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the next new feature in smartphones is the ability to teeter-totter on a table I'm Bridget Carey this is your cnet up thing the time has come we finally have a curved smartphone Samsung announced the galaxy round and as you can see here it has a slight dip in the middle along the vertical axis and the left and right sides curve upward the curve allows the phone to show off new tricks if you put it on a table and press down on the side it can rock back and forth on the curve and you can give it different commands to open different apps depending on how you roll it so a tap and roll let you quickly check the time a missed call or maybe even toggle back and forth between songs let's break down the spec shall we they're pretty solid it has a 5.7 inch 1080p high def screen it runs Android 4.3 it has three gigs of ram and a two point three gigahertz quad-core processor its first launching in South Korea but we don't know when it's landing to other countries if you're rolling your eyes at the rolling phone just be aware that this isn't the only curved foam coming this year the G flex by LG will likely be the next phone that rocks on a table and LG said it's working on making batteries that also come with a curve we may get some new iPads this month we've been expecting Apple to have some sort of iPad announcement in two weeks likely on october twenty second and you can bet Apple will also use the event to show off the new Mac Pro loaded with OS 10 Mavericks so far a few leaks suggest the next full-size iPads will have more angled edges and a thinner design kind of like the mini and the mini may get a Retina display screen and come in new colors to match the iphone 5s if you have comcast xfinity cable service you'll soon be able to use the Twitter app to watch TV a new feature called see it is launching in november through a partnership between twitter NBC Universal and Comcast some tweets will have this see it button that will command the set-top box to turn the channel on set the DVR or play an on-demand show see it will first only work with NBCUniversal channels but it could expand to other networks the flickr app on iOS is now a tool for automatically saving all your photos online for those that upgraded to iOS 7 the new flickr app takes all the photos in the camera roll and uploads them to a flickr account but the photos are stored privately until the owner decides to share them it's cool but not unique Google+ can also auto upload photos that's your tech news update but you can get more details at cnet com / update and follow along on Twitter from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey