On April 28th LG finally announced LG G4 Day in London long-awaited new flagship smartphone.
The phone itself debut's the latest iteration of the company's LG UX 4.0, which includes smart power management features, boasts one of the few hex-core processors on the market; the Qualcomm Snapdragon 808 and rocks a 16-megapixel rear camera with an F1.8 aperture lens and improved optical image stabilisation.
Here’s how the hardware shapes up.
| DIMENSIONS | 148.9 x 76.1 x 9.8 mm |
|---|---|
| WEIGHT | 155 grams |
| OS | Android 5.1 Lollipop w/ LG UX 4.0 |
| SCREEN SIZE | 5.5-inches IPS Quantum LCD |
| SCREEN RESOLUTION | Quad HD (2560x1440) |
| PROCESSOR | 1.8GHz hexa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 808 w/ Adreno 418 GPU |
| MEMORY | 3GB DDR3 RAM |
| STORAGE | 32GB w/ microSD expansibility up to 128GB |
| CAMERAS | 16-megapixel w/ laser auto focus+OIS (rear), 8-megapixel (front) |
| EXTRAS | Genuine leather-backed 'arc' design, Gesture interval shot, eight colours |
Stay tuned for a full hands-on of the LG G4 later today. The new LG G4 is closely related to the LG G Flex2 - to the extent we're not quite sure which one is the flagship. We see again a curved body design, though the curvature is much more subtle. The screen size is the same, but the G4 comes with a higher resolution. The camera on the G4 is better too, but then the Snapdragon 808 chipset is a step down.
This leaves it a bit unclear as to which device is the flagship, though the LG G4 certainly has the more recognizable brand name thanks to the success of its predecessor. The LG G4 will come with a plastic back cover with a "hammered pattern," but the eye-catching optional leather backs are LG's big design play.
They are made of vegetable tanned genuine leather and feature decorative stitching uses Gütterman thread, a high-end product from Germany used in leather clothes and shoes. The second focus was the display - LG kept the size and resolution the same as on the G3 - 5.5" QHD - but switched to a quantum dot LCD matrix, promising accurate colors with 98% coverage of the RGB spectrum.
The one point where LG got defensive was the chipset. The company claims it worked with Qualcomm to customize the Snapdragon 808 specifically for the G4 and LG claims its faster than the Exynos 7420. It didn't back that up with benchmarks though and we doubt any amount of customizations can make up for the two missing Cortex-A57 cores.
