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time for a road test of the LG optimus g pro i personally am totally in love with this phone have any of you heard of a phablet or just that silly name you know no yes so what we're gonna do today is each of you will take one phone out and look for specifically design the features and the kind of usability of the phone and then report back to me okay alright here's your LG optimus pro for you for you for you feel like Santa right now hey I'm Peter Brown I'm an editor at gamespot gamer by day techie by night and I really like playing around with mobile devices hey I'm summer hub and I'm the beer up here in San Francisco and my favorite thing to do is off on the back my boyfriend's motorcycle jump across the Golden Gate Bridge hello my name is Alex Brown I'm a student filmmaker and I love shooting on my tablet device are my phone or whatever I can really get my hands on I think the phablet form factor for the device is probably a strength for gaming because I think you can obviously see things a lot more clearly and the dimensions really help it doesn't feel like you have to really like very the device to deepen your hands to get a good grip on it I can hold it kind of ginger leaks so that way I can you know see more of the screen and I'm not worried about dropping it I really like the design the smooth edges it's big but it's nice and thin tough feels like bold you know put it in my pocket doesn't even feel like I have my phone in my pocket simply awkward as far as talking on the phone maybe it's because I'm a woman and my hands are smaller my fingers something that I like to do all the time when I'm talking on the phone with people is being able to do stuff with my other hand but I feel like with this I kind of have to I don't know it just it wasn't working for me and it just didn't feel normal or right so how many cases of peroni do you think that you go through for a week or a month year I'll who say about help of character week I love that you just as a joke using this phone with my retailer is not very easy it's not user-friendly and I was having a hard time taking notes with him and I couldn't figure out how I would open up a presentation to show him also I couldn't figure out how to open up an email to show him numbers of how my businesses and how it's healthy and I couldn't figure out how to take notes on it the keyboards nice and large that big fingers I don't have a problem hitting the keys and hitting double keys I can see myself leaving my tablet at home and just taking this to class and using this taking notes and stuff I can't see really any downsides to the phone seems pretty fast it's a nice size it's definitely a good crossover I was just trying to play a game at the screen got dark and so when I went to the settings we need to try to up the brightness I got a message saying unable to brighten more due to temperature increase which is really strange but I guess it was playing a 3d game and the processor got a little too warm but I was only playing the game for 30 seconds a minute before that happened so that's kind of a downside it doesn't seem like they've got a good control on the heat management fortunately Wow the camera is really good I can catch some b-roll shots with this it's pretty good it's definitely 1080p really clear the clarity is really nice that grainy at all doesn't look like i'm shooting with a cell phone it looks really good only thing it lacks is I can track focus but it's a camera on the phone so it's really nice great camera I can definitely probably shoot with this I should have film with this one of the things that struck me as odd is this button right here it sort of brings up an odd memo overlay and so what I was trying to just do something simple I found myself inadvertently pressing this and then drawing on the screen and having to back out it's kind of got in the way of productivity I'm trying to find actually where the camera function is and I can't actually seem to find it which is very frustrating are oh there's a camera Carrie I'm silly Sally now ok cool that actually looks like it's really good quality the detail is actually really beautiful I'm impressed with that having a phone that takes really beautiful photos is very important to me are you guys spent a little while with the phones testing things out let's go let's go kind of down the line what if what are your first impressions after using it I loved it I loved the screen I was a bigger screen I really want to really yeah really motivate to upgrade ok so we've sold one LG optimus g pro so far let's move on to summer what did you think I was actually extremely frustrated with the phone I couldn't figure out a notepad I couldn't find the camera forever the operating system is very different for me so yeah ok I would I wouldn't buy it alright cool and you're the rubber now cuz we've got a Thai verdict here yeah that kind of mixed feelings about the device I like that it's really light I think the size is pretty good the build quality is pretty sturdy I life you can take the back off to to replace the battery if you want or add memory from a gaming standpoint not strong enough right but as a phone it's a good phone so I think I know what you're gonna say but would you buy it yeah we're buy it I'm gonna be waiting for this to come off all right think you know no no no what about you unfortunately no doesn't it just me ok so to knows any yes I guess that's kind of a failing grade for our LG optimus g pro