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there's a brand new cutting-edge smartphone from LG and it has freaking laser beams I'm Bridget Carey and this is your C net update when it comes to the top-of-the-line smartphones Apple and Samsung hog the spotlight it's just hard for other phones to get consumers attention and part of that is because Samsung just spends more money on marketing but LG hopes new tricks will help its phone stand out the LG g3 is packed with unique features and some of them sound like they belong in a James Bond movie there's a laser guided camera the 13 megapixel camera is paired with something called laser autofocus which uses a laser beam to measure the distance between the camera and your subject so we can focus quickly even in low-light there's also a secret knock that you can program to unlock the phone with a pattern of taps activating the kill switch yeah that disables your phone remotely if you lose it but if someone's borrowing your phone you can hide certain files from being seen even when it's connected to a computer now it will be hard though to lose this phone because it has a massive 5.5 inch high-resolution screen and it'll give your fingers a little bit of a stretch but at least you can adjust the height of the on-screen keyboard now if you need to be discreet there is this quick circle case cover and let you use the phone without opening the cover flap from the circle you can do things like take a photo play music or handle phone calls and like every good spy it has a helpful assistant although it's not as chattiest Siri or as inventive askew the LG smart notice will offer suggestions throughout the day so if the weather is bad it'll remind you to take an umbrella it's packed with power there's a large removable battery and a quad-core processor plus you can get more storage with a micro SD card slot which was not in the g2 it goes on sale in South Korea Wednesday and then it will be sold in more countries the UK and the US will get it sometime in July but for some reason LG is keeping the price top secret meanwhile over at the World Wide Web there has been another hack yeah this time it's Spotify the music streaming service warned it's 40 million users that there has been unauthorized access to its systems but you don't need to change your password because it seems only one unlucky person had their account hacked but do keep watch for an update to the Android app it should make it more secure that's your tech news update you can find more details on the g3 and the Spotify hack as cnet.com from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey