LG is to launch a smaller version of its flagship Android smartphone during Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next week. Its existence was already known, thanks to a picture posted on LG's Facebook page a week ago, but confirmed details have now been revealed ahead of the official announcement.

The LG G2 mini has a 4.7-inch IPS LCD display (in preference to the LG G2's 5.2-inch screen). It also takes a resolution drop to 960 x 540.

A 1.2GHz quad-core processor runs the show, with 1GB of RAM. And there is 8GB of storage, with a microSD card slot allowing for expansion by up to a further 64GB. Be wary on this latter nugget of information though - the US and European LG G2 variants did not have a microSD card slot, while the Korean one did. The same could be true in the LG G2 mini's case.

It's a 4G LTE device, with an 8-megapixel camera on the rear. A 1.3-megapixel camera adorns the front.

Android 4.4 KitKat comes pre-installed, possibly as a precursor to Google's much-rumoured demand that all new devices must come with the latest version of the operating system.

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More will be revealed at MWC, but we doubt the new phone will break the bank when it arrives around April time.