LG X Screen smartphone to launch in India on July 18
LG is all set to launch its X Screen series smartphone in India. The company has sent out media invites for an event scheduled for July 18, where it will unveil the handset. The South Korean giant announced the new mid-range X series of ‘specialists’ smartphones at the Mobile World Congress 2016 in February this year. In the same month, the company also launched the X Screen smartphone in its home country Korea. LG has claimed that every smartphone in the series will boasts of a special feature. And as the name suggest, LG X screen seems to have screen as its ‘special’ feature. LG X Screen boasts of dual-display. The handset has a 4.93-inch primary display and a secondary ‘Always-on’ screen measuring 1.76-inch, similar to the one in LG’s V10. The second screen can be used to access frequently-used apps, answer calls without interrupting the current activity, check time, date, battery status and other notifications without turning on the smartphone. LG X Screen is powered by a 1.2GHz quad-core processor coupled with 2GB RAM, has 16GB in-built storage, houses a 2,300mAh battery and sports 13MP rear and 8MP front cameras. The smartphone measures 142.6 x 71.8 x 7.1mm and will be available in Black, White and Pink Gold colour options. The handset runs Android 6.0 Marshmallow operating system out-of-the-box. Recently, LG launched the Stylus Plus 2 smartphone in India priced at Rs 24,450. The handset sports a 5.7-inch Full HD IPS Quantum display with 1080×1920 pixels resolution. It is powered by a 1.4GHz octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 430 processor along with Adreno 505 GPU, 3GB of RAM and 16GB of internal storage which can be further expanded up to 200GB via microSD card. LG Stylus 2 Plus comes with a stylus pen with nano-coated tip for more accuracy compared to the previous rubber-tipped pen on LG Stylus. The Pen Pop features toggles, a pop-up menu when the stylus is removed to offer shortcuts to Pop Memo and Pop Scanner. The device comes with a Pen Keeper to prevent the stylus from being misplaced by displaying a pop-up message when the phone is detected as being in motion when the stylus bay is empty.