Hasta La Gadget!

With flagships from HTC and Samsung out of the way we now looks towards LG. The company has been relatively quiet during the first few months of 2014. So far it hasn’t said much about its next flagship which will presumably be called the LG G3. Last week we exclusively reported that it is going to have a 2K display, LG later confirmed the report. It is now being said that the next flagship will be launched “in a golden hue” this summer. A purported picture of its retail packaging has also appeared online.

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With HTC and Samsung already having released their 2014 flagships, all eyes are now on LG to make its move. Latest rumors suggest that the LG G3 might be released in July, but the company hasn’t officially confirmed anything as yet. Today press shots of a mysterious high-end LG smartphone appeared online, presumably it is the Japanese market variant of LG’s 2014 flagship.

The press shots were leaked online by infamous Twitter leaker @evleaks, who has been right about these things at numerous occasions in the past. As per the tweet accompanying press shots, this smartphone is called the LG isai and it is destined for KDDI in Japan. Apart from the moniker and carrier, nothing else has been revealed about the LG isai just yet. It is not known what this smartphone is packing under the hood.

Impressively the LG isai has ultra slim bezels, presumably to better accommodate the 5.5 inch 2K display. We exclusively reported earlier this week that LG’s next flagship is going to have a 2K display. Plus the fact that it has a volume rocker on the back, underneath the camera, makes it easier for us to believe that this is indeed a high-end LG smartphone.

Though we must be cautious with presumptions at this point since LG hasn’t confirmed anything as yet. For all we know this might be a smartphone that’s only destined for the Japanese market, and that it may bear no resemblance to the much awaited LG G3. We’ll keep our eyes peeled for more information.

LG G3 Japanese Market Variant Presumably Leaked Online , original content from Ubergizmo, Filed in Cellphones, LG, LG G3,

We’re not yet in that crazy pre-launch rumor phase with the upcoming LG G3 phone, but things may start to heat up now: we have obtained a photo from a source that has proven reliable in the past, and we are 99.99% sure that this is indeed a photo of the LG G2 successor.

Given that the GPU is a Qualcomm Adreno 330, I would assume that the main processor aka SoC is the Snapdragon 801 since there’s no reason to use a Snapdragon 800 at this point in time. They are both pin-compatible and the 801 is designed to be a drop-in replacement.

The most interesting information that Snapdragon 801 is giving us is the timeframe. Because Snapdragon 805 should be available for Q3/Q4 handsets, the G3 should come out before Sep/Oct. The June 2014 G3 launch rumor seems believable.

Note: Antutu is apparently not displaying the proper DPI information. A previous version of this post referenced 640 dpi, but it wouldn’t quite match a 5.2″ – 5.5″ display, which is the most probable size for the G3.

The most pertinent information here is the 2560×1440 screen, which is totally insane by today’s smartphone standards. We have reached out to LG, and they have confirmed that their next product will indeed have a 2560×1440 display (2K). However, that’s all the information that the company is willing to comment about at this point.

If you thought that the 6.1″ 2560×1600, 498DPI IGZO display from Sharp was impressive, LG is productizing this first, which is not a complete surprise since LG showed a prototype to the world last year.

The bezel seems a hair thicker than it is on the LG G2, but without a complete picture and the actual screen size (which is possibly between 5.2” and 5.5”), it’s difficult to reach any conclusion.

Previous rumors called the LG G3 LS990 and did mention the 2560×1440 resolution along with the Snapdragon 801 chip, both of which would be confirmed by this photo, and that seems to put the Mediatek octo-core rumor at odds. Since LG and Qualcomm have been working very closely, and since LG seems to put most of its software efforts in improving the apps, I doubt that the Mediatek rumor is true – we’ll see.

The internal storage of 32GB would make sense, but isn’t confirmed yet. The LG user interface is also said to have been modified in favor of a “flat” design, but this photo doesn’t help us confirm that either. If you are curious, the LG G3 interface is supposed to look like this.

LG G3 Photo Confirms 2560×1440 Resolution [Exclusive] , original content from Ubergizmo, Filed in Breaking, Cellphones, LG, LG G3,

With the LG G2 being something of a hit back in 2013, we can only imagine that LG would want a repeat show with the LG G3. Only rumors are available at the moment regarding the handset, although a recently leaked screenshot shows off LG’s new design language for the UI. Now thanks to a User Agent Profile sighting, additional details about the LG G3 have been revealed.

However we should note that in no way does the User Agent Profile mention the LG G3. Instead it refers to it by its model number which is the LS990. With the LG G2’s model number being the LS980, we can only assume that the LG G3, its successor, is the LS990. That being said we reckon our readers should take it with a grain of salt for now.

Now whether or not the LS990 is the LG G3, the specs do point to a pretty powerful and high-end device. For starters the screen resolution of the handset has been revealed to be 2560×1440, putting it at the same level as the Oppo Find 7 and the Vivo Xplay 3S. No mention of the screen size though, but with the LG G2 packing a 5.2-inch display, we can expect LG to at the very least maintain that size.

Additional details revealed 3GB of RAM and oddly enough, a Qualcomm chipset of the MSM8974AA variety, which is actually the Snapdragon 800. It’s an odd choice given that handsets these days are packing at the very least the Snapdragon 801. Perhaps it’s merely a placeholder so we’ll try not to get worried just yet. The camera of the handset has also been revealed to be of the 13MP and 2.1MP variety, and will come with 32GB of storage, and will run on Android 4.4 KitKat.

Like we said there’s no way to confirm if the LG LS990 is the LG G3 and if the specs are real at all, so take it with a grain of salt, but in the meantime what do you guys think?

Alleged LG G3 Specs Revealed In User Agent Profile [Rumor] , original content from Ubergizmo, Filed in Cellphones, Rumors, LG, LG G3,

It was sometime in late March that the LG G Pad 8.3 began to be on the receiving end of the Android 4.4 KitKat update, although that particular roll out happened to remain within the confines of South Korea only. Fast forward to today, and here we are with word that LG G Pad 8.3 owners who happen to live in the US as well as in Europe will be able to grab this update via an Over The Air (OTA) update, which would mean dancing to the Settings > About and ‘Check for updates’ tune all over again, if it has not received the update already, that is.

For folks over in the US, it does seem that one will need to rely on LG’s desktop software in order to pick up this particular update. Doing so is not too difficult at all – all that you need to do is to locate LG’s support website, download the company’s desktop PC software, before you make use of that to perform the Android 4.4 KitKat download before transferring it over to your tablet. Sure, it is a whole lot less convenient, but at least you will have your LG G Pad 8.3’s update future fall directly into you hands.

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