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Andrew Liszewski
Andrew Liszewski
LG upgraded its portable StanbyMe 2 TV with a larger 4K screen.

After debuting at CES 2025, the StanbyMe 2 launched last July with a 27-inch 1440p display (the original was only 1080p). Less than a year later LG is introducing a new 32-inch version with a resolution bump to 4K and a slightly longer 4.5 hour battery. It’s launching in South Korea for around $1,080 but US availability hasn’t been confirmed.

<em>The StanbyMe 2 has a removable wheeled stand for moving it around your home.</em>
<em>The TV’s stand can be swapped for a carrying strap, but hanging it above your bed’s headboard may not be the best idea.</em>
<em>You can wirelessly mirror your smartphone or tablet’s screen to the StanbyMe 2.</em>
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The StanbyMe 2 has a removable wheeled stand for moving it around your home.
Image: LG
Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Unrolling LG’s rollable phone.

JerryRigEverything tore down LG’s unreleased rollable smartphone, and seeing the insides of this phone and how it works is just awesome. The teardown proper starts at about 4 minutes and 20 seconds.

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
LG’s CLOiD robot rolls into CES.

The household robot made its debut at the company’s CES 2026 press conference, rolling onto the stage and giving a ponderous demo of putting a towel into a laundry machine.

The sizable wheeled robot used its articulating arms and huge hands to perform the action and talked to the audience about its technology and capabilities, using human-like hand gestures to emphasize its words.

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
Show me the robot.

I’m at LG’s CES press conference, awaiting a glimpse of CLOiD, its new household robot. Two words, LG: Live. Demo.

Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge
Emma Roth
Emma Roth
LG’s CES 2026 keynote kicks off at 11AM ET.

Will we get a closer look at its laundry-folding CLOiD robot? You can tune into the livestream below or directly on YouTube.

Dominic Preston
Dominic Preston
How do they keep getting away with this?

Longtime Verge readers will know: art TVs are not good TVs. But there’s a reason manufacturers keep making more of them.

Holmeser:

Manufacturers simply can’t resist the appeal of a low-quality LCD panel they can sell for the price of an OLED

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Dominic Preston
Dominic Preston
LG turns a profit despite TV trouble.

The company announced a third quarter profit of KRW 688.9 billion (around $480 million) despite losses of about half that from its TV division, which it hopes to fix through “advancements in advertising.”

It’s the rare company to call out US tariffs directly, though it doesn’t blame them for the TV shortfall.

John Higgins
John Higgins
LG is releasing a new 136-inch Micro LED TV that you’ll likely never be able to afford.

LG’s massive Magnit Active Micro LED TV will hit the South Korean market on October 21st with the North American market following later.

No pricing is listed, but considering a 118-inch model in 2023 was $237,000, we expect this new one to be as much as a small house.

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LG promo image for a Micro LED display showing a boy and a dragon on a large screen
Promotional image showing a luxurious living room with a massive wall-mounted Micro LED display
Simulated open living room with a massive wall mounted display
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Sean Hollister
Sean Hollister
Nvidia’s GeForce Now will natively stream 5K and 4K to LG OLED monitors and TVs.

Nvidia didn’t provide specific model names, but it’ll be a native app for monitors and TV with 5K120 and 4K120 HDR streaming. “No Android TV devices, no Chromecast, nothing, run it directly on the television,” says Nvidia product marketing director Andrew Fear. More on GeForce Now’s big upgrade:

Tom Warren
Tom Warren
LG Display has a 540Hz OLED panel with a 720Hz mode.

LG Display is showing off “the world’s fastest OLED monitor panel” at K-Display in Seoul this week. The 27-inch OLED panel has a 540Hz refresh rate at native 1440p resolution, and it can also deliver a 720Hz refresh rate in a 720p mode.

LG Display also has a 45-inch 5K2K OLED panel (5120 x 2160), which it says “boasts the world’s highest resolution among existing OLED monitor panels.” Hopefully, this means we’ll see a lot more OLED monitor options at CES early next year.

Correction, August 20th: LG Display now says the 720Hz mode is 720p, not 1080p. It previously asked us to correct our story to say it was 1080p, not 720p, but then asked for a second correction saying the opposite.

Jess Weatherbed
Jess Weatherbed
LG’s StanbyME 2 touchscreen is almost here.

