LG launched World’s first curved phone that sports a "self-healing" back, which protects the Mobile phone from scratches. This new phone boasts of an ergonomically designed curved display, which ensures enhanced visibility from different viewing angles and also makes it easy to hold. Priced at Rs. 69999 in India , this new Smartphone from LG is loaded with features along with amazing power backup. Here is a detailed review of different features and functionalities of the new LG G Flex.
Design and Display
The LG G Flex comes in a curved crescent moon-shaped body, which distinguishes it from all other Smartphone available in the market. The curved design of the phone is intended to provide utmost comfort to users while holding it as well as during calls. This curvaceous design helps in enhancing the audio quality by diminishing the gap between the speaker and the mouth-piece. The phone is equipped with an intuitive rear key, which facilitates smooth navigation, making it easy and convenient for users to make use of shortcuts and control volume. This phone boasts of self healing back cover, made of polymer, which shields the phone from scratches and keeps it clean. The buttons are conveniently placed. The call and noise cancellation buttons are placed on the top and bottom of the phone, while the microUSB socket is neatly placed on the bottom near the headphone jack. There is a microSIM slot, which is placed on the left edge. This is a next generation Smartphone that comes with a unique design and provide
comfort of using.
Coming to the display of the new LG G Flex, this phone features a 6 inch large curved POLED Touchscreen Capacitive display with a maximum screen resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels that has a pixel density of 245 PPI. The backlit POLED display of this phone ensures clear viewing of images and the innovative curve of the display allows enhanced visibility from various angles, ensuring panoramic viewing experience. Owing to the 6 inch large display, this phone falls under the category of Phablets. The G Flex, in comparison to other phones of the same category, displays colors that seem more true to life. Its display is among the brightest at 467 lux, which has surpassed the 323 lux Smartphone category, which is an average display lux found in most of the Smartphone.
Processor, Operating System and Storage
The LG G Flex is powered by the fastest quad-core processor (QUALCOMM® SNAPDRAGON™ 800) that has a clock rate of 2.26 GHz. Accompanied by Adreno 330, this phone ensures high-quality performance without any lag time along with high-quality graphics. Coupled with 2 GB RAM, this phone facilitates smooth functioning of applications and enables multitasking. The phone runs on Android Jellybean (4.2.2) which is good but seeing the other aspects, the new Android KitKat would have been a better platform for this phone. The UI used in this phone is LG’s Optimus 3.0 UI, which is user-friendly and makes it easy to operate. This phone comes with 32 GB internal memory on board, of which 22.83GB accessible. A major demerit of this phone from LG is that the internal memory cannot be expanded as there is no memory card slot on the phone.
Camera
The G Felx sports a 13 MP AF BIS camera with LED flash on the rear. The image sensor of this camera supports different ISO sensitivity i.e. Auto, 800, 400, 200, 100 and the lens of the camera supports digital zoom of up to 8x, which allows capturing of images even from a distance with clarity. Further, the camera boasts of different shooting modes like Normal, HDR, Panorama, Continuous shot, VR Panorama, Burst Shot, Beauty Shot, Dual Camera, Shot and clear and Intelligent Shot. One of the major highlight of the camera is the cheese shutter. It also comes with features like Geotagging, which allows user to add date and place to the clicked pictures. Besides this, for video calling, this Smartphone sports a 2.1MP full HD front camera. Bluetooth, E-mail, Gmail, Google+, Memo, Messaging, Picasa and SmartShare can be used for sharing the images captured. Besides capturing still images, both the cameras support full HD video recording and playback and also allow users to add live effects to the videos such as Silly faces (Big mouth, Big eyes, Small mouth, Big nose, Small eyes, Squeeze) and Backgrounds (Disco, In space, Sunset, My videos).
Multimedia
The G Felx from LG comes with an array of multimedia features. It allows user to send text messages, multimedia messages and emails. Gtalk, Messanger, Document Viewer, Social Networking sites, etc. comes pre-loaded on this phone, making it easier for users to socialize and keep in touch with friends, clients and family. Further, the phone supports different audio formats like MP3/ WMA/AAC/AAC+/WAV/AC3/AAC-LC, AMR-NB, WMA and WAV. This is a feature rich phone that makes listening to music a great experience.
Connectivity and Battery
For connectivity there are a number of options offered by this new Smartphone. The phone features a 3.5 mm headphone jack, which allows connecting compatible headphones and earphones. Infrared, Wi-Fi, Browser, Bluetooth, A-GPS, USB, Wi-Fi Direct, DLNA, HDMI, Modem function, On Screen Phone, Video Streaming, NFC, Miracast and PC Sync Application are some of the connectivity options available on this Smartphone. Further, this phone boasts of sensors like Proximity, Ambient Light, Accelerometer, Digital Compass and Gyroscope. This new Smartphone from LG supports Quad Band (850/900/1800/1900) GSM, Tri Band (850/900/2100) UTMS, GPRS (Class 12), EDGE (Class 12) and 3G HSDPA 42Mbps networks. However, one thing that is phone lacks on is that it does not support 4G network, which is a new concept available for accessing Internet through mobile networks at an impressively faster speed. Coming to the battery, this phone is equipped with a 3500mAh Li-polymer battery, which is quite powerful and offers a good battery backup.
Verdict
The new generation, World’s first curved mobile phone G Flex by LG is loaded with features. Besides the above mentioned features, the phone is bundled with a countless other features that is sure to enhance the experience of users, making it truly a next generation Smartphone. Despite the fact that there are a few flaws like Android Jeally Bean 4.2 is used as the operating system and instead the new Android KitKat should have been used to give a better user interface as well as a boost to the performance and another flaw is that there is no memory card slot and hence the onboard memory of 32 GB of which just 22.8 GB can be used, with this phone LG has made a good come back in the Smartphone market. According to me, although the price tag is a bit high, seeing the features, functionalities and of all its design; the phone sits perfect on the list of high-end mobile phones.
