Recently we have seen LG and Samsung launching the flip phones in South Korea. Now, LG has finally announced one for the international markets. The ‘LG Gentle‘ which was launched in its home country last month is now rebranded as ‘LG Wine Smart’ for the International markets. Last year LG announced a flip phone called as Wine Smart in South Korea, but annoyingly the same name is used for their latest flip phone in international markets.
Chris Yie, vice president and head of marketing communications LG Mobile Communications, said, “Our goal with LG Wine Smart was to create a smartphone that fans of flip phones could embrace. Consumers shouldn’t have to miss out on the smartphone revolution because they prefer a particular phone design over another.”
If you think these latest flip phones are short to be called as smartphones, then you are wrong since they pack some decent specs and packs latest connectivity features. It runs on Android 5.1.1 Lollipop based LG’s own UI. The LG Wine Smart sports a 3.2-inch HVGAdisplay with a resolution of 480 x 320 pixels and powered by Snapdragon 210 quad-core processor clocked at 1.1GHz.
It has 1GB of RAM, 4GB of Internal storage with microSD card slot and a battery of 1,700mAh capacity. Alongside the touch screen, the device also features numeric keypad with four hotkeys. There is a 3MP rear camera and a 0.3MP front camera.
Connectivity on this device includes 4G LTE, Wi-Fi, GPS/A-GPS, Bluetooth 4.1 and microUSB 2.0. The device measures 117.7 x 58.7 x 16.6 mm and weighs 143 grams. The pricing of the device wasn’t announced, but we expect it to be priced below $200 as the same device is selling at $170 in South Korea.
It comes available in the colors – Burgundy and Navy. According to LG, the device will be on sale starting this month and the first countries to get the phone are UK, France, Spain, Italy, Poland, Kazakhstan, and Japan. As of now, there is no information about the launch in other countries.
Source: LG
