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hey guys this is Dimitri with Haruka Knox and today we're taking a look at the LG G pad now since the latest Nexus 7 the tablet scene has been quiet slow because this very stronghold the competition has when it comes to seven and eight inch devices so this injection from LG into an overwhelmingly saturated sphere is surprising yet welcome the G pad features all the expected goodies so I think it really comes down to the user experience that might win people over now starting with the price this 8 inch tablet is a bit on a high-end at $350 for 16 gigabyte capacity with the latest Nexus 7 rocking the same resolution and a smaller form factor the G pad may not be on priority list if you are on the market for one now speaking of specs the 8.3 inch display is an IPS panel with 1920 by 1200 resolution really crisp display running it is Snapdragon 600 quad core at 1.7 gigahertz with 2 gigs of RAM and not yet upgraded to KitKat so this is running an older Android 4.2.2 some of the very distinct physical features is the brushed aluminum plate in the back that after first 15 seconds of use looks well used the white version of the tablet is much better at concealing all the fingerprints I personally love the form factor though a very thin device at eight point three millimeters and weights only at 338 grams and holding this with one hand is perfectly comfortable the speaker grilles are located at the back for audio consumption in landscape mode only I really wish the speaker's would be somehow incorporated into the front for non-restrictive media consumption when it comes to audio quality and speaker location when you are holding this in landscape mode you are able to sort of Direction the audio with your hands sort of channeling the audio towards you more instead of the audio just being blasted to the back there now let's listen to a sample clip to see how loud this tablet so as you can hear it is quite loud the bass is obviously lacking but for regular entertainment purposes and watching things on the tablet it is totally acceptable connectivity wise we get a microUSB for charging and data at the bottom along with a microphone headphone jack at the top along with a micro SD card slot for expandable storage and an IR blaster the power button and volume rocker are on the regular spot on the right and have a really tactile and solid feedback auto don't be expectin to use the power button much to wake up the G pad as double tap wake up feature is really awesome for that convenient and quick entry and the same goes for turning off the screen by double tapping on an empty area of the screen we have a front-facing 1.3 megapixel camera and the rear cam as well which is 5 megapixels now pictures aren't spectacular colors are a little bit washed out and quite poor low-light performance but I would recommend this HDR mode as that helps to get rid of the noise and restore some of the dynamic range now I do like the screen on the Jeep and the viewing angles especially colors aren't as vibrant and people have been complaining about the brightness but I didn't find that as an issue now what bothered me was the ever so slightly laggy performance for example switching between portrait and landscape mode is probably the most visible lag it's quite slow as the G pad was loading all the screen icons as you can see and I think we've gotten so used to smooth and buttery performance that this small lag is very obvious now holding the home button will reveal all running apps that you can exit with a swipe of course widget and icon customization on the screen is possible and giving the real estate of the screen pulldown settings have been combined with all the notifications where you can also quickly access brightness and volume bar which is always convenient and all those settings at the top like Q memo and I think where it lacks in fluidity of operation it makes up in the list of really useful cue apps let's take Q memo as an example it's an overlay app that stays on your screen so you can write short memos and share the screen capture this will be useful for google map directions for example we also have a list of qslide apps that allows multi window support opening internet on one and calculator and another for example so you can move the windows around still you can resize them and you can also change the opacity of each window now the problem here is that these windows are always on the top even if you're switching between pages so you were always looking at the same qslide apps unless you closed them also another cool feature is this three finger swipe to the left that hides the pages and swiping to the right to reveal them just another way to interact with your G pad although you can see this lag really shows here and is very evident now one of my favorite features is cue pair that allows you to connect your G pad to a smartphone just install the app on your phone and the two devices will be synced up now this allows you to receive calls and text notifications that allows you to actually answer text messages as well while you're on the tablet without needing to reach to your phone now one thing to consider though is the constant Bluetooth connection that will impact your battery life by pinching the screen we zoom out to all of our pages so we can swap them around plus holding an empty area on the screen we can customize all of our icons and widgets now when it came to gaming performance I didn't notice any lag so the hardware can definitely handle demanding games and the G pad scores really high in the generic and joined benchmark which is a bit surprising because within the custom UI it feels so much slower than it actually is and we all know that pure Android is the better way to go now G pad house is an impressively large 46 milliamp hour battery to keep that 1200 P screen running then we casual use it wasn't necessary to charge for a couple of days but with heavy use and Wi-Fi on I got about two seven to eight hours now throughout my experience from the G pad I really enjoyed the form factor the screen size is just perfect for mobile meeting consumption and the weight and the thickness of the G pad is totally my style display PPI is quite crisp SD card slot is totally useful for extra storage and speaker location for landscape mode is a obtrusive I also like a few of cue apps like cue pair and multi-window app option with the cue slide and lastly the battery life was a satisfactory now on the flip side the custom UI on top of Android is not the buttery smooth standard of Android 4.2 which is a shame as the hardware can totally handle that and the price is quite high considering what's out there on the market I do however think that the LG pad has a place and tablet scene as it delivers to the standard I just wish it was running pure Android now what do you guys think of this tab would you consider paying $100 extra for an inch or go with the trusty 2nd gen Nexus 7 leave me 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