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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. One of the fastest? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "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".

    1. Re:One of the fastest? by Sarten-X · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Oh, good. Now we've clarified it to the precision of a "handful". I have pretty steady hands. I can probably stack up a good dozen phones or more before considering my hands "full". Of course, if we consider the use of tape or a sufficiently-large basket, I could fit a significant amount of the currently-available phones, and we can then just call them all "fastest".

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  2. Nice slashvertisement by wbr1 · · Score: 3, Insightful
    That said, I own the original Optimus G, which is still a great phone. I have owned or had long access to many Samsungs, LG's, HTCs, and even an iPhone or two, and I consistently like the LG. I had an Optimus S, which while slow, was a consistent, strong as nails work horse. It is still sitting on my desk as a backup, despite having been thrown, dropped, etc. I had an LG marquee. Beautiful screen for a midrange, but even though it had a faster CPU than the S, felt laggier often, even with trimmed custom ROMs and kernels. I have worked on and used the HTC DINC2, EVO 4g and EVO4g. Sense is passable, and their hardware and software build are top notch as well, but I never liked the difficuly in rooting and ROMming some of them presented.

    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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  3. Re:Nice slashvertisement by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Nothing worse than an underpowered girlfriend laptop.

  4. Sometimes Less is More by Kagato · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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.

    1. Re:Sometimes Less is More by Sarten-X · · Score: 4, Insightful

      ultra low power processor...more battery life

      We need to get away from the spec chasing.

      By which you mean "stop chasing this particular spec and go back to chasing the spec I care about".

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    2. Re:Sometimes Less is More by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      No, it was obvious that it meant stop chasing theoretical specs and go back to chasing practical attributes like battery life, usability, etc. that means something to most non-techie users.