It's Tuesday! New iron announced!

[neophyte]

The Knock code had been in the Android OS for many years. When you start up an Android phone for the first time, it wants to go through a set-up process, but this could be bypassed by touching all four corners of the screen sequentially starting with the top left corner and proceeding clockwise. The phone would then go right to the home screen. Thus you could demo a phone right out of the box.

The LG G3 has the new Snapdragon 801 processor running at 2.45 GHz with an improved GPU, so it should be able to handle hi res image processing without lag. The G3 also has 2 or 3 GB of RAM, which is important when you load it with lots of little apps that run in the background. And 24GB of available memory for the user, with a micro SD card slot capable of supporting a 128GB (!) card. I don't know if such a card is available yet.

All-in-all, it seems like LG has finally decided to produce a high-end Android device. Good competition against the top end Samsung S series.

I used to sell phones for VerizonWireless but have been out of that business for over a year and a half. Back then, LG phones for VZW were all mid to low end: slow processors, insufficient RAM and memory, inexpensive of course. This G3 will probably retail for $300 with a contract.