hey guys this is Luke and welcome to my really late review of the LG G2 first
we'll start off with tech specs so it has a 5.2 in 1080P IPS screen a 13
megapixel camera on the back a 2.26 GHz quadcore Snapdragon 800 which makes my
S3 look like a Tonka truck a 3,000 mAh
battery 32 GB of storage which only about I think 22 to 24 GB is usable I
believe and 2 GB of 800 MHz RAM next
we're moving to physical features so it comes in kind of a nasty gloss mine
specifically comes in Black which I'll hopefully cover up with a case as soon
as possible unlike the models in Korea it does not have a removable back
removable battery or interchangeable SD card slot other than that there's the
kind of tiny speakers which my hands seem to cover when I actually watch it
in portrait mode which is unfortunate because you're essentially manually
muting the device but I've gotten used to kind of Hope holding it really wide
so I don't cover the actual speakers but it is kind of odd um other than that
just around the the sides of the device there's no buttons and there's no
buttons on the front either which was really weird at first and I honestly
really hated it and expected I was not going to like the phone at all but
there's buttons on the back which I didn't like at first but then I noticed
that that's kind of where my finger naturally rests my finger naturally
rests right on the buttons on the back and it's really easy to tell what button
you're pressing so once I got used to that I noticed that there's the double
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
double tap a a blank area on your desktop it will turn the screen off so
if your phone is resting on a table you can double tap the screen to turn it on
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
is not resting on a table you can just press the buttons on the back easily
because your hand is naturally in that position and I actually really like this
feature after using the phone for quite a while it feels awkward to use a
different phone now to press the buttons on the side feels weird whenever I go to
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
just feels better now if the phone's in my pocket I can reach down into my
pocket change the volume or do whatever really easily as I'll always know where
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
the top one is volumed down it's just really simple and I like it a lot I hope
this feature transcends onto phones in the future so that once I replace this
phone I can get this feature again that's how much I do like it now speaking about hoping this feature might
be on future phones my future phone might actually be this phone my contract
is ending with tus very soon and I'm going to have to pick up another phone
it's honestly probably going to be this one I really like the buttons on the back and speaking of Tellus thank you
Tellus for giving Android bugle this phone Android bugle is a Canadian
publication talking about mobile stuff and they were nice enough to give us
this phone to review and to give away so we'll be giving away by having you guys
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into the into the draw to win that phone the uh LG G2 more about the back button
so if you hold the volume up button on the back down while the screen is off it
will open up the notes application quickly and just jump you right into
there if you hold the volume down button down while the screen is off it'll open
the camera application and having your uh hand already back there makes it
fairly easy to take pictures in portrait mode and will enable you to take
pictures just by pressing that button again and speaking of the camera it's actually pretty awesome it has Optical
image stabilization a pretty sweet sensor and tons of photo options as you
guys probably know I'm not exactly the greatest at taking photos so I'm going
to get Brandon here to actually take the photo so you guys can see some examples
of how good this camera is I personally have just been using it to take super
cheesy photos of my food although I have not been instagramming them or posting
them online so don't worry about that the 3,000 mli hour battery with a
combination of the efficiency of the Snapdragon 800 is pretty impressive as a
story of how good this battery is and this is probably one of the the best
cases I could have possibly been in was at CES when I was using the phone quite
heavily I forgot to charge it one night now I was staying up for like 20 hours a
day at this point and using it quite consistently throughout the entire enire
day used it for one day forgot to charge it overnight use it for the entire next
day and as I was laying down to go to bed it finally gave me a warning saying
that I only have 15% of my battery life left meaning it worked for two entire
extended days of Fairly medium to heavy
use without dying I still had a little bit of juice left that was awesome
because I was able to completely forget about charging it and completely get
through the whole next day without having to worry about carrying a battery pack around or anything like that the
phone is running Android 4.2 software and on on top of that it's running LG's
Optimus UI currently I've used TouchWiz since for a little while and now Optimus
UI um when you first start using Optimus UI it's a little bit clunky there's a
bunch of animations and the animations are fairly long now the snapd dragon 800
makes the animations run exactly how long they should be and not really lag
but they still take a little while and seem a little bit unnecessary and some
things are just a little bit messy luckily it's fairly customizable you can
change a lot of things and after spending a while with it I found that I
was able to turn it into something that I didn't mind that much the only thing I
don't really like right now is the notification drawer that is still pretty
messy and I'm hoping that I can fix that up in the next little while uh because
I'm not actually a huge fan of it but the rest of the whole experience I have
been able to change to my liking quite well thank you for watching my video on
the LG G2 don't forget to comment below with something to do with Android bugle
and do you like the buttons on the back or do you still want buttons on the the
side I know I like the buttons on the back but that might not be the same for
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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