LG is all set to unveil its latest flagship G4 next month, on April 28. The company has already sent out “save the date” press invites for the announcement of the device. The launch will be held in cities such as New York, London, and Paris on April 28, followed by Seoul, Singapore, and Istanbul on April 29.
The official invite sent by the company does not unleash much about the event and just states, “See the great, feel the great,” with the alphabet G in block, and same font as LG’s G flagship brand. Interestingly, LG had launched the G3 flagship in May last year in likewise back to back events around the world, the event on April 28 event might witness the unveiling of LG G3’s successor.
The invite features an image of a leather background, which indicates that upcoming flagship might sport a leather back case. We got to wait till April 28 to unravel what LG has in store for us.
Moreover in another scoop, LG’s forthcoming G4 flagship is rumored to be spotted in benchmark results. As displayed on GFXBench (via GSMArena), a smartphone named as LG G4 (F500x) has been listed with Android 5.1 Lollipop, a 5.5-inch QHD (1440x2560 pixels) display, 3GB of RAM. It has 32GB internal storage, a 16-megapixel rear camera, along with an 8-megapixel front camera.
The results shown in GFXBench states that the handset will be powered by a hexa-core 64-bit Snapdragon 808 SoC. The Snapdragon 808 SoC was announced last year along with the octa-core Snapdragon 810 SoC. In accordance with the previous year reports, the LG G4 is dubbed to be the first smartphone to feature LG’s latest User Interface, named as LG UX 4.0.
As suggested by a report earlier this month, the G4 launch was deliberately slated for April, in order to avoid an MWC clash with the Samsung Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge. The G4 is said to be ‘radically different’ from LG’s present flagship, G3.