Back in December LG proved it simply couldn't wait
for CES to start and basically pre-announced all the smartphones it planned on
showing in Las Vegas these days. Among those was the Stylus 3, the successor to
the Stylus 2 from last year.
And today the Korean company is making essentially
the same device official once more, this time for the US market. And like its
predecessors, this too will bear some different branding. In America, it will
be called Stylo 3 (like the Stylo 2 before it), while other markets will get it
as the Stylus 3. Why LG is continuing to give this line of handsets two
different yet incredibly similar names isn't clear, but that's how things are
anyway.
Like the identical Stylus 3, the Stylo 3 comes with
a 5.7-inch 720p touchscreen, the MediaTek MT6750 chipset with a 1.5 GHz
octa-core Cortex-A53 CPU, a 13 MP main camera, an 8 MP selfie snapper, 3GB of
RAM, 16GB of expandable storage, 4G LTE support, and a 3,200 mAh removable
battery. It runs Android 7.0 Nougat, a welcome sight in the mid-range
smartphone territory.
Its dimensions are 155.6 x 79.8 x 7.4 mm and it
weighs 149g. It (obviously) comes with a stylus, but also a fingerprint scanner
and FM radio. It will be available in Metallic Titan and Pink Gold. Pricing and
a release time frame are still mysteries for now.
