The bendable LG G Flex, one of the the world’s first curved and flexible phones, is finally traveling abroad from its home country in Korea and is scheduled to pop up in two more Asian countries.
Singapore will have first stab at the phone with a pre-order date of December 8th, and the general public in Hong Kong will be able to pick it up on December 13th, just in time for the winter holidays. No price has been set yet.
LG also announced that following these releases, it will have more information for “key markets in Asia” that will be available “before the end of the year.”
LG hasn’t set a time frame for an American release, but running on the positive momentum it picked up with the LG G2, is would seem fit that LG would want to beat Samsung to the punch on the flexible phone market. Rumor has it the G Flex is headed to AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile, though we haven’t heard anything official yet. The race is still on.
Features and specs of LG GFlex smartphone:
- 6 inch HD Real RGB curved plastic OLED Display (1280x720 pixels)
- 2.26 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 QuadCore Processor
- 2GB LP DDR3 RAM
- 6 Inch HD Curved P-OLED Display
- 13MP Camera With LED Flash
- 2.1 MP Front Facing Camera
- 32GB On-Board Storage
- 3500 MAh Battery
According to CNET, December 8 is the starting date for the preorder placements for the curved smart phone. LG added that it will be made for sale in HK by December 13 in various mobile carrier offices and other leading gadget retailers. The company did not confirm yet which countries will be next in the list of its release but most likely it's Europe which will be the next target.
In an Arstechnica article, the senior PR Manager of LG, Chaz Abbott mentioned that the smart phone first went for sale in Korea this week with a price of $940. But the PR manager still did not mention any news on when the curved phone will arrive in North America but just promised that it would be "soon."
The LG G Glex is a unique smart phone due to its bent 6-inch curved OLED with 720p spec. Tech Radarwrote that it can be viewed as a banana phone at first glance. But the main highlight of it is its rear part coating that can get patched up when it encounters scratches. It is one self healing feature that no other smart phone of today has featured. It is also made up of premium parts that include the Snapdragon 800 processor with a 13MP camera and a 2GB RAM.
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