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on the surface the LG G5 has everything

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smartphone enthusiasts have been asking for so why is it then that I didn't like

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it is it possible that LG didn't pay

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enough for a positive review or hear me out on this is it possible that dbrand

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spec-wise it's pretty hard for LG to have gotten this wrong with mediatech

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still playing catchup and Intel having seemingly bowed out of the smartphone

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processor race for now Qualcomm is pretty much the only choice at the

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moment unless your name is Apple so a Snapdragon 820 processor clocked at 2.1

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5 GHz on the faster cores paired with an adreno 530 GPU Beats at its heart in

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line with Halo SKS from other manufacturers the G5 packs 4 gigs of

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ddr4 memory 32 gigs of onboard storage

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with micro SD expansion and Corning Gorilla Glass 4 on its Quad HD or

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2560x1440 resolution 5.3 in panel it's

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also got Wireless AC and LTE Advanced

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for Wicked connectivity Android marshmallow yellow and it's available in

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a variety of colors including pink with a 3,000 is milliamp battery actually

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2800 milliamp hours to be precise but in

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spite of these similarities there are a great number of differences between the

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G5 and the Galaxy S7 from LG's fellow

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Korean rival Samsung that need to be addressed we'll begin with performance

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the G5 performs about like you'd expect 4 and 82 20 maybe a little better my

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usual run geek bench until it hurts throttling test gave it only a 10% gap

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between its top score and its bottom scores a very favorable result next up

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is the screen it tickles me to no end the way that LG's TV division

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is beating the OLED drum with Samsung

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positioning Quantum do LCD as the top technology of today citing concerns

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about maximum brightness and burning while Samsung's mobile division has been

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pimping OLED for years at this point and LG is still using LCD the truth of the

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matter in spite of the clear flip-flopping even within the same

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freaking company is that there are just tradeoffs to be made either way the s7's

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OLED screen saves enough power for it to have an always on clock feature and

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gives it astonishing readability in direct sunlight at the cost of some

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color oversaturation while the g5s IPS

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LCD screen boasts more true to the original content colors great viewing

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angles without the weird color shift of some oleds at extreme angles and

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shockingly an always on clock with notifications too that thanks to their

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displays surprisingly solid blacks manages to look almost as good as the

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s7s unless you're in a really dark room where you can see that all the pixels

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are back lit and doesn't even manage to drain the battery life anymore so full

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marks for the screen and a bonus point

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for the subtle curve at the top that makes the phone slide onto your face a

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little more gracefully and actually makes it so that pulling down your

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notification tray is a little bit smoother too this is the first

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application of curved phone glass that feels purely functional to me as opposed

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to a mostly just because we can sort of

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thing above the screen is a mediocre 8

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megapixel f2.0 selfie camera that that

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thankfully doesn't share the s7s makes my nose look huge fisheye lens but

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otherwise doesn't really blow me away then at the bottom of the screen below

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the on screen only no physical buttons is not one not two but three of the big

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features of the G5 first up is the

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bottom firing speaker that delivers marvelous 5.1 surround sound in spite of

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its no I'm just kidding the G5 suffers

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from cup syndrome which is curious unfortunate placement

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just like the top two smartphones right now I talking of course rather about the

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reversable more durable Quick Charge 3.0

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equipped USB type-c connector bye-bye

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microe don't let the door hit your ass on the way out two the fact that

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pressing this little catch on the bottom causes that 2800 milliamp battery to

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slide right out allowing it to be changed once it wears out without a

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fancy toolkit or even throughout the day as needed and three the way that the

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bottom charging module here disconnects from the battery allowing it to be

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replaced with other modules so dbrand

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who as I mentioned provided our skinned G5 here sent us the camera one to get a

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feel for what that's like and basically it's pretty stupid so far uh I

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had it on for a day before I realized that it's thick awkward to hold unless

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you happen to be taking a picture and aside from the extra battery capacity

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something that I could get with a sleeker battery case for most phones

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contributes absolutely nothing to the usability of the device it's a glorified

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hand grip and shutter button on a phone

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whose camera forced me to stop using it

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earlier on in my daily use review cycle

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than I normally would I mean to be clear

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the camera isn't unusable or anything and it would be a huge upgrade If You're

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Still rocking a Nexus 5 or something but when I'm coming from the Galaxy S7 or an

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iPhone 6s it is a significant kick in

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the balls there's no gesture to launch

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something that everyone not just Motorola and Samsung needs by the way

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the low light performance everything from dimly lit without Flash to very

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dark and Flash assisted frankly blows

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chunks in comparison look at the shot of my family in a hotel room compared to

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the iPhone 6s and video recording is a

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solid me and on top of all that the G5

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isn't waterproof I mean I know it's not advertised anywhere as being waterproof

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but it is amazing how much more likely I am to use my camera to capture an

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awesome moment when it's water resistant launches faster and takes better

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pictures this tradeoff for a removable battery and being able to install

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modules like a clipon shutter button is a horrible one for me personally one

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that isn't helped by LG's Android skin this time around I'm not going to hate

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on the lack of an app tray believe it or not and I even like some of LG's flare

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double tap to wake is wonderful and I didn't realize how much I missed it

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until I had it again and the addition of a recently uninstalled apps button is

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actually kind of cool let you reinstall them with like one touch but management

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of hiding apps something that you need to do since your home screens are also

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your app drawer now could be better I wish I could just drag them to a hide on

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the top of the screen after I long press or and then uninstall on the other side

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rather than digging through a settings menu for some inexplicable reason

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creating folders doesn't intelligently suggest a name as it does on other

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phones available even with the Android operating system so I'm not sure how

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they missed that and it doesn't even let you start typing right away clustered

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notification cards sometimes I'm actually not sure if I'll be able to

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recreate this on camera but they sometimes like Clump up when I try and

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expand them making them them hard to read and the rear lock button with

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fingerprint sensor while reasonably fast and easy to reach while holding the

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phone in my hand ended up being kind of a pain whenever the phone was resting on

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the desk next to me something that happens quite a bit since I use a

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password protected lock screen both Sony and Samsung's implementations and Apple

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for that matter are better here with a fingerprint sensor on the side or on the

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front which I guess leads us pretty perfectly into the conclusion there's

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nothing about the G5 that makes me say what the hell were they thinking like

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OnePlus neglecting to include NFC on the OnePlus 2 it's got a feature set that

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isn't wrong some folks are going to buy it just for the IR emitter and there's

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no right answer between swappable battery versus water resistance it's

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just not the mix that I want for myself

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and that combined with the only pretty good camera awkwardly positioned touch

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sensor lack of wireless charging and high price make it hard for me to

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recommend it in a world where the iPhone 6s and the Galaxy S7

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exist speaking of existing you know what exists dbrand they make high quality

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grain finish like this laptop here the XPS 15 we reviewed whether you want a

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sexy matte black like you saw on the G5 that I reviewed today or whether you're

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completely colorblind with no sense whatsoever and you want a you know

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