LG B images leak; thinner than iPhone 4, stunning display

Pictured above sandwiched between an iPhone 4 and a Samsung Galaxy S is the previously unseen “LG B.” While details surrounding the “B” are scarce for the time being, the information we can glean from these photos is intriguing, to say the least. First and foremost, this phone is thin. Very thin. In fact, it appears to be significantly thinner than the iPhone 4 — the device Apple constantly touts as being the thinnest smartphone in the world. Moving right along, this Android-powered beauty has a 4-inch display that looks amazingly bright. It’s so bright it makes Apple’s Retina Display and even the Super-AMOLED display on Samsung’s Galaxy S look old and dated. Thinner than an iPhone 4… brighter than a Galaxy S… consider our interest piqued. There’s no word yet on a potential release date or even a launch name for this beauty, but hit the jump for some more shots.

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Tags: Android, Android 2.3, b, Gingerbread, google, LCD, LG, Super AMOLED

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Anonymous

who has the ruler, whip em out boys…

http://twitter.com/apdcgt greentea

thats what apple said…
Anonymous

Women!

Dan

may want to up the brightness on the iphone past the 1/4 mark

Anonymous

I agree. My 3GS is a LOT brighter at 2/3 brightness than the photo above of the iP4.

Anonymous

Probably on auto bright. And cool how they lay the B on the table next to the other one. But they don’t show it next to the iPhone. iPhone is still better. Nothing touches the screen as far as pixel density

Tomm

How will LG stack up to HTC, Samsung, and Motorola in terms of updates?
Anonymous

I’m never going to buy a phone that doesn’t have Samsung’s sweet sweet Gorilla glass.

6 months in the pocket with keys = 0 scratces
at least one fall a week from fumbling and clumsy man (mostly onto concrete) = 0 breakages

Being all smug when yet another smartphone owner complains about scratching/breaking their screen = priceless

Anonymous

You are of course aware that most high-end phones, including the iPhone 4 have gorilla glass touchscreens, right?

Pp Junkmail

i dont believe incredible does.

Anonymous

Newsflash: Gorilla Glass isn’t “Samsung’s.” It’s Corning’s. And there are other phones that use Gorilla Glass. The DROID for example. And…the iPhone.

You may want to save the smugness until after you know what you’re talking about. ;)

(P.S. Gorilla Glass *will* break. I wouldn’t drop your Samsung phone too often if I were you.)
Norm

willemrt,

you fucking amateur
Ken

Where this statement is a little bit mis-guided, I 100% agree with how awesome Gorilla Glass is. My iP4 looks just like the day I bought it half a year ago. And thank you Apple for putting it on both the front and back!

Anonymous

Also, there is something just not right with the LG font, it looks washed out (faded?) compared to the iP4, which is easier to read in the photo above.

The LG font looks like a copier that needs a new toner cartridge.

Anonymous

Exactly. Brightness != to contrast ratio. The AMOLED still looks like the clearer display with the whites not washing out the blacks.

http://twitter.com/tekunoloji Tekunoloji

It’s not fair to compare it’s thickness when the LG and other devices are larger. It takes up more surface area. Therefore the parts have other places to be put – laid out more.

Bryan

So the new slogan should be “iPhone – the one with the least crap inside it”

Anonymous

I had 2 LG dumbphones back in the day, they were horrible in build quality. They looked awesome at first but 3 months down the road they fell apart. Until LG can prove they can make rock solid devices I will not buy another LG device.

daveee

thats whats holding me back
why cant htc make this shit
Pp

back in the day….

Anonymous

Why is the brightness turned down on the iPhone?

Not saying the LG B isn’t awesome, just that the Phandroid photo isn’t.
Tigersingh52

well done LG
Anonymous

The remark in this blog posting regarding the iPhone-4 and Galaxy-S screens looking ‘dated’ couldn’t be more incorrect.

I have both an iPhone-4 and a Captivate, and their screens look a lot better than what’s shown in these photos. Either the pictures have been manipulated, or they’re just poorly taken.

Regardless, I’d think someone who works for a tech blog would’ve spotted something like this immediately. I guess it’s more about the page-views ;)
Len

What I gather from the comments so far:
Only Apple is allowed to receive praise when they release their magical and revolutionary products!Everything else sucks and any sort of comparison that shows another product as better than Apple’s is obviously rigged and blasphemous!

– Posted on my iPhone

http://twitter.com/nickdube Nicholas Dubé

most of the comments basically say “those screens dont look right” and I would agree, I have an iphone, I have used the samsung phone quite a bit and both appear to have their brightness turned down or the camera’s image sensor was set to focus on one thing? everyone just feels the images do not look right is all

Anonymous

Keep your power cord handy for that bright display. . .I seriously doubt LG has solved the problem of brighter display = more power consumption.

Is this what BGR has become?A photo comparator?
http://twitter.com/_elemenopee_ Kavin Nguyen

I like my iPhone 4 but I wouldn’t mind this phone. I wanna play around with Gingerbread and I need a new remote for my Google TV.
http://twitter.com/brian_george Brian George

It does look thinner and the screen does look brighter.

That being said, the screen brightness on the iPhone and the Galaxy S look to be turned down… way down. Who would have thought that Marketers would use skewed data!?

Although I do agree with another poster’s comment of there being more surface area, thus a thinner phone, thin is thin
Dragon

It deffinitely looks thinner–something that will make typing using one hand easier. Having seen the Galaxy S SuperAMOLED screen I am a firm believer that it is faaaaar better than the IPhone 4 screen. If LG is on par with the SuperAMOLED s teens and thinner, then that is a huge accomplishment and really raises the bar for this summer’s LTE products from all manufacturers. :-)
http://twitter.com/robbie_deezle rob boggan

looks amazing…. hopefully it gets released not only in the states but also with at&t/rogers 3G bands…
Sugar Grove

Curious? would one of the others appear brighter if they were the center featured phone?
old sales tactic… smal,med or large. people tend to select the middle. where do you suppose the best profit is?
Mgl323

Now that’s a thin phone!
Joelwhall

Why is the bottom photo comparing it to an iPhone 3GS/3G?

NKTizzle

It’s not an iPhone 3G. It’s a Galaxy S.

Alvin B.

Ahh, the magic of press release photography.

I’m looking at my Galaxy S screen right now. It looks nothing like the one in the photo you posted. The photo looks dim and low-contrast. Nothing like the real thing. They probably turned the brightness all the way down on the Samsung and all the way up on the LG.
eestubbs104

There are so many teases out there. Would someone please make a phone and than market it. Please… I want to upgrade now… not in the third quarter of 2011
n9n3

I wouldn’t call its significantly thinner than the iPhone 4. It looks like its the same overall thickness and uses the age old trick (frequently used by Apple) of tapering the sides to make it appear thinner. Still looks nice. Will reserve judgement for official specs and reviews, especially on the screen.
Ken

Doesn’t look thinner that the iP4 to me…
Lazyjatt

doesnt look alot slimmer than the iphone 4. its just the way that the phone is tapered. and in the last pic, its barely thinner than the iphone 3/3gs lol.

Lazyjatt

edit: sorry i think the last shot is the samsung.
isnt the samsung thicker than the iphone 4?

Jhuynh2000

The edges are bevelled…

LG B images leak; thinner than iPhone 4, stunning display

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