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hey everyone and welcome to another review by Jim's review room now the last several months companies have been dishing out tablets and they've been all impressive in their own way now since announcing in June 2012 LG themselves decided to stop making tablets and at that time focus on more profitable ventures specifically their smartphones now nearly a year and a half later LG's decided to step back in so if you haven't seen their tablets too much that's the reason why but today we'll be looking at the return of the LG tablet called the G pad 8.3 so without further adieu we'll get started the specific model have here is the 16 gigabyte Wi-Fi only version that comes in black and they also come in white as well - priced at $350 which is a pretty hefty premium considering all the other tablets start at $229 and goes up to the recently released iPad Mini with a Retina display and that's priced at 399 dollars so what we'll do is go over its physical features first this year's model the G pad 8.3 comes in slimmer all-around at 8.5 inches wide four point nine inches tall and point three to six inches thin and the tablet comes in weighing at eleven point nine ounces which is a little bit more than its competitors however it is to be expected nonetheless because it is a bigger screen competing in the smaller screen arena so holding on to the G pad it's a solid product with no flex although it's one of the thicker tap as compared to the others in its segments it's still very thin when you hold in your hands and you can only tell there's a difference when you're actually holding two different tablets at the same time and I have medium-sized hands and I can still hold the G pad pretty comfortable here now the design and its backing is worth noting being built to what looks like brushed aluminum and painted to its corresponding color for the black model now taken as a whole the G pad is a beautiful product with clean lines and some finished side bezels on a tablet and quality you expect from the premium price now regarding its physical layout we'll start at the very top here you have your three-and-a-half millimeter headphone port here and to the right in the middle is the micro SD card slot that's expandable to 64 gigs and this is truly handy and I wish all tabs had this to the right is your infrared sensor so you can control your TV just like a remote control and on the right you have your power and volume buttons on the side the very bottom that has your microUSB port for charging and yes you can connect this to your computer to charge as well and there's nothing on the left side of the tablet going on the front face here the front house is your 1.3 megapixel camera and on the rear a 5 megapixel camera as you can see on the screen right now or actual photos I've taken right from the new G pad with no editing photos are at random and consists of bright light low-light and close-ups so overall the G pad took great photos and bright lighting however it had a tough time with shadow detailing showing some areas where shadows are present as being a little bit too dark now a low lighting situation still produced noise and photos but that's pretty common among tablets overall the experience was good but not the best and lastly there's no assisted LED lighting on the back of the tablet and finishing up the rear of the G pad refers to the two stereo speakers on the back not at maximum volume they don't produce ear ringing teenis which is good however there is those slight distortion on behind notes from the high notes at times sound a little bit jumbo or drone out it's it's not this distinct or clear as you'd expect from a premium priced tablet and I'm somewhat surprised though because the Kindle Fire HDX line offers so much more immersion and depth to its speakers but yet for a much cheaper price so overall they're OK speakers in regards to quality now regarding the screen LG has the G pad at a resolution of 1920 by 1200 which translates to 273 pixels per inch now overall the screen is clear and even though slightly lower in pixels per inch the screen is still beautiful with crisp and clear lettering and imaging you won't notice the pixel difference even if you place the screen close to your eyes and squinted and I personally have 20/20 vision on the more important factor I look at nowadays is color reproduction and contrast now just like an LED TV you have to have rich color content and dark blacks and bright whites to make an image really pop now the LG G pad does that with clear and rich colors and skin tone reproduction is on par as well and that's washed out or flat so on that aspect that's very good now moving on internally in regards to performance and features the G pet houses a 1.7 gigahertz quad-core processor with 2 gigs of RAM on board and currently runs an Android jelly bean 4.2.2 now like all tablets today the basic applications such as email web surfing and browsing YouTube all ran flawlessly and without hitch now all games available today played with no issues including graphically intense games even performing an epic Citadel test which runs on the Unreal Engine yielded average frame rates to be about 59 FPS which is really good the only new nuances I noticed it's probably in the coating though once in a while I noticed a slight hitch or delay as problem as this machine is that shouldn't be happening though overall it's only a slight and very minor nuisance but in the end the machine is capable of everything that you throw at it in regards to better and usage playing with the G pad all day utilizing web surfing email YouTube videos etc and you did at about 7 1/2 hours of news and auto brightness now a bit on the lower end compared to its competitors though and playing this unit in and my wattage meter show the unique consumed about eight watts while plugged in and continues and now I'm moving on to the user experience now Android is installed on the system and LG puts its overlay to provide additional features that only LG offers the system is very easy to use in my opinion and also customizing my screen to my fitting improves my productivity now everything can be moved around just by holding down the icon then dragging it to your location and I'll go over the most notable features first that are truly unique LG offers its Q line of functions and the first one is Q pair a Q pair allows your G pad to be synced with your Android powered smartphone and anytime you receive a phone call or a text message it will show up on your tablet as well through a pop-up notification and pairing the phone and achieve the G pad was easy as the instructions are very straightforward now although you might not think of it too much at the moment it's still a nice feature to have and ashlee convenient once you actually set it up and you only need to do it once and then you're set you can think of the tablet now being a true extend of your smartphone the next item here is huge slide a cue slide is very important and it's a sign that tablets are slowly and starting to become true multitasking machines now with cue slide and it seems him some has nearly an identical feature and you can access these eight different applications and have them run in the foreground while you have other things going on in the background in the past you would have to close one app then open another so only one amp was viewable at a time so now as an example of using this feature you would be accessing your calendar while having a webpage up to put in a reminder or let's say you run a calculator while you have other numbers in the background and of course you can adjust this window and you can change the size in the foreground app to see fit cue memo is the next and very similar to the Samsung Galaxy Note I just reviewed you can write on your screen and save it to either share it or retain it for future reference now this feature is unique when you want to draw directions for somebody and then email to them or let's say if I have a photo and sometimes describing what I want is difficult I can use action cues to draw what I'm trying to describe an example would be indicating in the picture what to do with a certain object as I've done here in this video and then other items include knock-on where you tap on your tablet to wake it up from a dark screen and this other feature called slide aside where you take three fingers and slide an app over to access it later so the more I can do this review the funny thing is though the more I notice how Samsung has very similar features it's pretty interested in see but overall the rest of the features are just real basic and almost redundant of other tasks that are already performed through other methods so in general I consider this to be a good tablet it has a bigger screen than the other brands multitasking capabilities a decent amount of features that's not offered on some other tablets such as a micro SD card slot and the physical build on this tablet is top-notch now the processor is fast enough for my needs but those minor stutters deters me from purchasing a small tablet at such a premium price then honestly with my experience with the speaker's was a bit of a downer again the Kindle Fire HDX and seven has amazing speakers but sells for a cheaper price and the iPads are premium price but they do come a very good components all around them so if you're not really needing or desired to have multitasking capabilities and can pass on the micro SD card slot you might look elsewhere to find a much cheaper deal overall it's a good tablet and if you will definitely utilize those unique features mentioned only at that time this tablet is worth those extra dollars so I hope you enjoyed this review of the LG G pad 8.3 and if you can please like this video and subscribe to me for future alerts to new products this is Jimmy from Jim's review room take everyone by you