It takes 12 weeks to make an LG G4 thanks to the leather backing

If you thought Samsung gave the Galaxy S6 a more premium feel with an all-metal body, you should check out the leather backing that LG is putting on the LG G4. While the addition of leather certainly gives LG an advantage over its competitors, the process involved with making these leather smartphones has the unfortunate side-effect of making the production process more than ten times longer than other flagship smartphones. 

The LG G4 featuring a leather back is nothing new, but did you know that the manufacturing process for the back cover is a 12 week process? LG has outlined some additional information on the leather they selected for the back along with some details on the production process. The creation time for the LG G4 backs is more than 10 times that of the competition, which averages around four days. LG uses only the highest quality cow leather that they can find, with a pore size of only 0.001 micrometer. From LG: “G4 leather back cover takes a manufacturing process of a total of 12 weeks. Quality to make the final product from the supply of good leather back cover, competition among the core process takes time even more than 10 times the normal rear cover of the production period (4 days). LG Electronics has added a lot of handmade work here. Working directly for sewing leather stitching, and a coating material so that the rim all unravel need a lot of hand by hand, such as paint.”