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Sleeper: LG G2 One of the Fastest Android Smartphones On the Market

Posted by timothy on from the prefers-to-go-by-lucky-goldstar dept.

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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  1. Sleeper? by Nrbelex · · Score: 3, Informative

    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...

  2. No SD, No sell by matthelm007 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Sorry, in the US version, there is no SD card, so I won't buy it.

    1. Re:No SD, No sell by Skuld-Chan · · Score: 3, Informative

      This is kinda funny - the last phone I had that actually had an SD-Card slot was my Droid-X, and previously the HTC Nexus 1.

      BOTH phones required you pull the battery out to swap the SD-Card... so I never did. You know what - I found you really don't need to either. There are so many connection options for the Android OS that you can move files to and from it really easily, and it has TONS of cloud based options too for streaming audio and video over the net.

      I think I use up like 4-5 gigs of my Galaxy Nexus's 32 gigs of storage.

    2. Re:No SD, No sell by matthelm007 · · Score: 3, Informative

      I have 4-5GB free on my 64GB card. Can't hardly wait until the 128GB cards come out.

      Cloud doesn't work when you don't have a connection. No WiFi at work, and concrete walls so 3/4G only works once in a while. I have to walk to the other end of the building, just to make a call.

  3. Re:Apple Cheating on Benchmarks since 2003 by carou · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.