4.7" LG Optimus G to Land Globally in Oct.-Nov.

From DailyTech: LG Electronics, Inc. (KSC:066570) recently watched fellow South Korean electronics giant Samsung Electronics Comp., Ltd. (KSC:005930) suffer a crushing defeat at the hands of Apple. But an opportunistic LG, whose smartphone division has been seriously improving of late, finally turning a profit, is looking to fill the void in the American market that mass bans of Samsung's lineup may bring.

LG today officially announced the Optimus G, a gorgeous 4.7-inch 1280x768 pixel display-equipped Android 4.0 "Ice Cream Sandwich" (with an 4.1 "Jelly Bean" update on the horizon) smartphone. The phone is powered by a quad-core 28 nm Snapdragon 4 from Qualcomm, Inc. (QCOM) (which ironically will likely be produced on Samsung's Texas chip line).

The phone also packs a healthy 2,100 mAh battery, a 13 megapixel camera, and 2 GB of DRAM. Visually the phone is striking with no face buttons -- which should be helpful in avoiding potential Apple design lawsuits.

The only disappointment is that only the Japanese will receive the special candy red and black variant; global markets will receive black and white unicolor varieties. The Japanese version will also include other perks -- waterproofing, infrared data transfer, osaifu-keitai mobile wallet, and OneSeg and Nottv mobile television services.

The new phone is equipped with LTE. It will launch in Sept. on all three major South Korean mobile carriers and in Japan in Oct.-Nov. on NTT Docomo, Inc.'s (TYO:9437) LTE network. A U.S. launch is expected, but the month and carrier availability are still up in the air at this point.

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