It's curved! 3500mAh battery lasts a really long time. A dualwindow feature lets you run two apps sidebyside on that massive screen — drag and drop photos into text messages
For example. Well spec'd
Snapdragon 800 processor
2GB RAM
32GB
Curved display
Excellent performance
Good build quality
Curved display provides a better watching experience
Powerful processor providing a great performance
Back cover can heal itself from minor scratches
Knock On feature is helpful
Good camera with 4K recording cap
Large
Bright display
Unique formfactor
Beautiful
Innovative industrial design
Outstanding battery life
Responsive software
Powerful hardware
Solid audio quality
Phenomenal battery life
Top-notch performance
Flexible screen adds to the phone's durability
The editors didn't like
Very poor display quality
Hard to operate in one hand
Mediocre camera
It's big enough to bring back memories of the Zack Morris brick phone. The curves would be slightly more forgivable if the phone itself were smaller and less cumbersome. Six inches is just way too big for a phone. Additionally
As with the LG G2
The volu
Splotchy distortion with the display
Underwhelming still image capture quality
Expensive outright cost
Bloated with many AT&T branded apps
Splotchy look with the display
No headphones included with the packaging
Running Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean out of the box
With picture noise and shadow effects
No Full HD
Meager signal coverage
Storage not expandable
No scratch-proof panel glass
Self heal and flexing are gimmicks
Speaker gets slightly muffled easily
Screen disappoints
720p screen
Sunlight behaviour of screen
Blueish huse on pictures
No FM radio
Case creaks
Bloatware apps
Android 4.2 only
Big price
The impossible-to-reach rear buttons do not work on a device this big
The battery life is terrible considering the amount of juice available
All of LG's bundled software and skins are bad
The usual terrible plastic back—it deforms a little more than no
Without optical image stabilization
Its camera isn't as impressive as we've come to expect from flagship phones
While its unappealing POLED screen leaves us in a funk
Display imaging dull in spots
Images linger on display
No microSD
Handset slow to wake up from standby mode
The G Flex's massive size can be unwieldy
Its camera quality is mediocre
And its 720p display can't outpace its competitors
720p display resolution is relatively low for a 6"
Expensive smartphone
Poor speaker quality
Inconvenient rear key design
Lower resolution than other flagship phones
Pricey
Low screen resolution for price
Rear Key still problematic
Lackluster speaker
Poor audio
Unnatural Rear Key placement
Display not as sharp as other flagships
Not 1080p resolution
Lackluster speakers
Rear Key design not for everyone
Awkward rear-mounted buttons. Display is not full HD. Two iterations behind the latest Android version
Awkward rearmounted buttons. Display is not full HD. Two iterations behind the latest Android version
No microSD card slot
720p display rather than 1080p
Fixed battery
Not actually very curved or flexible
Six-inch screen lacks sharpness
Screen can be too big for some
It's obscenely huge. Please put it away before you frighten the children. The display isn't great
The screen is grainy with noticeable ghosting. Performance lags more than it should. The flash is terrible. Supposedly scratchresistant plastic back is not
Ugly
Overwrought Android skin
Bland design
Nothing takes advantage of the curves
Very expensive
Moderate screen resolution
No MicroSD slot for storage expansion
Curved shape could hinder portability
LG breaks new ground with the G Flex
A handset with a curved form factor and a backplate that can magically mend itself if it gets s
Boring interface with a lot of bloatware
No IOS for the camera
Display quality is unacceptable
Back panel can't recover from more intense damages and it is so easy to catch dirt
LG is trying to dominate the new niche of curved smartphone but it seems
Abstract: The G Flex is finally here in the US, a bendable and curved smartphone from LG, and it's about to launch on three of the four major carriers within the first few weeks of February.Today we're taking a look at the Sprint LG G Flex, but the device will also...
Before we got our hands on the LG G Flex we couldn't see the benefit of owning a phone with a curved display. However, during our brief time with the device on the CES show floor in Las Vegas, LG managed to convince us otherwise. Sure, there's still no...
Abstract: I just finished watching the Steve Jobs biopic movie starring Ashton Kutcher. Very emotionally brutal but incomplete coverage of his life story on how he believed in designing products that is cool at no expense on other people's opinions.What's that got...
Smartphones don't have to be flat. They don't have to be rigid either. At least that's what LG wants us to believe, and the G Flex is supposed to be the living proof of this radical concept. Along with Samsung's Galaxy Round, the LG G Flex is one of the ...
Abstract: On one side of the ring, we have the LG G Flex, a marvel of a device that showcases some new and innovative design qualities we haven’t seen commercialized on a large scale. Meanwhile there’s the Nokia Lumia 1520, the biggest and most high spec’d Windo...
Abstract: We recently had some good one-on-one time with both the LG G Flex and Samsung Galaxy Note 3, but there are still several other prized phablets in the space that needs to get a proper comparison against the intriguing curve designed smartphone. Next up ...
Abstract: Just when we were beginning to wonder there for a moment, out comes LG’s “phablet” for 2013 – the strange and unique looking LG G Flex. Naturally, it’s a peculiar thing out in the space right that’s hoping to be a viable competitor against the arguable...
The G Flex is an interesting smartphone science experiment, but it's also little more than that. It's mostly identical to the G2 in terms of software, which rather quickly made it less than easy to love for me.But it's the oddly underperforming display...
Published: 2013-12-10, Author: Ron , review by: arstechnica.com
LG is out taking risks and trying new things, KnockOn is still cool, but it's mandatory now that the buttons are so far out of reach, The color changing system bar looks great, when it works
The impossible-to-reach rear buttons do not work on a device this big, The battery life is terrible considering the amount of juice available, All of LG's bundled software and skins are bad, The usual terrible plastic back—it deforms a little more than no
Does the world need a curved phone? LG may be gung-ho about the potential of flexible displays in the future, but today the G Flex feels more like a gimmick in many ways – albeit a gimmick with no small degree of appeal – rather than a legitimate turn...
