 Hi, this is Blaire with The Verge, I'm here at Mobile World Congress 2014 in Barcelona and taking a look at LG's G Pro 2. It's a 5.9 inch 1080p device which the company is unapologetically describing as a phablet and it wants to give you the ultimate phablet experience. It follows up from the LG G Flex which is a 6 inch device, it's roughly the same size and it has pretty similar specs, it also has a quad core Snapdragon processor inside it. Physically it's very similar in terms of dimensions, though obviously it lacks the curvature, but also the two devices come with new features, one of them is called Knock Code, which is being simulated here on the G Flex, which is essentially a way to unlock your phone while the screen is off with a pattern of taps or as LG describes them, knocks. You can see a demonstration of that right here on the new G Pro 2. It's quite a neat little feature and aside from that you really don't get many buttons, a lot of it is screen interaction, you just get the power button and the volume rocker in the back as is typical with LG's G series at the moment. A couple of other new features that the company has added is a split screen view, so when you hold the back button you get to split screen between two apps, so you can have the internet browser up top and let's say YouTube down at the bottom if you want to look at the two side by side and then you can adjust which one gets more screen real estate. Another thing is if the 5.9 inch size is too big for you, you can actually swipe and shrink it down to a mini view which you can then resize and expand to your preference. Also LG has put a one watt set of speakers in here, it describes them as hi-fi sound, so that's an upgrade there. It also has a new set of camera applications and camera features which include a new mode which lets you adjust focus after you take a photo. This is pretty much the same thing as Nokia has with its Lumia cameras where you take a series of photos and then you can select your focus distance after the shot is taken. As you can actually see from this illustration there is a time delay between the photos, obviously because they're taken one after the other, but it does give you the option to focus further or closer after you've taken the shot which is more flexible than just taking one single picture. Aside from those new features, this is still pretty much a relatively standard tablet. It's quite large but as LG points out it has even thinner bezels around the sides than on the company's flagship smartphone, the G2, and is relatively compact, pretty nice in the hands for such a large device. So aside from those extra added features that LG has put into the software, this is still pretty much a standard Android phablet, the likes of which we've seen from both HTC and Samsung and even Sony. There isn't that much to distinguish it but LG hopes that good performance and extra few features will give people a reason to buy it.
 Hi, this is Blaire with The Verge, I'm here at Mobile World Congress 2014 in Barcelona
 and taking a look at LG's G Pro 2.
 It's a 5.9 inch 1080p device which the company is unapologetically describing as a phablet
 and it wants to give you the ultimate phablet experience.
 It follows up from the LG G Flex which is a 6 inch device, it's roughly the same size
 and it has pretty similar specs, it also has a quad core Snapdragon processor inside it.
 Physically it's very similar in terms of dimensions, though obviously it lacks the curvature,
 but also the two devices come with new features, one of them is called Knock Code, which is
 being simulated here on the G Flex, which is essentially a way to unlock your phone
 while the screen is off with a pattern of taps or as LG describes them, knocks.
 You can see a demonstration of that right here on the new G Pro 2.
 It's quite a neat little feature and aside from that you really don't get many buttons,
 a lot of it is screen interaction, you just get the power button and the volume rocker
 in the back as is typical with LG's G series at the moment.
 A couple of other new features that the company has added is a split screen view, so when
 you hold the back button you get to split screen between two apps, so you can have the
 internet browser up top and let's say YouTube down at the bottom if you want to look at
 the two side by side and then you can adjust which one gets more screen real estate.
 Another thing is if the 5.9 inch size is too big for you, you can actually swipe and shrink
 it down to a mini view which you can then resize and expand to your preference.
 Also LG has put a one watt set of speakers in here, it describes them as hi-fi sound,
 so that's an upgrade there.
 It also has a new set of camera applications and camera features which include a new mode
 which lets you adjust focus after you take a photo.
 This is pretty much the same thing as Nokia has with its Lumia cameras where you take
 a series of photos and then you can select your focus distance after the shot is taken.
 As you can actually see from this illustration there is a time delay between the photos,
 obviously because they're taken one after the other, but it does give you the option
 to focus further or closer after you've taken the shot which is more flexible than just
 taking one single picture.
 Aside from those new features, this is still pretty much a relatively standard tablet.
 It's quite large but as LG points out it has even thinner bezels around the sides than
 on the company's flagship smartphone, the G2, and is relatively compact, pretty nice
 in the hands for such a large device.
 So aside from those extra added features that LG has put into the software, this is still
 pretty much a standard Android phablet, the likes of which we've seen from both HTC and
 Samsung and even Sony.
 There isn't that much to distinguish it but LG hopes that good performance and extra few
 features will give people a reason to buy it.