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is LG's newest flagship everything we hoped it could be find out in our review hey everybody I'm Chris look the LG g2 has some seriously impressive specs and some really cool design elements but we all know that a truly great phone has to be more than the sum of its parts so is the g2 let's take a look the LG g2 has a 5.2 inch 1080p display and runs a Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 chipset with a 2.2 6 gigahertz quad-core Krait CPU and Adreno 330 GPU it has 2 gigs of RAM and 32 gigs of internal storage 24 gigs of which are available to the user no microSD slot is available it has a 13 megapixel rear facing camera with optical image stabilization and a 2.1 megapixel front-facing camera both of which capture 1080p video powering everything is a 3000 milliamp hour battery the G to s design is one of its most talked about aspects and with good reason as LG has done some very interesting things here first we've got to talk about how thin the bezels are this allows the phone to have a 5.2 inch screen while the phone itself doesn't feel large at all in fact it's about the same size as a Galaxy s4 just a little bit taller this is definitely not a phablet I honestly think this is about as small as a bezel can get before actually becoming so small that the phone is impossible to hold without your fingers covering part of the screen but that isn't what most people are talking about it's the button placement LG has made a bold move and placed all the buttons on the back of the phone some people love it and others well not so much personally I found it very usable and it wasn't long before I didn't even think about the button placement though I could see some people having a tough time adjusting that aside the feel of the phone is very nice the rounded back allows it to sit very comfortably in your hand long story short the g2 s true HD IPS plus display is very impressive at 1920 by 1080 stretched over 5.2 inches we're looking at an ultra sharp pixel density of around 424 pixels per inch look as hard as you want but you be hard-pressed to see any pixels here colors are very vivid without the oversaturated look that can cause nearly everything to look cartoonish on some other smartphone displays of course a good display is useless if you can't see it which fortunately is not a problem here the LG g2 has a maximum brightness of 450 nits and outside in the middle of the day in very bright sunlight I had no problem whatsoever seeing the display which is more than can be said for a lot of other popular fonts being one of the few phones currently using a snapdragon 800 chipset we were excited to see what kind of results we would get in benchmarks first we turn to our usual tool of choice and to to benchmark we ran the test a total of ten times and saw scores ranging from just over twenty-seven thousand to over thirty-two thousand five hundred the final average score was twenty-nine thousand five hundred and sixty interestingly enough it seemed that the first benchmark after letting the device rest a while was always the fastest with subsequent consecutive runs being a little slower it's important to note here the LG told us prior to testing that the review unit we were shipped is not the final finished product and that test numbers in the version release to customers could be higher next up we turn to Epic Citadel and ran all three available benchmark modes ultra high quality mode gave us an average frame rate of fifty point nine frames per second while high quality and high performance gave us fifty five point three and fifty six point eight frames per second respectively that is pretty impressive considering that the software is pushing over two million pixels every day performance was equally impressive scrolling browsing launching apps and everything else was always zippy and I never encountered a single moment where anything felt slow or even stuttered for a second performance across the games we tested was similarly impressive as well the LG g2 runs Android 4.2.2 jelly bean overlaid with a custom LG user interface you can customize the interface a bit by changing fonts which changes the font across the entire system that's cool but it gets much cooler gestures and button free operation play a big part here want to turn on the display but don't feel like pressing the power button on the back knock on that by allowing you to simply tap twice on the display to turn it on tapping twice on an empty area or the status bar turns it back off to answer a call you can just pick the phone up but it doesn't actually answer the call until it gets to your ear so you still have a chance to see who's calling before you answer slide aside lets you use a three finger swipe to save an app state and slide it off to the side of the screen for later use just swipe the other way to bring it back if you have the lockscreen set to pattern lock you can use this to enable guest mode use your own pattern to use your phone like normal while another pattern puts the phone in a guest mode where you can restrict what apps are available with the display off you can hold the volume down button to launch the camera and it also acts as a shutter button holding the volume up button launches the Notes app looking at apps quick remote allows the g2 to act as a universal remote controlling a TV blu-ray player projector or even air conditioner an update Center allows you to manage system and app updates without digging into settings or the Play Store to get right to it the LG g2 s 13 megapixel camera is one of the most impressive cameras I've seen in a smartphone and a long time aside from setting the quality to 13 megapixels I left the camera on all its default settings and took a lot of photos in a lot of situations on the rare occasions where a photo came out bad it was usually my fault I'm sure a lot of this is due to the optical image stabilization used in the g2 s camera this does a lot of things from reducing camera shake and video recording to improving low-light photography by allowing for longer exposure times without blurring colors are well represented in images are razor sharp that quality extends to video capture as well while it's not unusual for smartphone cameras to capture 1080p video these days not all of it is this good-looking and unlike a lot of phones the LG g2 s rear-facing camera can capture 1080p video at 60 frames per second optical image stabilization helps here as well as you can see in the footage that I captured while walking around outside on a lot of other cameras this would be a mess seeing how powerful the phone is it might be easy to think that a 3000 milliamp hour battery might not provide all that much battery life but the qualcomm chipset goes a long way to get the most out of that capacity after a 14 hour day of heavy testing I still had around 20% battery capacity left so I'm confident in saying that this phone should be able to last anyone through even the longest days of heavy use the battery isn't removable so you won't be able to carry a spare but luckily that shouldn't be a problem in the end it's pretty hard to find anything bad to say about the LG g2 so I won't if you don't like the phone it's probably for a subjective reason like not liking the interface where the button placement neither of those were issues for me and objectively this is simply a great phone as usual we'll have a written companion to this video at Android authority com the link will be down in the description below make sure to stay tuned to android authority for more reviews news tips tricks Q&A giveaways and more I'm Chris book and as always thanks for watching