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what's up cries five fans i'm brian Tong and it's a big screen phone tablet battle between two fabulous phablets it's a prize five-foot out between LG's optimus g pro and Samsung's Galaxy Note to our judges for this fight our senior editor Bryant boom shakalaka Bennett associate editor Lin it to win it LA and myself Brian too strong tongue now we'll take all three judges blind scores and average them out to the nearest tenth of a point the final prize fight score will be an average of all rounds between the same system let's get busy round one is designed the LG optimus g pro US version brings one of the more refreshing big-screen designs to the table with the front that looks pretty generic but a clean metal accent around the edges and a cool geometric fishnet like pattern on the back and I like fishnets now it has a slightly slimmer profile and it's also not as wide which makes this the easiest phablet to hold the galaxy note 2 brings Samsung's familiar design but it's larger and more awkward in your hand compared to the optimus g pro its S Pen Stylus also slides right into the notes body so you'll always have it with you both bones have vibrant five and a half inch screens but LG brings a full 1080p resolution and 400 pixels per inch that bests the note tues 720p resolution with 267 pixels per inch and you can see the difference the optimus g pro gets a 4.3 and the note 2 gets a 3.7 next round is user interface and controls LG brings a really fresh and snappy you I that's really one of the fastest we've seen its biggest you I feature is qslide which enables you to use specific apps like its video player or notes to float anywhere on your screen and change the transparency while doing other functions it's nice to have but it's not as useful as Samsung's multi-screen feature and the US version of the phone omits the web browser as a qslide app now the note 2 can be great if you want to keep it simple with its classic TouchWiz interface that runs smoothly as well but the guess difference between these two is the s-pen that opens up even more features and functionality but at times it can seem like there's a little too much going on here it's multi screen feature takes advantage of all its real estate and allows you to run two apps like web browsing and watching a YouTube video at the same time and it's the best feature by far on top of that throw in specific features for the s-pen like air view for hovering over items to preview them or cycle through your home screens LG takes another round with the poor and Samsung gets a 3.7 so after averaging two rounds the optimus g pro has a slight lead round three is all about features both phones bring a lot of android signature features like google now services androids unmatched voice search and commands NFC capabilities and tracing characters on the keyboard to enter in words both phones also bring their own level multitasking and TV remote functionality now the LG optimus g pro is loaded with a blazing fast 1.7 quad-core Snapdragon 600 processor that's really one of the fastest out there right now with 32 gigs of storage they even added the look away to pause video feature from the galaxy s4 now it also has a programmable quick button that's set to the quick memo app that let you create notes or even draw on top of the current screenshot it doesn't come with a stylus so all your notes will be done by finger now Samsung's Galaxy Note 2 brings a quad-core 1.6 gigahertz processor with 16 32 and 64 gig storage options you also get their motion gestures like swiping across the screen to take a screenshot or tilting to zoom into a picture but its biggest feature is its s-pen stylus that brings a whole new level of functionality to a device that already acts like a phone like cropping pictures from your screen and being able to access multiple brushes by selecting them on the S Pen and really showing off your artistic skills you can jot down note I Diaz and even add voice memos on top of notes and this is hands-down the most productive phone or phablet we've seen if you're willing to learn the system takes this route with a strong 4.7 and the optimus g pro gets a 3.7 next round is web browsing and multimedia we've talked about how amazing LG's optimus g pro screen looks and both phones look great but LG's takes it up another level the Chrome browser runs great on both platforms and it's still the best mobile browser out there but LG brings a 13 megapixel camera and we know megapixels don't always matter but most of our judges prefer the more natural muted looks from the photos it took compared to Samsung's 8 megapixel camera that brings a little more saturated colors that I preferred 1080p video capture is on both phones but if you're watching movies on these devices you'd have to give the edge to the optimus g pro as well and also it has a variety of more multifunction video shooting the optimus g pro gets a 4 and the note 2 gets a 3.7 so after averaging four rounds LG has a slight lead the final round that decides it all is called quality and performance these two phablets are big but let's not forget they're still phones now overall call quality was great on both of them but will depend on your carrier location and data speeds were excellent as well bow phones performed well but we talked about the optimus g pro snapdragon processor and in the quadrant benchmark tests that measure cpu memory and 3d graphics performance the g pro was a beast with a score of 11,000 745 the dominates pretty much every android phone on the market compared to the note to score of 5763 and that's a huge difference now on the flip side if we talk about battery life using our own in-house Cena battery drain tests the g pro came in at over eight hours of video playback while the note 2 gave us 12 and a half hours and that's a huge difference as well now our judges all didn't agree anywhere in this final round and the final round ends up being a tie and four point three points of peace so let's average out all five rounds and in a prize fight with a g pro EDS doubt to note 2 in several rounds samsung had a huge round three but it just wasn't enough and the LG optimus g pro takes this battle 4.1 to 3.9 and is your prize fight winner these are two of the best phablets on the market but let's ignore the score for a second and the real decision comes down to whether you want a stylus or not and if so go galaxy but in case you didn't know the g pro is one hundred dollars cheaper I'm Brian Tom thanks for watching I will catch you guys next time for another prize by you