The LG G Flex can be described as flexible flappy curvy smartphone that can be pressed gently by fingers to assume flat shape. It mostly designed in black color and its scratch healing effect automatically puts it ahead in the competition of the smartphone industry players.
To illustrate the magnificent and cutting edge technology of this phone let’s look at it features below.
Display: The LG Flex has a distinctive Curved P-OLED capacitive Multi-touchscreen of 16M colors, with a screen size of 720 x 1280 pixels, 6.0 inches and ppi pixel density of 245. The screen also has agro, accelerometer, compass and proximity sensors made up of a corning gorilla glass 2.
Design: The smartphone boost the android market by running Jelly bean android OS v4.2.2 with a Curved body dimension of 6.32 x 3.21 x 0.34 inches built in a Self-healing back panel coating and weighs 177g.
Hardwere:LG G Flex is arguably one of the smartphones with high performance speed due to its Quad-core 2.26 GHz Krait 400 CPU, 2 GB RAM, system chipset of Qualcomm MSM8974 Snapdragon 800 and Adreno 330 graphics processor and an inbuilt storage capacity of 32 GB.
Camera: The camera mirrors what most current smartphones in this league have in common i.e. 13 megapixel lenses, LED flash and auto focus capability, of interest would be the its ability to Simultaneously video and image recording, geo-tagging, face detection, HDR with an outstanding panoramic view.The video capture feature is enhanced by 1080p@60fps, HDR, stereo sound recorder and video stabilization.
Connectivity and Technology: LG G Flex can connect to any telecommunication network technology from 2G all the way to Long Term Evolution 4G networks. Functionally it supports GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900.HSDPA 850 / 1900 / 2100 – D950. LTE 800 / 1800 / 2600 – D958, It also supports data transmission using technologies such as GPRS and EDGE of class 12 with speeds of up to HSDPA, 42 Mbps; HSUPA, 21 Mbps; LTE, Cat4, 50 Mbps UL, 150 Mbps DL. Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, dual-band, Wi-Fi Direct, DLNA, Wi-Fi hotspot. Bluetooth v4.0 with A2DP, LE, and Yes, microUSB v3.0, USB On-the-go, USB Host. This phone is one of those smartphones that still support Infrared technology in addition to NFC technology.
Battery: Comes with a Non-removable Li-Po 3500 mAh battery with talk time of 15 hour and whooping 720 hours of stand-by time.
Multimedia: LG G Flex has a Google Music play, YouTube player, Google drive application. It also can play music and video formats in the range of MP4, MP3 and DMB TV tuner found in the Korean model. For messaging, it has threaded view SMS, MMS, IM, Email, Push Email. It comes with pre-installed HTML5 browser and Stereo FM radio with RDS.
Other Features: Some extra exiting features that come installed in the phone include but not limited to; Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic, SNS applications, Photo viewer/editor, Document viewer, Organizer, Voice memo/dial/commands and Predictive text input.
Pros: One of the smartphones that can be physically bent to assume curved or flat shape without breaking it externally or internally.
Cons: It has no microSD slot and therefore its internal memory cannot be expanded beyond 32 GB.
Verdict: It is my obvious considered view that LG G Flex is market leader in terms of designs as most competing manufacturers will be rushing to emulate it’s the flappy bend-straighten design.