LG G3 lands on Verizon

  The air at the top of the mobile mountain is notoriously thin, with only Apple and Samsung currently able to breathe in genuine smartphone success. The potential rewards for ascending this rocky peak are immense, however, which is why LG is taking on Samsung directly with its newest flagship

 The LG G3 takes everything Samsung is best known for -- bleeding-edge hardware and a bucketful of quirky, custom software -- and cranks it up to 11. A ludicrously high-res screen and laser-guided photography are just some of the weapons in its ferocious arsenal.The G3's display is extremely impressive, and appears to float almost impossibly close to the top of the glass, while photos I examined in my brief hands-on time were packed with colour and looked great. Its flagship feature though is that it packs a sense-defying 2,560x1,440 pixels into its 5.5-inch panel, for a pixels-per-inch count of 538.

With the G3, LG appears to be making a similar move, offering what it says is a simplified user experience. Nevertheless, there are of course some weird and wonderful new software tweaks onboard.

LG's Smart Keyboard, for example, promises to track your typing and predict which words exactly you meant to rattle off. As a nod to the way that smartphone screens have become increasingly large while human hands remain stubbornly the same size as ever, you'll also be able to adjust the height of the onscreen keyboard, to make reaching keys a little more comfy.

The G3 is in safe territory when it comes to hardware, having delivered a molten-hot slab of power and pixels that seems more than capable of standing shoulder-to-shoulder with Samsung's glorious Galaxy S5.

LG's software is more of a gamble, however. There are plenty of quirky features that sound intriguing, but with Samsung recently making an effort to mature and refine its own smartphone interface, LG's take on Android needs to be mature and intuitive, or the G3 will feel behind the curve -- despite its high-flying hardware.

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