Under the hood of LG’s new LG G2 smartphone, announced just today, comes no less than a 3,000mAh “Stepped Battery.” When LG decided to create a hero phone in the LG G2, they didn’t take Motorola’s approach with the Moto X, they went straight for the gullet with a specifications war. One of the places […]
The LG G2, the company’s latest Android smartphone, is here, and we’ve been spending some hands-on time with the 5.2-inch flagship to see how it shapes up in a crowded market. LG has dipped into all of its different divisions – displays, batteries, and more – to cherry-pick their best technologies, pairing them with Qualcomm’s […]
It seems that LG has a trio of devices that will be making its way towards T-Mobile, and they are the recently announced flagship, the LG G2 (as seen above), the LG Optimus F6 and the LG Optimus F3. This would mean the LTE device lineup has just been bumped up, and according to a certain Jason Young, vice president of product marketing, T-Mobile, “Customers are going to love the uniqueness that each LG LTE device offers – the G2 is innovative with its ergonomic and intuitive rear key design; the Optimus F6 is stylish, fast and full-featured; and the Optimus F3 is our most affordable LTE Android-powered smartphone. Coupled with T-Mobile’s unlimited data, low-up-front costs and speedy nationwide network, any one of these smartphones is going to be a great option for our customers.”
It was announced at the end of last month that the Optimus F3 would arrive on T-Mobile, and today’s announcement is a reiteration of what was mentioned then, and I guess the main “star” of the attraction would be the spanking new LG G2, which has seen the Optimus moniker dropped and yet maintaining its position as the flagship device from South Korean consumer electronics giant LG.
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With the delivery of the LG G2 comes expectations for greatness – and with all modern smartphones, this means a great camera experience. Here with the LG G2 the user will be working with a 13-megapixel camera on its back, this working with the ability to capture Full-HD 60fps video and photos with optical image […]
Ah, the long awaited LG G2 has finally hit the market after being announced at Lincoln Center in New York, marking a global announcement for the new flagship device. The LG G2 intends to approach smartphone design slightly differently, by being ensuring that all of the buttons are located on the rear of the device, which would mean this is the first smartphone in the market to lack any side buttons at all. The idea for a Rear Key concept arrived after LG noticed that users found it more difficult to access the side keys properly the larger a handset is.
By ensuring that the main buttons are behind the smartphone, it offers users more control, as that is where one’s index fingers would be located naturally. Not only that, launching QuickMemo and the camera can be done in a jiffy this time around, and should the LG G2 happen to be lying on a surface face up, you need not lift the handset up to access the power button, since tapping twice on the display as part of the KnockON feature will power on the LG G2.
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The LG G2 is being delivered to the public this week at an event where LG has, first and foremost, made it clear that they’re no to be beaten in the display department. With the LG G2, the user will be working with a 5.2-inch display working with “True FHD”. What LG means when they […]
This week the LG G2 was revealed by the company as a flagship smartphone “Learning from You” – so how does that translate to these new back-facing hardware buttons? What you’ve got here is a smartphone with a 5.2-inch display, one that takes up nearly 80% of the front of the device. There’s no room […]
This week the LG G2 has been introduced by LG, aimed at carriers around the world and “all four major carriers in the US”. This means that LG will be releasing the smartphone to Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile USA. It’ll be doing this as the first worldwide-launching smartphone to carry the Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 […]
Today LG makes the LG G2 official, showing this next-generation device to be coming with what looks to be the closest-to-borderless display up front that a smartphone has ever been delivered with. This smartphone is made to be thin: so thin that the power and volume buttons traditionally situated around its edges have been pushed […]
After months of leaks and rumors, it’s finally time for us to take a look at the real LG G2. The successor to last year’s Optimus G was just officially announced and, as you have come to expect from the usual flagships, it’s loaded with plenty of specs and clever features, not to mention some interesting new smartphone design approaches. The new device, which runs Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean, comes with a larger display than its predecessor, packing a 5.2-inch 1080p IPS panel. It also offers a 2.26GHz quad-core Snapdragon 800 SoC. Additionally, you can expect to find a 13-megapixel camera with optical image stabilization (as well as a 2.1MP front-facing cam), 24 bit/192kHz HiFi playback, a non-removable 3,000mAh battery, 2GB of RAM and your choice of 16GB or 32GB internal storage. It’ll come in white and black, and LG tells us that the G2 will be rolling out to markets around the world over the next eight weeks, and we have confirmation that all four major US carriers have committed to adding the device to their lineup.
What about those unique design traits? As you may have already seen in the leaked images (or if you happened to look at the press image above), the backside of the phone is much busier than on most other handsets. LG opted to put the volume rocker and power button just below the rear camera rather than the edge of the phone. The idea for this, we’re told, is to make the handheld experience a little less awkward on such a large phone. Since the device is wider than smartphones of olden times, LG wanted to put more controls in a place that your fingers naturally rest. LG is also boasting thinner bezels — 0.1-inch thick, to be precise — thanks to a new dual-routing method in which the touch sensor uses two connectors.
On the software side, LG has done more than just throw in a few ringtones from the Vienna Boys’ Choir. It offers features like AnswerMe, which answers incoming calls when you put the phone up to your ear, and Slide Aside, which lets you do a three-finger gesture to “slide” open apps off the screen for multitasking. Text Link is another interesting idea, where the phone takes relevant text and inserts embeddable links to them in other apps — of course, this is similar to what we’ve seen on iOS previously. There’s also Guest Mode, which allows another user to access the phone (LG refers to this as a type of Kid Mode) by drawing a different gesture on the lock screen. We lay out the software in more detail here, so check it out for more info. If you’re interested in the full spec sheet and how it compares to other flagships, we’ve got that here. We also have our hands-on here for more impressions of the device, as well as a press release and gallery below.
Gallery: LG G2 announced
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