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it's fast it's got a brilliant edge to edge screen and yes it's got its buttons on the back hello everybody it's Lynn la here from Cena and today we're going to take a closer look at LG's newest flagship handset the g2 the g2 is LG's most powerful smartphone yet it's equipped with Qualcomm's ultra-fast Snapdragon 800 quad-core CPU and with a processing speed of 2.26 gigahertz rest assured it's fast and smooth it sports an expansive 5.2 inch LCD display that has a 1080p resolution and 423 PPI thanks to what LG calls dule routing technology the screen runs edge to edge with the 0.1 inch thick bezel the screen is bright images are crisp and vibrant and you can use the touchscreen with gloves on one of the unique features of the phone is the fact that its power and volume keys are on the back LG claims this position is more intuitive and comfortable for the user personally I found this location neither life-changing nor that jarring it does take some time to get used to and you run the risk of smudging the camera lens with your finger but eventually it's generally easy to get the hang of like other smartphone frontrunners available now the g two ships with Android 4.2 point2 jellybean it'll come with your expectant number of google apps but LG also crammed a lot of new UI features and motion controls for instance knock-on allows you to wake the phone up with a simple double tap there's guests mode a privacy protection setting that launches when a guest unlock your handset with a different drawing pattern than your own capture plus lets you take screenshots of entire web pages and slide aside enables you to pull up three apps of your choosing by somewhat awkwardly swiping three fingers across the display in addition to a 2-megapixel front-facing camera there's also a 13 megapixel camera as well it can record 1080p full HD video and comes with a few features including image stabilization and tracking zoom which lets you zoom in on a particular object or person while recording background video powering this all is a 3 amp you our embedded battery that gives you a reported talk time of 18 hours or standby time of 20 nine days the g2 also features two gigs of RAM and 32 gigs of internal storage unfortunately however there is no expandable storage option the handset is available across all four major US carriers on ATT verizon and sprint it's currently going for about two hundred dollars on contract on t-mobile's prepaid plan it will cost a total of six hundred and four dollars again I'm Lynn and you've been checking out the LG g2