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yesterday we unboxed the lg g2 the global version of the company's latest Android flagship and today we just received carrier variants of that same device one from Verizon Wireless and the other from AT&T we're gonna do a little double unboxing here taking both phones out of their boxes and seeing what changes the carriers have made to the presentation of this device I'm Michael Fisher this is PocketNow this is your double unboxing of the LG g2 for Verizon Wireless in AT&T okay now just to provide some context we have brought back our box from yesterday this is the where is it this is the original box that we unboxed yesterday with this kind of interesting little angular cut it's almost an overbite but nothing else on this this basically unbranded box saved for the LG logo and the g2 branding you can see that unboxing yesterday that leaves us with the two carrier versions here AT&T Verizon Wireless will go by size Verizon Wireless is still the largest carrier in the United States put the 80 NPT box aside for now just to show you though there is a significant size difference it looks like Verizon's shelf space in the retail stores is at a premium maybe we don't know but we slide this out of its sleeve here this is definitely a premium presentation I'm not sure how y'all are feeling about this splatter paint job I kind of dig it but we always like to see this sleeve on the outside it just adds another layer to the experience and let's have a look and see what's included in the box if verizon will tell us and if we can get focused there that is doesn't look like we're gonna see any headphones in here unless I'm really missing something let's see let's stop reading things and let's just check it out nothing else on the outside of the box except barcodes which you do not need to see friends there we go here's the LG g2 for Verizon Wireless different screen protector than we saw yesterday and they get here we have a 4G LTE SIM pre-installed over there the little call-out for that will call out for the headphone jack and the USB port the Verizon branding is very very very plain on this unit not quite as ostentatious as we've seen on other phones this is the same color let's see if we can oh yeah then we have some oh oh customized volume keys let's check that out let's put these side-by-side see ya normally we do packaging first but this volume key difference is so is so striking and has gotten me so maybe unreasonably excited that I wanted to check that out so on the global Edition here you can see the keys are big they are the keys we remember seeing in the New York City event I mean they're big they're plenty of room for a finger there with a little raised power standby in the center with a ring light around it now these and they're plastic these would appear to be maybe they're still plastic they don't quite feel like metal but they look like they're they're detailed you know they're detail suggests that they're metal maybe also you'll notice the ring around the camera has that kind of radial pattern they're similar to the one we saw in the earbuds from from yesterday they're almost more a finish that's in blue interesting to see from Verizon which normally focuses on red but maybe they don't want to confuse this with the droid line and finally just a wide look at the detailing on the bodies of this unit this is more like a denim finish kind of a very very subtle stripe striped pattern whereas Verizon has gone with a finish that has more honeycomb it looks stippled it looks textured but it is not and then of course there's a Verizon 4G LTE logos and since we are big fans of removing plastic let's go ahead and do that here we are and quiet please not much stickiness on that one but a beautiful unblemished display and around back we have a handy pull tab for this taking that plastic off there we can really see that honeycomb texture on this black variant of the Verizon LG g2 let's see what the splash screen from the carrier has in store for us very very fast food as we saw yesterday same wallpaper let's take a quick look at the software here we'll bring the angle back huh go ahead and unlock and we'll move our microphone back so maybe you can hear me a bit better immediately we see the custom Verizon visual voicemail icon they're up into applications let's see if we can spot some bloatware there's the VZW accessories shopping cart there's some Amazon stuff pre-installed what else we got oh wow there's a lot of Amazon stuff pre-installed the whole Amazon suite maybe this is usual I don't review a lot of verizon wireless devices so forgive me if this is news to me mobile hotspot my verizon mobile slacker NFL mobile boy no shortage of bloat on this device there's your VZ Navigator VZ security Verizon tones Wow just a whole lot of stuff going on on here let's see if anything is preloaded on the screens you know this layout is not all that different with the exceptions big Amazon widget this layout is not all that different than the one we saw on our global unlocked unit yesterday so at least there's some some kudos to be given for that let's see if Verizon has done their usual action no they haven't oh very excellent so the Wi-Fi networks available notification is actually standard I expected Verizon to have taken out their their Wi-Fi toggle from the notification thing which they usually do but that's back so that's nice and does it work it doesn't need work that's wonderful other differences are sure to come out during our comparison we'll be comparing this device with the galaxy s4 next week also on Verizon but before we send it away let's see what's in the box and see if we were right or see if the box was right about that lack of headphones with the Verizon huh yeah so there's a get to know your phone and then all we have it's a power adapter and a USB cable those awesome headphones from yesterday which are awesome spoiler alert they're really cool are not included so maybe that explains the smaller box I don't think it was worth the trade-off it's always nice to have extra accessories in the box and it's so irritating when when they are eliminated particularly when they're on one version on the other let's see how the AT&T version holds up now we've had to use a much wider angle on the AT&T box because it is significantly larger and just