If
you prefer to use your smartphone with a pen, you don’t have to splurge
for Samsung’s Galaxy Note 5. LG has made the mid-range Stylus 2
official. Debuting at Mobile World Congress this month and expected to
hit the states later this year, LG’s latest phablet features a revamped
design and a handful of new features designed to make writing and
doodling feel as natural as possible.
The
LG Stylus 2 is notably sleeker than its predecessor, the LG G4 Stylus,
sporting 7.4-mm-thin edges and weighing just over 5 ounces. Its slick,
curved edge design retains most of the G4’s core components, including
LG’s unique rear-facing fingerprint reader and home button.
The
phone’s Pen Pop feature aims to make using its stylus more intuitive,
as it automatically pulls up a pop-up menu for accessing apps such as
Pop Memo and Pop Scanner every time you pull the pen out. The Stylus 2’s
Pen Keeper alerts you whenever the phone is in motion without its
stylus attached, hopefully preventing you from leaving home without the
pen. If you want to get fancy, the smartphone’s new Calligraphy Pen font
aims to emulate the look of a traditional fountain pen.
The
Stylus 2 sports decent mid-range specs, including a 5.7-inch, 720p
display, a 1.2-GHz quad-core CPU, a 13-megapixel rear camera and a 8-MP
selfie shooter. The Android Marshmallow device packs a 3,000-mAh
removable battery, as well as a microSD slot for expanding your storage.
The
LG Stylus 2 likely won’t be the centerpiece of LG’s Mobile World
Congress showcase – that honor will go to the LG G5 – but it could end
up being a solid (and hopefully affordable) option for stylus fans.
We’ll be at the big show in Spain later this month, so stay tuned for
hands-on impressions of all of the major smartphones slated to be
unveiled.
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