LG's 4K smart phone upscaling revealed in video
BARCELONA, Spain--LG is showing off a new smart phone system, that transforms your smart phone into a 4K media hub.
The South Korean company is calling the new platform the 'world's first wireless Ultra HD transmission technology'. If you've got a game or video playing on your mobile in HD, the new platform will upscale the feed to a 4K resolution, before beaming it out wirelessly to another device.
In this situation that second device was an LG 4K television, acting as a simple monitor for the 4K feed that the phone was pumping out.
We played with Epic Citadel, a graphically intensive tech demo that -- in this case -- was running on one of LG's Optimus G smart phones. The process of upscaling the feed to 4K is an intensive one, and the phone felt very warm when we touched it, but nevertheless the Optimus G's quad-core processor was handling the task with relative ease.
Games ran with a little judder, but as this technology is still months away from being released I'm prepared to withhold judgement for now. I was told the proprietary system would be cropping up in smart phones at the start of next year, or possibly the end of 2013.
It seems that tech companies want to control your living room, turning your smart phone into a portable media centre.
For me, the system demonstrates how powerful smart phone processors have become in just a few short years. If the Optimus G can handle it, I've no doubt that other mobiles emerging in the next year or two will be equally capable.
What do you think of 4K? Let me know in the comments below, and be sure to examine the rest of our coverage from Mobile World Congress.
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