like any other modern AT&T box this this well this is just no getting around it these are these are pretty ugly boxes I really want AT&T to work on their presentation but you know what I say that every time and nothing ever changes so that's okay we can move on from this and and move on with our lives and check out the device all right well this is okay this protects the phone probably better than just sitting naked in the box so I'm not gonna come down on AT&T too hard for this let's pop the phone out and just keep the order the same just took it out of frame for a second to take off the IMEI and SIM label and here is the device this is a much much closer approximation of the global unlock unit in terms of fit and finish the buttons appear to be the same the camera decoration at least it still appears to be the same when put the old unit aside it looks like they've changed up the branding a bit actually so down here you can see these there's the LG logo on the global unlock one on my right hand the AT&T one has removed that and just put g2 down below so interesting it's interesting to check out these little minor things I know we're splitting hairs here folks but this is the kind of stuff that carriers do carriers decide they want to you know change the look and feel of a device in the most minut way and you know they can do that LG did say that there were gonna be variations on these so shouldn't come as any surprise to us I think we've gotten enough on the on the close sound effect on there and I'll forget to put the mic back so let's just peel this right off off that comes that's very nice it can wait by the way texting and driving is not a fun time because you could get dead okay so once again on the back we've got the global unit on the right hand side the AT&T unit on the left almost no discernible changes except for that branding we mentioned before and the AT&T Death Star logo on the AT&T you know flip around to the front there is no such carrier branding on the front these are completely identical aesthetically speaking let's go ahead and power on the AT&T unit here put the global one off to the side she can a nice little buzz there there's our LG splash screen and let's see if we get the typical AT&T spinning globe animation which we should there's a notification LED during its cycle test there's a TN t--'s spinning globe and we are immediately prompted to set up the device with 18's he's ready to go service which they are pushing and I'm gonna go ahead and remind later on that yes I would like to exit ready to go thank you thank you yes I would like to do that so it's interesting that the Verizon device didn't prompt us to do any of that and here's our landing screen no bloatware on the front page it looks like now except for what is this voice mate I'm not familiar with this this must be an LG created app I'm not sure if this was on the global one but it certainly wasn't called out front and center we'll check that out later nothing on the left featured apps from AT&T right there there's drive mode there big automotive push and here's a whole folder so 18t has taken pains to organize all their bloatware into one area for us stop at driving mode only is your arena there it is there's all the stuff that you will either find useful or find gross and hop into the app launcher see what we got here again the Amazon suite is preloaded or not the suite looks like just Amazon Kindle app is pre-loaded and here's all of our AT&T stuff the entire first two rows almost as AT&T bloat if that's what you want to call it and we have a link to what looks like a little spammy games icon here what's the deal here and we got a prompt to you slide aside that didn't happen on the global version we did not immediately get prompted to start using slide aside so that's interesting yes I'm fine with games using a wild tangent games so this is a game catalog that it's do you're just dumped into it looks like a teen that he has some exclusives here jeez that's a problem your install a lot of this bloat and the minute the phone comes out of the fine the minute the phone comes out of the box it's got a check all these blow tabs have to check and see if they're the latest version and stuff that happens with the google apps of course that happens with all apps are native but the more apps you preload the more it just the more of a hassle the initial setup becomes but anyway and we're being a little tough on AT&T here I understand that that this happens with all carriers but interesting to see that the experience is Thank You LG interesting to see that the experience is is roughly comparable and there we are folks showing the notification shades this time around these shouldn't be identical because these have all been customized somewhat differently but AT&T Verizon Wireless and the global device this is the one that I've had for about a day so I've really customized that but we can see Verizon has taken it upon itself to customize this notification shade a bit maybe it too was tired of a lot of the clutter I have a bit more clutter on the global one here AT&T one looks a little bit standard but they all three have working Wi-Fi toggles should not be something that we need to necessarily celebrate but we are because that's unusual especially when Verizon is in the mix so kudos to Verizon and just so that you can see all three in the same frame one more time before we close it out there they are once again 18t Verizon Wireless global unlocked variant but wait as they say there's more specifically one more thing beyond the QuickStart guide will we find a USB adapter probably a USB cable most definitely headphones let's see there's our USB there's our power adapter well we got a sim key so at least there's that and as I mentioned folks we are still in our review period on the lg g2 the carrier variants will be helping us in comparisons we may not do a full review on each device but we will definitely have a full review of the g2 up very soon stay tuned for that and subscribe on YouTube so you don't miss it follow us on social media so you don't miss other content from PocketNow and be sure and toss us a like if you enjoyed the video and leave a comment down below if you have something to say until next time once again this has been michael fisher with PocketNow thank you for watching and we'll see you soon you