LG teaser shows G5 flagship phone with 'always on' display

The LG G5 will have an "always on" screen, it appears.
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Stan Schroeder
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As is customary, LG is slowly dripping bits and pieces of info about the upcoming LG G5 flagship phone, scheduled to be unveiled just before Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on Feb. 21.

On Wednesday, the company shared a short video on its Twitter account, showing an outline of the G5 along with the caption "Always ON."

In the video, the G5 appears to show some basic info even when its display is "off," including time and date, as well as notifications on calls, emails and messages. 


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It's unclear how the G5 will do this (without draining too much battery power) -- it could simply have a low-power OLED screen, or the teaser video is actually showing a secondary screen on the phone's back. The screen could also be, as Android Authority speculates, a full-size variant of the secondary screen seen on the LG V10.


Though the LG G5 will officially be unveiled in 10 days, we already know -- or can guess -- quite a bit about it. Besides the "always on" feature, it's likely to have dual back cameras, a Snapdragon 820 processor and 3GB of RAM. 

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Stan Schroeder
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