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It seems interest in the LG G5 has tapered off a lot. But it is coming to the US in early April FWIW...
http://www.androidcentral.com/lg-g5-will-bring-its-friends-party-early-april
http://www.androidcentral.com/lg-g5-will-bring-its-friends-party-early-april
Nice unboxing pictures and hands on thoughts....
http://www.droid-life.com/2016/03/13/video-lg-g5-unboxing-not/
http://www.droid-life.com/2016/03/13/video-lg-g5-unboxing-not/
I think I'm pretty sold on this. Probably going to trade in the note 5 for this. I played with the s7 edge over the weekend and its very pretty, but I don't feel it's any better than the note 5 overall. I've also been with Samsung for a while with their s6 edge and the note 5.
That said the note 5 is probably the best phone I've ever owned, closely followed by the 6s plus - hope the g5 adds to it.
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That said the note 5 is probably the best phone I've ever owned, closely followed by the 6s plus - hope the g5 adds to it.
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I want to be stoked for this phone, but something isn't doing it for me. I would really love to have that second wide camera option on my phone, and removable battery is a revelation.
However the smaller screen is a bit off, and the slight iPhone resemblance is a bit try hard. I will still seriously consider getting one, especially if they make a sequal to the v10 with some of these cool innovations.
However the smaller screen is a bit off, and the slight iPhone resemblance is a bit try hard. I will still seriously consider getting one, especially if they make a sequal to the v10 with some of these cool innovations.
I feel LG is unheralded when it comes to innovation. Capacitive touchscreen with the Prada. Double tap to wake with Knock-On that almost everyone copied. Wireless charging with the Nexus 4 (although this probably is more of Google's idea thanks to Matias Duarte coming from the Palm Pre/webOS camp). QHD with the G3. The front near bezel-less design that Huawei has tried to emulate with their recent Mate devices. The rear volume buttons that tried ASUS ripped off with the Zenfone 2. G Flex with self healing rear. The cool design of the V10. And now this modular design which seems too ahead of its time.
I don't think the LG G5 will the best 2016 smartphone of the year. That honor will likely go to the S7 edge. G5 deserves its award for innovation from Mobile World Congress though. Seeing that the Snapdragon 820 is not a marathon runner with the S7 / S7 edge compared to Samsung's Exynos, the 2800 mAh will start to rear its ugly head with low battery notifications more often than not. Another issue are LG Friends which aren't compelling enough.
But I can excuse LG this year the way some of us were excusing Samsung last year with the S6 edge. Samsung is in their tock ("s") year. Hopefully, the G6 will rectify the issues and refine its strengths with the G5 the way the S7 edge did to the S6 edge / S6 edge+ this year. If there is any phone with ALOT more room for improvement, it is the G5. But we won't see any of the improvement until the G6 next year, so better to wait or become a buyer remorseful guinea pig.
Always go for the "s" years after a revamp in design. Look at the iPhone 4s owners who got dual core and were able to update longer than the 4 owners. Or iPhone 5s owners who benefitted with Touch ID and a 64-bit processor. Or the iPhone 6s / 6s Plus owners who got a huge performance boost and double the RAM which makes the iPhone 6 / 6 Plus likely to age the worst since the iPhone 4 with updates.
Hopefully next year, LG removes that ugly visor on the rear. LG's pinnacle in design for me came from the G3 in 2014. All its color options looked great and the gold wasn't gaudy at all. With the faux metal matte plastic design that rarely showed smudges and was very easy to clean when needed to. Come back to me, LG, when you get rid of that Nexus 6-like visor for the G6. Patience. The improvements and refinements for G5 will arrive next year with the G6.
I don't think the LG G5 will the best 2016 smartphone of the year. That honor will likely go to the S7 edge. G5 deserves its award for innovation from Mobile World Congress though. Seeing that the Snapdragon 820 is not a marathon runner with the S7 / S7 edge compared to Samsung's Exynos, the 2800 mAh will start to rear its ugly head with low battery notifications more often than not. Another issue are LG Friends which aren't compelling enough.
But I can excuse LG this year the way some of us were excusing Samsung last year with the S6 edge. Samsung is in their tock ("s") year. Hopefully, the G6 will rectify the issues and refine its strengths with the G5 the way the S7 edge did to the S6 edge / S6 edge+ this year. If there is any phone with ALOT more room for improvement, it is the G5. But we won't see any of the improvement until the G6 next year, so better to wait or become a buyer remorseful guinea pig.
Always go for the "s" years after a revamp in design. Look at the iPhone 4s owners who got dual core and were able to update longer than the 4 owners. Or iPhone 5s owners who benefitted with Touch ID and a 64-bit processor. Or the iPhone 6s / 6s Plus owners who got a huge performance boost and double the RAM which makes the iPhone 6 / 6 Plus likely to age the worst since the iPhone 4 with updates.
Hopefully next year, LG removes that ugly visor on the rear. LG's pinnacle in design for me came from the G3 in 2014. All its color options looked great and the gold wasn't gaudy at all. With the faux metal matte plastic design that rarely showed smudges and was very easy to clean when needed to. Come back to me, LG, when you get rid of that Nexus 6-like visor for the G6. Patience. The improvements and refinements for G5 will arrive next year with the G6.
The Cam Plus module might need sone work.
http://www.businessinsider.com/lg-cam-plus-didnt-work-in-our-test-2016-3
http://www.businessinsider.com/lg-cam-plus-didnt-work-in-our-test-2016-3
The geek in me wants to like this device I hear you.
If it was a nexus I'd be back on Android asap
just because of all the principles it would stand for
If it was a nexus I'd be back on Android asap
just because of all the principles it would stand for
Had a hands on with this today. Was a bit surprised to see it in a carrier store (UK, EE) already.
