LG's G3 to Sport Quad HD Display with 534 PPI
LG's G2 was first announced in early August, 2013, so the company is busy working on the next generation of its flagship phone. LG has confirmed to Engadget that the G3 will feature a quad HD display with a resolution measuring 2560 x 1440 pixels.
LG's G2 was first announced in early August, 2013, so the company is busy working on the next generation of its flagship phone. LG has confirmed to Engadget that the G3 will feature a quad HD display with a resolution measuring 2560 x 1440 pixels. If rumors about a 5.5-inch panel are correct, that would equate to 534 ppi. To put that into perspective, Samsung's Galaxy S5 has 432 ppi, while the just-announced HTC One M8 features 441 ppi. The G3's display, if the reports are true, would match that of the Oppo Find 7, which also features a 5.5-inch display with a 534 PPI panel.
If this rings any bells it's because LG talked about a quad HD smartphone display back in August. The company claimed the world's first Quad HD AH-IPS LCD panel for smartphones with a resolution of 2560 x 1440 across 5.5 inches. The display in question is 1.21 mm thick with a 1.2 mm bezel. In comparison, the 5.2-inch panel on the G2 is 12 percent thicker.
There's little else in the way of information available when it comes to other specs, such as RAM, SoC, or processor. If we had to hazard a guess, we reckon the LG G3 will pack a Snapdragon 801 processor, just like the HTC One M8 and the Galaxy S5. LG will likely retain the same 2 GB of RAM that was present in the G2, though it's possible the company will bump it to 3 GB. That said, it's not like the G3 would need the extra RAM. What we'd like to see is maximum onboard storage increased from 32 GB to 64 GB. The G2 is only available in 16 GB or 32 GB flavors, and expandable storage is limited to 64 GB. At the very least, we'd like to see support for up to 128 GB via microSD. The battery in the G2 was 3000 mAh; we wouldn't be surprised if LG didn't improve on the actual size of the battery, choosing instead to focus on energy saving via software optimizations.
We imagine we'll see the G3 just ahead of the Galaxy Note 4, which is rumored for unveiling in early September. Watch this space!
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So tired of these new age words: "cloud" and "mobile" Can't wait for it to plateau.
That would have to be some miraculous energy saving optimizations, as the screen size increased and jumped in resolution, too. If it's to have the same battery life, I'd bet on a bigger battery.
So tired of these new age words: "cloud" and "mobile" Can't wait for it to plateau.
Sent from my LG G2
Meet the Lenovo P780 and Huawei Ascend Mate
Ohh, wait, 2010 was already the year Intel was taking the mobile market, then 2011, then 2012, then 2013, then 2014, but I guess we will need to wait to 2015
I really like what Nokia is doing with their phones. They have 4"-6" screens running 480p-720p (and one 1080p) and they look amazing, you barely see the difference in pixel density (unless you are looking for it - the only way you really notice is if you read a lot of small text).
Smartphone SoCs (you know, the ones with LTE/GSM/xG transceivers) just got announced recently at MWC 2014. Expecting Merrifield smartphones to immediately appear is all kinds of silly - they only have a reference phone (probably made by Asus) that is for testing only and won't make it to production and it is quite impressive performance-wise and mediocre manufacturing-wise.
Quote from January 11, 2010:
"Intel Moorestown platform to drive smartphones in 2010. Look for a boost in smartphone performance and capabilities as the Intel Moorestown platform starts to appear in devices this year. Intel says that the new mobile Internet device (MID) platform will be launching during the first half of 2010, and should begin appearing in consumer devices on the market as early as the third quarter."
Quote Jul. 2, 2010 "Intel’s Atom chips are finally ready for smartphones and we should see the fruits of Intel’s labor soon, just not this year. Instead, trade shows in early 2011 will set the stage for Intel smartphones."
Quote 11 January 2012: "CES 2012: Intel enters the lucrative smartphone market."
Quote 14 Jun 2013 "Intel smartphone trounces ARM in power trials. The Clover Trail+ platform is based on a 32nm Saltwell compute core. When 22nm parts based on Intel's upcoming – and more advanced – Silvermont Atom microarchitecture are slipped into the Merrifield smartphone platform later this year, Chipzilla's hand should be strengthened."
Quote January 30, 2014 "2014 an Important Year for Intel's Smartphone Plans. The company is expected to release its Android-compatible Merrifield-based dual-core Atom chip at Mobile World Congress 2014 next month. This 22 nm platform will also include NXP's PN547 NFC component and the XMM 7160 LTE component, allowing Intel to better compete with Qualcomm."
Intel clearly felt so strongly about "taking the market" that they used 3 years old manufacturing technology to make those SoCs (instead of the more advanced 22nm they had at that time). Sarcasm off.
Also, there are still new devices coming based on this platform - even in 2014. Like ASUS ZenFone and ASUS PadFone.
The on-device display, however, uses Display Serial Interface (DSI). A single-channel DSI display is only capable of 2K resolutions. S805, S808 and S810 use dual-channel DSI to allow on-device 4K resolutions (which is silly, but whatever).