LG G4 with 5.5 inch Quad HD display and Snapdragon 808 processor announced

After several leaks and teasers, LG has finally officially announced the flagship LG G4 at launch events held in New York, London, Paris, Singapore, Istanbul and Seoul.

LG has announced the launch of the LG G4, which is the company’s flagship of 2015. The handset continues the design language of the LG G3 with rear-mounted volume rockers and power button but with slight tweaks in the design which is said to improve the handling and rigidity by 20 percent. While we expected to see a metal body on the flagship, the company decided to continue with the polycarbonate body.

The LG G4 flaunts a 5.5 inch Quantum LCD display with Corning Gorilla Glass 4 protection and resolution of 2560 x 1440 pixels. The company has managed to maintain a 74.3 percent screen to body ratio with pixel density of 534 ppi. The display is said to be 25 percent brighter, 50 percent higher in contrast and produce 20 percent wider colour reproduction than the previous flagship.

The LG G4 is powered by hexa core Snapdragon 808 processor clocked at 1.8 GHz with 3 GB of RAM and 32 GB of internal storage. The device also has the Adreno 418 GPU. The memory can be further expanded to 128 GB using microSD cards.

The LG G4 has a massive 16 MP rear facing auto focus camera with a wide f/1.8 aperture, OIS 2.0 and dual colour LED flash. There is also a front facing 8 MP camera with an ultra-thin IR filter. The device runs on the latest Android Lollipop version with a decent 3000 mAh battery. The handset is available in Ceramic back with Metallic Gray, Ceramic White, Shiny Gold colour options and genuine leather with Black, Brown, Red, Sky Blue, Beige and yellow colour options.

LG G4 specs:

• 5.5 inch display
• 2560 x 1440 pixels resolution
• 1.8 GHz hexa core Qualcomm Snapdragon 808 processor
• Adreno 418 GPU
• 3 GB RAM
• 32 GB internal memory
• 16 MP primary camera
• 8 MP front facing camera
• Android v5.1 Lollipop
• 3000 mAh battery