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."

Comments

No no no!

[Servaas]

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One of the fastest?

[Anonymous Coward]

"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".

Re:One of the fastest?

[Sarten-X]

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".

Sleeper?

[Nrbelex]

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...

Nice slashvertisement

[wbr1]

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.

No SD, No sell

[matthelm007]

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

Re:No SD, No sell

[Skuld-Chan]

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.

Re:No SD, No sell

[MastarPete]

I don't think there even is an international version with an SD slot, at least not according to GSMarena. http://www.gsmarena.com/lg_g2-5543.php
It does support USB OTG, but I agree, SD slot or bust.

Re:No SD, No sell

[matthelm007]

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.

Re:Apple Cheating on Benchmarks since 2003

[Karlt1]

And a 10 year old computer benchmark has exactly what to do with a phone?

Re:Apple Cheating on Benchmarks since 2003

[carou]

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.

Sometimes Less is More

[Kagato]

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.

Re:Sometimes Less is More

[Sarten-X]

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".

I liked my LG

[chr1st1anSoldier]

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.

Re:Slashdot Going Downhill

[Anonymous Coward]

Dude, the /. crowd has been going downhill all since 1008, the year I first read a post here.

Wow, you really are Viking power!

Re:Slashdot Going Downhill

[Smauler]

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!"