LG Electronics Inc. says it will start selling its latest
curved smartphone in South Korea next week.
The Korean company said Thursday that the G
Flex2 will be launched locally on January 30 and overseas in the coming months.
LG has priced the G Flex2 at KRW
800,000 (roughly Rs. 45,400), in-line with the Amazon Germany listing last week at EUR 599 (approximately
Rs. 44,076).
The smartphone is LG's latest effort to
expand the use of curved screens as a way of differentiating its smartphones
from those of competitors.
When LG released its first version of a
curved smartphone in 2013, it was a niche product. The latest iteration shows LG is targeting a bigger market.
The LG G Flex2 is the first smartphone
powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 (a 64-bit octa-core SoC) processor. It is
coupled with the Adreno 430 GPU and 2GB of LPDDR4 RAM. The single-SIM
smartphone runs Android 5.0 Lollipop and features a 5.5-inch full-HD curved
P-OLED display with a 1080x1920 pixels resolution and a 403ppi pixel density.
The LG G Flex2's display has a 700mm-radius
curvature, while the back is slightly sharper with a 650mm-radius curvature for
grip.
The company at the CES 2015 launch also confirmed that it
improved the 'Self Healing' back from the original LG G Flex, and it will now
get healed within 10 seconds at room temperature - significantly lower than the
last-generation's three minutes.
The LG G Flex2 sports a rear 13.0-megapixel
camera with optical image stabilisation (OIS+), dual-LED two-tone flash, and
laser-guided autofocus just like the LG G3. It sports a 2.1-megapixel
front-facing camera. The G Flex2 will come in 16GB and 32GB storage variants that
are expandable via microSD card.
The device measures in at 149.1x75.3x7.1 -
9.4mm, and weighs 152 grams. The curved handset packs a curved embedded 3000mAh
non-removable battery, and will initially be available in two colours: Platinum
Silver and Flamenco Red.
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