At the start of 2013, LG introduced a competitor to the Galaxy Note II that was called the Optimus G Pro. It had the same 5.5 inch screen as the Note, but with a higher 1080p resolution. Today, a flyer leaked in Korea with a photo of a slightly tweaked G Pro called the “Gx”. Same 5.5 inch 1080p screen, and allegedly the same Snapdragon 600, but I think that’s a typo. The Gx supports LTE-Advanced, whereas the G Pro does not. And there’s only one chip on the market that can handle LTE-Advanced: Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 800.

Why release a Snapdragon 800 equipped Gx when the G2, from a hardware perspective, is technically the same phone? Easy, to offer consumers a choice between a 5.2 inch phone and a 5.5 inch phone. Up until the Galaxy Note 3, the previous Notes were pretty much nothing buy blown up versions of the flagship S phones that Samsung released half a year earlier. That’s what the Gx is to the G2.

Which brings up another question, will there be a “G Pro 2” coming out in the spring in order to compete with the Note 3? Is the 6.0 inch G Flex supposed to be the Note 3 competitor instead? Does LG actually a roadmap that a normal human being can understand?

We’ll just have to wait until CES next month and Mobile World Congress in February in order to piece together the puzzle. The fact that LG recently began offering their flagship tablet with stock Android in America has me hopeful that whatever high-end phone LG announces in the next six months will also come in a “Google Play Edition” variant.