LG G5 Lite
You can add China to the countries that
will get the LG H848, aka LG G5 Lite. That's an unofficial name, the phone is
called just "LG G5," but the reduction in specs is enough to earn in
that moniker.
The major change is in processing power
- gone is the flagship Snapdragon 820, replaced by an upper mid-range
Snapdragon 652. It's actually a solid chipset with four Cortex-A72 and four A53
cores, but the Adreno 510 has big shoes to fill by having to drive the
5.3" QHD screen (the Adreno 530 is one of the most powerful mobile GPUs
right now).
The RAM has been cut back to 3 GB (down
from 4G on the "full fat" G5). The S652 version for Latin America was
justified as a cost-cutting measure, we guess the reasoning for China is
similar - there you can get a metal-clad phone for prices the West can only
dream about.
Anyway, the LG H848 still has a modular
design, a dual 16 MP (narrow) + 8 MP (wide) camera setup, 32 GB of storage and
Android 6.0 Marshmallow. The S652 chipset is fully capable of 2160p video
capture, which was an issue with earlier 6-series phones.
