so we could have done a full review of the lg g8 but the reality of it is that
most phones are pretty much the same thing other than a couple of key
gimmicks these days anyway so we figured what the hey why don't we just do a
phone gimmick video instead focusing on of course the big gimmick of the g8 the
rear fingerprint sensor
just kidding that was what the g2 anyway no
the screen that actually vibrates to
make forward-facing sound yes my friends there's no speaker on the front of your
phone you think that's the biggest gimmick there's more it gets way gimmickier than
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so do you want to show off the weird vibrating screen speaker first or the
hand unlock first i wanna do the vibrating screen first when you heard
that this phone had that feature did you assume that it had no other speakers and
no other holes i did and then i got really confused because as soon as i sat
here and you put it on the table i was like whoa hold on a second it's got
speaker holes in the bottom and making matters even more confusing
it doesn't even seem like it's a good speaker solution because it's the
old-fashioned fire into your palm and you know curve
your palm real nice so you can actually hear anything like there's actually no
speaker at the top
the exciter is right about here kind of right where that google search bar is it
is meant to be a top speaker even though it does kind of shake the
whole screen let's put some sound on you you might be able to hear that it's
louder at the top than the bottom i would say the stereo effect on this is
far less convincing than even like a
really a really small amplified earpiece
speaker like what i've got on the note 9. um it's you you can really tell like
where it's coming from and it's especially because you've got that
downward firing one into your hand it's
like kind of out here yes and then this one is like
here so it's almost like a weird offset like if you were to take your projector
screen and put one of your speakers well behind it and then one of them way over
on the side like it's not a proper stereo effect and it's really quiet the
other issue here is that this phone just doesn't sound very good i'm at only 70
80 right now and there's clear distortion
okay compare that to a pixel 3 that has dual front firing speakers in stereo do
you want to explain what a power bottom is yeah like it crushes it
but i bet you can go higher without
looks like a distortion toilet brush a little bit
okay hold on let me crank this though
it's ugly the phone really vibrates noticeably in
your hand so what i'm trying to figure out though is whether that's from the vibrating
screen aspect or if it's from the boombox speaker thing so the g7 the
phone that came before this had these boom box speakers so they actually
utilized some of the space of the phone as an acoustic resonance chamber for the
speaker so that it actually hollowed out some aspect of this and that vibrated
your hand on the g7 even though there was no vibrating screen
it's actually kind of unpleasant and it's really unfortunate because my first
impressions of the g8 are honestly really good like i like the really
natural curve they've got for the glass back here i really really like the
rounded corners down here it fits nicely in the hand it's not gigantic so if
you're the kind of person who doesn't want like a freaking tablet in your pocket
then it's it's actually like it's still one handable you know like i can
actually type on this with one hand it's got glass on the sides now and look what
they did this is even improvement compared to the g7 is they managed to
have no more bump no camera bump at all oh it felt really sleek but i couldn't
put my finger on why oh okay
well now we got to try a phone call then yes because there's another aspect that
is potentially awesome which is it's somewhere between speaker and bone
conduction speaker apparently they say if you're in
a noisy environment you can just put it closer to your
jaw and you can hear better than you can with a normal phone
okay so we figure what better way to create a noisy environment
than to just crank something on our
brand new okay it's not all set up but it should still make noise home theater
setup is it still a home theater if it's at work so this is bizarre i can hold my phone
right here like some kind of freaking and i can still hear him just fine
that's pretty cool all right now let's introduce some noise
pollution in hawaii
i can go and throw them 100 like emojis
cool okay come on back in so that's impressive
i actually wasn't that convinced
again while i was trying to hold the phone to my ear at the top like
i would be in the habit of doing but then once i actually put my ear sound
absorption hole right here
where the actual exciter is i was able to even after he turned it back up i was
able to hear you quite clearly so are you saying that it's not great for
consuming content but actually for calls it's pretty sweet actually yeah i'd say
that's that's really fair if you actually take a lot of phone calls in
crowded environments because you could hear me pretty well too right
that's impressive i was literally standing next to speakers with obnoxious music
like the epitome of obnoxious music playing so i think as long as you have
the right expectations then you might be impressed with this
because i thought it was going to be awesome sound and no speakers and that's
what i thought based on the tv demos and that's not even the most gimmicky
gimmick though right they claim that you can unlock the phone
with your palm like with my palm pilot i can remote
into it and unlock it does anyone even get who's gonna get
that no one something so they put one of those time-of-flight sensors on the
front of this which is what face id is all about and this does have face unlock
which is sweet but for some reason
the feature you never knew you didn't want you can also use your hand to
unlock it you can now unlock your phone with hand id in theory
you did it you did it yeah do it again okay
i've never got two in a row
nice yeah okay it's not fast though
yeah an underscreen fingerprint sensor is clearly a better solution with that
said the oneplus 6t is fast but the
ultrasonic sensor wrong phone not impressive to me so far check this out
it might as well be an iphone 6. it might as well be hand unlocked
it's our new punchline poor lg hand gate everything's gate with
this thing vibrating screen gate okay okay so
lucky you it unlocks for you that's great now that actually has other
features that you can do with your hand other than unlocking it they're called
air motion sounds terrible air motion try holding
your hands six to ten centimeters away six to ten
sure let me get that dialed right in for you okay don't pretend like you aren't
intimately familiar with that length okay so see that green bar that came up yeah
okay now move your hand 20 centimeters away
okay now you're supposed to be able to like swipe
to start an app or pinch for a
pinch for a screenshot like like a duck
but it's supposed to be giving you a preview where it kind of images your
hand and you can see what your hand's doing but it's not even giving me the preview
anymore
wait why isn't the preview coming up if the bar is coming up
i can't take this anymore
and then the last unusual feature is that portrait mode now instead of just
having stills capture and the ability to change
your background blur let me just blur you some more here now it also has
video mode yeah this is not good
like you add some twitter compression to this and you are looking at a pretty bad
time it's almost a shame that those gimmicky features suck because
underneath all that is like a pretty decent phone snapdragon 855 six gigs RAM
128 gigs rom there's just the one sku it's got ip68 water resistance it's got
a headphone jack including lg's whole uh 32-bit hi-fi quad dac thing they've
actually got a pretty good reputation for their analog sound output it's got
usb type-c 3500 milliamp hour battery
there's actually not a lot to complain about here 6.1 inch display it's just
like it feels like the same thing i've been
saying for the last i don't know five years eight years however long it's been
about these um about phones really is like yeah it's
like pretty good except that they try to write their own software instead of just
using Android and they apparently do that so that they can build in these
weird features that mostly don't work
the speaker i mean it's not better than a phone that you know just has a
a single bottom firing speaker but that was the norm not that long ago and it
has the benefit of being able to use it in a crowded environment and not have to
like fuss around with you know holding your phone in exactly the right spot so
that's pretty cool this thing though
can just disappear for all i care i'd recommend
it if it wasn't running lg's skin that will always be a problem for me it's
actually looks like they've made a lot of improvements here to be perfectly honest with you the icons are not ugly i
don't hate lg's skin it's better than samsung's well the way samsung's was
before it recently improved it also pricing and availability this will be
out in the next coming weeks depending on your carrier for about probably 800
bucks the g7 was 750. so
it's a flagship it's not the most expensive phone out there if it's a good deal on contract with
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