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hey guys this is Austin new Galaxy s8 is promising to shake up the smartphone games but LG might just have something to say about that big shout out to LG for hooking us up with the g6 a little bit early now they are not sponsoring this video but I am curious to see how it stacks well take a look inside the box and we have the g6 you know the galaxy si is getting all the hype for having essentially no bezel on a giant screen you take a look at this it's not actually that far off there's not a lot of the blocks we have the power adapter as well as a USB cable and this is in comparison to the galaxy s 8 which comes with a really nice pair of AKG headphones in the box when you look at the g6 next to the galaxy s 8 plus and the iPhone 7 plus you'll see that well this just sticks out the idea of having much thinner bezels just gives you more screen in the same footprint well the g6 does have thin bezel it can't quite touch the s8 this is a little bit more of a blocky phone so it's got a completely flat display compared to the s8 which has curved glass both front and back if you look closely you'll see if the g6 has a slightly more pronounced gen but generally speaking they do look fairly similar they both do have the slight curves around the edges of the display and with so much screen with so little bezel it does feel like a new generation of smart phone this isn't a perfect comparison the galaxy s 8 plus is a little bit bigger than the g6 but if you have a standard SI it's going to be about the same size but what really separates both of these phones from other devices is the aspect ratio so the g6 has a 28 80 by 1440p IPS display where the galaxy s 8 and s 8 plus bumps it up to 20 960 by 1440 what that means these are much taller screens than what you're probably used to so if you open a normal app such as YouTube all this means this you get a little bit of extra vertical real estate but if you're watching something like video what that means is that you end up getting black bars on either side of the video now this is not exactly a huge deal I think that the extra screen real estate in 95% of your apps is worth the trade-off but it does mean that video is not going to fully eat up the screen it should be no surprise these are two of the best smartphone displays out right now so the LG G 6 has a couple cool features like it supports HDR 10 as well as Dolby vision so as HDR video becomes more and more popular the G 6 is ready to handle it yes it might not be a huge upgrade over the last generation but then it's still a terrific looking AMOLED display so the contrast is absolutely on point it's nicely set rate and it gets really bright so under the box it actually runs at a slightly lower 12:20 by 1080 resolution now there's nothing necessarily wrong with that it still it's reasonably sharp and they're doing it I presume to save battery but when you bought a super high-resolution great looking display on a smartphone you kind of want to you know run it at full resolution slide shifts in 2017 build quality isn't an issue with either phone but I do prefer the design of the galaxy f8 what's cool here is that because it has glass on front and back and they both have the same taper is a very seamless sort of design especially with the very thin frame that goes around the edges it really does feel great in the hand now it's not perfect it would be nice this had better speakers instead of one small one on the bottom and the fingerprint sensor on back is not quite ideal but taken as a whole this is an absolutely killer design I love it in comparison the g6 just feels a little bit more old-school so with the flat sort of edges around the side it just doesn't feel as thin in the hand and it's not exactly a bad phone don't get me wrong does have a nice glass in front in fact if I had not touched the s8 this would be great but in comparison it just doesn't quite hold up but there are some things I do prefer on the g6 and probably the biggest one is the power button not only does the double is the fingerprint sensor which puts it in a much better location on the galaxy s 8 but it just feels like a clever use of space sort of combining your fingerprint sensor which already has to be there anyway with a physical button to turn on and off the phone one area where they are the same is with the ip68 water resistance so no you shouldn't go swimming with either of these phones but if you like for flight shipping 2017 there is no reason not to have at least some sort of water resistance it's just nice to know that when you spend this much money on a phone a little bit of a splash is not going to kill it both films are also running Android 7.0 nougat with their own skins now I prefer what Samsung has done a little bit more this time around it's a little bit of a cleaner interface and while they have included things like bixby which I'm just not going to use because Google assistant exists but for the most part both phones are completely fine you can live with either skin and of course you know launch a sort of thing one of the biggest differences between the two phones are specs so the LG G 6 has the older Snapdragon 820 one the Galaxy s8 has the brand new Snapdragon 835 so I'm curious to see how they perform that's actually pretty close so one of the big advantages of the s8 is that it's an octa-core processor instead of quad core on the g6 which means that it definitely does win on a multi-threaded side but on the single side inside is actually not a huge difference however because it's the 835 and it's based on newer process and theory that should help battery light cameras might actually be the biggest difference between these two phones so the Galaxy s8 has the same 12 megapixel camera from the s7 with just a few software tweaks the LG G 6 has dual 13 megapixel camera so it's cool about this dual camera on the g6 is that while it was available on the g5 there was a huge difference in quality between the two cameras wears on the g6 yes the standard camera is a little bit higher quality it looks a little bit nicer but it's not a huge difference and if we part of that is that both cameras have the same 13 megapixel sensor behind them now we jump over to the Galaxy S a it is not a bad camera by any means you can get some really killer shots the big downside though is it just is a huge upgrade over the s7 so Samsung is doing some additional image processing so essentially just like the pixel they're constantly taking stills and using the best bits of each one to combine it into a final image and it does look really nice I do think the S eights a little bit more of a natural image it's not quite so sharp and that bigger sensor actually does give you just a little bit of depth of field one of the big advantages of the galaxy estate though is that new 8 megapixel front-facing camera not only is this fairly wide but it also looks really nice especially in video and this is what the G 6 front-facing camera looks like it's not bad but it does not even come close the se yeah even for stills the g 6 it's fine but I think the sa does went out so this is what video looks like on the LG G 6 so it looks a little bit over sharp to my eye but it is still shooting in 4k however one of the cool things is you can seamlessly switch between the two cameras this is what the wide-angle looks like and then we can jump right back into the standing on the other hand the galaxy s 8 video looks pretty impressive it's not only a saturation nice but because it does have the bigger sensor we do get some depth of field here also stabilization seems to be reasonable and C it maybe trips up just a little bit when you make a big move but it is hard to argue with this camera I mean sure it's not a huge upgrade over the s7 and the g 6 camera especially having the wide-angle both cameras look great especially for still when you look at the whole package I think it's gonna be really tough to beat this s8 and that kind of tells the story I'm afraid the g6 is a good phone and if the s8 didn't exist it'll be a great phone the problem is this just does so many things so well that's going to be hard to argue with so what do you guys think about the g6 and the Galaxy s8 let me know in the comments below and I will catch you in the next one