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hey what is up guys I'm community here and welcome to some of the first impressions of one of the first flagship smartphones of 2017 that's the LG G 6 successor to the g5 pretty much just in the name because everything else is completely different there is a bunch of new stuff with this phone I mean you can see that just by looking at it but this is going to be my top 5 so top 5 best new features of the g6 I'm going to put them in order so enough of this order doesn't matter stuff I'm going to tell you exactly where I think things ranked as the best new features of this phone we have started so number 5 is the software the g6 is still rocking an LG software skin but it is a much improved way less in-your-face version of it so it's still very LG with no app drawer and skinned apps and icons and things in a very colourful look but it's not too crazy and I'd say it's an improvement over what we had on the g5 and g4 and previous phones built on top of Android 7.1 nougat which means first of all you do get Google Assistant baked in now as you do with any nougat phone and it means you get a couple other features that are built into LG's skin that you wouldn't get into pure stock Android that you'd have on the pixel phone there's always a balance of shoving new features in your face which is kind of like what Samsung might do versus sort of tucking the features away in the Settings app and letting you find them later and I think this skin does a pretty good job of balancing those two things but of course it's not perfect as a skin phone you kind of have inherently a little bit of a delay as far as software updates go of course we hope it gets lots of software updates very quickly but there's no guarantees also of course you kind of have to deal with LG's reputation lately it's been a little bit shaky as far as stability goes but we'll say number four is the specs this is a part where I stood a bunch of numbers and letters at you that are both higher and better than the numbers and letters from last year so 2.3 gigahertz Snapdragon 820 one chip with the audrina 530 GPU four gigabytes of RAM 32 gigs of storage is great you have the twin 13 megapixel cameras on the back and a 3300 milliamp hour battery and it's ip68 water-resistant that on top of Qi enabled wireless charging and it still has a micro SD card slot so up to 2 terabytes of expandable storage so the numbers in the specs on paper of course look great as you'd expect from a flagship Android phone in 2017 we don't have a price so it's kind of hard to place this in the banks of the buck category but obviously it looks really good there's no real flaws here but of course again it's not quite perfect in a US version you're actually not getting a quad dak you're getting a pretty average dak instead you're getting a couple extra radios which I again it's a different consumer in a different region but you're also not getting a snapdragon 835 chip obviously in this phone that's another bleeding edge high-end chip that you'll probably see in phones as soon as a month from now like the Galaxy s8 in March now that's not to say that the Snapdragon 820 one is way worse or that it can't hang it's just that's what you get for putting out a phone a little bit early in the year if you don't get the brand new silicon that sort of comes out after you put your phone out so later phones will have the Snapdragon 835 821 is still really good but you know not perfect so number three is the dual cameras on the back last year the g5 had a very obviously primary 16 megapixel portrait camera and a very obviously secondary low resolution super wide angle camera just for fun this year the g6 gets twin 13 megapixel sensors behind your standard and 120 degree wide angle lenses so now when you're pushing back and forth between the portrait lens and the super wide angle lens it's not as big as a glaring difference in quality before you could really tell when a photo is with the other camera now you'll just sort of be able to go eye between the two and not get a huge drop-off and I think that's the kind of thing that will encourage people to use this super wide angle camera a lot more it was pretty cool feature to see in the g5 they're carrying it over to the g6 and I'm happy it's there but it's not it's not perfect because obviously okay no camera is perfect but also because I've had some stability issues in this first bit is used but I can't look too far into that because this is a pre-production unit with pre-production software I can pretty much guarantee that this and any other problem I come across in the software will be fixed by the time this goes on sale so the number two best feature in the g6 is the design the design of the g6 is completely new it's ditched the modular nature of the g5 for a much more you could say traditional premium smartphone design so just metal and glass everywhere still has the volume buttons on the side which I really like and it keeps the trademark and loved LG power button and fingerprint reader on the back which also happens to complete this space that you can see in making I mean you do see it right and honestly the robot based kind of matte just because this phone has a very robotic squared up look like there's no unnecessary tapers to try to make it feel thinner or look thinner there's no fancy edge display bleeding over the edge with curved glass none of that crazy fancy stuff it's just very businesslike and all the way around and I kind of like that or maybe it's because I've been using the tick's with too much I don't know it's gorilla glass on the front and back and this thing is obviously waterproof like we mentioned earlier so ip68 means it can survive if you get caught in the rain or you drop your phone in a puddle or shower or something it does all this while keeping USB type-c it keeps the headphone jack it keeps the expandable storage with a micro SD card slot so with all that I don't mind it being a little bit thicker in the hand because the footprint is definitely manageable but as you could probably guess it's not perfect you could say that you would have liked to have had a removable battery like we had with the g5 you don't get that it's not a huge deal but that's something to note and also the single downward facing speaker is not the best part of this phone at all and that's something that I've noted with a lot of previous flagships but obviously the ones that focus on the speaker get to do it a lot better than this so not perfect so that brings us to number one the best feature of the g6 which is right up here at the front that's the display the screen is obviously the main attraction here it's a 5.7 inch IPS LCD display with an 18 by 9 aspect ratio which is you know 2 by 1 I know my fractions so if it displays a little taller or a little wider sideways than your normal 16 by 9 display it's a 28 80 by 1440 resolution now apps and wallpapers and icons and everything still work perfectly normally but you do get a couple software features to take advantage of the larger display at multitasking for example works a bit better now that you have that extra bit of room I mean it's essentially two square windows now top to bottom or side by side and more apps are compatible with it thanks to Android nougat and on top of just being a little bit longer it's obviously still a great display as you can tell it gets super-bright up to 600 myths so very viewable outdoors supports HDR and it's very proud of it giving very deep blacks for an LCD and great saturation and the curved corners are just icing on the Krispies g6 cake I could go either way on curved corners versus square but I think they look kind of cool so I don't mind it and the thinness of the bezels is really what LG has been hyping up and what people looking at this phone will hype up because it's not just the side bezels which are obviously tiny but it's the forehead and the chin the top and bottom bezels they get super compact - so these thin bezels all the way around the display let a phone with a 5.7 inch screen fit in the footprint of a much smaller phone which is legitimately useful again but then again you can say with me again it's not perfect anytime you're watching a 16 by 9 video becomes obvious you're going to see these bars along the side and people get used to seeing these bars along watching most videos but if you watch an 18 by 9 or 2x1 video the bars go away and it looks way better and also obviously smaller bezels make this phone a lot less protected and more prone to cracking or breaking if you were to drop it especially if you don't have a case on it which like me is how I roll with every phone so that's just something I'm willing to deal with so that's the g6 in a first impressions nutshell things like performance and battery life and the camera these will all be thoroughly tested and that's the kind of stuff I'll go over with you in the full review of this phone when the thing finally comes out with a price and a release date but until then that's a that's what to know about it you can look at the g6 as pretty much a super safe bet but in a good way like it seems to stack up well against what we're expecting from things like the Galaxy s8 and phones coming out later this year but again those will have to come out we'll look at that comparison when we get to it so either way please think of this phone would you grab a g6 let me know thanks for watching Totti as the next one