Monday, January 5, 2015

LG bet their future cars and smart homes – CNNExpansión.com

LAS VEGAS (CNNExpansión) – In the coming years LG bet to play, unify and connect mobile devices, entertainment and appliances with cars, houses and people, said the head technology company, Skott Ahn at the Consumer Electronic Show (CES) 2015.

With this goal, LG will look more like a player in the market for Internet of Things, which a developer consumer electronics and appliances.

According to the executive, bet the company focuses on three key elements: the expansion of its operating system for TVs, WebOS; integration with standards and platforms for home, cars, and intelligent health; and the unification of their HomeChat service with various appliances.

“As our phones, our cars, appliances and wearable are becoming smarter and have a growing need to connect (…) in LG are working to create the ecosystem and platforms more open about Internet of Things. Therefore we are adopting open standards to enable work and connect and share information with any device LG products regardless of brand, “said Ahn.

In a fenced future, a user who is connected to a wearable measuring her health and heart rate can also automatically adjust heating or light intensity of each of the rooms and areas home, according to the bodily conditions of its inhabitants.

However, beyond the futuristic setting of smart homes, the commitment to the field of Internet of Things allows South Korea compete in one of the markets fastest growing technology presented during the next 20 years.

LG is not the only one who craves a piece of that whopping, companies like Cisco, IBM and General Electric have said on several occasions that his future as an organization is not on the sale of software or hardware but in its ability to connect and concepts such as houses, cars or smart cities reality.

Cisco ensures that the market for connecting the incommunicable is hardly exploited. Currently there are 432.566 13.692 million things connected to the Internet, figure that 30 million new items are added every hour; however, all that mass of less than 4% of all devices in the world.



The curves are fashionable

LG also reaffirmed its commitment to devices with curved screens. During his presentation at CES company executives announced the expansion of its portfolio of OLED displays output curves and flexible new LG Flex 2.

The company said it has invested more than $ 600 million in the last year to expand its curved OLED panel factories around the world and hopes that by 2016 the demand for this type of televisions exceeded one million units.

During the presentation, the head of alliances streaming Netflix, Greg Peters, announced the departure of the program ‘Televisions Recommended’ company, which aims to act as a buying guide for the consumer, which contains a complete list of all models of televisions that offer the best experience for playing online video content in HD and 4K.

While the LG Flex 2 is the evolution of LG Flex. The new version has a curved Full HD screen 5.5 inches (similar to the iPhone 6 Plus); 810 Snapdragon processor with Octa-Core 64-bit and has the new version of Android Lollipop.

The Flex 2 integrates similar to other company equipment such as control notifications and unlock the computer through gestures or simple taps functions. It also integrates a battery of 3000mAh with turbo charging, which allows you to recharge your battery to 50% in less than 40 minutes.

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