American consumers still holding out for the QHD LG G3 may have their patience rewarded with a beefed-up G3 Prime before the end of the summer.
The LG G3 is yet to make an officially appearance here in the US, but rumor has it a successor to the QHD beast may already be in the pipeline. Questions were asked from the onset as to why the lucrative American market missed out on the G3 – it turns out the answer could come in the form of the LG G3 Prime.
You would have thought that LG and its loyal legions would have been happy enough with its latest flagship. With a QHD ultra-HD touchscreen and more power than God under the hood, there wasn’t really a great deal more we could have asked for. Nevertheless, we keep catching sight of a device going by the name of the LG F460L, which according to those with an eye for such things is in fact a beefed-up version of the G3…as device we’ve come to know as the LG G3 Prime.
How has the South Korean tech firm improved on its recipe? Well, if the newest accounts are anything to go by they’ve upped the Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 CPU to an 805, a Qualcomm MDM9635 modem may have also made it into the mix and RAM has been increased to 3GB from the prior 2GB.
The most important feature of all – as in its 2,560 by 1,440 QHD touchscreen – remains the same as that on the bog-standard G3. Storage options and the digital camera to the rear are also unlikely to change.
Generally speaking, the above rundown of hardware is pretty much identical to that expected to make the mix for the Samsung Galaxy F and the HTC One Prime – both of which are due to launch before the end of the summer. Whichever turns out to be the first of the three to touch down in the US is guaranteed to scoop up biblical early sales by well and truly kick-starting the QHD Smartphone race on this side of the pond.