Supposed specs for the LG's new flagship suggest it could have an iris scanner to help you unlock your handset.
The 'news' comes from user Zealer on the Chinese social media site Weibo, so the veracity is going to be called into some question - but what follows seems to make sense.
Perhaps most plausibly, the claim is that the G5 will finally add a fingerprint scanner to LG's flagship device - something that was missing from last year's G4, though was present on the LG V10, which was introduced a few weeks ago.
The expectation is that the phone will be powered by a Snapdragon 820 CPU, Adreno 530 GPU (upgrades on the G4's Snapdragon 808 and Adreno 418), and will sport a 5.6 inch 2K display (a whole 0.1 inches larger than the G4).
Camera-wise, the new device would receive a massive bump up to a 21MP camera (up from 16MP) on the rear. Curiously, the Weibo user suggests that the front camera will only be 5MP, despite the front camera in the LG G4 weighing in at 8MP.
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The iris scanner would be the biggest surprise addition if LG can manage it: Unlike fingerprint scanning, which is now pretty much standard on top end smartphones, iris scanning has only previously been seen before on a handful of Windows phones that have Microsoft's "Hello" Camera- and it's a lot slower as a way of logging in.
TechGrapple says the release date is set to be around February at Mobile World Congress - which would be significantly earlier than last year's April release for the G4, and would almost certainly see the handset going head to head with South Korean rival Samsung's inevitable Galaxy S7 - a flagship battle LG has usually avoided in order to bring it's own event later in the year.
Via TechGrapple
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