Gearburn: "It’s easy to punt a flagship smartphone to the masses. Give it a fast processor, cram it with an oversized camera sensor and huge screen and lastly, make sure it has heaps of sex appeal. But mid range devices are a little more tricky than that.
Manufacturers can launch smaller phones with completely different names that have nothing to do with the flagships at all, or they can reproduce the flagship but shrink practically everything down. This is what LG has largely done with the Beat range. But is this such a bad thing?"
Cnet: The LG G4 is a flagship smartphone, packed with flagship features. It has a quad-core processor, a 5.5-inch, 2,560 x 1,440-pixel Quad HD display and it even has a high-grade leather rear cover. Of course, all that adds up to a flagship price: around $600/£450/AU$929. So what if you're after a phone with similar style and features, but you're not keen on paying a premium price?
Enter the LG G4 Beat, a mid-tier variant of the G4 that's been designed for more budget-conscious users.