Design and Display
The LG G Flex comes in a curved crescent moon-shaped body, which distinguishes it from all other Smartphone available in the market. The curved design of the phone is intended to provide utmost comfort to users while holding it as well as during calls. This curvaceous design helps in enhancing the audio quality by diminishing the gap between the speaker and the mouth-piece. The phone is equipped with an intuitive rear key, which facilitates smooth navigation, making it easy and convenient for users to make use of shortcuts and control volume. This phone boasts of self healing back cover, made of polymer, which shields the phone from scratches and keeps it clean. The buttons are conveniently placed. The call and noise cancellation buttons are placed on the top and bottom of the phone, while the microUSB socket is neatly placed on the bottom near the headphone jack. There is a microSIM slot, which is placed on the left edge. This is a next generation Smartphone that comes with a unique design and provide
comfort of using.
Coming to the display of the new LG G Flex, this phone features a 6 inch large curved POLED Touchscreen Capacitive display with a maximum screen resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels that has a pixel density of 245 PPI. The backlit POLED display of this phone ensures clear viewing of images and the innovative curve of the display allows enhanced visibility from various angles, ensuring panoramic viewing experience. Owing to the 6 inch large display, this phone falls under the category of Phablets. The G Flex, in comparison to other phones of the same category, displays colors that seem more true to life. Its display is among the brightest at 467 lux, which has surpassed the 323 lux Smartphone category, which is an average display lux found in most of the Smartphone.
Processor, Operating System and Storage
The LG G Flex is powered by the fastest quad-core processor (QUALCOMM® SNAPDRAGON™ 800) that has a clock rate of 2.26 GHz. Accompanied by Adreno 330, this phone ensures high-quality performance without any lag time along with high-quality graphics. Coupled with 2 GB RAM, this phone facilitates smooth functioning of applications and enables multitasking. The phone runs on Android Jellybean (4.2.2) which is good but seeing the other aspects, the new Android KitKat would have been a better platform for this phone. The UI used in this phone is LG’s Optimus 3.0 UI, which is user-friendly and makes it easy to operate. This phone comes with 32 GB internal memory on board, of which 22.83GB accessible. A major demerit of this phone from LG is that the internal memory cannot be expanded as there is no memory card slot on the phone.
Camera
The G Felx sports a 13 MP AF BIS camera with LED flash on the rear. The image sensor of this camera supports different ISO sensitivity i.e. Auto, 800, 400, 200, 100 and the lens of the camera supports digital zoom of up to 8x, which allows capturing of images even from a distance with clarity. Further, the camera boasts of different shooting modes like Normal, HDR, Panorama, Continuous shot, VR Panorama, Burst Shot, Beauty Shot, Dual Camera, Shot and clear and Intelligent Shot. One of the major highlight of the camera is the cheese shutter. It also comes with features like Geotagging, which allows user to add date and place to the clicked pictures. Besides this, for video calling, this Smartphone sports a 2.1MP full HD front camera. Bluetooth, E-mail, Gmail, Google+, Memo, Messaging, Picasa and SmartShare can be used for sharing the images captured. Besides capturing still images, both the cameras support full HD video recording and playback and also allow users to add live effects to the videos such as Silly faces (Big mouth, Big eyes, Small mouth, Big nose, Small eyes, Squeeze) and Backgrounds (Disco, In space, Sunset, My videos).
Multimedia
The G Felx from LG comes with an array of multimedia features. It allows user to send text messages, multimedia messages and emails. Gtalk, Messanger, Document Viewer, Social Networking sites, etc. comes pre-loaded on this phone, making it easier for users to socialize and keep in touch with friends, clients and family. Further, the phone supports different audio formats like MP3/ WMA/AAC/AAC+/WAV/AC3/AAC-LC, AMR-NB, WMA and WAV. This is a feature rich phone that makes listening to music a great experience.
Connectivity and Battery
For connectivity there are a number of options offered by this new Smartphone. The phone features a 3.5 mm headphone jack, which allows connecting compatible headphones and earphones. Infrared, Wi-Fi, Browser, Bluetooth, A-GPS, USB, Wi-Fi Direct, DLNA, HDMI, Modem function, On Screen Phone, Video Streaming, NFC, Miracast and PC Sync Application are some of the connectivity options available on this Smartphone. Further, this phone boasts of sensors like Proximity, Ambient Light, Accelerometer, Digital Compass and Gyroscope. This new Smartphone from LG supports Quad Band (850/900/1800/1900) GSM, Tri Band (850/900/2100) UTMS, GPRS (Class 12), EDGE (Class 12) and 3G HSDPA 42Mbps networks. However, one thing that is phone lacks on is that it does not support 4G network, which is a new concept available for accessing Internet through mobile networks at an impressively faster speed. Coming to the battery, this phone is equipped with a 3500mAh Li-polymer battery, which is quite powerful and offers a good battery backup.
Verdict
The new generation, World’s first curved mobile phone G Flex by LG is loaded with features. Besides the above mentioned features, the phone is bundled with a countless other features that is sure to enhance the experience of users, making it truly a next generation Smartphone. Despite the fact that there are a few flaws like Android Jeally Bean 4.2 is used as the operating system and instead the new Android KitKat should have been used to give a better user interface as well as a boost to the performance and another flaw is that there is no memory card slot and hence the onboard memory of 32 GB of which just 22.8 GB can be used, with this phone LG has made a good come back in the Smartphone market. According to me, although the price tag is a bit high, seeing the features, functionalities and of all its design; the phone sits perfect on the list of high-end mobile phones.
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