LG is supposedly working on a new mid-range smartphone under the banner of its LG G4 flagship, and benchmark results show the new device will be powered by a Snapdragon 615 chipset from Qualcomm.
Dutch website Techtastic says that the LG G4 S has gone through benchmarking at GFXBench, and the results show the new handset will run on Qualcomm's mid-range chipset.
The Snapdragon 615 chipset comes in 32-bit and 64-bit versions and features four Cortex-A53 cores clocking in at 1.7 GHz and four similar cores at 1.0 GHz. It is the same chipset that runs the Asus ZenFone Selfie, Oppo R5 and HTC Desire 820.
Combined with an Adreno 420 graphics card and 2 GB of RAM, the Snapdragon 615 should be able to deliver decent power for most average users' activities for its price. LG has yet to reveal how much the new handset will cost, but it will of course cost less than the $600 starting price of the LG G4.
Earlier this month, reports of a new mid-range smartphone surfaced via Russian website Hi-Tech Mail, which said the South Korean electronics firm was planning on marketing the G4 S as a reasonably priced smartphone touting mid-range to high-end specs and features.
On the surface, the device will look very similar to the flagship G4, possibly even sporting the premium leather back on the G4, and will sport LG's highly sensitive Advanced In-Cell Technology display. It will have the same 5.2-inch display as the G4 but will have less resolution at 1,920 x 1,080. It's not the same as the Quad HD display on the flagship, but full HD is definitely not something to complain about.
At the back of the smartphone is an 8-megapixel shooter, compared to the 16-megapixel camera on the G4. Reportedly, the camera will have support for autofocus, dual-LED flash, HDR and face detection. In front will be a 5-megapixel camera for taking selfies and shooting videos in full HD.
The report says LG will officially unveil the G4 S in the second half of July, which means it won't take long before we finally get to confirm if the rumors are true or not. Until then, we will have to content ourselves with what little information is available for now.
