 "LG announces the curved-screen G Flex")
After multiple leaks, LG reportedly announced its curved-screen smartphone, the G Flex, before taking the announcement offline for unknown reasons. The company spoke about the phone’s curved features as well as its self-repairing ones at length.
According to the press release, the phone will feature a 6-inch 720p curved OLED display. The phone weighs is at 177g and is between 7.9mm and 8.7mm thick at various points. Unlike Samsung’s Galaxy Round phone that is vertical oriented, this phone is curved along a horizontal axis. The LG G Flex will be powered by a 2.2GHz quad-core Snapdragon 800 processor. The phone will pack 2GB of RAM and a 3,500 mAh battery.
Premature announcement?
The G Flex will also be home to a 13-megapixel primary camera and will come with Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean out of the box. The feature-rich phone will consist of a “dual window” mode which will allow the screen to help you multitask better, a “swing-lock screen” that will keep changing the device’s wallpaper according to how the phone is held in the users’ hands. It will also let users unlock using multiple effects, in relation to the position of the users’ fingers.
The most intriguing feature spoken about the G Flex by LG is its “self healing” one. Quite like Wolverine in X-Men, says LG, the phone can heal itself against minor scratches and bumps. The phone uses a special protective film on the back cover that will see hairline scratches disappearing “within minutes”.
While the press release said that South Korean markets will have this phone next month, international markets will have to wait a while longer to get their hands on it. It must be noted that LG has taken the press release about the LG G Flex down for unknown reasons, but not before people managed to report about the specifications. However, it only looks like a matter of time before LG announces the phone – this time a bit more confidently – again.
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