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what's going on everyone John Brennan is from TechnoBuffalo here it's a full review for you of LG's latest flagship says it right there this is the g4 let me give my disclaimer to usually do with all of my phones I use this for five full days we are testing International Edition so bear that in mind as you can tell no leather back we've got all plastic here Brandon did our written review it's got some different opinions on stuff too a lot of more detail and things are going to talk about so if you want to see that I'd also see full camera sample pictures hit the link down below it's also gonna be in our lightning review format so I'm gonna jump from point to point kind of quickly does it get to all the questions that I had about the phone hopefully the things that you want to know alright let's start with screen since it's got one that's why you're gonna be doing most of your stuff on so the g3 was one of the first qHD phones hit the mass market it packed all damn beautiful pixels but it's punch was a little weak it was it was probably more for Pacquiao Mayweather the g4 though has a 5.5 inch same screen size same resolution q HD 2560 by 1440 but that's about where the similarities end a colors here look way more accurate definitely brighter I got darker darks and whiter whites and also surprisingly good visibility outdoors and direct sunlight which I don't get chance to see very often overall the screen is just beauti nice to look at if you thought the g3 screen looked little washed out the g4 screen looks gorgeous so performance you might be worried about the Snapdragon 808 this has versus say the 810 and the G flex 2 but don't worry about it it is still super fast augmented with 3 gigs of RAM anything you want to open opens fast games play quickly always associate the processor worried vs. TV shopping you've got two TV sets in front of you one might look better on the wall next to the other one but very rarely do you see both TV sets side-by-side this is very fast very capable and also is not going to get on the hot side just saying time dragon 810 and some rumors but it's also gonna be very battery efficient so it comes up to the 808 so I don't put much stock in some of the standard tests that you can run on mobile devices but I don't you guys like to know what they are so quadrants core xx 4858 and - - using 5.7 was forty nine thousand nine hundred fifty one and of course testing it with sixty four-bit alright let's talk about that camera that's a really big story about the g4 I'm guessing it's gonna be huge push behind LG's upcoming advertising campaign is a big upgrade not just like this big like this giant big upgrade so a new sensor onboard in the g4 it's a 16 megapixel sensor with a really bright f1 point in aperture lens its rounded out with that family's out of focus that we saw in the g3 notice it also a secondary sensor which is gonna give you better white balance and color it's also rocking a brand new or optical image stabilization that LG claims is two times better than the competition so what's the moral here hot damn that cameras good it's the best camera I've used on a phone period but beyond that not just good for a phone it's great for any camera the pictures just look kick-ass here in normal light color representation is accurate but late performance is solid but there is a little bit of noise on there I feel like the way the photos look though you can always just friggin shoot in raw and tweak them out ever you want LG also has a new manual mode here which is pretty sweet to use but you really got to know how to tweak all the settings so if you'd like to get into DSLR you're gonna love manual mode here this your autofocus still takes a little bit of time to find its focal point and sometimes doesn't always find it it's a small quibble but for the most part it works great this is a really solid camera option but it's not great with your DSLR don't any marketing language fool you but if you want some of the best camera forints you can get on a phone you're gonna love this alright so what about that design the g4 does have a slight curve to it it's not as drastic as like the G flex 2 obviously but it's there and it's subtle it makes holding the phone up to your ear feel a little bit more natural and also if you care you're put on your back pocket it's got a nice butt curve to it the big story here though I think is the materials that LG used so while Samsung the ones plastic stalwart I went upscale with glass and aluminum for their s6 and s6 edge LG stuck their burrial guns here and went with plastic plastic all the way around obvious caveat leather options are available for the back but the phone just doesn't have that premium feel to competition and if LG is offering a plastic option I'm saying to you friends at LG why not use the pretty cool self-healing option you get on the G flex 2 while the plastic is a compromise it definitely comes with a very valuable trade off and you know what it's gonna be a removable battery and microSD card support up to just a ridiculous 2 terabytes if you watched the unveiling of Samsung's Galaxy s6 you're looking at the iPhone and you thought I eat a removable storage I need to have that something that I have to have with me if you yelled at me in the comments section and saying you wanted to carry a secret with you yelled at me saying I want two removable batteries and put your money where your mouth is because the LG g4 offers that and that's a big differentiating factor it's hard to do now in the smartphone world so I wanna give credit where credit's due on the software side LG is shipping the g4 with android 5.1 out of the box so if you're worried about upgrades you're gonna be set for a little while I'm kind of mad on what LG's done from the software standpoint here they did to do a lot of things to try and reduce duplicate apps MRAM which I appreciated but the way it just looks I wasn't a fan of so in all candor for most this review I was running Nova Launcher on here it does offer a pretty useful multi window support and a host of other Handy features like I think one of the most badass features just the knock to unlock features well it's four codes but double tapping the unlock is really nice it also means you pretty much avoid the buttons on the back whether you like him or don't like him it takes a while to get used to they have kind of ambivalent to them in general a big a mission for me is also lack of a fingerprint scanner for both security and payments also no wireless charging out of the box that's annoying to me you got to buy a separate back to make the sync charge without wires all right so what about battery our international unit has 3000 milliamp hours us France a little bit on the lower side it's a really solid my average usage is off the charger around 7:00 7:30 connected to Wi-Fi networks at home or at work so pretty much all the time about two hours of calling two emails being pulled down pretty much all the time a lot more social media than I should we should be doing even when I'm home my wife's giving me this look that's the put your phone down look a battery was very good icons get too full days out of it at one full day though when I would go to bed around 10:30 to love and I generally had about 55 60 percent of battery life left so a really solid there is a conclusion here on the g4 it's tough to make a phone stand out and seem unique and a slew of really good competition but LG has done that by keeping features their phones have traditionally always hat and that is of course movable battery and expandable storage if that's important to you look no farther than the g4 and you get a really solid phone you're gonna get a good camera you're going to get a nice screen that cool curve to it you're gonna get a lot of great features packed in some emissions here which had a fingerprint sensor on the back I wish the speakers were beast on the bottom or front-facing but it's a very solid phone when I can actually recommend this gets a very solid eight point five on the TechnoBuffalo scale I mean I think do you agree disagree do you want to just yell at me more in the comments or do you want to come to my defense love to hear from you too I'll give IDEO a thumbs up to always appreciate it of course it's a big subscribe button for the latest TechnoBuffalo news until next time I'm John render for TechnoBuffalo talk to you guys the next one