LG’s largest Android smartphone gets bigger, and smarter
LG already introduced the new G Pro 2 over in Korea, and they’re showing it off to the rest of the world here at Mobile World Congress for the first time. If you’re thinking it looks a little familar, you’d be right. Gone is the physical home button of its predecessor and in are the rear mounted power and volume controls of the G2. It’s actually pretty handsome. And quite large.
A quick specs recap first, then. The G Pro 2 houses a 5.9-inch 1080p IPS display, with a 2.26GHz Snapdragon 800 and 3GB of RAM underneath. You get either 16 or 32GB of onboard storage with a microSD card slot and a 13MP camera round the back with OIS. Software-wise we’re looking at Android 4.4.2 KitKat and LG’s own brand of customizations.
While LG’s manage to keep the overall look and feel of the original G Pro, this one’s definitely in the extra-large department. There’s just no disguising 5.9 inches, small bezels or not. If you absolutely have to one-hand the G Pro 2, you can fire up Mini View, which shrinks things down into a windowed display. But that doesn’t change the fact that you’re manhandling a massive phone.
And Knock On — where you tap the screen twice to wake the phone — has gotten even better with Knock Code, which lets you set one of 80,000 some-odd combinations of knocking patterns, so you now have convience as well as security. Love this feature.
But enough words, you want to see it, right? Head on past the break for a hands-on look at the new LG G Pro 2.
