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Sleeper: LG G2 One of the Fastest Android Smartphones On the Market
MojoKid writes "The LG G2 is the follow-up to LG's Optimus G Pro. It's also one of the few smartphones on the market right now powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon 800 quad-core SoC. The G2 sports a 5.2-inch 1080p display, 2GB of RAM and up to 32GB of on board storage. However, the 2.26GHz quad-core Snapdragon 800 chip on board also has Qualcomm's Adreno 330 GPU that even gives NVIDIA's Tegra 4 a run for its money in gaming and graphics performance. Though the G2 has a rather unorthodox volume rocker and power button assembly on the back of the phone, once you get used to the location, it's actually a pretty comfortable control system. What's pretty impressive though is the G2's performance combined with its 3000mAh battery that offers a solid balance of horsepower and battery life and rivals flagship phones like the Samsung Galaxy S4 and Apple's iPhone 5S."
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How about bringing up the fact that LG is cheating on benchmarks just like samung? http://www.anandtech.com/show/7384/state-of-cheating-in-android-benchmarks
How about bringing up the fact that the LG G2 is about half the performance of the 5s in benchmarks that aren't cheated?
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Only companies worth buying from right now are Moto and Apple.
"LG G2 One of the Fastest Android Smartphones On the Market" I love those kind of generic statements. All the Android phones except the slowest one is "one of the fastest".
WTF are those?
How is it a sleeper? It's not made by Apple or Samsung, but it is being heavily marketed on TV and has solid reviews (aside from the atrocious Android skin) all over the Web...
Samsung, well, hardware specs aside, I find the software build on the S3 and the Galaxy Tab to be crap. We currently have a galaxy victory (essentially a smaller screened S3), and I have had much worse specced phones run more smoothly with less crashes. The clusterfuck that is KIES pisses me off too, I cannot count the times I have tried to troubleshoot my mom's galaxy tab (and she lives on the other side of the pond and gets frustrated easy, so it is a difficult prospect.
With one miss, LG has been very consistent to me. And from what I read, it may have been a bad apple as some units in that model apparently were lemons.
All that aside, I am a geek, I use Ting, so I pay outright for my phones, no subsidies. With my Optimus G, I do not need more. Quad core, 1.5GB, accelerated Open GL 2. Runs just about any app I throw at it smoothly, and has more power than my girlfriend laptop. I do not need, nor have the budget, to drop $600-900 on something even faster, even if that cost is amortized over a contract.
When I finally break this one through carelessness, then I will buy a used model that is a year or so back on the treadmill, pay half or less what others are, and guess what, I will still be happy.
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i know i shouldn't compare apples to oranges, but the LG G2 sounds like it is faster than my 900 MHz Celeron netbook with 1 gigbyte of memory. just saying. did not know that smartphones have become this fast. I have an old Palm Treo PDA that uses 2G WAP/GPRS, I think. It only has 32 MB of memory with an additional 24 MB for user data and applications if I remember correctly.
How about we decide not to be assimilated, and quit going all gaga over locked down unrepairable appliances and calling it the future?
Only companies worth buying from right now are Moto and Apple.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/06/24/apple_accused_of_cheating_over/ Seriously if you want to hold a company up as a measure of virtue you should probably make sure they are.
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Give that some thought as you're reading Slashdot.
I paid money for an LG Renoir, thus I have not bought any LG equipment nor bought anything from the scumbag that sold me the LG Renoir since. However, if LG are actually producing usable equipment, and they keep on producing only good things, I may reconsider my policy in a few more years.
Sorry, in the US version, there is no SD card, so I won't buy it.
The fact there was no "The Sleeper Must Awaken!" comments in the first few minutes tells me the /. crowd is rapidly going down hill.
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I used Android phones exclusively from 2008-2012, and the one thing that they all seemed to have in common was that IO blocked the UI, making for an incredibly sluggish experience. Got an application installing in the background? Well get ready for a multiple-second delay for touches.
It's all very well talking about the specs, but I've used phones with good specs before that have felt like some of the slowest phones I've ever seen because of factors other than raw horsepower.
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So as the fastest phone, does that mean when you talk on it, your voice is sped up for really fast conversations, so that you either sound like one of the Chipmunks or the FedEx Guy?
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Does it have a sex Orb?
To compete for "the fastest" title they're constantly pushing the limits of what could reasonably be considered a phone. At 5.2 inches it's getting close to a 7 inch tablet, next time around I'll have to get a "mini" phone for it to be anywhere close to my current iPhone 4.
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"One of the fastest..." you say but in fact, I'll bet that it makes phone calls at exactly the same speed as every other phone on the market and no faster than every cell phone ever made
I think way too much emphasis is placed on having the absolute fastest CPU/GPU and the biggest battery. If you look at phones like the Moto X and the iPhone 5S they offload the mundane everyday tasks to ultra low power processors. The end results is they aren't firing up the big Ghz SoC as much as they can get significantly more battery life from smaller cells. We need to get away from the spec chasing.
