LG G Flex ‘confirmed’ for AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile, but (sadly?) not Verizon Wireless

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Published 14 Nov 2013

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Earlier this year, LG and Samsung were having a verbal fighting match over which company would be the first to launch a phone with a flexible display. Samsung technically won because they put the Galaxy Round on store shelves in Korea first, but it’s LG that’s taking the G Flex to international markets. In an email that I’ve received this morning from LG’s Finnish public relations people, they say that the G Flex will come to France in February 2014 and to the Nordic region in early 2014, but what about the United States?

According to the Twitter user who knows more about a company’s future product portfolio than the heads of some of the largest wireless operators in the world, three out of America’s top four operators will carry the G Flex at some point in the future. AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile have all jumped onboard, while Verizon has decided it can do without the 6.0 inch 720p banana phone.

Should you even consider the G Flex? I’m going to have to say no. The technology sure is impressive, but does it deliver any actual benefits? Sure, flexible displays, due to their very nature of using a plastic substrate, are more impact resistant, but how clumsy are you that you need an unbreakable phone?

Don’t get me wrong, there will come a point in the near future where both Samsung and LG launch flagship phones that use this technology, but that’s at least a year away. Maybe they’ll take that time to think up some interesting gimmicks to help sell more units.