LG’s forthcoming flagship, the 5.5 inch Optimus G Pro, has been confirmed for the U.S.
market. Writing in a release on its website (translated from Korean by Google
Translate), LG said the device will be released in international markets
including North America and Japan in the second quarter of this year. Pricing
has not been confirmed.
Phones that
are large enough to act as small tablets — hence the phone+tablet ‘phablet’
portmanteau — were popularised by Samsung’s original Galaxy Note — and
now its successor, the Note II. Back in November Samsung announced it had pushed past five million channel sales of the Note II in
around two months since the device went on sale. Analyst iSuppli is predicting phones with screens of more
than five inches will more than double their share of the smartphone market
this year, with 60.4 million units forecast to ship in 2013 as big phones carve
out a larger niche.
On paper, the
LG Optimus G Pro is a specs-busting affair — packing in a full 1920 x 1080 HD
display, with screen resolution equating to 400ppi. Under the hood the 4G
phablet is powered by a quad-core 1.7GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 processor,
which LG claims offers improved performance — including lower power consumption
— than Qualcomm’s S4 chip. It runs Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, skinned with an
updated version of LG’s UI.
On the back
there’s a 13 megapixel camera, while the front facing lens is 2.1 megapixels.
The removable battery is a whopping 3,140mAh. There’s also NFC on board. Device
thickness is 9.4mm.
The
forthcoming phablet will make its debut in LG’s domestic market later
this month, and will doubtless also be on show at the Mobile World Congress
tradeshow next week — so stay tuned for hands-on. [TechCrunch]
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