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phones you know what I love about them I love how they fit perfectly in that

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handy little pocket in the front of my box or shorts for storage the pleasing

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vibration sensation from incoming calls is more important than reproduction

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anyway and furthermore oh sorry just a secondus minus that's not a pocket what

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that's not a pocket no there's not enough space what do you mean there's not supposed to even be enough space in

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there to store a phone well maybe you just have a very small problem going on

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down there hey

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Corsair delivers real MEC or nothing with their new strafe mechanical

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keyboard featuring genuine german-made cherrymx key switches click right here

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to learn more I don't really know where to start with the LG G4 so I guess I'll

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lead with a drop a like if you want to see me take my electric unicycle review

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to the next level by adding aerial footage to the selfie stick footage we

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already have and I think that's all the stalling I can get away with here's the

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problem I usually sit down to script my review with two or even four pages of

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notes mostly complaints for a mobile device video Point form today I have

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half a page which is actually a really good sign for the G4 which I've been

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using as my daily driver for a little over a week so let's kick off with specs

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and I'll start with the processor controversy the G4 is a $600 phone off

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contract so it has the top-of-the-line qualcom Snapdragon 810 CPU right wrong

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while it's unclear whether the reason was one of cost reduction or one of

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thermal control LG has opted for a Snapdragon 808 which features the same 4

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a53 cores for lower power background tasks but two fewer high performance a57

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cores something that in theory damages performance in heavily multi-threaded

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workloads but based on some fascinating

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testing done by Android authority may actually not affect real world results

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that much thanks to the 808's far lesser

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thermal throttling the rest of this phone is pretty standard Fair though on

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paper at least adreno 418 GPU 3 gigs of

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ddr3l memory 32 gigs of internal storage

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Corning Gorilla Glass 3 on the 5.5 in

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IPS display active noise cancellation for phone calls a 16 megapix rear and 8

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megapix self camera a 3,000 mAh battery

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with Quick Charge 2.0 allowing a 60% charge in about half an hour dualband AC

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Wi-Fi and an FM tuner which I see I got

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you there the FM tuner is a little unusual these days actually but some

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folks will appreciate it specifically those with low cap data plans who don't

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want to use the micro SD expansion slot to hold up to 128 gigs of extra music or

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anything else and yes that is another one under the removable backing which is

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available in plastic and leather other options not to mention the of course

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dbrand skinned one that we have on ours is the aforementioned SD slot contact

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points for optional Chi wireless charging rear plates and ah that 3,000

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milliamp battery is removable something we used to take for granted on the

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Android side but that Samsung did away with on the Galaxy S6 and as we dig away

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under the skin of the G4 we can actually find some other things that make it more

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than just another G3 for starters while

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the G3 had a 1440p IPS display I

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criticized it at the time because there were phones with 1080p displays that

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smoked the G3 in spite of its extra resolution in important use case

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scenarios like standing Outdoors thanks to their high contrast ratios not this

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time the G4 screen has gotten some serious upgrades including integrating

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the touchscreen and LCD panel into a single layer for better color

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reproduction and utiliz in quantum display technology not to be confused

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with quantum dot which requires a separate layer and thicker bezel to

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improve color reproduction with LG quoting 98% DCI coverage increase image

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brightness substantially and crank contrast to the point where I forgot

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sometimes that I wasn't using an AMOLED display all of this without affecting

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battery life and it looks really good I

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still don't think 1440p is necessary in a handheld but at least besides the

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extra strain on the GP to power it in games and whatnot there is no drawback

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now so let's talk day-to-day use ergonomics of the phone are a strong

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point considering its size I generally have trouble with anything above 5 in if

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you know what I mean but it seems like I'm not the only one out there who feels

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like whether it's by Merit of its gently curved shape oh yeah I guess I forgot to

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mention that the screen is very subtly curved or the positioning of all of the

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physical buttons so up down and lock on

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the rear of the phone it's some how less unwieldly for me than most 5 and 1/2 in

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devices and we probably have to give LG's Optimus ux software layer some of

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the credit here though some stuff like double touching to wake which really

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does help with the size has been so well

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received that others have adopted it and

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while there's definitely more bloat than even Samsung's latest iteration of touch

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whz I didn't find any of it particularly objectionable in no particular order I

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liked the contextual information smart notice widget on the home screen

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by default it's visible enough to be convenient with weather upcoming

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birthdays contact suggestions and other updates but not so in your face that

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it's annoying the clipboard for copy pasting is awesome the accessibility

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options continue to be outstanding for LG dual window is Handy for multitasking

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and little touches like smart settings let you customize some behaviors like

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Wi-Fi or Bluetooth on and off if you want but otherwise completely stay out

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of the way and you don't have to to look at them at all and additionally most

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importantly I didn't notice any performance chugging which used to be my

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primary complaint about these skins so kudos for that and on the subject of

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Kudos let's get into the best thing about the phone finally the camera check

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out this selfie I took yeah baby what a great C no sorry while the front-facing

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camera is actually good and that selfie aside from the stupid face I making is a

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pretty good one it's the rear camera that truly rocks here it's laser focus

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mechanism and built-in color spectrum sensor enable the GeForce 16 megapixel

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camera to consistently nail the most

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important things about cell phone camera pictures focus and white balance giving

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surprisingly great results in auto mode but throwing in raw shooting and then

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surprisingly fine manual control for the shutter bugs out there as well and while

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I could criticize the camera apps slow

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startup time uh double touching volume down to launch the camera is good and

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video recording it just took a picture

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and video recording is excellent as well

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the preview window is very fluid and doesn't resize when you switch modes and

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thanks to three-axis image stabilization it's surprisingly easy to get Rock Solid

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footage out of it with all the usual modes including Ultra HD at 30fps and

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slow-mo supported so the conclusion here

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is pretty simple the G4 does a lot of things right and did nothing to offend

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me the horrendous rear-facing speaker notwithstanding unlike Samsung and Apple

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LG doesn't have their own Flagship class mobile processor design so the G4 uses

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an off-the-shelf debatably not top tier

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CPU but honestly I felt like phones have been fast enough for a while now and it

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never felt like an issue to me the whole time I was using the device so congrats

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LG the G4 wins a recommendation for me

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as long as its buyers are willing to accept the relatively plasticky build

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quality that comes with the flexibility of a replaceable

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battery and on the subject of the replaceable battery some of you are

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probably wondering what exactly that sexy carbon fiber skin that I have on

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the back of the phone in all of our b-roll is that my friends is a Precision

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cut skin from dbrand Skins there are

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buds over there and man do they ever do a great job of these things you know the

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funny thing about it is is my first dbrand spot that I ever did I was

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talking about how how precisely they managed to get the fit so that it really

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did look like a piece of the phone and remarkably they have actually managed to

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improve it quite a bit since then as you guys probably noticed in the b-roll you

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canot see the seam in spite of the fact

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that that vinyl wrap actually doesn't even go around the edge of the back

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plate it stops right at the edge of it you just cannot find the seam once you

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he was like hey why didn't you visit us I was like yeah so there you

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