After announcing the funky portable TV at CES in January, LG is now starting to roll it out in global stores. It’s already listed in Canada for CA$1,799 (about $1,169) and Singapore for SG$1,599.99 (about $1,248) with tax included in the prices, and will be available in the US and Vietnam this month, with prices to be determined. After that, the StanbyME 2 will arrive in the UK, Germany, France, and Spain in August.

Thomas Ricker
Thomas Ricker
Shape-shifting touchscreen buttons.

LG Display’s 100ppi automotive stretchable display can “turn every interior space into a display,” including the center fascia area where it can expand by up to 50 percent to transform into raised buttons and dials. “When the screen is touched, the previously flat display flexibly expands and protrudes touch buttons, making it easy to operate even while driving,” says the company. It doesn’t say how much it’ll cost to repair.

Dominic Preston
Dominic Preston
LG had a dream.

The company says it’s the first in the world ready to mass produce OLED panels with blue phosphorescence, a project 20 years in the making. It calls it “the final piece of the ‘dream OLED’ puzzle.”

Following reports it had developed the tech last year, LG now says it’s ready to manufacture tandem panels that use both fluorescence and phosphorescence, reducing power consumption by 15 percent, starting with smartphones and tablets.

Thomas Ricker
Thomas Ricker
LG’s wireless TVs get a price.

The company’s Zero Connect Box has trickled down from its 2023 flagship to the new QNED9MA TV. The Mini LED television is available in 65- ($1,799.99), 75- (2,299.99), and 86-inch ($3,499.99) models. That’s not cheap, but it’s 10x less than you would have paid to get that zero-latency wireless audio and video tech when first introduced .

Thomas Ricker
Thomas Ricker
LG might raise US prices and move production to offset Trump’s tariffs.

“We are optimizing our production locations and also considering price hikes,” said Lucky Goldstar’s senior vice president Kim I-kueon. South-Korea based LG might move the manufacturing of home appliances like washers and dryers to its factory in Tennessee, where it could cover nearly one-fifth of LG’s total home appliance sales in the US market.

Jess Weatherbed
Jess Weatherbed
LG’s OLED UltraGear GX9 series is now available.

There are three gaming monitors in the lineup, all with a curved 240Hz display and 21:9 aspect ratio, serving as an all-in-one entertainment center that combines LG’s webOS platform with easy access to streaming services. The main difference is size and price, with all three models available to buy on the LG website:

The LG UltraGear GX9 gaming monitor series positioned on a desk.
The 39-inch model was announced back in Deecember, but now we have additional sizes, pricing, and availability.
Image: LG
Thomas Ricker
Thomas Ricker
I won’t connect my dishwasher to your stupid cloud.

Excellent rant from Jeff Geerling about lazy — or worse, exploitative — home appliance companies that insist on cloud connections to enable basic features. And it’s only getting worse with initiatives like “Screens Everywhere” from companies like Samsung and LG.

This trend away from physical buttons introduces privacy and security concerns, the prospect of costly repairs, and the perfect foundation for advertisements and subscriptions — maybe not now, but certainly when profits are threatened by, oh, I don’t know... global trade wars.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
LG’s monitors will be Xboxes, too.

LG is expanding its Gaming Portal from smart TVs to “additional markets, platforms and devices — including LG Smart Monitors and StanbyME lifestyle screens,” according to a press release. The service will come to those new platforms “by the second quarter of this year.”

The Gaming Portal lets you access services like Nvidia’s GeForce Now, Amazon Luna, and, soon, Xbox Cloud Gaming.

Andrew Liszewski
Andrew Liszewski
LG is recalling about 500,000 stoves that caused more than 28 fires.

The front-mounted knobs on the recalled electric ranges can be accidentally activated, according to the CPSC. The affected models were sold at Best Buy, Costco, and other appliance stores over the past 10 years, and have been responsible for fires causing “extensive property damage,” minor injuries, and even pet deaths.

Instead of repairs, exchanges, or refunds, owners can contact LG for a free warning label reminding them to use lock out functions that disable the heating elements.

A close-up of the knob controls of an LEG Electric Double Oven Range included in a recent recall.
LG is recalling about 500,000 electric ranges that have been involved in reports of at least 86 accidental activations resulting in more than 28 fires.
Image: LG