LG Optimus G Pro vs Huawei Ascend P2

We take a quick look at two new contenders from MWC 2013 with Huawei's Ascend P2 and LG's Optimus G Pro

Published on Feb 25, 2013

The LG Optimus G Pro is the Korean manufacturer’s latest flagship handset based on Android and runs a quad-core processor with a large 5.5-inch display.

Huawei’s Ascend P2 is a bit smaller with a 4.7-inch display but packs a similarly powerful quad-core chip and a slightly different design.

LG Optimus G Pro: key specs and what’s hot

The exterior build of the Optimus G Pro is a bit of an odd hybrid, sitting somewhere between an iPhone and a Samsung Galaxy S3 – it has flat, broad edges, silver trim and a shiny plastic finish.

Some standout features, however, include the fact that the bezel is virtually non-existent, meaning the star of the show is that vast touch display – this is how things should be.

Speaking of the display, it’s a sizeable 5.5-inch IPS LCD which is incredibly bright and vivid, while the Full HD 1920x1080 pixel resolution ensures things are suitably crisp at 401 pixels-per-inch (ppi).

The Optimus G Pro also has plenty of power owing to the use of Qualcomm’s latest Snapdragon 600 chip, the very same one found in the HTC One. It’s a quad-core setup clocked at 1.7GHz with 2GB of RAM and an Adreno 320 GPU in tow.

Benchmarks of the HTC One suggest this chipset utterly dominates everything else on the current market.

LG’s device also has plenty of storage with 32GB onboard and microSD support for up to 64GB.