LG unveils the Optimus G Android smartphone with a 4.7 inch display and quad-core CPU

Just days ahead of the annual IFA show in Berlin, LG announced its new flagship model. The LG Optimus G is a 4.7 Android ICS smartphone and the first commercial available device powered by the new Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro quad-core processor. A handful of devices running the S4 processors are available in the market, but the Optimus G is the first with four cores, hence the Pro name. The 1.5 GHz Krait CPU are companioned by the next generation Adreno 320 GPU.

The advantage of being such a large company as LG is with in-house R&D of display technology and battery is that LG handsets will get all these new innovations first. The Optimus G has a 2100 mAh battery which are claimed to extend the battery lifespan to 800 cycles compared to conventional Li-Ion batteries of 500 charging cycles. The LG Optimus G also has a 4.7 inch True HD IPS+ with sRGB colour accuracy. LG Display has developed the G2 Touch Hybrid Display which is thinner than current available touch screen panels. The display resolution is 768 x 1280 pixels large with a 15:9 aspect ration. The only smartphone we know of having more pixels is the 5.3 inch Galaxy Note from Samsung with a 800 x 1280 pixels resolution.

LG Optimus G will be the first mobile phone to offer a 13 megapixels camera. Some of you might know that the camera beast Nokia 808 Pureview is capable of capture up to 38 megapixels photos and the HTC Titan IIwith a 16 megapixels camera.

LG Optimus G highlights

• Size: 131.9 x 68.9 x 8.45 mm
• Weight: 145 gram
• Networks: 2G/3G/4G LTE
• 4.7 inch touch display with a HD 768 x 1280 pixels resolution, 320 PPI, 15:9 aspect ration
• 13 megapixel camera, 1080p video capture
• 1.3 megapixel front camera
• Wi-Fi
• USB 2
• Bluetooth 4.0
• aGPS
• DLNA
• NFC
• MHL
• 1.5 GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro CPU
• GPU: Adreno 320
• 2 GB RAM
• 32 GB Storage
• 2100 mAh battery
• Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich