LG's G6 will almost certainly be the flagship phone of this year's Mobile World Congress. The No. 3 US smartphone maker will be introducing its next flagship phone on February 26, ahead of its rival Samsung's Galaxy S8, and we're eager to see how it blazes its own path.
LG has been much more forthcoming than Samsung with advance details about its phone, including a teaser video and an event invite. Here are the most reliable rumors so far.
When Is the LG G6 Release Date?
The G6 will be announced at a press conference at noon Barcelona time on Sunday, February 26. As always happens, it'll take a few weeks to hit shelves.
What Are the LG G6's Price and Carriers?
We've heard nothing so far about how the LG G6 will be priced. LG's phones tend to be slightly less expensive than Samsung's: the LG G5 listed at $649.99 to the Galaxy S7's $760.
LG has an excellent track record for releasing its phones on all US carriers at the same time, and we anticipate that will happen with the G6. The company doesn't have a good track record for releasing unlocked, carrier-free phones in the US, though. There have been no unlocked versions of the G5, V20, or V10 released here, and we'd be surprised if the company changes its course with the G6.
What Are the LG G6's Key Features?
LG released a teaser video on YouTube describing its ideal smartphone, which pretty much everybody agrees is a description of upcoming G6 features.
The G6 teaser video promises:
- A bigger screen, but not a big phone
- Comfortable to hold and use
- One-handed usability
- Waterproof
- "Capture it all at once"
- Reliable
The biggest mystery, really, is what the heck "capture it all at once" means. The LG V20 has a wide-angle camera to go with its standard camera on the back, and that may be what LG is referring to here.
LG Display has talked about a panel with an "18:9 aspect ratio" and a 5.7-inch, 2,880-by-1,440 pixel LCD display with better outdoor viewability and lower power consumption than previous panels. Heat pipes inside the phone will prevent the battery from overheating, execs said.
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A waterproof design probably also means the G6 is doing away with the G5's modular strategy, focusing on "aesthetics and usability" instead, according to the Wall Street Journal.
We haven't heard much about the phone's other specs. The processor will hopefully be Qualcomm's new Snapdragon 835, but one Forbes contributor claims to have sources in Korea who say the phone will run a Snapdragon 821.
The Verge claims to have an image of what the phone looks like, and says that it will have a headphone jack and a fingerprint sensor on the rear. We're also pretty sure the G6 will run Android 7 Nougat, as LG's V20 already does. We'll learn more on February 26, and we'll update this story as we learn more, too.