LG G4 Price, Specs, Pros and Cons: New Smartphone Has Advanced Camera and Leather Back
The LG G4 was announced Tuesday and many of the specifications that tech websites guessed would make it to the smartphone turned out to be correct.
The LG G4 has a 5.5-inch 2560 x 1440 pixel display. That means that the G4 will have a quad-HD display. The new screen is brighter and has more accurate colors than the G3; it is also 11 percent more power efficient, LG says.
LG altered the shape of the G4 ever so slightly, by adding a slight curve to it. The company claims that with the curve it has a 20 percent less chance of breaking on impact than the G3, which is fully flat, The Verge reports.
LG also made a classy upgrade to the back of the phone, adding a leather back. LG says that it takes about three months for them to make each leather back. These leather backs are available in a variety of colors and are a definite upgrade from the all-plastic, glossy LG phones of the past.
The new camera in the G4 is a new 16-megapixel sensor with a brighter f/1.8 lens. More accurate colors and better white balance for difficult lighting conditions will be offered with the new camera. The camera app has also been improved to allow much more manual control over photos. Users will be able to adjust shutter speed, white balance, ISO and RAW image capture.
The G4 offers a Qualcomm Snapdragon 808 processor and has 3 GB of RAM. The internal storage starts out at 32 GB, but thanks to a microSD card, storage can be expanded to 128 GB.
Android phones and iPhones do not offer removable batteries, but the LG G4 is proud to say that it does offer a removable battery. The battery is a 3,000 mAh battery that provides up to 10 hours of 3G talk time, according to GSM Arena.
The G4 will come installed with Android 5.1 Lollipop right out of the box. LG has removed most of the annoying extras and additional apps and that annoyed users in the past. Purchasers of the G4 will be offered 100 GB of free Google Drive storage space for two years.
The G4 was announced Tuesday, but will not be available until the early Summer. South Korea will see the device on shelves Wednesday.
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