LG has announced that its next generation Optimus G phone will be powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon 800 CPU.
LG mentions that the device will offer great performance and "outstanding battery efficiency" with support for rich graphics. It will also have built-in LTE support and the Snapdragon 800 processor will allow LTE faster LTE speeds by maximising spectrum bandwidth to increase data speeds and reduce latency.
"With a powerful combination of LG's core smartphone technologies and the Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 processor, we are taking a significant step forward in the mobile experience," said Dr. Jong-seok Park, president and CEO of LG Electronics Mobile Communications Company. "The result of this collaboration will in many ways be the industry's best smartphone by which all other devices will be measured."
The company claims that the Snapdragon 800 processor will deliver 75 percent better performance than the Snapdragon S4 Pro processor that powers the LG Optimus G. The release mentions other features of the Snapdragon 800 processor including higher CPU speeds with quad-core Krait 400 CPUs, 4G LTE Advanced Carrier Aggregation, a new Adreno 330 GPU claiming to deliver more than two times better performance for applications over the current Adreno 320 GPU, and video capture, playback and display in Ultra HD format, claimed to have four times higher density than 1080p HD.
Earlier this month, a purported picture of the LG Optimus G2 had
appeared online featuring a part of the phone's screen.
From the past rumours, it is being touted that LG Optimus G2 will be LG's flagship offering for 2013. The announcement confirms rumours that pointed to the smartphone being powered by a Snapdragon 800 chipset with four Krait 400 cores along with Adreno 330 GPU. As far as the screen goes, LG Optimus G2 is speculated to have a 5-inch display with 1080p resolution. The smartphone is likely to have 2GB of RAM and run on Android 4.2.2 (Jelly Bean) along with a layer of Optimus UI.
As per the grapevine, LG Optimus G2 will have a slim body construction and have ultra-slim bezel. The smartphone is
expected to launch in Q3-2013.