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store. phantom.in screen protectors out there

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as well as hyperx so we wanted to talk

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about the glex 2 but you can see behind me I can't get anywhere near this

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freaking table everybody's looking at it everyone's walking all over the place so

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we had to track down someone from LG and I was like do you even know who I am and

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they were like yeah wo totally you're lest aren't you that's not how it

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happened at all actually but I did manage to get my hands on a g FL 2 here

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so this is looking a lot better than the glex one that I first saw last year and

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one of the things that I noticed right away when I picked it up is that similar

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to what we've seen ever since the G2 I believe was the first one to do this

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we've still got the volume and lock button on the back in a place that is actually quite natural and comfortable

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for a larger phone like this but unlike the glex one which had kind of this this

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curve that was designed around the curve of the screen and not around the curve

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of your hand they've changed it up so it fits nicely in your hand but the screen

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has its own completely separate curve so it feels natural to your eyes as well

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now whether or not you sort of buy into the whole do we benefit from a curved

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screen on something this small is totally up to you and it's something

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that you're going to have to try for yourself I haven't actually done a full review of a flex device before but who

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knows maybe that'll happen in the future right LG but the specs of the phone are

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looking pretty darn good it's got a Snapdragon 810 processor it's an OCTA

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cor that's eight cores but I don't have any idea if that's eight high

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performance cores or four power saving ones and for high performance ones or

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anything like that it'll be available in variance with two or 3 gigs of RAM

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different types of storage it's got an OLED display that looks absolutely

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beautiful and 1080p which not sure

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exactly why they're doing that since they were one of the actually I believe

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they were the first to do a 1440p phone with the G3 um but I definitely

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understand why they might want to because with OLED you're going to get some power savings and by going with a

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lower resolution display you're going to get some power savings there as well for

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something that I don't personally believe really benefits the user going

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above 1080p speaking of power the

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battery is 3,000 milliamp hours they've made a couple of other upgrades as well

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it's got a 2.1 megapixel selfie camera a 13 megapixel rear camera and that selfie

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camera gets a couple of gesture upgrades so we've still got the whole go like

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this to start the countdown timer thing to start your selfie but now just by

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moving the phone down you can actually preview it as well they also wanted me

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to show you guys this one it's not the best glance for notifications

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implementation I've ever seen but you can drag down from the top in order to

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preview your notifications not too shabby and definitely something that

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those of you who don't already have smart watches will find will come in

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handy so I don't have any kind of confirmation as to when this will be

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available in Canada at the very least but looking pretty nice and it has a

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much much nicer feel than the previous one in spite of the plastic back which

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by the way has their next Generation selfhealing technology so we first saw

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this on the glex where they were doing demos they had like wire brushes going

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all across the backs of the phones and they were healing in a matter of minutes

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now it starts to heal in a matter of about 10 seconds meaning that you can

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throw it in your purse throw it in your pocket with your keys or whatever else

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and it's going to look nice not only on the front where it's got Gorilla Glass

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but also on the back where it's got that selfhealing Tech that's not the only

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cool thing though under the back you take it off you've got micro SD

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expansions something that some phone manufacturers are really shying away

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from and others are embracing and I'm glad to just know that LG is totally

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embracing it cuz you got support for micro SD cards up to 2 terab which is

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completely bananas so I actually have to

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I have to put this down for a second and uh give a quick shout out to our

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sponsors so our first sponsor is Phantom glass these guys make freaking awesome

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screen protectors they're Gorilla Glass 3 so they have that same scratch

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resistance that same Clarity and that same nice feel to your finger as the

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rest that's the regular screen on your phone except that you don't have to

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worry about damaging it speaking of not about damaging things and they're

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available at store.

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phantom.of they don't mind me screwing that up youtube.com/ hyperx they got a

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lot of great gaming content over there those guys have a great sense of humor though so hopefully they're going to uh

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just roll with that or not watch this guys don't miss any of our CES

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