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as well as hyperx so we wanted to talk
about the glex 2 but you can see behind me I can't get anywhere near this
freaking table everybody's looking at it everyone's walking all over the place so
we had to track down someone from LG and I was like do you even know who I am and
they were like yeah wo totally you're lest aren't you that's not how it
happened at all actually but I did manage to get my hands on a g FL 2 here
so this is looking a lot better than the glex one that I first saw last year and
one of the things that I noticed right away when I picked it up is that similar
to what we've seen ever since the G2 I believe was the first one to do this
we've still got the volume and lock button on the back in a place that is actually quite natural and comfortable
for a larger phone like this but unlike the glex one which had kind of this this
curve that was designed around the curve of the screen and not around the curve
of your hand they've changed it up so it fits nicely in your hand but the screen
has its own completely separate curve so it feels natural to your eyes as well
now whether or not you sort of buy into the whole do we benefit from a curved
screen on something this small is totally up to you and it's something
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
knows maybe that'll happen in the future right LG but the specs of the phone are
looking pretty darn good it's got a Snapdragon 810 processor it's an OCTA
cor that's eight cores but I don't have any idea if that's eight high
performance cores or four power saving ones and for high performance ones or
anything like that it'll be available in variance with two or 3 gigs of RAM
different types of storage it's got an OLED display that looks absolutely
beautiful and 1080p which not sure
exactly why they're doing that since they were one of the actually I believe
they were the first to do a 1440p phone with the G3 um but I definitely
understand why they might want to because with OLED you're going to get some power savings and by going with a
lower resolution display you're going to get some power savings there as well for
something that I don't personally believe really benefits the user going
above 1080p speaking of power the
battery is 3,000 milliamp hours they've made a couple of other upgrades as well
it's got a 2.1 megapixel selfie camera a 13 megapixel rear camera and that selfie
camera gets a couple of gesture upgrades so we've still got the whole go like
this to start the countdown timer thing to start your selfie but now just by
moving the phone down you can actually preview it as well they also wanted me
to show you guys this one it's not the best glance for notifications
implementation I've ever seen but you can drag down from the top in order to
preview your notifications not too shabby and definitely something that
those of you who don't already have smart watches will find will come in
handy so I don't have any kind of confirmation as to when this will be
available in Canada at the very least but looking pretty nice and it has a
much much nicer feel than the previous one in spite of the plastic back which
by the way has their next Generation selfhealing technology so we first saw
this on the glex where they were doing demos they had like wire brushes going
all across the backs of the phones and they were healing in a matter of minutes
now it starts to heal in a matter of about 10 seconds meaning that you can
throw it in your purse throw it in your pocket with your keys or whatever else
and it's going to look nice not only on the front where it's got Gorilla Glass
but also on the back where it's got that selfhealing Tech that's not the only
cool thing though under the back you take it off you've got micro SD
expansions something that some phone manufacturers are really shying away
from and others are embracing and I'm glad to just know that LG is totally
embracing it cuz you got support for micro SD cards up to 2 terab which is
completely bananas so I actually have to
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