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so we could have done a full review of the lg g8 but the reality of it is that

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most phones are pretty much the same thing other than a couple of key

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gimmicks these days anyway so we figured what the hey why don't we just do a

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phone gimmick video instead focusing on of course the big gimmick of the g8 the

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rear fingerprint sensor

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just kidding that was what the g2 anyway no

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the screen that actually vibrates to

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make forward-facing sound yes my friends there's no speaker on the front of your

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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

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hand unlock first i wanna do the vibrating screen first when you heard

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that this phone had that feature did you assume that it had no other speakers and

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no other holes i did and then i got really confused because as soon as i sat

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here and you put it on the table i was like whoa hold on a second it's got

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speaker holes in the bottom and making matters even more confusing

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it doesn't even seem like it's a good speaker solution because it's the

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old-fashioned fire into your palm and you know curve

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your palm real nice so you can actually hear anything like there's actually no

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speaker at the top

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the exciter is right about here kind of right where that google search bar is it

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is meant to be a top speaker even though it does kind of shake the

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whole screen let's put some sound on you you might be able to hear that it's

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louder at the top than the bottom i would say the stereo effect on this is

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far less convincing than even like a

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really a really small amplified earpiece

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speaker like what i've got on the note 9. um it's you you can really tell like

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where it's coming from and it's especially because you've got that

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downward firing one into your hand it's

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like kind of out here yes and then this one is like

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here so it's almost like a weird offset like if you were to take your projector

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screen and put one of your speakers well behind it and then one of them way over

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on the side like it's not a proper stereo effect and it's really quiet the

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other issue here is that this phone just doesn't sound very good i'm at only 70

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80 right now and there's clear distortion

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okay compare that to a pixel 3 that has dual front firing speakers in stereo do

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you want to explain what a power bottom is yeah like it crushes it

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but i bet you can go higher without

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looks like a distortion toilet brush a little bit

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okay hold on let me crank this though

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it's ugly the phone really vibrates noticeably in

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your hand so what i'm trying to figure out though is whether that's from the vibrating

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screen aspect or if it's from the boombox speaker thing so the g7 the

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phone that came before this had these boom box speakers so they actually

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utilized some of the space of the phone as an acoustic resonance chamber for the

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speaker so that it actually hollowed out some aspect of this and that vibrated

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your hand on the g7 even though there was no vibrating screen

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it's actually kind of unpleasant and it's really unfortunate because my first

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impressions of the g8 are honestly really good like i like the really

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natural curve they've got for the glass back here i really really like the

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rounded corners down here it fits nicely in the hand it's not gigantic so if

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you're the kind of person who doesn't want like a freaking tablet in your pocket

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then it's it's actually like it's still one handable you know like i can

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actually type on this with one hand it's got glass on the sides now and look what

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they did this is even improvement compared to the g7 is they managed to

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have no more bump no camera bump at all oh it felt really sleek but i couldn't

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put my finger on why oh okay

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well now we got to try a phone call then yes because there's another aspect that

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is potentially awesome which is it's somewhere between speaker and bone

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conduction speaker apparently they say if you're in

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a noisy environment you can just put it closer to your

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jaw and you can hear better than you can with a normal phone

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okay so we figure what better way to create a noisy environment

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than to just crank something on our

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brand new okay it's not all set up but it should still make noise home theater

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setup is it still a home theater if it's at work so this is bizarre i can hold my phone

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right here like some kind of freaking and i can still hear him just fine

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that's pretty cool all right now let's introduce some noise

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pollution in hawaii

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i can go and throw them 100 like emojis

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cool okay come on back in so that's impressive

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i actually wasn't that convinced

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again while i was trying to hold the phone to my ear at the top like

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i would be in the habit of doing but then once i actually put my ear sound

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absorption hole right here

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where the actual exciter is i was able to even after he turned it back up i was

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able to hear you quite clearly so are you saying that it's not great for

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consuming content but actually for calls it's pretty sweet actually yeah i'd say

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that's that's really fair if you actually take a lot of phone calls in

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crowded environments because you could hear me pretty well too right

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that's impressive i was literally standing next to speakers with obnoxious music

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like the epitome of obnoxious music playing so i think as long as you have

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the right expectations then you might be impressed with this

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because i thought it was going to be awesome sound and no speakers and that's

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what i thought based on the tv demos and that's not even the most gimmicky

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gimmick though right they claim that you can unlock the phone

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with your palm like with my palm pilot i can remote

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into it and unlock it does anyone even get who's gonna get

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that no one something so they put one of those time-of-flight sensors on the

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front of this which is what face id is all about and this does have face unlock

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which is sweet but for some reason

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the feature you never knew you didn't want you can also use your hand to

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unlock it you can now unlock your phone with hand id in theory

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you did it you did it yeah do it again okay

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i've never got two in a row

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nice yeah okay it's not fast though

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yeah an underscreen fingerprint sensor is clearly a better solution with that

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said the oneplus 6t is fast but the

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ultrasonic sensor wrong phone not impressive to me so far check this out

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it might as well be an iphone 6. it might as well be hand unlocked

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it's our new punchline poor lg hand gate everything's gate with

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this thing vibrating screen gate okay okay so

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lucky you it unlocks for you that's great now that actually has other

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features that you can do with your hand other than unlocking it they're called

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air motion sounds terrible air motion try holding

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your hands six to ten centimeters away six to ten

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sure let me get that dialed right in for you okay don't pretend like you aren't

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intimately familiar with that length okay so see that green bar that came up yeah

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okay now move your hand 20 centimeters away

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okay now you're supposed to be able to like swipe

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to start an app or pinch for a

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pinch for a screenshot like like a duck

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but it's supposed to be giving you a preview where it kind of images your

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hand and you can see what your hand's doing but it's not even giving me the preview

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anymore

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wait why isn't the preview coming up if the bar is coming up

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i can't take this anymore

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and then the last unusual feature is that portrait mode now instead of just

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having stills capture and the ability to change

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your background blur let me just blur you some more here now it also has

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video mode yeah this is not good

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like you add some twitter compression to this and you are looking at a pretty bad

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time it's almost a shame that those gimmicky features suck because

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underneath all that is like a pretty decent phone snapdragon 855 six gigs RAM

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128 gigs rom there's just the one sku it's got ip68 water resistance it's got

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a headphone jack including lg's whole uh 32-bit hi-fi quad dac thing they've

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actually got a pretty good reputation for their analog sound output it's got

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usb type-c 3500 milliamp hour battery

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there's actually not a lot to complain about here 6.1 inch display it's just

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like it feels like the same thing i've been

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saying for the last i don't know five years eight years however long it's been

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about these um about phones really is like yeah it's

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like pretty good except that they try to write their own software instead of just

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using Android and they apparently do that so that they can build in these

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weird features that mostly don't work

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the speaker i mean it's not better than a phone that you know just has a

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a single bottom firing speaker but that was the norm not that long ago and it

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has the benefit of being able to use it in a crowded environment and not have to

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like fuss around with you know holding your phone in exactly the right spot so

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that's pretty cool this thing though

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can just disappear for all i care i'd recommend

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it if it wasn't running lg's skin that will always be a problem for me it's

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actually looks like they've made a lot of improvements here to be perfectly honest with you the icons are not ugly i

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don't hate lg's skin it's better than samsung's well the way samsung's was

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before it recently improved it also pricing and availability this will be

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out in the next coming weeks depending on your carrier for about probably 800

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bucks the g7 was 750. so

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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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