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hey what's up guys mkbhd here tomorrow is Nexus 4 day for me and while I'll be covering the Nexus 4 in full detail as soon as I get it the lg optimus G here has been available for a little bit now and this Optimus G is the older brother of the Nexus 4 and it's the phone that the Nexus 4 was based on so before the wealth of Nexus 4 coverage coming your way shortly here's a quick video for those of you who may be locked into an 18 t contract or are considering the optimus G this is everything you need to know about it that's different from the Nexus 4 first of all the hardware differences and there are only a few of these both of these have the Snapdragon s4 pro chip inside two gigabytes of RAM a 1280 by 768 beautiful IPS display with some pretty insane viewing angles and great outdoor visibility and they all have a relatively square design with Gorilla Glass on both sides but on the front the optimus G has an LG logo and at the bottom these capacitive touch buttons that do actually blend in nicely with the front bezel when they're off the Nexus 4 doesn't have these it uses on-screen buttons and around the back the optimus G has a sweet textured looking pattern surrounding its AT&T logo and the eight megapixel camera but the Gorilla Glass really protects this just fine and the G also has the sweet power button notification light and that AT&T LTE radio inside that the Nexus 4 also does not have depending on whether you have AT&T LTE coverage in your area or not this could be an awesome choice next to the HSPA+ only Nexus 4 that being said battery life has been pretty nice which is a good sign because it has the same size twenty one hundred million power sealed battery as the Nexus 4 and I can easily get a full day of use with this with about three hours of screen on time and medium use now there are also some software differences between the G and the four starting with the obvious this is running an LG skin on top of Android 4.0.4 Ice Cream Sandwich and it's very comparable in features to something like TouchWiz on the very popular galaxy s3 it has a neat nature-inspired looking lockscreen that lets you unlock straight to an application of your choice and it has stuff like notification bar quick controls that let you customize stuff you know you can change the - toggle Bluetooth NFC or even take instant screenshots and write on them with your fingers which is called the quick memo feature so that's pretty handy it has the equivalent of the Galaxy Note 2 feature it's called cue slide which lets you play a video in the background while you do other things and you can adjust the transparency of the video you're watching on the fly it's very cool kind of a little bit of multitasking and it works with videos that are stored on the device the phone is of course a great performer with that Snapdragon s4 pro it rocks benchmarks like a boss and it's an all-around great performer feels zippy all through Ice Cream Sandwich as expected no word on a jellybean update for it yet but to be honest the experience is pretty awesome even without Google now or project butter although there is one thing while you can rotate while you're on the home screen it does redraw all the graphics almost every single time which is I thought that was a little bit strange pretty much everything else so like I said is the same as the Nexus 4 down to the dimensions and the camera sensors so to the people that say the Optimus G is basically the same as a nexus 4 but plus AT&T and an LG skin well you're basically right so there you go guys it's the lg optimus G it's pretty awesome and knowing this I am beyond excited for the Nexus course a thumbs up if you're ready for those videos and hit that subscribe button so you don't miss them they're coming very soon either way thank you for watching again and I will talk to you guys in the next video peace you