LG G Curved Smart Phone

                           

 

                    LG’s curved smartphone -- G Flex -- is going international! The curved phone, earlier available only in South Korea, will soon start shipping to other countries.

LG has announced that the G Flex will be available for pre-orders in Singapore from December 8 and Hong Kong from December 13. It will hit other “key markets” of Asia by the end of the year.LG G Flex will be available in Europe early next year and hit the US market thereafter. It will reportedly be available with US telecom carriers AT&T, Sprint and T-MobileLG G Flex has a 6-inch flexible OLED screen that is curved along the horizontal axis. Though the screen is flexible by itself, the glass casing does not allow it to be bent at will. However, the phone still bends if sufficient pressure is applied on it as the glass film is thin enough to be bent slightly. The G Flex’s curved screen provides the same viewing experience from 1 feet away that a 55-inch HDTV does from 10 feet, LG claims.

Though LG G Flex missed the bus in claiming the title of world’s first curved screen phone, it still has a feature that no other gadget offers. LG has used a self-healing technology on the phone’s back, which allows it to heal small scruffs and scratches on the rear panel within 5 minutes.

This self-healing is due to a molecular substructure coating on top of the phone’s back panel and depends a lot on the room temperature; hotter the room, faster the healing. However, deep cuts that pierce through the coating will not be healed.

 

Key specs of LG G Flex include a 720 display, 2.2GHz quad-core Snapdragon 800 processor, 2GB RAM, 32GB internal storage and 3,500mAh battery. Just like LG G2, the new G Flex has the power key and volume buttons on the back, positioned below a 13MP camera with LED flash.