[Launched] LG Reveals New Mid-Range Smartphones

By Kamal Nayan - 23 Feb '15 13:36PM

LG has revealed four new mid-range products ahead of the Mobile World Congress. The devices - four-inches (Joy), to 4.5-inches (Leon), 4.7-inches (Spirit), and five-inches (Magna). Each is available in 3G and LTE flavors - are powered by a 1.2GHz chip (3G models) or 1.3GHz quad-core chip (4G versions) and run Android 5.0 Lollipop out of the box.

The main difference boils down to each one's camera and battery capacity. The LG Magna, Spirit and Leon each offers an eight-megapixel rear camera, which drops to five-megapixels on the 3G model. The Magna packs the highest quality front-facing camera (five-megapixels), followed by the Spirit (one-megapixel) and Leon (VGA camera), TechCrunch noted.

There's not any information about the price of these phone but it will be significantly cheaper than Apple's iPhone and other flagships.

The new LG phones are expected to hit market selected" countries from this week.

"For millions of consumers around the world, the deciding factor on which smartphone to buy isn't how fast or how big it is but how balanced it is. With our new mid-range smartphones, more and more customers will be looking to LG for their next handsets," commented Juno Cho, head of LG Mobile, in a statement.