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hey how's it gone Dave 2d here so the LGG 7 was just announced and i was able to use this phone at a media event so I thought it'd give some just kind of early impressions on this phone but before I get into that I want to talk about the whole phone line as a whole I have this love/hate relationship with LG's phones the very first Android phone I ever purchased was the g4 I absolutely loved that phone until it started boot looping and even the refurb unit that I got to replace it also boot looped the g5 didn't love very much the g6 was also a great phone but this g7 was rumored or even reported to have been discontinued at the beginning of the year there like reports of this thing just being straight-up axed from LG's lineup but here we are in mid 2018 and it's finally here now this phone is gonna be really divisive because of one main feature it's the knotch and I would even call it a feature it's like a physical characteristic some people hate it some people are tolerant of it and maybe a small percentage of people like it but the fact remains it's a knotch and aesthetically speaking I much prefer devices that don't have notches there's a lot of phone companies out there that actually take advantage of the notch like the iPhone 10 it requires a notch because there's just no bezel around the bottom and the top but on this phone the g7 does have a bottom bezel and there's a bit of a top bezel so I feel like the notch wasn't entirely necessary it almost feels like they put this in just for aesthetics like they somehow thought that this would look good with a notch which I personally don't find that does so here's the thing there's a lot of Chinese phone manufacturers out there that put a notch on their 2018 phones just so could look like the iPhone 10 and I kind of get it for them because they don't have like design teams really and they just kind of go with whatever they think is working out there but not for LG I don't think they needed to do it like LG's good with innovation they're really strong with innovation why they like why are they doing this it bugs me that leads there so yeah right off the bat I don't like this notch but the good thing is you can kind of hide it with their software so they have this feature in settings where you can basically turn the whole top of the screen black and it essentially masks the knotch now in order for this to work that black has to look really black and fortunately it does because the screen is incredibly good it's a hundred percent dcpip three color gamut it's very nice image the blacks looks super inky and the colors are really vibrant as well to the point where I thought it was an OLED panel but it is an LCD screen so you don't have issues like OLED burnin it's definitely a nicer looking screen than the LG G six I'd say it's very similar in appearance to the s9 screen it's really nice and it's also a 1440p panel the speaker is loud like really loud they claimed 10 times louder than some of the competitors and I don't know where they're coming with that number but it is loud it's using some resonance chamber designs so it's supposed to amp up the bass levels and because it's an LG flagship they're sticking their quad DAC in here so if you're an audiophile you're gonna love the headphone jack and that improved audio quality coming from that jack so they also have an assistant button on the side and this actually launches the Google assistant you can't remap it but you can turn it off it's kind of like house Samsung has their bixby button but this launches a Google assistant the camera uses two lenses again with one of them being a wide-angle lens and I've said this before in my previous videos but I absolutely love phones with wide-angle camera lenses as the secondary lens they're just much prefer a wide-angle / zoom now I haven't spent enough time with this camera to give details opinions on it but it does have this AI feature where the camera tries to analyze the scene that you're looking at and then it will adjust the camera settings to best optimize a shot now it's very early stages of the software I wasn't able to test this camera thoroughly but the idea of it is pretty neat the other features in this phone like snapdragon 845 ip68 waterproofing it's all gonna be very 2018 flagship feeling with your fingerprint sensor on the back and an iris scanner the batteries of 3000 milliamp hours is not particularly big but because the screen uses I think like 30% less energy than the previous version I think that's pretty cool the battery life should be good but just don't expect it to be amazing or anything like that so early impressions of this phone the hardware is great it is an LG flagship but they're always like pretty good with hardware it's got some unique features I've really liked the LCD screen on it it's probably the best LCD screen on the market it's got the wide-angle lens and really good audio quality from the deck these are features that are relatively unique to the LG flagships now the knotch is something that I feel like they could have done without don't feel like it has a lot to this phone but it is what it is the g7 has a notch now the most important thing about this phone is this price tag and right now at the time of this video and at the media event they didn't reveal its final price so I can't really like give recommend but I will say this the technology is good on this phone the hardware is good and if it's priced well I think it's a good option okay hope you guys enjoyed this video thumbs we liked it subs you loved it see you guys next time