LG G Flex self healing curved screen mobile phone

LG officially took the wraps off the G Flex smartphone with curved display in Korea. The Android handset will hit all three major carriers in its homeland next month, where it will square off against the Samsung Galaxy Round.

Weighing in at 177g with a 6-inch (but 720p) curved OLED display, it's powered by a Snapdragon 800 processor and 2GB of RAM, with a 13-megapixel camera housed above the two rear control buttons, which is now LG's thing. In comparison to Samsung's Galaxy Round, the screen on the G Flex arcs from top to bottom, not side-to-side, which at least makes a little more sense to us, hopefully fitting in better to the curvature of the users' face.

Like LG's recent G2, there's high-fidelity audio recording and playback, dual-window app functionality and tap-to-wake on that substantial touchscreen. There's also special animations, depending on where and how you unlock the phone. The Korean press release is also reporting that there's a self-healing coating that can repair hairline scratches on the rear of the phone.

The measures of the LG G Flex are 160.5 x 81.6 x 7.9/8.7mm (the thickness of the phone depends on the point of its curve). The handset is powered by a 3,500mAh battery which was recently under the spotlight in its own right.

Key Specifications :

• Chipset: 2.26 GHz Quad-Core Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ 800 (MSM 8974) GPU: Adreno 330, 450MHz
• Display: 6-inch HD (1280 x 720), Curved P-OLED (Real RGB)
• Memory: 2GB LP DDR3 RAM / 32GB eMMc
• Camera: Rear 13.0MP / Front 2.1MP
• Battery: 3,500mAh (embedded)
• Operating System: Android Jelly Bean 4.2.2
• Size: 160.5 x 81.6 x 7.9 - 8.7mm
• Weight: 177g
• Network: LTE-A / LTE / HSPA+ / GSM
• Connectivity: BT 4.0 / USB 3.0 compatible / WiFi (802.11 a/b/g/n/ac) / NFC
• Color: Titan Silver
• Other: TDMB / Hi-Fi 24bit, 192kHz Playback