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hey guys this is Luke and welcome to my really late review of the LG G2 first

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we'll start off with tech specs so it has a 5.2 in 1080P IPS screen a 13

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megapixel camera on the back a 2.26 GHz quadcore Snapdragon 800 which makes my

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S3 look like a Tonka truck a 3,000 mAh

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battery 32 GB of storage which only about I think 22 to 24 GB is usable I

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believe and 2 GB of 800 MHz RAM next

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we're moving to physical features so it comes in kind of a nasty gloss mine

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specifically comes in Black which I'll hopefully cover up with a case as soon

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as possible unlike the models in Korea it does not have a removable back

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removable battery or interchangeable SD card slot other than that there's the

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kind of tiny speakers which my hands seem to cover when I actually watch it

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in portrait mode which is unfortunate because you're essentially manually

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muting the device but I've gotten used to kind of Hope holding it really wide

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so I don't cover the actual speakers but it is kind of odd um other than that

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just around the the sides of the device there's no buttons and there's no

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buttons on the front either which was really weird at first and I honestly

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really hated it and expected I was not going to like the phone at all but

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there's buttons on the back which I didn't like at first but then I noticed

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that that's kind of where my finger naturally rests my finger naturally

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rests right on the buttons on the back and it's really easy to tell what button

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you're pressing so once I got used to that I noticed that there's the double

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tap on feature for the screens so you can turn the screen on by just double tapping the screen and if you're able to

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double tap a a blank area on your desktop it will turn the screen off so

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if your phone is resting on a table you can double tap the screen to turn it on

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double tap the screen to turn it off and you don't have to access the buttons on the back and if the button if the phone

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is not resting on a table you can just press the buttons on the back easily

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because your hand is naturally in that position and I actually really like this

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feature after using the phone for quite a while it feels awkward to use a

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different phone now to press the buttons on the side feels weird whenever I go to

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press the Buton on the side I tend to press more than one and adjust things that I don't want to adjust and this

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just feels better now if the phone's in my pocket I can reach down into my

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pocket change the volume or do whatever really easily as I'll always know where

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the buttons are because if they're at the top that means the top one is volume up if they're at the bottom that means

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the top one is volumed down it's just really simple and I like it a lot I hope

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this feature transcends onto phones in the future so that once I replace this

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phone I can get this feature again that's how much I do like it now speaking about hoping this feature might

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be on future phones my future phone might actually be this phone my contract

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is ending with tus very soon and I'm going to have to pick up another phone

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it's honestly probably going to be this one I really like the buttons on the back and speaking of Tellus thank you

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Tellus for giving Android bugle this phone Android bugle is a Canadian

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publication talking about mobile stuff and they were nice enough to give us

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this phone to review and to give away so we'll be giving away by having you guys

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comment on the video below include somewhere in your comment Android bugle

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whether or not it's it's like thans Android bugle or something like that that'll all work as long as you have

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Android bugle in it I be able to find it more easily and also Circle them on

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Google+ if you do both those two things comment on the video below with

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something to do with Android bugle and circle them on Google+ you'll be entered

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into the into the draw to win that phone the uh LG G2 more about the back button

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so if you hold the volume up button on the back down while the screen is off it

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will open up the notes application quickly and just jump you right into

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there if you hold the volume down button down while the screen is off it'll open

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the camera application and having your uh hand already back there makes it

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fairly easy to take pictures in portrait mode and will enable you to take

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pictures just by pressing that button again and speaking of the camera it's actually pretty awesome it has Optical

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image stabilization a pretty sweet sensor and tons of photo options as you

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guys probably know I'm not exactly the greatest at taking photos so I'm going

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to get Brandon here to actually take the photo so you guys can see some examples

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of how good this camera is I personally have just been using it to take super

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cheesy photos of my food although I have not been instagramming them or posting

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them online so don't worry about that the 3,000 mli hour battery with a

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combination of the efficiency of the Snapdragon 800 is pretty impressive as a

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story of how good this battery is and this is probably one of the the best

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cases I could have possibly been in was at CES when I was using the phone quite

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heavily I forgot to charge it one night now I was staying up for like 20 hours a

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day at this point and using it quite consistently throughout the entire enire

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day used it for one day forgot to charge it overnight use it for the entire next

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day and as I was laying down to go to bed it finally gave me a warning saying

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that I only have 15% of my battery life left meaning it worked for two entire

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extended days of Fairly medium to heavy

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use without dying I still had a little bit of juice left that was awesome

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because I was able to completely forget about charging it and completely get

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through the whole next day without having to worry about carrying a battery pack around or anything like that the

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phone is running Android 4.2 software and on on top of that it's running LG's

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Optimus UI currently I've used TouchWiz since for a little while and now Optimus

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UI um when you first start using Optimus UI it's a little bit clunky there's a

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bunch of animations and the animations are fairly long now the snapd dragon 800

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makes the animations run exactly how long they should be and not really lag

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but they still take a little while and seem a little bit unnecessary and some

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things are just a little bit messy luckily it's fairly customizable you can

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change a lot of things and after spending a while with it I found that I

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was able to turn it into something that I didn't mind that much the only thing I

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don't really like right now is the notification drawer that is still pretty

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messy and I'm hoping that I can fix that up in the next little while uh because

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I'm not actually a huge fan of it but the rest of the whole experience I have

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been able to change to my liking quite well thank you for watching my video on

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the LG G2 don't forget to comment below with something to do with Android bugle

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and do you like the buttons on the back or do you still want buttons on the the

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side I know I like the buttons on the back but that might not be the same for

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everyone and it might suit your style a lot better to have the buttons on the side so what do you think also don't

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forget to Circle Android Bugle on Google+ because you need to do that to

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be eligible for the contest as well as always thumbs up or thumbs down based on

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