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every now and then there's always that one device that brings some crazy features you really want to love and just can't which means you'll end up forgetting that they exist that for a week all the while realizing that the device is just fine without them that's the story of the LGG a thank you there's so much I want to love about this phone and that's really cool and none of that has to do with the gimmicks I'm how you matter II that I was pocket now and this is our full review what interesting thing about LG is that this company is not afraid to stand way behind or far ahead in certain trends and the LG G a thinkyou is a clear example of that let me start this video by telling you what I like about this phone it starts with the hardware since the g6 LG is good about building glass tanks that feel good and look good this devices milspec 810g certified and brings a stronger Gorilla Glass 6 for peace of mind the finish might look black at a glance but the tone of blue that it picks up when you shift it in an angle is really elegant it continues with the internals the g8 includes all the power the 2019 has to offer thanks to a Qualcomm Snapdragon a 55 60 good bytes of ram 128 gigs of expandable storage a large 3500 milliamp power battery ip68 water and dust resistance and wireless charging and since we're talking power the experience extends to the cameras LG was the first to introduce a wide-angle camera to its flagship and now four generations later it keeps getting better and better color reproduction is fantastic with great saturation and contrast and having the added versatility of a more epic shot with the wide-angle is so convenient I have to say that I'm very impressed by the updates the company has made to low-light photography also know more of the weird color shifting we saw before and this even extends to the wide-angle camera given the wider than average aperture it pulls in light just as well with almost zero barrel distortion the company also claims improvements in video which I do notice I find less sharpening on the overall result there's even a video bouquet mode that uses the secondary sensor to create a depth map for added realism now one of my favorite changes with this phone is the new selfie approach in addition to an improved camera we now have what LG dubs its Z camera which means a time-of-flight sensor and an infrared light this means far more accurate selfie portraits much better results and standard selfies overall and even the video crop has gotten significantly better more on the Z camera later though last but not least I also love how the company doesn't cheap out on content consumption LG is still one of the proud few that still includes a headphone jack and adds a quad TAC for a better audio experience match this with a company's boombox speaker that uses the entire phone's body as a resonance chamber and you've got a lot of punch when it comes to what the phone can do while you place it on a table thing is oddly content consumption is that precise moment where I jump into the reasons why I'm mixed about this phone see once you pick the phone up from the table audio isn't really what I'd call stellar and that's mainly how the average consumer consumes content like a merger between the two that could be because even if this phone has dual firing speakers it does in a cool but non-conventional manner now does there's no earpiece over the knotch instead the whole OLED vibrates to produce audio this is really awesome for phone calls because you can really hear everything even in the noisiest environments but sadly at the expense of not being loud enough to assist the bottom firing speaker and everything else and speaking of the OLED yes LG finally brings an OLED to the G line we're talking about a 6.1 inch panel at quad HD plus resolution that's very color accurate and sports HDR 10 yep the reason why I have it in the mixed section is because it's not really the brightest and then there's the user interface I mean I love things like having a dedicated Google assistant button and having far-field communication for the mics to hear you even from afar my problem really is that the UI is as old as the LG g4 if I'm doing the math correctly with the iconography looking dated and then there's the design elements that just don't make sense like trying to use the pixel pill to swipe up for multitasking and then the app tray which is wonky in itself and then requires a swipe to the left to the right for the applications I mean when I try to reinvent the wheel and not just continue swiping up like stock Android does now I won't complain about the UI bogging down the phone though navigating through menus is good and battery life is also good as well about the only thing I like about the user interfaces the animated wallpapers that interact with the lockscreen and I like the always-on display in addition to how notifications are invisible unless you look at your phone which is something that only iPhones and Huawei phones could do before and this is the beauty of the Zee camera the fact that this phone has a very accurate secure alternative to face ID but wait there's more this phone has so many ways to authenticate with the back fingerprint scanner being just one of them the Zee camera also has the option where it can learn my vein pattern and unlock my phone using my palm and really this is where things start to get weird and we start shifting into the things that I don't like about this phone the Z camera enables air gestures and yes they are far more accurate than what we had with the galaxy s4 many years ago the problem is when the phone requires me to make this crazy amount of steps just to get it to work and when I have to shape my hand as if I were controlling a puppet for the sensor to understand that I'm giving it a command it even requires a specific distance and they're just so much work that it just makes this whole experience really cumbersome this is no easier or better than just touching the screen and getting things done and fun you can give me the argument that that's fine whenever the phone is on a table and you can't touch it but sadly even that experience is not ideal to conclude what can I say about the LG G a thank you if you were to forget about the whole air gesture mess and just see this phone as a regular smartphone this is definitely a great device we have good hardware a good design awesome content consumption features and one of the most versatile primary and selfie camera combos in the industry I do wish that it had a brighter display and Load Nova Launcher as soon as you get it to avoid this whole UI ms and you'll be fine now if you were to remove the gimmicks I do have to admit that it doesn't have many things to differentiate it from other flagships at this price point I we'll admit that there are some better options out there so just keep that in mind whenever you decide to take the plunge or not what about you 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