I was impressed how nice it looked: way better than in pictures. It was the Titan version and it was really nice. I was even more impressed when I picked it up. The metal build is rock solid and feels great.
After that start it was a bit less impressive. The skin is not to my taste and I don't really see the point of it. Scanner on the back would annoy me as someone who puts my phone flat on a desk and unlocks it from the front without picking it up. The camera was very good but slow to focus automatically, at least when compared to the S7 (I moved my hand in and out of the frame quickly and the S7 was lightning).
Hard to be sure but perhaps worst of all the battery was ticking down during use in the store which always worries me. Not sure why but I guess that's the price of a QHD on IPS with always on and the 820.
Maybe that's why they went modular as I think this would be on the poorer end of the battery life scale. The thing is, the build is so nice that I'd want to protect it with a case which then inhibits the swapping out of things.
Will be interesting to see how this fares.
I was impressed how nice it looked: way better than in pictures. It was the Titan version and it was really nice. I was even more impressed when I picked it up. The metal build is rock solid and feels great.
After that start it was a bit less impressive. The skin is not to my taste and I don't really see the point of it. Scanner on the back would annoy me as someone who puts my phone flat on a desk and unlocks it from the front without picking it up. The camera was very good but slow to focus automatically, at least when compared to the S7 (I moved my hand in and out of the frame quickly and the S7 was lightning).
Hard to be sure but perhaps worst of all the battery was ticking down during use in the store which always worries me. Not sure why but I guess that's the price of a QHD on IPS with always on and the 820.
Maybe that's why they went modular as I think this would be on the poorer end of the battery life scale. The thing is, the build is so nice that I'd want to protect it with a case which then inhibits the swapping out of things.
Will be interesting to see how this fares.
One of the first speed comparisons I've seen of the G5, looks just as fast as the S7, so it's fast.
The G5 looks good in that video. That's the best picture video i have seen of the G5. Nice looking handset. Some of the previous pictures i saw weren't very flattering.
Yeah but it's xeetechcare. The guy who insisted the S7edge was slower than the S7 because it had more pixels as the screen was bigger.
I watch his videos only to see the new devices but take any results with a well proportioned dose of salt as his tests are simply the most flawed of any of the speed tests on YouTube.
I've seen him fail to load a game 4 or 5 times and then still go on to compare multitasking of a device without taking into consideration that loading an app 4 or 5 times (regardless if it crashes) would affect the remaining apps stored in memory.
Likewise he will judge boot up speeds of devices with tampered bootloader (you see the red text on some) with a device without, which of course doesn't prove anything at all about a devices speed (indeed booting up never does anyway).
So yeah I'd wait for others to show performance of the LG G5, but then with an 820 and 4gb ram I would fully expect it to be fast regardless.
The only thing I took from the video was the G5 screen still looks a little washed out and the LG Skin and icons are still f'ugly.
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Locked bootloader on this, means no buy or using my JoD for this thing.
Let's see the HTC M10 in the flesh, I'd take that over the G5, the M10 has a bigger battery, and leaked benchmarks show it to be blazing fast, with HTC claiming Nexus type smoothness throughout.
Let's see the HTC M10 in the flesh, I'd take that over the G5, the M10 has a bigger battery, and leaked benchmarks show it to be blazing fast, with HTC claiming Nexus type smoothness throughout.
Yeah, it seems like it'll be one of those phones that looks better in the flesh.
Yeah, didn't mean to imply that was the definitive word on this handset, but it was the first I saw taken through its paces, and the fact that it kept pace with the S7, which is one of the fastest handsets out, was a good sign.
I agree with the ui design, really not my taste. And the onscreen buttons look wierd too.
Certainly a nice looking phone in the flesh. Surprisingly so. Just don't go past the lock screen
No great fan of them either. If you've got a 'chin', stick 'em in.
LG is doing this on tmobile now too?
I thought the issue with Samsung doing it on tmobile was Samsung, not qualcomm?
XDA this week said that the LG G5 is locked down on T-Mobile. A lot of people are saying due to Android Pay and Qualcomm the carriers are going a long with the locked bootloaders.
Let's see if HTC locks down the M10 ? They have typically been the developer friendly outside of the Nexus line. HTC even has their own website to help with unlocking, they've been doing that for years. But we'll see if they change it this time ?
HTC of all people would probably keep it if anyone was gonna keep it Yea.
They could keep the website method, maybe require a code like miui or something and offer a very clear disclaimer that you will screw up android pay
Pretty sure you can reflash complete stock and relock the bootloader and android pay is good to go
Samsung made Samsung pay reliant on Knox, so they really can never go back!
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LG G5 review from Android Police
Not good. .....
http://www.androidpolice.com/2016/03/31/lg-g5-review-a-bit-of-a-mess-frankly/
Not good. .....
http://www.androidpolice.com/2016/03/31/lg-g5-review-a-bit-of-a-mess-frankly/
I'm thinking about switching from my S6 to the G5. Yeah, the UI is just terrible, but it's got plenty of nice features: double tap to wake, better fingerprint reader (like on the new Nexus phones. Just tap slightly and done), 4GB RAM, FM radio, two cameras for wide angle shots, 8Mpx front facing camera, microSD slot, IPS screen (like them more than AMOLED), on screen buttons (prefer them over capacitive and hardware buttons), 16Mpx camera with OIS, multiuser accounts (Samsung phones don't have this), etc.
Oh, and that quick charge 3.0 looks very nice! 80% charge in just 30 minutes!!
Oh, and that quick charge 3.0 looks very nice! 80% charge in just 30 minutes!!