LG G5 Release Date, Specs and Features: Android Phone will likely support around 200 carriers globally
LG, the Korean electronics manufacturer came out with a new phone for 2016, the G5. Announced in February at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona 2016, its release date is now confirmed.
The 5.3-inch android smartphone with a quad-HD display comes with corning gorilla glass type 4 scratch-proof. It'll be running the latest version of Android's marshmallow v6.0.1 out of the box powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon 820 Octa-core chipset. With a gigantic additional storage space of up to 200GB along with an internal 32GB memory with 4GB of memory will also be powered by a fingerprint sensor at the rear of the phone.
It will be officially on sale tomorrow March 31 in its home country of South Korea followed by the United states the next day. American cellular network provider AT&T has already listed the phone on pre-orders with them even beginning to ship them. The move is likely followed by Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile soon. According to a statement from LG, the phone will likely support around 200 carriers globally with availability in reaching Europe Asia and the Middle East soon. Canadians however need to wait since there is no news on that right now. But it seems that the United Kingdom is seeing their launch on April 08. LG are bundling the Cam Plus grip for pre-orders in Germany.
The grip alone is supposedly costing about 100euros along with the price-tag of 700euros for the smartphone itself. The grip contains a 1,200 mah battery along with hardware controls like shutter, video recorder keys and a zoom dial too. T-Mobile have begun accepting pre-orders for the LG G5.
T-Mobile have bundled a free LG360 cam valued at approximately around 200 US$ as well as the Cam Plus grip. All these freebies are valid until April 05.
The G5 is a modular smartphone with powerful add-ons. The main cons of the device however is that there is no waterproofing yet and no wireless charging and of course no video recording at 1080p 60fps considering it's 2016 right now and Latin Americans get the Snapdragon 652 variant and not the 820 chipset.
