14 DAY TRIAL // US wireless carrier MetroPCS is expected to release a successor for the LG Optimus M smartphone that arrived on shelves last year.
Said to appear as the LG Optimus M+, this device will deliver a wide range of improvements, though it will retain the affordable price tag.
MetroPCS’ LG Optimus M+ should pack a 3.5-inch touchscreen display when released, which is the first noticeable change from the original device. Last year’s smartphone packed a 3.2-inch, 64,000-color HVGA display.
However, it appears that the new device keeps the same resolution for its screen, though it increases the number of supported colors to 256,000.
Additionally, the leaked specifications list for this device unveils the fact that it will arrive on shelves with an 800MHz application processor inside.
Another improvement will be spotted when it comes to the mobile phone’s photo snapper, which is a 5-megapixel camera on Optimus M+ (compared to the 3.2MP camera packed with its predecessor). Not to mention that the new phone also features flash.
According to a recent article on Pocketnow, which also brought to the web leaked photos with this mobile phone, LG also packed Bluetooth 3.0 EDR inside Optimus M+ as an improvement over the predecessor’s Bluetooth 2.0 capabilities.
The new smartphone is powered by Google’s Android 2.3 Gingerbread operating system – there are no details available on whether it will receive an upgrade to the newer Ice Cream Sandwich platform but, based on its specs, we can presume that it won’t.
LG Optimus M+ features model number MS695 and should arrive on shelves at MetroPCS in the near future, although no specific info on the matter has been officially unveiled for the time being.
Until more on this new Android mobile phone for MetroPCS emerges, have a look at the photo attached to this article to get an idea of what it would look like.