Gadgetory

everybody this is data with the verge and this is LG's new flagship phone it's the g6 and what you should know about this phone is LG's stop trying to do gimmicks and they've just made a really really solid good reliable phone the g6 is all about nailing the basics this is a very very straightforward sturdy surprisingly little phone so the centerpiece of this phone is the 5.7 inch display which goes very nearly edge-to-edge and that's great because the thing is actually not much different in size from say a pixel it's actually a little bit smaller yet it manages to fit a bigger screen in there and LG's pull that off with a couple of neat things so you'll notice that the corners of the screen are curved the screen itself is actually curved and they do that to protect it so that when it hits if you drop it it's less likely to crack the screen because there's not a you know a square edge right up against the edge of the bezel there the other thing you should know about this screen is it is a 18 by 9 aspect ratio it's super tall or super wide if you will and what that does is it enables a bunch of really clever tricks so if you were to say multitask you can actually see more of the two things on the screen because it is a much taller screen to work with LG's also made a really neat camera app that they call square camera where you take a picture on the top and it immediately shows you what you've taken a photo of on the bottom so you can see if your Instagram shot is actually lined up the way that you want which is really clever other things that are really just standard and straightforward about this thing it is waterproof it's ip68 waterproof it has a bunch of different kinds of Gorilla Glass actually on the front it's Gorilla Glass 3 which makes it pretty thin on the back you have Gorilla Glass 4 over the lenses which prevents it from scratching and then a curved Gorilla Glass 5 back inside there's a 3300 milliamp battery which is actually a little bit smaller than LG could have done but they wanted to make this thing again reliable sturdy they say you'll get more than a day out of it you also notice that the power button here is on the back and of course there's a fingerprint sensor and there are two cameras there's a wide-angle lens at 125 degrees Android lens at 71 degrees and what that allows LG to do is have either toggle the zoom mode here from white wide-angle to telephoto or you can just zoom right in and they say they've done a better job of not having a balance between those scrolls the other thing that's neat here because they have this 18 by 9 screen when you take a photo your previews are like in a little carousel over here on the left rather than a tiny thumbnail over there so you can see what you're taking a picture of right away inside this thing in terms of specs it's a Snapdragon 820 one processor which is not going to be probably the latest and greatest this year but it still is a very very good processor it's got 4 gigs of RAM for running apps and 32 gigs of storage and then of course there's expandable storage on side here so that's C LG G 6 it's coming to the US but we don't know prices or release dates or carriers that we do know that it's going to be available in black and platinum but not white the other thing to know about the US version is it's not going to have a DAC for high quality audio instead what you're going to get is the two kinds of wireless charging on there which apparently American consumers care more about for much more of everything that's happening here at Mobile World Congress you should check us out we are the verge for much more about nailing the subscribe plug there's a ton more news happening at Mobile World Congress and if you want to missing because you don't have to use a quick cut I see it see what's going on here we're getting some we're getting some outros this is some like jokes for the end of the video that we're going to put in we do dance not your monkey