South Korea: LG Electronics Inc. has launched a new smartphone on Thursday . It is designed with additional screen and a camera which can capture a wider scene while taking a selfie hoping to make place in the market.
The V10 comes with extra screen above the main 5.7-inch display. The second smaller screen will be displaying the weather, time and date when the main display is turned off. It has room for frequently-used apps and can receive notifications while using the main screen to watch a video.
Latest LG’s smartphone attempts to make headway in the premium mobile phone market. Its flagship G series phones were edged out by new phones from Samsung and Apple.
Eariler the company has lost its market share in the smartphone market and falling to the seventh place globally as Chinese vendors surpasses its shipments. Is second-quarter market share was 3.8% down from 4.7% a year earlier, according to Counterpoint Technology Market Research.
The new phone’s front camera is equipped with a standard 80-degree lens and a 120-degree wide-angle lens option. This means the multiple groups can fit into a selfie shot taken in V10. “The ability to take group selfies without a selfie-stick has never been easier,” LG said in a statement.
The V10 phone will go on sale in South Korea later this month for 800,000 won ($678) without a contract from a carrier, followed by the U.S. launch next month.
