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in the honeymoon phase first impressions are everything but just like certain relationships are more complex some smartphones should never be judged by just one video I'm hi Natalie that I with pocket now when these are our first impressions of the LG g5 after 24 hours the LG g5 is unlike any other smartphone we've reviewed in years the last time modular design was popular was more than a decade ago with a compact eye pack and at a time when smartphones have begun to get boring the g5 is really a breath of fresh air instead of having you choose between great design and expandability LG tries to solve both with the g5 though that really has proven to be good and bad when you pick up the phone for the first time it doesn't really feel as cold as the average phone made of metal there's much controversy over LG's choice for materials but it's really hard to complain about the micro dice treatment used on this metal as well antenna lines have never been popular and LG has found a way to hide them within the treatment and also in certain corners that make it hard to detect within the Sham fer my real only complaint is with the manufacturing finish the shaffer tends to feel rough when held with one hand and elements surrounding the release button are also rough given the lack of alignment we praised LG for being creative but wonder if more polish was needed in the manufacturing process we'll dig deeper into the topic in our full review setting the g5 up for the first time as standard LG spewed animation remains unchanged restoring from our existing phone applications was a breeze and this is one of the few phones that allows setting up more than one fingerprint during the setup process 147 applications loaded in record time thanks to the Snapdragon 820 processor and four kegs of RAM and then we're greeted by LG UX 5.0 this is probably one of the most polarizing changes and mainly because the implementation needs work I actually don't mind not having an app tray but I wish were smart enough to restore my folders along with my applications UX 5.0 even lacks an easy way to select various icons at a time to move them around or to even add applications from within folders like Samsung does I also haven't found a way to switch which screen I want to default is home making it more iOS like than I really would want it to be and for those of you that just want to restore the after a given the LG video we saw recently well it seems that that's not part of this AT&T unit yes there is an easy mode and that does include an app tray but at the expense of looking like a phone that was owned by a senior citizen I will just rather boov on seriously on the positive front this is probably one of the most cohesive you X's I've seen from LG in a long time icons and settings now match and there is still some of that flexibility that makes LG famous if you don't want the tab menus on settings you can switch that into ListView if you don't want that sliding animation between home screens you can choose other ones and if you don't want the arrangement of your navigation keys you can also switch them however you want and even add more navigation keys as well the keyboard continues to be asked customizable as always but I had to revert to Swift key because sadly multilingual support on this UX is rather funky the keyboard now always suggests words that are from the wrong language oddly the screen is a very interesting change as well if you judge by comparing to the LG g4 you'd say that it's dimmer because at 50% it does seem to be so but this screen is actually able to go up to 900 nits when fully lit notice the blacks on the border of the screen make it seem like if this was an AMOLED panel so it might seem that you just need to boost up the brightness a little bit more when compared to previous phones from LG and speaking of changes there is this new always on display that actually brings a very interesting approach to notifications through icons yeah it's not Nexus like with details nor as elegant to Samsung but I do find the icon approach to be more usable I'm also really liking the power button mounted at the back with the fingerprint scanner at first we thought that you would require to press the button to actually activate the fingerprint scanner but no the button is actually capacitive meaning that once the phone is powered on all you have to do is touch the button and it will unlock your phone and turn on the display so far battery life has been decent to averaging around 3.5 hours of screen on time and with the peace of mind that I have a battery waiting for me in the charging cradle that came bundled in the box this is actually one of the coolest features of the g5 given the fact that even though there is fast charging there is no charging that's faster than just swapping out your battery now keep in mind that this is without gaming optimization features turned on by the way which are set by default so you might want to disable these in case you want to actually use this phone for gaming and as for the camera well this is an LG and camera performance is awesome amazing photography during low-light and also during the day and this wide-angle camera has become my new favorite feature you can even start recording a video with one camera and then switch to the other without stopping the video you can also take photographs using all cameras at once if that's your thing overall there is just so much to talk about with the LG g5 that again one video would not do it justice I'm probably a bit disappointed with the fit and finish but the uniqueness and convenience of this phone just make me want to continue using it obviously there is a lot I still need to test before I could sit here and tell you to buy it or not and you can be sure that there will be a ton of comparisons to back that up as well for now make sure you follow us on social media and hit that subscribe button down below for more videos like 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