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are we late on this yes yes we are and there's a good reason for that but you probably don't care you just want to see pocket now's review of the LG g2 well first step in the process is to take it out of its box so let's get to it I'm Michael Fisher this is PocketNow and this is the unboxing of the LG g2 okay so this is the global edition of the LG g2 the company informs us that software on this device is not final and we should expect some carrier variants in the future and those will come pretty much as soon as they're as soon as they're available so we'll be following up with this but this is the box you can see this little kind of overbite here an interesting little design touch that doesn't look like much but it's it's subtle and it's nice there's nothing else in the outside of the box will pluck the top off to find the expected device front and center as I like to say we pull the tab instead of manipulating the edges with our non-existent fingernails I'm going to put the device aside for a second pluck out the top here see what we've got in the way of documentation quad beat two premium earphones those are going to be fun to try out you guys want to see what's inside this couch I bet you do but don't open this there will be a comment asking why I didn't open this so here's what they look like when it's kind of funky the LG brands even get a little zoom on there the LG branding on the sides with that radial machined pattern there and soirée almost as in kind of buds were used to extra buds in the bag probably some kind of throat control here yeah at least a microphone there buttons on that sucker doesn't look like it oh here's the buttons okay so we'll check those out in the full review let's get back to a wide shot here and of course the USB cable we've come to expect nothing else in the box and here is the g2 itself now we were at the New York City launch event for this device we've already had some hands-on time with it this one is covered in plastic which means we get to do the fun stuff and that means getting the mic right up close to the screen protector while we peel it right off for the first time looks like we are going to be the first ones on this demo device that's good here we go beautiful thing and one more time on the back and we got some other films there and things that we will we will go ahead and take off on our own time but here's the device it is familiar to us we spend a lot of time with the white ones on the demo floor in New York this is the darker version obviously first things that you notice the volume up and volume down keys and their unique positioning on the back cover rather than on the sides which allows LG to get some very nice minimal bezel action on the front and no buttons on the front whatsoever from a hardware perspective and above those special volume and navigation keys the camera 13 megapixels with flash and optical image stabilization and it is bulge lists no crater or warts needed to house the machinery for that optical image stabilization we come back around to the front I'm go ahead and power on the unit while we're talking here if we can do that there's also a ring light around the cell idea around this power standby key and I wonder if it will light up maybe it won't on this power up there's the LG boot screen this display and notification light cycling through a test pattern up there hello LG when I move the mic back so that you guys can hear me a little bit better sorry I do often forget to do that there's our first boot here's our screen this screen is yeah that's creepy this screen is really amazing it is an IPS display is 5.2 inches 1080p and we're giving a pixel resolution of pixel density of 423 PPI which is pretty incredible in person we said that at the launch event we said we weren't necessarily in love with the build quality the feel in hand it's not bad it's just you know what we're used to from generations of Samsung products and some LG ones but we'll go into some more detail on that in the full review and then the comparison so good power the screen back on and tell you about the processor powering all that again I'm going to go ahead and show that again because I will need those reminders when manipulating LG's Android UI here and the last thing we'll cover in this unboxing will be tell you about the processor a Snapdragon 800 processor that is uh obviously quad-core and running at 2.2 6 gigahertz we'll see how that performs in our series of features coming up but for now that is the LG g2 that we are about to give the full treatment to folks one of the big reasons we were late unboxing and reviewing the g2 is because of Aoife 2013 so check out the link in the description below to see all of our videos and features from that trade show a lot of smartphones and tablets some of them from LG so check that out also like this video if you did enjoy it and follow us on social media of course leave a comment down below if you have some feedback meantime stay tuned for a lot more coverage on the g2 and every other smartphone out there as usual this has been Michael with PocketNow thank you for watching and we'll see you soon you