That report was later discredited. The accusation was largely based on the fact that the testers had disabled hyperthreading on the compared Dell PC: it turned out they had done this because it made that benchmark result *better*. They showed the x86 in its best possible light, so that those in the peanut gallery couldn't credibly accuse them of bias in favour of the G5.
So by best possible light you meant returning figures of "SPECint base score of 800, 889 and 836" instead of "1089" and "SPECfp base scores were 840, 693 and 646" instead of "1053" to by *better* you mean iPhone better ;)
I really liked my LG Optimus L9, i think it was a very solid buy for $200. I had the T-Mobile version (P769n) and couldn't unlock the boot loader, but I did root it. I used a different launcher, removed all of the worthless T-Mobile apps and everything else I didn't need. I ended up with a snappy, responsive phone that had a Galaxy S2 or S3 (don't remember which now) users envious. My mistake was going for one of those confounded WP that T-Mobile gives away for my GF after breaking the screen on her phone. She basically threw it at me so I had to give her my droid and use this WP8 phone. Its..... Its.... Not a day goes by that I look at my old LG and think about stealing my phone back. I've even gone as far as to plot this out. As soon as I'm able I am getting back on Droid and I would like another LG. As I said, I was very happy with my Optimus L9.
To compete for "the fastest" title they're constantly pushing the limits of what could reasonably be considered a phone. At 5.2 inches it's getting close to a 7 inch tablet, next time around I'll have to get a "mini" phone for it to be anywhere close to my current iPhone 4.
Size is going up because for those people bigger is better, because its more useful when you are doing *smart* things on one. One of the reasons for iPhones plummeting market share worldwide is due to it not having a product in this desirable market.
the shame is that this piece of crap is the best in the market. the ubuntu edge would have trashed the shit out of these specs.
2.26 ghz and 2gb of RAM? I think that says enough.
....you must be using one of those slow iPhones.
Haven't heard of things like project butter...get informed http://www.geeksquad.co.uk/articles/what-is-project-butter-in-android-jelly-bean-4-1
Please. Report watt-hours, or STFU. Amp-hours are not a measure of energy capacity and don't mean shit unless the voltage is also known.
One of the reasons for iPhones plummeting market share
iPhone market share has generally been holding steady or rising a bit in some areas - in the U.S. for example iPhone activations for Verizon are over 51% of smartphones last quarter.
Keep telling yourself that though if it helps you sleep.
For fans of giant devices, they have an iPad mini.
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You had to go all the way back to 2003 to find ANY link of Apple cheating - so pretty obviously it's not happening or someone would have found it by now.
Thanks for the confirmation of Apple's reputation.
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The so-called "review" on that hotfuckware site is worse than useless, especially their graphic performance page
On one graph they showed Apple's iPhone 5s and iPhone 5 dominating all others, by a very long shot - by almost 3 times the speed of LG's G2 - but they NEVER explain in what way they obtained that number
The whole review is a piece of shit, as far as I am concern
So the LG G2 is basically the same specs as my Xperia Z Ultra (but with a much smaller screen, and not as thin), or the Xperia Z1, or the Galaxy Note 3 LTE, and probably others. Wow, big deal.
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I was shopping for a new phone when I spotted the G2. The display is the best I've even seen on a (relatively) small screen. Having 32GB of onboard storage makes up for the fact that I can't put an SD card in it (booooo!!!!). That snapdragon processor is very snappy indeed. Animations are very fluid and it seems to handle multitasking quite well. At first I wasn't that impressed with the battery life until I put Juice Defender on it. Now I'm getting a solid 2 days between charges. That's pretty good in my books, considering the drive-in movie size screen on the thing.
Call quality is very good - better than on my old Samsung Galaxy SII. It even picks up 4G LTE signals better than the SII.
At first I was a bit intimidated by the size of it. With a cover on it, it's approaching bulky. But it still fits in my pocket and I kind of like the extra screen real estate. Compared to the iPhone 5S, it's enormous. I compared it side by side to the Galaxy S3 and the G2 seemed better to me in nearly every way. It's a real sleeper this G2. I'm very happy with it so far.
bad or buggy software. So we are back to marketing on tech specs again? "Your lame phone just got faster!"
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What is the price tag?
Let's ask the real questions, not the benchmarks stuff..
What is the price tag?
No, I mean the real one, not the telco fake plan scam price..
Is it easy to unlock?
Does it run current Android easily?
Can the battery be replaced?
Are the speakers any good?
How is the camera?
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I never pull the card, but I've got one in mine.
It's the built-in-only crap that lets companies get away with things like charging over $100 for adding a few gig of storage, and then advertising the 8GB model with the ** at the end stating "base model price" or whatever
for example if you want to waste extra power using a fast general purpose processor for the tasks most SOCs do with low power specialized hardware, then you might be interested in a snapdragon processor from qualcomm
The screen looks great! The thing that kind of threw me was the buttons being located on the back, at least I can feel like I'm giving my phone a back massage.
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