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what's up everyone Jon render from TechnoBuffalo with a full review of the LG g2 LG's ami for this guy to compete with the big boys the Samsung Galaxy s4 and HTC One and the top echelon of the smartphone world I put it through its paces let's see how it stacks up so as I do with all my smartphone reviews I want to give you a disclaimer I use this phone for five days and then on and off for two more so before I get into all the specs and what it can do run a few let's first talk about call quality it was overall pretty awesome I tested it with AT&T t-mobile and Verizon obviously wherever you are it might vary but it was really really solid I'm using the AT&T version for this review I didn't really have any drop calls at all I did test all three of the carriers call quality was really really crystal clear and on all three carriers the folks on the other end of the phone couldn't even tell I was using a smart phone speakerphone was also very loud as well so if you're one of the few like me that rely on speakerphone you're gonna have no issue at all let's jump right in and talk about hardware this thing is an absolute beast the Snapdragon 800 flies the UI is a little bit heavy but we'll get to that later but everything on this phone felt amazingly fast I would even say it's probably the fastest experience I can remember what does that mean fast yeah absolute fast games load quickly but just using the phone we ever feel any sort of lag at all whether you're flicking from screen to screen are opening up a menu of things you just feel really quick it's hard to sort of quantify but you feel like you're using something of extreme power the combo Snapdragon 800 two gigs of ram really are the perfect marriage so the quadrant score I know you guys want to know is pretty impressive score of twenty thousand eight hundred and fifty one damn next let's talk about the screen honestly I think if I can make a whole romantic video about how amazing the screen is just slowly swirling around looking at it too wistfully rushing back it's hair this screen is absolutely incredible and anything I show you on video is not gonna do it justice you have to see it to believe it it's a five point two inch screen with a 1920 by 1080 resolution those numbers don't do it justice it really is just incredible indoors outdoors though it could be in a bit of different story if you get to put the brightness all the way up and then it's pretty readable but if you haven't already might have a hard time seeing it outside and the cool thing is LG did it with almost no side bezel so you really feel like it's just all screen which is pretty cool obviously the usual stuff looks great on at games text pictures and video look absolutely incredible when it comes to screen LG not this so far out of the park that it went into the next ballpark and was a home run there as well I'd really give them credit we've seen an evolution of LG screens over the past few years they've really gotten better and better to culminate until I would probably say is the best smartphone screen on the market and I'm saying that in a world of Retina display is pretty awesome Samsung displays on HTC is pretty ball - Renault the HTC one you have to see the screen to really appreciate how good it looks all right so next let's jump into battery life so I didn't thinking all right you got a combo of a high-powered process or an HD screen it's probably not gonna have the best battery and if you thought that like me you surprisingly be dead wrong the 3000 milliamp hour battery lasted two days with decent usage and I do not baby my phones in fact I turn the brightness up 85% I turn out of totally off connect it to Wi-Fi pretty much all of the day take it off the charger on 7:30 about two hours a phone calls I got two emails being checked every five minutes I'm watching videos I'm playing games or social networking going on I'm really not taking it easy on the phone at all by the end of day one when I plugged it back in or would have plugged it back in around 11 p.m. I had 60% of my battery left which is 20 to 10% better when I've gotten on pretty much every other phone I've tested really really incredible and equally surprising all right so let's get this one out of the way the buttons there on the back and it's straight up weird and took me about four days to get used to it which I definitely did but boils down to this for me the buttons on the back don't really do anything people won't buy this phone because of buttons on the back but they might not to buy it because the buttons on the back now I understand why LG did it you got no screen bezel maybe not room on the sides but I didn't really find that it added much to it but fortunately LG did include some software to make it so you really have to fiddle with the buttons or at least try and find them anyway with your finger which if you notice was a pretty awesome segue to talk about software it's pretty heavy on here but it never slowed down the phone at all as I mentioned the beginning this review it was crazy fast so I mentioned you don't have to ever really touch this home button LG's got some pretty awesome things on here you can double tap the screen to lock or unlock it it's pretty brilliant actually this simple DoubleTap will light up the screen for you and you can go ahead and start using it if you want to lock it again simple double tap on the screen will send it back to slumber which is really kind of cool so I've just got a couple other cool tweaks in here that we've seen on other LG phones they got something called Q slide lets you run sort of two apps background at an app on your home screen there aren't that many here to choose from but there are some decent around things like email calendar messaging phone and videos and you can run them just on top of your screen you can make them fullscreen you check your calendar kind of other things they quick phone call really a very neat thing to do I also love the way you can remove apps if you go into settings and you go to your apps screen in the upper right hand corner there's a plus or minus so you select that just like iOS you get a little red X and you click it and you can delete apps so it's really really very simple the UI is very clearly laid out even if a little bit cartoonish let's move on to camera the 13 megapixel camera takes pretty nice shot it's got bright colors and average in low-light for me though camera doesn't mean all that much to me it's nice to say images are just as good or better than your average smartphone if you're a huge camera file we'll have a gallery on the full written review link down below to see those pictures look like but they look good they don't look like you're gonna replay the DSLR with them but they look pretty decent alright next let's talk about extras this one's got some other bits and pieces in it so first only Verizon has wireless charging which I found really annoying I've been loving wireless charging on my google edition galaxy s4 and I found it really hard to live without having I know it's kind of silly but it's got very used to just putting it on my desk and let it charge or tonight just put it down on it's a little charging pad and let it charge so if you want to use the AT&T or t-mobile versions you are going to be totally out of luck built quality felt okay but for not removable back that expects much more of a premium feel they can do a lot more we'd have to be able to pull that plastic back off it feels nice it just didn't feel great so the conclusion here LG didn't just bring a phone to compute the heavy weights they came to win this phone gets a really really big least all at 9 if they move the buttons give all carriers wireless charging made the UI a little less silly and animation heavy we probably looking at a perfect 210 this is an incredible phone probably one of the best phones I have ever reviewed let alone reviewed this year I used to overlook LG and I came to phones I thought they were really subpar this changes the game LLG has a homerun on their hand if you're looking for a premium smartphone whether Android or iOS you owe it to yourself to look at the lg g2 thank you guys for watching I hope you enjoyed leave your comments down below let me know what you think please give the video a thumbs up but stuff we appreciate it if you want to read the full written review or see the gallery or see any other images we've got about the phone I hit the link down below to go the full written review I'm drown wrenching intact no Buffalo I'll see you next video what's up everyone its Ashlee thanks so much for watching that most recent video if you enjoyed it please click on the word subscribe right underneath me to get tons of more tech videos from us here at TechnoBuffalo we have got unboxings comparisons reviews recaps and everything else you can think of here on the channel if you're in the mood for more technology just 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