimics the traditional wach, with the mechanical hands showing the time as well as information such as altimeter, barometer, timer, stopwatch and compass direction. One can even press a button to make the hands go at the 3:15 position in order to make reading notifications easier.
Despite the watch hands, the display is still touch-capable. The the 44.5mm body is in stainless steel, IP68-rated to resist waters up to 1.5m for 30 minutes, and offers interchangeable straps. The crown has 3 buttons, with two small buttons at the top and bottom users can customise to trigger various shortcuts and a ressable crown in the middle ideal for scrolling through menus and notifications.
The x360 14 features a 14-inch 1920 x 1080 IPS display with WLED backlighting, multitouch support and an edge-to-edge design. Inside are up to 8th gen Intel Core i3 and i5 processors, together with up to 8GB DDR4 RAM and 64GB of SSD storage. A built-in HP Wide Vision HD webcam with dual-array digital microphones handles videochatting through Skype and the like, while audio comes through B&O Play dual speakers.
The Portal comes in two versions, regular or Portal+. The regular Portal has a 10.1-inch 1280 x 800 resolution display and 10W speakers on the bottom, while the Portal+ has a 15.6-inch 1920 x 1080 display, 20W speakers, 4-inch woofer and a stand able to rotate from landscape to portrait mode with a touch. Both are sold by the social network as primarily a video chatting solution, even if the addition of Alexa makes them rivals to any number of similar devices already available on the market.
Aimed at customers curious about vinyl but unwilling to invest in a whole stereo system, the DUO is a small turntable with a reduced platter just 25% the diameter of standard turntables. The makers claim the belt drive has a "unique rotational stabilisation" able to reduce vibrations, with a wow and flutter (aka the distortion the turntable generates as it plays the record) of less than 0.9%. Also included are an Audio-Technica AT3600 cartridge and a spring-equipped tonearm able to generate a tracking force of 2.5g.
Inside the m15 are a 15.6-inch display (in either 1080p 60Hz, 1080p 144z or 4K 60Hz flavours) and a choice of either Intel 8th gen quad-core Core i5-8300H or 6-core i7-8750H processor, as well as either an Nvidia GTX 1060 or 1070 Max-Q GPU. RAM clocks at up to 16GB, and customers can ad up to 1TB SSD or 1TB hybrid drive. The battery comes in 60 or 90Whr versions offering 7.1 or 10.6 hours of video playback respectively.
