Gadgetory

well hey guys it's David with the Virgen we're here looking at the new LG g2 which was just announced here in New York City so from a hardware perspective this phone is a lot like the Samsung Galaxy s4 it's a little bit bigger has a 5.2 inch screen it's also 1080p and it looks really great the screen is bigger but the phone itself is actually about the same size but one thing that's really interesting is that the buttons both the power and the volume buttons are on the back you can also long press the volume down button to launch straight into the camera or press up to go straight into the quick memo the quick memo is one of a huge list of software features on this lg basically took the same approach to Samsung and just crammed all the software could possibly think of into this phone so quick memo lets you take a screenshot or just doodle notes it's a really handy way to just quickly get a note down on the phone it's also one of a bunch of apps that LG has that will actually pop over whatever you're doing so you can take a memo or see your calendar or use a calculator over top of another app and you can use a bunch of them you can handle the transparency you can really do a bunch of things at once on this phone and it seems to work really well it's running a Snapdragon 800 processor which is insanely fast and has two gigs of ram and all-in-all makes the g2 seem like a pretty fast phone it is a 13 megapixel camera again just like the GS 4 and for the most part it's basically just like the GS 4 it has tons of modes there's a dual camera mode that lets you shoot with the front and back camera at the same time there is one cool feature called VR panorama which lets you take a 360 degree photo and actually pan around it just by moving your body or scrolling around on the screen it's a little like Google Street View and it's actually pretty fun it's kind of hard to get the photo right but it's cool there are a bunch of little tweaks to the operating system what it's called slide to access and basically what it lets you do is Store apps off to the left side of your screen using three fingers just swipe an app over and it just lives there and it's sort of own separate multitasking menu one of the coolest tweaks to the operating system is how the g2 handles guest mode instead of having a bunch of different totally distinct profiles you just unlock the phone with a different pattern for yourself or for a guest and if you use the guest pattern it just shows a few apps and a few settings and whatever you've enabled it's a really clever way of handling being able to just give summer to your phone and let them make a phone call so in all the g2 reminds me a lot of the GS 4 it's a ton of software features it's not particularly exciting hardware though LG is doing a couple of interesting things here with the buttons on the back but really the move here is software the quick memo stuff there's the remote that you can use and even offers the remote in the notification pulldown there's a ton of options a ton of menus a lot going on but ultimately a lot you can do as well the g2 is coming to all four carriers and it's gonna be a very different phone depending on how you want to set it up so obviously we've only just gotten to know this phone but it's clear that this is not trying to compete with something like the iPhone or the Moto X this is very much a kitchen sink kind of phone like the Samsung Galaxy s4 it has all the features you want probably dozens and dozens more and really if you're a tinkerer can be almost anything you want which is probably going to be a lot of fun for some people