LG Electronics has today announced the LG K42 smartphone in India. This phone’s durability has been verified by the strict US Military Standard Tests. The phone is sturdy enough to pass 9 categories of US defense standard including high temperature, low temperature, temperature shock, vibration, shock, and humidity, as claimed by LG.
LG K42 sports a 6.6″ HD+ Punch Hole Display. This phone is powered by MediaTek 2.0 GHz Octa-Core (MT6762) processor combined with 3GB RAM and 64GB of storage. It is packed with 4,000mAh battery.
The LG K42 is equipped with s a quad camera comprising of 13MP Primary camera, 5MP Super Wide Angle sensor, 2MP Depth and 2MP Macro sensors. The camera has features such as Flash Jump Cut that takes 4 pictures with some intervals, the flash indicates when the camera is going to take a picture so you can pose and be creative. The Time Helper feature, which makes the camera blink its flash to tell you exactly when a picture is about to clicked. It also houses a 8MP Selfie front camera.
For security, this phone has side-mounted fingerprint sensor. You can also take selfies by pressing the fingerprint sensor button twice. It also comes with a dedicated Google Assistant button – Pressing the Assistant Button once instantly launches Google Assistant and pressing it twice launches Visual Snapshot that show weather, schedule, and other information. This phone offers connectivity options of Dual 4G VoLTE, Wi-Fi, GPS, BT 5.0, USB Type-C etc.
The LG K42 will be exclusively available on Flipkart starting 26th January 2021 in two colors of Grey and Green. Priced at INR 10,990, this phone comes with 2-year extended warranty and a free one-time screen replacement.