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hey guys this is Luke and welcome to my really late review of the LG g2 first we'll start off with tech specs so as a 5.2 inch 1080p IPS screen a 13 megapixel camera on the back a 2.2 6 skijor its quad core Snapdragon 800 which makes my s3 look like a Tonka truck at 3000 milliamp hour battery 32 gigabytes of storage which only about I think 22 to 24 gigabytes is usable I believe and 2 gigabytes of 800 megahertz Ram next we're moving to physical features so it comes in kind of a nasty gloss mine specifically comes in black which I'll hopefully cover up with a case as soon as possible unlike the models in Korea it does not have a removable back removable battery or interchangeable SD card slot other than that there's the kind of tinny speakers which my hands seemed to cover when I actually watch it in portrait mode which is unfortunate because you're essentially manually muting the device but I've gotten used to kind of holding it really wide so I don't cover the actual speakers but it is kind of odd other than that just around the the sides of the device there's no buttons and there's no buttons on the front either which was really weird at first and I honestly really hated it and expected I was not gonna like the phone at all but there's buttons on the back which I didn't like at first but then I noticed that that's kind of where my finger naturally rest my finger naturally rests right on the buttons on the back and it's really easy to tell what button you're pressing so once I got used to that I noticed that there's the double tap on feature for the screen so you can turn the screen on by just double tapping the screen and if you're able to double tap a blank area on your desktop it will turn the screen off so if your phone is resting on a table you can double tap the screen to turn it on double tap the screen to turn it off and you don't have to access the buttons on the back and if the button if the phone is not resting on a table you can just press the buttons on the back easily because your hand is naturally in that position and I actually really like this feature after using the phone for quite a while it feels awkward to use a different phone now to press the buttons on the side feels weird whenever I go to press the button on the side I tend to press more than one and adjust things that I don't want to adjust and this just feels better now if the phone's in my pocket I can reach down into my pocket change the volume or do whatever really easily as I'll always know where the buttons are as if they're at the top that means the top one is volume up if they're at the bottom that means the top one is volume down it's just really simple and I like it a lot I hope this feature transcends on two phones in the future so that once I replace this phone I can get this feature again that's how much I do like it now speaking about hoping this feature might be on future phones my future phone might actually be this phone my contract is ending was Telus very soon and I'm gonna have to pick up another phone it's honestly probably gonna be this one I really like the buttons on the back and speaking of Telus Thank You Telus forgiving Android bugle this phone Android beagle is a Canadian publication talking about mobile stuff and they were nice enough to give us this phone to review and to give away so we'll be giving away by having you guys comment on the video below include somewhere in your comment Android bugle whether or not it's like thanks Android people or something like that that'll all work as long as you have Android bugle in it I will be able to find it more easily and also circle them on Google+ if you do both those two things comment on the video below with something to do with the Android bugle and circle them on Google+ you'll be entered into the into the draw to win that phone the LG g2 more about the back buttons so if you hold the volume up button on the back down while the screen is off it will open up the notes application quickly and just jump you right into there if you hold the volume down button down while the screen is off it'll open the camera application and having your hand already back there makes it fairly easy to take pictures in portrait mode and will enable you to take pictures just by pressing that button again and speaking of the camera it's actually pretty awesome it as optical image stabilization a pretty sweet sensor and tons of photo options as you guys probably know I'm not exactly the greatest at taking photos so I'm gonna get Brandon here to actually take the photos so you guys can see some examples of how good this camera is I personally have just been using it to take super cheesy photos of my food although I have not been instagramming them or posting them online so don't worry about that the 3000 milliamp hour battery with a combination of the efficiency of the Snapdragon 800 is pretty impressive as a story of how good this battery is and this was probably one of the the best cases I could have possibly been in was at CES when I was using the phone quite heavily I forgot to charge it one night now I was staying up for 20 hours a day at this point and using it quite consistently throughout the entire day used it for one day forgot to charge it overnight use it for the entire next day and as I was laying down to go to bed it finally gave me a warning saying that I only have 15% to my battery life left meaning it worked for two entire extended days of fairly medium to heavy use without dying I still had a little bit of juice left that was awesome because I was able to completely forget about charging it and completely get through the whole next day without having to worry about carrying a battery pack around or anything like that the phone is running Android 4.2 software and on top of that it's running LG's Optimus UI currently I've used TouchWiz sense for a little while and now Optimus UI when you first start using optimus UI it's a little bit clunky there's a bunch of animations and the animations are fairly long now let's snap dragon 800 makes the animations run exactly how long they should be and not really lag but they still take a little while and seem a little bit unnecessary and some things are just a little bit messy luckily it's fairly customizable you can change a lot of things and after spending a while with it I found that I was able to turn it into something that I didn't mind that much the only thing I don't really like right now is the notification drawer that is still pretty messy and I'm hoping that I can fix that up in the next little while because I'm not actually a huge fan of it but the rest of the whole experience I have been able to change to my liking quite well thank you for watching my video on the LG g2 don't forget to comment below with something to do with Android bugle and do you like the buttons on the back or do you still want buttons on the side I know I like the buttons on the back but that might not be the same for everyone I might suit your style a lot better to have the buttons on the side so what do you think also don't forget to circle Android bugle on Google+ because you need to do that to be eligible for the contest as well as always thumbs up or thumbs down based on what the weather is and be sure to subscribe to Linus tech tips