LG launches 6-incher curved smartphone LG G Flex in India

New Delhi: LG Electrnoics has launched its uniquely designed flagship smartphone, the LG G Flex, with curved display in India. This smartphone will be available in India from February, 2014 and it is likely to be priced around Rs. 63,900.G Flex has a big 6-inch display that curves from the top to bottom, offering a better video viewing experience. As compared to Samsung's Galaxy Round curved smartphones, which is curved from side to side, the G Flex is curved from top-to bottom, and LG calls it vertically curved. The smartphone sports a 6-inch HD (1280 x 720) display, and is powered by a 2.26GHz Snapdragon 800 processor, an Adreno 330 GPU, and 2GB of RAM and 32GB of internal memory. LG says the display found in the G Flex is the world's largest Plastic OLED (POLED) display developed and mass produced specifically for the smartphone. The phone gets is unique shape and durability due to the fact that the flexible POLED display and curved OLED panel are built on plastic substrates instead of glass. The LG G Flex comes with a 13-megapixel rear camera, and a 2.1-megapixel front camera. The G Flex weighs just 177 grams, and runs on Android Jelly Bean 4.2.2 OS.The phone gets its juice from a 3,500mAh battery which the company claims is enough power for more than a full day of use.Interestingly, LG G Flex also features the Rear Key first introduced in the LG G2 smartphone. The button placement gives the user convenience of using index finger to adjust the volume when conversing is maintained.The company claims that the G Flex is the first smartphone which comes with “Self Healing” coating on the back cover. The elastic coating has the ability to recover from the daily wear-and-tear scratches and nicks that un-cased smartphones are likely to receive.Key specs: LG G Flex- Chipset: 2.26 GHz Quad-Core Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 (MSM 8974)- 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- Connectivity: BT 4.0 / USB 3.0 compatible / WiFi (802.11 a/b/g/n/ac) / NFC- Colour: Titan Silver