A British magazine has praised the G2, the latest flagship smartphone of South Korean tech giant LG Electronics Inc., by calling it the new king of Android.

Stuff said in its September issue posted on its website that the G2 marks LG’s magnificent return to form on the smartphone scene and it has rocketed straight to the top of its top 10 smartphone list.

“It dispatches its arch-rival’s offering with relative ease. This is a faster, nicer-screened and crisper-cameraed device than the Samsung Galaxy S4, and while both have plastic shells, the LG looks and feels more sexy and solid,” the magazine said.

“There’s one quite incredible thing that we know for sure ― the LG G2 tops our list of the best smartphones in the world right now.”

The comments came two months after the 5.2-inch smartphone by the world’s third-largest smartphone maker debuted in South Korea and New York to take on rivals Samsung Electronics Co. and Apple Inc. (Yonhap News)