The images of the LG Optmius F5 and the Optimus F7 that leaked online last week and now LG has officially announced both the phones. Both 4G LTE capable phones will be launched at the upcoming Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
The Optimus F7 sports a 4.7-inch True HD IPS (312ppi) display and is powered by a 1.5 GHz dual-core processor and 2GB RAM. The phone will feature an 8-megapixel rear camera, 1.3-megapixel front camera, a 2,540mAH battery and has 8GB internal memory with a microSD slot for cards up to 32GB.
The Optimus F5 on the other hand sports a 4.3-inch IPS (256ppi) display and is powered by a 1.2 GHz dual-core processor and 1GB RAM. The F5 will feature a 5-megapixel rear camera, 1.3-megapixel front camera, a 2,150mAH battery and has 8GB internal memory with a microSD slot for cards up to 32GB.
On the software front both the phones will run on Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean and will have features like QSlide, Live Zooming, QuickMemo, QTranslator and Video Wiz among others.
ST-Ericsson unveiled their latest 2.5GHz NovaThor L8580 CPU earlier in this year, but the company is now readying to showcase an even faster version of the chip at MWC 2013.
The four Cortex A9 cores residing in the NovaThor L8580 (or eQuad, as it's also dubbed) that's going to be on display at MWC are going to be clocked at 3GHz. In order to not drain the battery in a heartbeat, ST-Ericsson have build the chipset using the 28nm FD-SOI manufacturing technology.
The company has also utilized ModAp, which optimizes the execution of apps and as a result runs them up to 35% faster. The chip comes with support for dual cameras (of up to 20MP), HD Voice and LTE. The GPU is going to be of the PowerVR SGX544 variety clocked at 600MHz.
Naturally, the 3GHz NovaThor L8580 CPU in question is just a prototype at the moment, but hopefully, we'll get to play with it in Barcelona and put it through some benchmarking.