LG G Flex 2 full review

Before Apple's smartphones began bending unexpectedly, LG started making a phone with a deliberate curve, and it's continuing to turn heads with another, the LG G Flex 2.

This concave Android phone is the follow-up to the world's first curved smartphone, the LG G Flex, and while it bends the same way, it has new dimensions and specs backing it up.

At CES 2015, I found the LG G Flex 2 screen to be noticeably smaller and easier to hold at 5.5 inches, matching the display size of the LG G3. The previous Flex was a full 6 inches.

• Display

The LG G Flex 2 kicks in the extra resolution necessary to make it Full HD, meaning it's flexible OLED is now on par with other 1080p screens out there including the Moto X.

It's no longer 720p and stretched to 6 inches. At 5.5 inches, those 1080p lines of resolution are even more dense, equating the pixel count to 403 pixels per inch, up from the old 245ppi.

Okay, no, this isn't a Quad HD display that meets the quality of the LG G3, but the jump from 720p to 1080p seems more significant to the human eye than the trendy move to 2160p.

That's enough for LG to call this curved Plastic OLED very easy on the easy and immersive, but with only a few minutes, we'll have a full review to be the judge of that.

What's clear right about about the LG G Flex 2 display is that it's more durable than the first Flex as well as traditionally-shaped smartphones.

It's not completely flexible as the name suggests, but the phone does have some give, as evidenced by my finger forcefully pressing down on the phone's curved back hump.

LG's head of smartphone planning, Dr. Ram-chan Woo, had an even more drastic test at the CES 2015 unveiling: sitting on it. The LG G Flex 2 survived unscathed.