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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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"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".
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.
Silence is a state of mime.
Nothing worse than an underpowered girlfriend laptop.
Sorry, in the US version, there is no SD card, so I won't buy it.
And a 10 year old computer benchmark has exactly what to do with a phone?
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.
Seriously, you had to go back over a decade to find an example of Apple cheating on benchmarks? How many generations ago is that in computer technology?
Try again by citing a source that shows them cheating on benchmarks now.
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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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.
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.
Dude, the /. crowd has been going downhill all since 1008, the year I first read a post here.
Wow, you really are Viking power!
I only mean that, in isolation from other configuration, turning hyperthreading off produced a higher benchmark result than turning it on. Dell didn't publish details of how they had configured the computer to produce their numbers although the compiler probably had a large part to do with it; according to the follow-up article, the host OS was different (Linux vs Windows) and they had probably used the Intel compiler whereas the VeriTest study used gcc (for both the x86 and the G5, which makes sense if your aim is to compare chip performance as opposed to compiler performance).
From the article:
To be fair, at least Apple and VeriTest tell you what they've done, which is more than can be said for the vendor-supplied figures on SPEC's web site. What tweaks have vendors applied to boost their own scores?
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.
Yeah, but my pockets are only so big. And I have a Nexus 7 in my bag, the phone in my pocket doesn't need to be anywhere near as smart.
One of the big advantages of Android was supposed to be the variety of devices possible that different manufacturers could come up with to suit different needs, and we are getting that in terms of TV dongles, laptops, tablets, etc, but phones all seem to be the same, growing, size. Variety seems to be reducing not increasing.
As an european, to me the update-policy nowadays, while they were a major factor in previous decisions, are insignificant.
I only care if the bootloader could be opened with tools provided by the manufacturer, not by exploiting a vulnerability.
Android by default prefers weak encryption algorhythms over secure ones. Google is an american company. The NSA tried to weaken open source and closed source products alike on a big scale, but failed on some open source products. Nuff said.
I would not use any standard firmware on any phone that is also sold in america or maintained by an american company. I do not care if my next phone is supported with new firmware by the manufacturer. The only thing I care about is if there is a firmware maintainer in the community I remotely trust and if I could apply that more trustable firmware to my device without too much of a hassle.
LG seems to have some unlockable devices and some that are somehow unlockable. If the new one is the former, I might consider buying.
What I will never ever buy again is a mobile device were I am forced to use a closed source system. Not because I am an OSS evangelist, but because I refuse to pay american companies to spy on me by bringing me to buy the spying device myself.
So to me the support period for the firmware no longer is of any importance. I just want to make shure that I stay as far away from american clouds and NSA-controlled encryption as I could without loosing too much convenience.
Those are strange times.
Actually, the variety is increasing, especially in size. Some people want smaller phones, so you have phones like the mini, some people want bigger phones, so you have phablets.
My hands are big enough to comfortably hold an LG G2(feels similar in width to a Droid RAZR MAXX), and still flick any part of the screen that I want. There's plenty of room in my pants pocket, so that's not an issue. I used to carry a Palm Pilot with a Rhino case in my pocket, that was a lot bigger, this phone is very slim in comparison, even with a case. I'm far sighted, and even though I have reading glasses, it's a real pain trying to read tiny fonts on a small display. The display on this phone is incredible! It reminds me of the Samsung S4, which had the first display to impress me in years. The quad-core power on this phone is fantastic. Shredder Chess and Stockfish must be playing in the 2400+ range now.
I'm pretty sure I'm not the only person who likes a display that's easy on the eyes, and if it still fits in your pocket and your hand, it's not too big.
And it has an IR blaster too!!
I agree with GP... I think it all started in the story about Olav Haraldsson landing on Saaremaa Island in Estonia. Rather tan talking about the possible political impact of this unsanctioned invasion, slashdotters just spent their time doing Viking jokes.
The Norse god Thor decided to become a mortal for a while and went down to earth. He met a beautiful girl and they spent the evening together. In the morning Thor decided to reveal his identity to the woman. "I'm Thor" he said. "You're thor!" she said, "Lithen buthter, I'm tho thor I can hardly thit down!"
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.
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
Can't reconcile yourself with the fact that Apple produces better products?
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bad or buggy software. So we are back to marketing on tech specs again? "Your lame phone just got faster!"