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this episode of TechnoBuffalo is brought to you by lynda.com what's up everyone john wrencher from TechnoBuffalo here i've been checking out this guy LG's latest iteration of a GG lineup this is the appropriately named the g3 I wouldn't get a chance to an unboxing because it didn't come in a box but I want to share my thoughts and impressions give you guys a hardware tour let's show you could expect when you pick up your phone alright so here is the g3 all dressed up in a very attractive business suit we didn't get a chance to an unboxing the phone because it didn't come in a box I want to give you guys a hardware tour an overview and give you guys some very first impressions somebody do a real quick spec overview for you're looking at a 5.5 inch 2560 by 1440 pixels bleh that's got a whopping 534 PPI meaning you did the math it is quad HD which is damn impressive Android 4.4.2 at launch powering this beast is a 2.5 gigahertz quad-core Snapdragon 801 chip kind of oddly 2 or 3 gigs of ram depending on a region available in storage size of 16 or 32 but you can expand that with microSD up to 128gb 13 megapixel camera on the back with laser focus and a 2.1 megapixel sensor it lives here on the front res of stuff you'd expect from a super phone 802 11 ABG and a co Bluetooth 4.0 and a 3000 milliamp hour battery all wrapped up with a nice NFC bow so let's like talk about the design here first for I do a tour everything around it this phone is gorgeous to look at and sort of a slew of Android phones to kind of look the same I think this one really stands out the white here I think it's a really nice touch well I think it would've looked cool totally all done in black you could be looking at what's an early version I guess if it's going to be the Nexus 6 and if true I think all of the Android peers are going to be really excited LG knocked this one so far out of the park it is a beautiful phone to look at and to hold so this 5.5 inch screen we'll talk about that in just a minute you've got on-screen navigation so no for physical capacitive button you turn the phone on you could figure how you want these to look either black or white and when they not you want multitasking on left or right it's kind of a nice touch so LG left the back and volume buttons here on the back of the device I wasn't the biggest fan of it on the g2 I didn't think it added much but it's much easier to find here on the g3 instead of a more pronounced home button so way way way easier but the reason I thought it didn't really matter all that much because LG's got the awesome NOC features you DoubleTap it's on something if you double tap on the home screen turn it off double tap again turn it back on so they don't have to even use those home button if you don't want to all that often it works really really well here so obviously no volume buttons or anything on the left or right side you've almost totally bezel as experience it's kind of crazy to see a phone it actually has that on the bottom you've got your charger and 3.5 millimeter headset jack with some microphones out on the top saying more microphones who got a the SK Telecom which is Korean they've got sort of antennas built in for some TV streaming certainly US versions are not going to have that so ignore that and know that it's just not a stylus want to point that out in case people would is that in the corner so the back is plastic with that kind of metal coating on it it still feels plastic it feels a little bit better than normal plastic but not a giant around if you rub your finger over it and you can serve hear that noise it's very obviously plastic it's plastic dressed up in metal clothing I don't got the nice little speaker grille right down there below so LG's done a really nice job with their software and I was sort of liked what LG did this Korean version forever it's worth has crazy carrier bloatware on it I mean look at that hopefully the US versions are not going to come even close to that but that is a whole ton of apps and if you're like oh hey John just remove them no big deal let's go ahead and try one we'll remove it and see LG's UI and there it is it came back you can't really remove it you get to sort of remove it for like three seconds before it pops back up on your app tray so a bit disappointing obviously go through the settings and remove the apps that way but it's definitely a bit of a convoluted process we've got Universal search built in here which is really nice to have and they did a really clean job with it as well I want to do chrome for example and go ahead to search and it all pops up and pops up really fast that's the theme of the phone everything on here is just fast but probably what you want to know most about is this here screen the screen looks really wee nice obviously with quad-hd I don't think at least my national testing what's all that much better though then there's a really nice 1080p display it looks clear look crisp text looks awesome images look great but I don't really notice a difference so right now it's sort of a I'm not calling it a gimmick it's nice to have and sort of makes it a little more future-proof but divided at Pipitea mr. 1080 screen it really wouldn't factor that much into my decision which was a bit on the disappointing side take a quick second to thank our friends sponsors in general good peeps over at lynda.com you should probably be better in yourself I know I should learn something new and learn a new skill folks at lynda.com have you covered they have thousands of engaging super easy to follow up into the two tutorials the top by just experts the industry I hope you learn things like software creative and business skills all that stuff you might need to maybe start a new career membership is super affordable it starts just 25 bucks per month provides unlimited 24/7 access to all of the courses you can learn at your own pace from bite size to toriel's to really comprehensive courses in things 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nice-looking I reminds me of what HTC is done with sense overall though they let Android for the most part be tender they didn't throw a ton of stuff at you I think what they add is relatively useful I love the knock feature you can now use the knock to lock it not kinds of other stuff but it's a really nice phone I will do a separate video showing the camera we video showing the four capabilities the laser focus looks really nice so I have a whole gallery of images coming up - when do the reviews to be able to check that out first impression of the camera are really good my first impressions of the phone in general though are awesome probably one of the better phones that I've test enough test some pretty awesome phones and so speaking of awesome films I've tested it's bring those in here is the HTC One m8 go and lock the screen so you look like they look sort of similar actually but you see the boom sound speakers and sort of not found here on the g3 here is complete the trifecta a galaxy s5 and just for fun let's throw an iPhone 5s on in there as well you can see what all those suckers look like next to each other and here is just the iPhone 5s with the g3 it looks like a kid brother that wants to hang along by certainly way smaller a very thin device - out of g3 so overall again really impressed looking forward to keep testing it made my opinion on the screens gonna change that use a bit more here I like use my devices for usually at least 10 days before I do a full review so look for that coming up and you know a little over a week and we'll have that out for you guys I think we figured oh you want to see me cover in the review leave it in the comments or right down below I'll tear your thoughts on it until next time I'm done reading from TechnoBuffalo see you guys the next video bye bye thank you guys for watching please subscribe right here to be the first ones to know whenever new videos get uploaded we got a ton of stuff we do phones tablets cars anything 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