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the flagship killer goes up against yet another flagship as the 1+2 goes head-to-head in this quick look against the LG g4 the oneplus 2 retains much of the design language of its predecessor but with some minor tweaks and some real refinements that were added in the big change comes in the material as the oneplus 2 now features a metal frame and steel accents but when it comes to the rear backing apart from retaining the sandstone black material which still feels really nice new options now include many different offerings including Kevlar bamboo rosewood and black apricots the big changes that are really noticeable is the inclusion of a home button up front this little divot in the front portion that is where you would put your thumb down for a fingerprint reader but it also acts as a home button in a capacitive key sense and it is flanked by two buttons the back button and the recent apps button all of these being capacitive another added button is the alert slider a notification toggle of sorts found on the left side that lets you toggle between the different notification settings either non-priority or all and it does so very quickly and easily without you needing to unlock your phone and of course the main addition to the 1 plus 2 S connections is a USB type-c port found at the bottom of the device making it one of the first devices to adopt this latest USB standard on the other hand the LG g4 brings together the best design elements from the last two high-end offerings the G flex 2 and the g3 and you can see that with the subtle curve to the display that is more pronounced when turning it over to its back and this curve helps a little bit more with the phone's durability there is also the signature LG rear button layouts that is below the camera and holds not only the power button but it is flanked by the volume rocker now LG tried to add some uniqueness to this phone with some new backings which include not only the plastic finishes but also leather in a variety of color options so in a lot of ways the g4 is in its own way a head turner and both devices feature 5.5 inch displays with dimensions that are quite similar and as such the handing the experience is actually kind of similar between the two now we did already mention that there are 5.5 inch displays in both of these devices with the subtle curve being on the g4 but the g4 also has the quad HD screen which does Trump a 1080p variety made in the oneplus 2 now we're not that 1080p resolution is necessarily bad for the oneplus 2 but if it does call itself a flagship killer this might be one place where it's going to fall a little bit short but nonetheless the LCD display on the oneplus 2 has a 170 degree viewing angle and the oneplus 2 outperforms most devices in the market including the LG g4 in its brightness and its angles while many may be disappointed with the lack of quad HD 1080p certainly still seems to get the job done in the oneplus 2 and it is in performance that we do actually see a tiny bit of disparity given that both smartphones are current-generation high-end flagships it's no surprise to see that they feature some of the best that Qualcomm has to offer the oneplus 2 actually comes with the Snapdragon 810 backed by the adrenal 4:30 and while the LG g4 has a Snapdragon 808 and 3 gigabytes of RAM in the case of a lat the LG g4 with an additional gig of ram available for the oneplus 2 64 gigabyte storage version and performance is as smooth as ever for both of these but it's also because the operating systems have been made as optimized as possible for the processors that are underneath everything from opening to closing apps and scrolling through various elements of the you why it's even multitasking are available here though we will say that the g4 kind of trumps the oneplus 2 in terms of multitasking because it has some extra features in its operating system now in hardware we were a little bit bummed out to see that the LG g4 didn't come with too many bells and whistles when compared to its main high-end counterparts but what the oneplus 2 is able to boast is the inclusion of a fingerprint reader that is integrated into the physical area on the front we talked about earlier it also packs a larger 3300 milliamp hour battery compared to the 3000 milliamp hour unit of the LG g4 however the removable battery of the LG g4 allows people who have it the ability to replace it if they need to have extra power factor in the action slider and you have a couple of features that the oneplus 2 has that plenty of other flagships do not but one big bummer that the oneplus 2 doesn't have which has been highly publicized at this point is that it does not have NFC something that all the other phones have and which makes them equipped for the future of payments that will be coming to the Android ecosystem we're reserving our judgements on the cameras until we get our own review unit and there will be camera shootouts between the oneplus 2 and all of the others in the market but in the case of the g4 we have a 1.8 aperture package that outshines the competition with the larger answer over ones found in the other flagships OAS has also been enhanced with a wider stabilization range now color has been a big focus with LG adding in a color spectrum sensor found right next to the optics that will analyze the scene to help achieve the right white balance automatically and accurately so there are quite a few things to really love about the g4 camera including all of the manual controls that you have in the camera app the oneplus 2 may not necessarily be able to provide all of these same features but it has added in what the LG eco system has had before and continues to have now mainly the laser-guided autofocus that the oneplus 2 is now able to boast having and on top of that optical image stabilization which should give the 2.0 aperture of the oneplus 2 a little bit extra boost in low-light performance it is still also capable of 4k video recording and capturing images in the RAW format as well so we're going to really put these two cameras through their paces once we get our hands on a oneplus 2 for ourselves and finally when it comes to software we are going to see a pretty big disparity here and it might be for the good or bad of either one because the g4 has the LG UI under the shell of Android lollipop which provides a lot of extra features that some might prove annoying to the general user but nonetheless has everything from multitasking to even small app windows that can be over your main screens and really a lot of other features underneath on the other hand oneplus 2 is running oneplus is own oxygen OS now version 2.0 based on android 5.1.1 now it brings material design elements to a mostly stock version of Android which usually is a great thing and we do believe that it to be so in the oneplus 2 with a few features baked in made specifically for the oneplus device however it doesn't have too many customization options especially in changing the look and that really is only the place that we find the oxygen always falling behind a bit because if it looks way too vanilla then that just doesn't give the oneplus enough differentiation from the other flagships it is trying to so-called kill but killing the flagships obviously comes down to the main big story here and it is the price + 1 + continues to break the mold in this regard by continuously to bring consumers another fantastic high-end smartphone with great specs at less than half the price of its direct competition and that's definitely the case here with the oneplus 2 coming in at $389 for the 64 gigabyte version and even cheaper 329 dollars for the 16 gigabyte iteration is more than enough reason to overlook any flaws that the device might actually have but we're going to reserve those judgments for one we actually get to use the review units throughout the weeks that we are going to test it against other phones like the LG g4 for things like camera shoot us an even more so make sure you stay tuned to Andhra thority for even more on the oneplus 2 because we are your source for all things Android