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it's been a while since LG has been in the tablet game but guess what today they have had a hell of an announcement hey it's Josh MacArthur manager Authority what's going on everybody and this is the LG G pad alright and here is the G pad it's an eight point three inch tablet created by LG you can already see there that it has a bit of a unique backing to it this is an aluminum backing and here are the two speakers on the back design-wise this is definitely a labor of love for LG as we were told they tried to figure out exactly how wide a tablet had to be in order to be comfortable but also allow for the biggest possible type of screen at eight point three inches that is the diagonal measurement what we have here is 127 millimeters from left to right in terms of that's what they found in terms of the most comfortable type of screen to have in one hand and still remain pretty comfortable and you know what I have to agree it is actually quite comfortable it rivals the nexus 7 in my opinion in terms of the comfort because it is actually quite thin and allows for a very very easily easy handling and when I have it in 110 it really does just rest there very well for an eight point three inch tablet at 1080p this is definitely one of the best ways for tip for LG to get back into the tablet game if a full HD screen here and it's just really really vibrant very nice I don't believe we are at full brightness and it's just a wonderful display capable of probably giving you a great media experience the thickness is just it's just about eight millimeters thick if they come around the back you can see that there is a camera up here and the two speakers on the side along with a slot for micro SD card now what we're working with here in via and the LG G pad is a Snapdragon 600 processor clocked in at 1.7 gigahertz that allows for a lot of speed and a question that was asked was why not be 800 well what we were told was that the Snapdragon 600 allowed for just enough power without draining too much battery now what we also see inside of the Optimus UI that is here in the LG G pad or quite a few enhancements especially a few of them which i have already here the slide aside I have a couple apps that are already open that if you have the LG g2 you already know what the slide aside looks like we'll open up a memo three-finger swipe it goes over to the side ready to be used later we'll go to Chrome and slide that aside and one more will do the calendar slide that aside and then when you have all of those apps over on the side allows for quick multitasking because when you slide back you have all of these apps already ready on the side i'm going to show you one last thing on the G pad here and we're going to look at the Q pair so what LG has been looking for is a way to connect to the tablet to the smartphone experience essentially what the tablet will do is connect to the phone smartphone say the LG g2 and it will connect a lot of different services from it to the tablet and back and forth so for example if you get a SMS message on your phone it will show up here as well as a notification if you get a call you get a notification as well and you can also move Q memos back and forth from them so if I had this and then I saved it it would automatically move over to the phone and save it onto there so that if I was to go out let's say I had a grocery list here or something I would be able to see that on my phone as i leave my tablet at home so that would be the g pad by LG LG has returned to the tablet game as you can see i'm moving it around pretty easily in my hands all right so we're going to have a couple videos or regarding the g pad against a couple of the top tablets in the market especially in its and around its size so stay tuned to android authority for all the action we're here at Aoife in berlin