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hey guys this is Brian Bennett for cnet.com and right now we are taking a first look at the LG g2 now this super phone is the latest flagship model that LG has created what's so great about this phone well first of all it's one of the first phones actually the first phone to globally become available with the Qualcomm 800 processor its quad-core it has two gigs of ram and it also has its own dedicated graphics ram which is pretty impressive I don't believe there's a phone out there that has that yet at least in the US or globally so all the features on this device are a 5.2 inch LCD it's IPS it's 1080p resolution it's big it's bright bold it's pretty cool it's running Android 4.2 to jellybean it's not 4.3 hopefully they'll update that in the future but some of the other interesting things is that it is very thin it's just over 8 millimeters thick so on back we've got some interesting design features we've got a volume control here we've got the volume up volume down we also have a button that will unlock the device and lock it we have a 13 megapixel camera here with flash it also has optical image stabilization to reduce like shaky hands that sort of thing and the actual battery is embedded it's a 3000 milliamp battery but it uses what LG calls is a step design for the battery that helps it keep its thin profile so what interesting feature on the LG g2 is this feature called knock on which lets you tap the screen twice just to unlock the phone and you can also knock it again to tap and shut everything down which is pretty cool now another thing here that's really nice is you can just use the volume key on the back here just by holding this down and that'll automatically fire up the camera so you can quickly jump and take photos just a pretty cool feature now holding the volume up button will kick in the quick memo feature like so and then you could just jot down a quick note you know whatever you want like that with your finger while you're on a call you can also save those messages and attach them to call notes so you can see it in the call log for later retrieval so you don't miss important information if you don't have a pen and paper handy so that's pretty cool feature so another really great feature on the LG g2 is something called slide aside essentially you can open up up to three different applications push them to the side of the screen and save them for later use and retrieval another really interesting feature on the LG g2 is that you can separate the interface with profiles and have a guest mode so right now we've set it up so you can just draw AG here and boom that'll take it to a guest mode and if you look at it it looks very kid-friendly so this is something you want to hand to your toddlers and they won't mess with the email or wipe your phone by accident or start sending tweets in your name that's something that will actually probably come in pretty handy so right now we don't have pricing on the LG g2 just yet what we do know is that it will be available on four major US carriers that'll be Sprint t-mobile AT&T and Verizon so that's pretty big news hopefully we will see it by q3 q4 right in time for the holiday season i'm brian bennett for cnet com and this has been a first look at the LG g2 be sure to check back soon for a full review