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what's up everyone John rende Jeff and TechnoBuffalo here and today we're taking a first look at the lg optimus G pro this guy has not yet been picked up by any US carriers we are taking a look at it all dolled up in its GSM unlocked version with support for 4G LTE which he'd expect now for most modern phones kind of an odd look to the bunk with the dots that sort of fade up to the top let's go ahead and take a look I have not had a chance to see this guy in person yet so I'm pretty excited to take a look this phone would probably most closely be related to Samsung's Galaxy Note 2 so we'll pick that up grab the phone feels pretty solid in the hand push it off the side for just a real quick second and then we'll run through the specs everything the phone has and turn it on so let's see what you're going to get in the box you've got a wall wart with different country adapters on the top we've got pretty nice-looking pair of headphones here quad beat headphones might usually go into too much detail about headphones these ones actually look relatively nice so you've got earbuds got metal accent tips you have volume controls and inline mic on it than some other size earbuds depending on how big or little your ear is we've got a charge and sync cable here nothing overly exciting there we've got a ginormous 31 40 milliamp hour battery it's 3,140 million push it off to the side we got some looks not sure what language that is in we've got some other stuff and some cards and dock I suppose or a perhaps for charging an extra battery I'll take a look at that guy and see what it is but that's not why you're here to see the accessories you want to see the phone so let's go ahead and peel off the screen protector because those fingerprints are really bothering me boom and here we've got the lg optimus G pro Android 4.1 as powering it push that off to the side it's also got that same similar back that we saw on the Nexus 4 but this is plastic and does have a removable battery so go ahead and pull that stuff off there as well from two men standpoint it's five point nine inches by three inches by pretty decent 0.37 chah's and weighs 6.0 four ounces so the screen is uh pretty similar to the note to 5.5 inches that's a full 1080p when powered by a 1.7 gigahertz quad-core Snapdragon 600 processor which is the same processor actually found in HTC one two gigs of ram 32 gigs of storage plus micro SD which is nice 13 megapixel camera on the back 2.1 on the front bluetooth 4.0 and NFC so enough of me gibber jabbing about the phone when we pop in the battery and we'll see how this guy performs back in just a second so I was going to pump in this battery that came in it but it turns out there's already one in there so we solve the mystery of what this big piece is actually a separate battery charger it's nice that LG included two gigantic batteries so that's either a great sign or a really bad sign for battery so that's already in there and of course on the back you can see the NFC radio there go ahead and power all that stuff back and power the phone on power button lives on the right hand side go ahead and continue our tour while it's booting up there's your little finger slot if you want to pull off the plastic back on the left we've got a volume rocker up and down and not sure what that's button is going to do maybe it'll map to a camera perhaps you can set it for what you want it's booting up looks like this one is set for SK Telecom so all that language I didn't know is probably Korean I've got a 3.5 millimeter headset jack I believe that that is an IR blaster sort of some metal-looking accents around it but they're not real metal here on the bottom is where you're charging syncing cable is going to be and I believe they'll do double duty as HDMI out we've got some noise cancelling mic sand all the camera stuff that we've talked about in the first part of the video so we are all set up here I'm gonna go and do the setup and now I'll come back in just a minute and we'll walk through what else she's got in the Optimus G pro alright so we've got it all set up and ready to rock and the screen looks absolutely gorgeous as you'd expect from a full 1080p screen so LG has done a lot of tweakin with android is android 4.1.2 and i'll show you guys that and like I can show you some of the tweaks that they've done here so the settings is broken up into four different categories network sound display and a neural which first blush actually makes things very easy to find so I'll go to about phone we'll take a look at some of the software information you can see that we are running android 4.1.2 one here so the big difference is you'll notice is when you pull this down you've got a lot of shortcuts here you can scroll through and turn different things on and off but I really like what LG has got is some things called qslide apps and that's very similar to actually what sony has and Samsung has something sort of similar so if I go ahead and open a memo for example it's going to open it up in a little window that's going to show up right on top of the screen you can move it around depending on where you want it you can go ahead and start typing you can see what the keyboard looks like as well and of course the Android if you don't like that keyboard you can download a ton of other options you've got those qslide apps and there are just a few of those right now hopefully we'll be seeing more coming up I really like the calculator one there and calendar q voice also very nice sort of they're similar answer to s voice so a ton of options here before we actually get to what your notifications are you only have the bottom half of the screen but fortunately you've got a 5.5 inch screen here in which to work with so the way you handle would it themself is also different if you long press you've got apps downloads widgets and wallpapers you can see what the widgets are most of them are pretty stock Android but there are a few custom ones that are done for LG and we've got the SK Telecom version so some are very custom for SK Telecom and this phone has some other odd things in it that we don't see very often here in the US that are kind of cool to check out so go ahead and hit home and speaking of home we've got a physical button there and flanked on the left and right is a capacitive back button and menu button if you want to get to your multitasking window which looks like normal Android multitasking just hold the home button you can swipe stuff off to close it taking a look here what the screen looks like when dealing with text or giving up images it looks pretty crisp you know on first blush text looks very clear as you'd expect an image is least that I've seen I look very good but of course we'll test those on our for review to see how it performs and definitely check it out versus the Galaxy Note 2 build quality here looks to be really nice actually it's got a very strong solid feel to it despite being plastic which is oftentimes knocked on devices this one feels really really nice this button here is still a mystery to me go go and push it into what happens looks like it opens up a memo screen you go ahead and start writing or write on the screen with your finger you do not have any sort of included stylus here I'll go ahead and hit home if I can get that stuff to go away but you might not have a stylus but you have something different here this little tab pulls up what I thought was gonna reveal some sort of stylus but just kept going going and going and going until it stops it is a TV antenna which is something very unique to the Korean market and certainly other countries they've got full TV tuner built in here now I did to scan for channels and fortunately we don't have any they did include some I guess it's it's the melon system they call it in Korea but does not work here in the US so this ever does come to the US don't expect that to be on board here something also funny that I noticed in the SK Telecom book when they give you the examples of what to do they got a little guy doing doing Gangnam style in there I just found that funny so other than that nothing else is really different at least on first blush and pretty curious to use the phone on see how a performance to go ahead and get pinched you can see all your different home screens you could set default home screens that's the stuff you can do with Android so again any questions or things you want to see be sure to let us know let me bring in a Galaxy Note 2 just for size comparison here so you guys can see what the differences are and how they look side-by-side so the same inch screen certainly they look like long-lost brothers and sisters to go ahead and stack them side-by-side you can see the difference here one thing I noticed that when I weigh at the phone feels the note2 feels more rounded when you hold it this one feels more slab like so if you you know like a feel of one are they over the other definitely keep that in mind certainly you've got that cool pattern on the back of the optimus G pro you don't have on the note 2 thank you guys for watching sure give this video a thumbs up we definitely appreciate it I'm John Ritter from TechnoBuffalo and I'll see you in the next video buh-bye you