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LG Unveils G6 Android Nougat Smartphone With a Compact 5.7-Inch QHD+ 18:9 Display (hothardware.com)
MojoKid writes: LG recently unveiled the new G6 smartphone, going completely back to the drawing board versus its predecessor -- the not so well-received G5. In its place is a very compact aluminum unibody design and a large 5.7-inch QHD+ display with a 2880x1440 resolution. That display is the main focal point of the G6, and it has a rather unorthodox 18:9 screen ratio, which LG says allows that smartphone to better fit in your hand. LG also notes that the aspect ratio is being adopted as a universal format from the likes of film studios and content providers like Netflix. Its thin bezel also gives the LG G6 an 80 percent screen-to-body ratio. The handset is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 processor along with 4GB of RAM, 32GB of internal storage and a microSD slot, which can accommodate up to an additional 2TB of storage. LG also outfitted the G6 with dual 13-megapixel rear cameras: a wide angle (F2.4 / 125 degree) shooter and a standard camera (F1.8 / 71 degree) with optical image stabilization. The LG G6 launches next month and will be available in Ice Platinum, Mystic White, Astro Black color options. Pricing is TBD. Some other specs include a non-removable 3,300 mAh battery, USB-C connectivity, 802.11ac Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.2, fingerprint sensor and an IP68 water and dust resistance rating. It's also the first non-Google smartphone to come pre-loaded with the Google Assistant. How do you think the LG G6 compares to what we currently know about the soon-to-be-launched Samsung Galaxy S8?
Am I missing something? Why don't they just say 2:1?
That just guaranteed I won't buy it. I'll have to find another replacement phone when the time comes.
LG also notes that the aspect ratio is being adopted as a universal format from the likes of film studios and content providers like Netflix.
Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm... ...no.
This screen scores approximately 565 pixels per inch. The average human eye cannot make out this much resolution -- I know that my eyes can't at my age.
Why pay for resolution that you can't see without a magnifying glass?
"-1 Troll" is the apparently the same as "-1 I disagree with you."
Wow, this is nuts. ... then because of hollywood most of us were forced to 1920 x 1080 and even more absurdly, mum and dad users were working at 1366x768 !!! For 10 years I waited and waited for the PC industry to bring out large hi res monitors... but again, it wasn't until the consumer 4k movement started, that PC manufactures started bringing out what I can only say is the absolute glory of 4k big monitors for programming.
10 Years ago, I was working at 1920 x 1200
but why oh why would you want 4k on 5.5" screen , when dell and HP are still foisting sucky pixelated monitors on PC's. This phone is 564ppi when the eye can only resolve 300ppi. What a waste of pixels.
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I suspect it's just "more intuitive" to compare 16:9 to 18:9 than to 2:1.
Not sure how you can call a phone compact that most people could not fit in their pocket without it sticking out.
What's the difference between an 18:9 display and a 2:1 display?
$300
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What's the difference between an 18:9 display and a 2:1 display?
Duh, obviously the former has 9 times more* pixels than the latter.
*(Actually, it's 8 times more, or 9 times as much, in each linear dimension, so 81 times as much in total. But this is marketing, so don't worry about the techy details.)
Escher was the first MC and Giger invented the HR department.
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Not necessarily a bad thing and kind of a selling point there.
Maybe you can hold it with one hand, scroll text and get to see a usable portion of the page that's not obscured by your thumb.
Might be great for portrait keyboard too (landscape keyboard might be shit, or maybe you can get a split one)
Some might have shit software. It's just like the bad old days of a Packard Bell with Windows 98 and XP bundled with a ton of crapware. What about you get Norton Anvitirus, Real Player, Acrobat Reader preloading with system tray icon, Packard Bell / Acer / whatever "troubleshooting" and "driver" utility, sound card special configuration GUI, webcam shitware, get a printer and install the "helpful" bundleware, Microsoft Active Desktop, yahoo/AOL/Ask Jeeves/Packard Bell toolbars in Internet Explorer, all with 128MB RAM and a Celeron with 66MHz bus? (which were screaming fast specs a year ago)
In those old days though, you installed a clean Windows from a warez CD (to save time), good drivers without "helpful" software (not included or crossed out in the installer), actually useful software like winrar, winamp, codecs etc. then that poor piece of crap PC was actually fast. You could also take your chance and clean up the crap manually without a reinstall (quit tray programs, uninstall crap, run msconfig, delete shortcuts)
Well. If continuing the PC analogy, get 2GB RAM instead of 1GB RAM, get 3GB instead of 2GB RAM, get 4GB instead of 3GB RAM (depending on price points) and pay attention to storage speed benchmarks or reviews that complain about slow storage.
And when I typed that, I was thinking of self-control. People are so afraid of control that they refuse to control themselves. Which of course encourages others to do the controlling for them.
Well, I can see the entire screen of my 32" TV I am using as a monitor, while out of the corner of my eye I can see the entire 40" room television.
Imagine if your car had a non-removable battery, or even tires for that matter.
Geez, don't go giving the car manufacturers ideas!
LG phones are not. At least, the LG G4 had a nearly universal motherboard/CPU problem that caused phone death, and LG was extremely unhelpful with repairs. Going back in time, the LG Nexus 4 had a list of design problems as long as my arm, though if you were lucky enough to get a late iteration of the device, that may not have been a problem for you.
LG has not shown itself to be a trustworthy brand (to me personally), and even the three popular Chinese brands seem to produce a better product.
Android phones still have a better UI in many ways, but iOS will soon be finished copying all of Android's best features. When that happens (probably with the iPhone 8 and its soft buttons), there won't be much of a strong reason to prefer Android.
A cat can't teach a dog to bark.
I expect the ratio comes from the TV technical industry, not LG marketing, and is used to indicate the number of pixels resolution is a good ratio to the original content's resolution when scaled. Notice how the ":9" corresponds to the 1440 pixel dimension, which is exactly twice the the 720 in 16:9 720P content.
Lovely, I just love a phone I can't hold easily. I rest my thumb on my physical home button ALL THE TIME to stabilise the phone in my hand. That's INCLUDING the sling grips (google them) I use on the back of the case to keep it stable.
Nothing more ghastly than a home button I can't rest on as it's thinking it's being pressed.
I'm now in the minority on this, my current phone has it, the next Samsung is finally doing away with it (and I'll be doing away, with the next Samsung)
I dislike this trend and I will spend my money where I can find what I'm looking for.
This is otherwise a fairly stylish phone but basically utterly impractical.
Would you say that "50% more" is the same as "50% as much"?
Escher was the first MC and Giger invented the HR department.
You're laughing over market-speak logic, but here's a question for you... why did marketers go from "2K" to "4K" television screens when they could have been both more accurate and more impressive by going from (1920x1080=) "2MP" to (3840x2160=) "8MP" screens?
Duh, megapixels are for digital cameras, that's got nothing to do with displays.
Escher was the first MC and Giger invented the HR department.
Sry, that's a lady's toy.
What we want is something Sony Xperia Z1/Z3/Z5 Compact came pretty close. Approx 4.5", quite powerful, stays working after little rain, battery lasts quite long. Sony abandoned the concept in X series - Compact in that series lost the IP rating. What they should've done - add less plastic-y frame and back cover (fingerprint smudges only on screen please) and make the phone 2mm fatter to give even more battery power.
But the marketing department knew better...
Yeah and I'm fine with that as well. But many of the new phones are glued shut. No screws, no gaskets, just glue.