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While there are all sorts of gesture controls for the touchscreen devices of today, how about a screen where you can actually pinch, pull and push? This is the question that was asked by Dhairya Dand and Rob Hemsley of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Using an elastic interactive display with depth cameras, the screen allows for a third axis of motion, which means you can actually push and pull on the display.

After months of foreshadowing, Celcom has finally come out with their 4G LTE coverage. Going under the name Celcom 4G LTE, Celcom will be offering a 4G LTE Modem with 3 months worth of Celcom First data plan for RM199. This deal will be available tomorrow (23 April 2013) at selected Blue Cube outlets (Blue Cube @ sunway, Blue Cube Pavilion, Blue Cube Menara Celcom) and is limited to the first 1000 customers though. Those customers after the first 1000 will probably have to pay the standard monthly payment of RM138 per month.

A while back, Apple patented a wraparound display for a smartphone which cropped up as rumours for the next Apple iPhone design. Well, we're not saying that this really will happen for the Apple iPhone 6, but someone went that extra mile to bring us some realistic renders of a wraparound Apple iPhone 6 concept.

According to this concept, this wraparound Apple iPhone 6 will have a resolution of 1615 x 1800 pixels, a Facetime HD front facing camera, NFC support and a Lightning connector. The video render also shows some possible gestures and other features with the wraparound phone.

While we've been hearing rumours about Pantech's bezel-less smartphone for quite some time, they've come out and announced it as the Pantech Vega Iron. While the key draw for the smartphone is that it has almost no bezels it also manages to pack some impressive tech specs which include:

• A 1.7GHz quad-core Krait 300 processor
• Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 chipset
• 2GB of RAM
• 32GB storage + 64GB MicroSD support
• 5-inch 720p display
• 13MP rear camera
• Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean
• 2150 mAh battery

Now that the HTC One has made a path for HTC, rumours have surfaced about a possible mid-range smartphone based on the HTC One called the HTC M4. The HTC M4 will supposedly have a metal-alloy chassis supplied by Catcher Technology. This may eliminate supply problems the company had with the HTC One. The HTC M4 also goes as the HTC 606w in China where it has been confirmed to exist via an approval from the Telecommunication Equipment Certification Centre in China with tech specs such as the following:

• Dual-core Krait 200 processor
• Snapdragon 400 Chipset
• 1GB RAM
• Adreno 305 graphics
• 4.3-inch 720p screen
• UltraPixel rear camera + 1.6MP front camera
• Android 4.1.2 + Sense 5
• 16GB of storage
• Supports Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0, GPS + GLONASS, dual SIM

Huawei represents the more well-known bunch of Chinese smartphone manufacturers and it stands to reason that eventually they'd come up with a design different from the normal run-of-the-mill plastic. Following in the footsteps of the HTC One and Nokia's Catwalk, Huawei is rumoured to have come out with the Huawei EDGE which features an awesome slim aluminum body.

Overall, it is good to see HTC on the up and up, as it gives them the time to come up with patents such as this dual-screen slider smartphone patent. Rather than have a side-sliding QWERTY keyboard, the patent shows a device where a second screen slides out to fit with the existing screen and form one unified display.

Some casing molds for the Apple iPad 5 have cropped up and look to confirm earlier rumours that the Apple iPad 5 will have a narrower, smaller bezel design much like the Apple iPad mini. due to the curvature of the casing mold it also confirms that the Apple iPad 5 will also be thinner and therefore probably lighter than previous iPad versions.

Nokia are looking to increase coverage of their Windows Phone 8 smartphones by also introducing Lumia Phablets or phone tablets. Building upon the 5.5-inch and above phablet form factor that Samsung has created, the Lumia phablet will supposedly have more advanced specs than Samsung's Galaxy Note (no news if this refers to the Note I or the Note II). One of these features may also include a HD display which Nokia was earlier rumoured to be developing for their smartphones.

If you've been following us, you'll know that Facebook has released Facebook Home, it's app launcher for Android smartphones. While the initial release was for the US market back on 12 April 2013, the app has finally made it's way to other markets, including Malaysia. All you need to do to get it is to go to the Google Play Store and download it. Do remember that you probably need to have the Facebook for Android app and Facebook Messenger app already installed.