New LG Smartphone

LG came out with a new smartphone recently and it has several great things about it and some not so great. The most curious thing about the G2 is the placement of its power and volume buttons on the phone’s rear panel, rather than the sides. This allows for a narrower bezel (the area between the screen and the edges of the phone), but LG says it also lines up with where people’s fingers rest naturally. To wake the phone without reaching behind for the power button, you can simply tap the screen twice. The G2 continues LG’s tradition of packing lots of raw power into its flagship phones, with a 2.26 GHz quad-core processor, 2 GB of RAM, a 13-megapixel rear camera, a 2.1-megapixel front camera, and a whopping 3,000 mAh battery. LG’s also throwing in an infrared blaster for controlling your home TV and stereo, similar to the ones found on the Samsung Galaxy S4 and HTC One. Even though the mobile application development is right on the money, keep in mind that there’s no microSD card slot–just 16 GB or 32 GB of built-in storage–and the battery is non-removable. Mainly, it’s just a big, powerful, plastic phone with a huge battery to match.