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the lg optimus G pro just arrived I'm Taylor Martin this is PocketNow and let's get this thing unboxed the lg optimus G pro LG's third entry in the phablet sector first was the Optimus View second was the Optimus Vu 2 and now we have the optimus G pro this is essentially a direct competitor to the samsung galaxy note 2 and it's soft launched just before Mobile World Congress and it's expected to release in other markets around the world including the US market sometime in quarter two but the exact date is not known so let's get inside the box and see what this thing is all about take the lid off and you have the device itself we'll push this to the side for the time being we'll come back to that I can get this box open inside you have your reading materials which we can't read because they're in Korean so not very helpful here is it's an included set of headphones or a headset inline mic and looks like volume control maybe your standard microUSB cable a power adapter of course can't get very far without that and a battery in the very bottom of this is a dock for the phone it'll sit in either landscape or portrait and yeah that's good it also has a slot for charging batteries so that's nice you can get a spare battery and charge it in this little charger here let's get this stuff back in the box and take a look at the hardware because that's what we really care about right so let's take a look around the hardware of this device on the front we have a 5.5 inch 1080p true HD IPS plus display now that differs from the Galaxy Note 2 because this one is 1080p the note 2 was 720p so it's much higher resolution much higher density it's around 400 pixels per inch I think 401 it has a 2.1 megapixel front facing camera here your standard speaker grille a physical home button and that strip around the home button is not just Chrome it is LEDs so that is your LED notification is the actual home button and back in mini buttons to the left and right you'll also notice that the bezel here is very very thin I don't know the exact measurements but it is very close to edge to edge it's very minimal bezel which is really nice especially on a device this big it makes it feel a lot smaller here's your volume rocker on the left side and this is actually not the power button the power button is on the right side on the left side this is actually a cue button I think it's called and that's a shortcut button you can set that to pretty much anything you want on the bottom is a microUSB port top is an IR blaster and a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack in the back we have the 13.1 mega or 13 megapixel camera LED flash and a loudspeaker and your typical branding 4G LTE LG and you get this nice pattern on the back this one isn't glass like the optimus G but it is plastic and it shares a similar pattern like a speckled tile like pattern that you see on the Nexus 4 and the Optimus G but this battery door is removable and inside actually so it comes with a spare battery which is nice I guess that's to show off the dock but we have a 31 40 milliamp hour battery inside this is micro SIM slot micro SD card slot and that is about it on the inside it has a 1.7 gigahertz quad-core Snapdragon 600 it's not Snapdragon Qualcomm 600 processor and 2 gigabytes of RAM 32 gigabytes of storage and I think that's everything so let's just quickly boot this thing up and look at this notification light because that's what's really cool about this thing yes it's not the only cool thing but it's it's one of the really cool things about it and if you saw that really quickly yeah light up and make a nice little visualization there and while we wait on it to boot up let's wait for this noise to go away see if we can get noise the past few devices that I've unboxed they didn't make any noise when I pull the plastic off so yeah I think I think they're they're done with that noise they don't like us to get happy over that mmm if we can get this one off there's just not a lot of noise that's it's upsetting one thing I almost forgot is this right here now it may look like a stylus because it's usually hidden in the bezel somewhere but no this is not this is obviously the Korean model so it comes with this nice long antenna and that is not for cell reception that's not gonna make you pick up signal better this is for television if you're in Korea you could watch television just as you could from your TV over-the-air from your phone anywhere so that's a really cool feature but it's not helpful to us so the other models that are coming out the International model the global model and maybe the US model are said to have a stylus in place of this thing so hopefully because a stylus on the device this big is nice to have and if it's a direct competitor to the galaxy know - it needs a stylus so there you have it this has been a quick look and an unboxing of the Optimus G pro stay tuned for more coverage there should be a full review and many comparisons over the next week and into next week so stay tuned for more that's all we've got for now so if you liked the video be sure to give it a thumbs up and stay tuned for more lg optimus G pro coverage I'm Taylor Martin and I will see you next time you