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would you want a smartphone with a curved screen I'm Bridget Carey and this is your cnet update cNN has learned that LG is working on a smartphone with a curved 6 inch display LG did show off flexible screen technology earlier this year LG will likely call the phone the G flex but even though it's called the flex don't count on this phone being flexible that screen will be set in a fixed position here's a rough sketch seen it obtained so you can tell it would be a slight curve we're expecting LG to reveal this phone in November and this comes while there's buzz about Samsung working on its own curved smartphone that would also be unveiled soon but the curved screen trend doesn't stop at smartphones both Samsung and LG have been pushing curved OLED televisions in the u.s. costing nine thousand and ten thousand dollars respectively samsung homesync is going on sale sunday and this media center for the living room is sort of like an apple TV but it has one terabyte of internal storage for media and it's controlled by Samsung Galaxy smartphones and tablets the $300 glossy black box lets Galaxy users stream videos games music and other media from a phone or tablet to the television it works with Samsung link that's a program for sharing content between devices up to eight accounts can be synced to the box and it also works with several apps like YouTube in the Google Play Store and it has a web browser those that buy it can get fifty dollars of credit to spend on movies and TV shows from the samsung media hub also coming Sunday target will launch its own brand of prepaid mobile services called bright spot and it'll run on t-mobile's network walmart has also been selling its own prepaid plans under the brand straight talk as the competition heats up between music streaming services are do is trying to stay fresh by offering a new free feature called stations you can listen to music from 20 predefined stations built on songs from different musicians and you can also create your own stay just like Pandora and iTunes radio to learn more users are do won't play commercials like the other guys but if you want to pick the exact songs that you want to listen to it will cost you ten dollars a month this new feature is now on iOS and Android and also in music news there's a report from a gadget that Google's music app could be coming to iOS later this month the app google play music all access costs ten dollars a month and it's a way to listen to unlimited songs and create custom radio stations but the free version serves as a locker for your music that's your tech news update and you can get more details at cnet com / update and follow along on Twitter from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey