We’re live from Seoul, South Korea, where we’ve gotten our first look at the Optimus G, the newest flagship Android smartphone from manufacturer LG. 

For as important as the hardware is to LG — 4.7-inch True HD IPS display in a ridiculously thin form factor, quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro processor at 1.5GHz and a 13 MP camera — it’s the user interface that LG seems to be particularly proud of. There’s still no mistaking that you’re using an LG phone, as everything fits together just so and seems very much in its place. But at the same time, it’s lost a bit of its rigidity.

It’s definitely getting close to that time again. Another Samsung event is almost upon us, and as always theres a Samsung Unpacked Android application to participate in the buzz. Simply titled Samsung Mobile Unpacked 2012, the app is free to download right now from the Google Play Store. An initial word of warning though — it’s buggy. It won’t open on my HTC One X, so at least for now some of you won’t be getting any joy from trying to open it. It could be an ICS thing, as theres already a comment that it also doesn’t work on a Verizon Galaxy Nexus. Hopefully come the big day though, it’ll be fixed.