Following what is most likely the biggest event in mobile industry, MWC 2015 which kicks off on March 2nd in Barcelona, LG has announced the global rollout of its second generation Flex phone. Although it was showcased at the Consumer Electornics Show 2015 in January, the LG Flex 2 was so far only available in South Korea. According to LG, this should change soon as major carriers the US, Hong Kong, Singapore, France, Germany and the UK will be among the first to offer the LG G Flex 2 while rest of the world, including key markets in North and South America, Europe and Asia will announce the start of sales in the weeks following MWC 2015, or simply sometime in March.
Based around a 5.5-inch 1080p curved OLED display with a 700mm radius curved profile, the LG G Flex 2 is powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon 810 SoC, with four Cortex-A53 cores clocked at 1.5GHz and four Cortex-A53 cores clocked at 2.0GHz, Adreno 430 GPU and 2GB of RAM.
The rest of the specs include 16GB or 32GB of built-in storage space expandable by a microSD card slot, 3000mAh battery, 13-megapixel rear and 2.1-megapixel front cameras as well as all the usual 802.11ac wireless, Bluetooth 4.1, NFC, an IR blaster, and micro USB 2.0 SlimPort connector.
The LG G Flex 2 was already up for pre-order in the UK earlier this week and it was also spotted listed in Europe for €599.