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hi everybody I'm Chris Wilk and I'm here with some of my first impressions of the LG g2 one of the biggest deals in my opinion is that the g2 is among the first phones to use Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 chipset we were asked not to run benchmarks a nice guy that I am I didn't but that didn't stop others and from what we've seen performance on the g2 is awesome not really a surprise but still worth mentioning I'm a little surprised that reaction of the buttons being on the back of the phone has been so cool for one it's part of why the bezel is so tiny plus it's a lot nicer to use in person than people seem to be imagining just being able to change the volume mid call without fumbling around is pretty neat like the Moto X we recently reviewed LG says they based the design of the g2 on analysis of the human grip and like the X it uses a stepped battery to help achieve this shape while the 3,000 milliamp hour battery is definitely not small LG is taking steps to provide even longer battery life by reducing g ram power use when the image on screen is still which on a phone is a whole lot of the time from what I've seen in the phones being announced the past few weeks it seems like gestures are about to become a big deal at least for a while LG uses gestures for guest mode as well as slide aside which allows you to slide apps to the left to keep them in a saved state and slide them back to the right to get them back then we have knock knock which allows you to tap twice on the phone screen to turn it on and tap twice on an empty area on the screen to turn it back off another thing that seems to be very popular lately is using your phone as a TV remote so the g2 has a built-in IR blaster and accompanying TV app say what you will but this is definitely handy and something I really like seeing in flagships one thing I wasn't able to test was the camera unlike Motorola using a different RGB see sensor to improve low-light photography LG is opting for using optical image stabilization which should allow longer exposure times without the blur that you normally see with them now I've seen this work on DSLR cameras and is effective but it remains to be seen how well it will work in a phone now another neat touches that you can just pick up the phone and answer it somebody raised a good point though what if it's somebody you don't want to talk to how do you know who it is first LG has a pretty cool answer for this you pick up the phone and you see who's calling but it's not until you hold it to your ear that you actually answer it now this is a gesture i could see misfiring quite a bit but if it actually works it would be really cool LG's promised us that will see a review unit really soon so stay tuned for the official take on the LG g2 I'm Chris Walken as always thanks for watching