Gadgetory

well this is David at the verge and this is the luma GaN t2 luma GaN is a Danish company they've been around for about three years and they made a smart phone before but this is the first one that's actually gonna be coming to market it'll be out this time it runs Ice Cream Sandwich it has a 1.4 gigahertz Qualcomm processor and a 3.8 inch display but what's really interesting is what some someone looks baked into the software so there's this TV app at the bottom which lets you actually control every remote you already own there's two IR ports at the top of the device and just by pointing a remote at your phone and telling it what command you're pressing as you push a button you can train it to do all sorts of different things and you can have a bunch of different remotes that you want to use as you go you can set all kinds different stuff and control basically anything you can think of as long as it has an IR port there's also Bang and Olufsen support built-in so most universal remotes can't handle that company but they have a partnership which lets them both use Bang & Olufsen devices and they've actually improved the sound from the phone on external speakers or headphones and should make everything sound a little bit better but what's really cool about this phone is the design it's made of stainless steel and it's just really sleek Lee built it has a curved top up here and it just feels really good in the hand it's it's not too big and it's again with the 3.8 inch screen but it feels really good to hold it's got the two IR blasters up here one to receive signals from your remote and then to send them out to your TV it's also got an activity button which you can program to do all sorts different things within especially within the remote app so you can set it to turn all your devices on when you press it or off when you long press it and it's pretty great we saw a pre-production version of this and so some things are working a little funky but they promise everything will be working fine otherwise it's just a pretty basic Android phone it's really beautifully built it'll be out this summer for about 500 euros it's gonna start in the Nordic region of Europe but then will spread out over time and unfortunately the US is going to be one of the last markets and that is the luma gan t2