OFFICIAL LG G3 Thread: Lets talk about the G3....

[richierich1212]

Unless you can change the battery

Icwutudidthur

 

[richierich1212]

I don't even know what to get now

Which devices were you deciding between?

 

[BassBomb]

Which devices were you deciding between?

Originally M8 vs S5

Then S5 vs Z2

Now S5 vs G2

I still feel like somehow S5 keeps winning in overall and yet I don't feel confident in any choice for some reason

Each has something and each missing something

 

[Dari]

Unless you can change the battery

Yes, I agree. I have an OG Pro and I can do that but, instead, I just use a battery pack. It charges my phone and tablet so I'm good. However, if I did not have that, I'd be pissed at having to buy a new battery every year for a phone. That would suck.

 

[dawheat]

Yes, I agree. I have an OG Pro and I can do that but, instead, I just use a battery pack. It charges my phone and tablet so I'm good. However, if I did not have that, I'd be pissed at having to buy a new battery every year for a phone. That would suck.

I hear you, but it's a small price to pay to get original battery life on a $600+ device. An OEM Note 3 battery from Amazon.com (not a seller) is $16.59.

 

[Rdmkr]

Originally M8 vs S5

Then S5 vs Z2

Now S5 vs G2

I still feel like somehow S5 keeps winning in overall and yet I don't feel confident in any choice for some reason

Each has something and each missing something

Z2 is my favorite at this stage.
- decently sized screen with the broadest color gamut on the market, broader than amoled's; pretty good contrast +/- 1200:1
- front facing stereo speakers
- much better design than samsung (according to me and popular opinion)
- sharpest camera on the market with a great F/2.0 lens
- incredible battery life
- quite a bit thinner than LG G3, so not that much less compact relative to screen size

what's not to like, really.

 

[Sweepr]

All hail the new king: The LG G3 dethrones the Samsung Galaxy S5 in our battery life chart, obliterates the rest

http://www.phonearena.com/news/All-...ttery-life-chart-obliterates-the-rest_id56979

 

[cmdrdredd]

Z2 is my favorite at this stage.
- decently sized screen with the broadest color gamut on the market, broader than amoled's; pretty good contrast +/- 1200:1
- front facing stereo speakers
- much better design than samsung (according to me and popular opinion)
- sharpest camera on the market with a great F/2.0 lens
- incredible battery life
- quite a bit thinner than LG G3, so not that much less compact relative to screen size

what's not to like, really.

Sony just doesn't understand that the US has a market for devices like theirs. Buying an international version with no warranty or support isn't something I fancy.

 

[mnewsham]

All hail the new king: The LG G3 dethrones the Samsung Galaxy S5 in our battery life chart, obliterates the rest

http://www.phonearena.com/news/All-...ttery-life-chart-obliterates-the-rest_id56979

Lot of samsung and LG fanboys fighting in those comments. What a shithole.

 

[dawheat]

All hail the new king: The LG G3 dethrones the Samsung Galaxy S5 in our battery life chart, obliterates the rest

http://www.phonearena.com/news/All-...ttery-life-chart-obliterates-the-rest_id56979

This is good, but I wish their methodology was posted anywhere beyond a 'custom web script'. Most importantly do they equilibrate brightness like Anandtech does to answer the question whether LG is playing games with brightness to protect the screen.

 

[Rdmkr]

http://www.digitalversus.com/lg-g3-5-5-ips-display-put-test-n34623.html

Another decent review, focusing on the display.

Contrast ratio measurement comes in at 1:830 vs. LG G2's 1:1330.

Touchscreen response time is 50ms, almost equal to HTC One M8 and twice as good as S5, Z2 and G2. Nice.

High color fidelty, Delta E = 3... Better than the S5 and Z2 (+/- 7), but this is probably the flipside of having a narrower color range (confirm?). Having had amoled and LCD side by side, I'd pick the better color fidelty. The S4 on anything other than cinema mode looked pretty ridiculous to me, and Cinema mode's color charts look like a Picasso painting.

Low screen ghosting time, too. 15 ms (24 ms for the G2)

Here's hoping Anandtech takes my battery life fears away when their review appears here.

 

[Rdmkr]

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/06/lg-g3-review-a-great-phone-with-way-too-many-pixels/2/

Not quite as bad as the Korean result, but well short of the competition.

Their Nexus 5 result seems weird. From what I hear people saying about it I would have expected worse.

 

[Anubis]

Z2 is my favorite at this stage.
- decently sized screen with the broadest color gamut on the market, broader than amoled's; pretty good contrast +/- 1200:1
- front facing stereo speakers
- much better design than samsung (according to me and popular opinion)
- sharpest camera on the market with a great F/2.0 lens
- incredible battery life
- quite a bit thinner than LG G3, so not that much less compact relative to screen size

what's not to like, really.

whats not to like is that you cant get it in the US unless you buy it outright and even then you cant get it on every carrier and you get zero support

 

[ImDonly1]

All these battery results are confusing.
Half of them say it is amazing, the other half show it has worse battery than a GS4.

If the battery is worse than a GS4, then that's a deal breaker since the G2 had such good battery life.

 

[Rdmkr]

The bad battery life results have so far come from reviewers that clearly stated their policy for equalizing the brightness output between the devices in their battery life tests. I'd say those are the most trustworthy.

 

[Sweepr]

It doesnt take a genious to figure that @ same brightness a QHD should draw more power than a Full HD display. Right now it's a trade off between pixel density and brightness (at similar battery numbers), I hope they improve this in future QHD displays but I bet most people will be fine with G3 brightness @ auto settings.

 

[Anubis]

They should not equalize brightness in the tests they should leave it on auto with a consistent source of light. Honestly in the past 4 years I don't think I've ever taken my phone off auto brightness

 

[lopri]

I have watched 4~5 [pre]view videos on Youtube and I am really liking what I see. I can't wait to compare it side-by-side with the Note 3. (or the Note 4 if it comes out anytime soon) On Youtube videos, 5.5" and 5.7" look very comparable. Samsung still has a bit of advantage because they have on-screen buttons out of the screen, but I think the G3 has other features that more than make up for it.

Only [potential] negatives that I found from the videos:

- Convex back. This is my personal taste and while LG reduced the curve from the G2 but it's still showing.
- Overheating. It is expected to an extent on any flagship phone these days, so it will be a matter of degree.
- That ugly "Recent apps" design.
- Lack of digitizer (v. the N3)

Brightness seems a bit low compared to other phones but that also needs to be judged on its own, IMO. I don't set my phones' brightness @100% anyway. What matters is how well it performs under diverse lighting environments.

It is impressive how quickly LG caught up with the modern phone design and now excels in some areas (e.g. bezels, camera). I think when my family/friends' S4 contracts are up I will have them try out LG phones.

 

[lopri]

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/06/lg-g3-review-a-great-phone-with-way-too-many-pixels/2/

Not quite as bad as the Korean result, but well short of the competition.

Their Nexus 5 result seems weird. From what I hear people saying about it I would have expected worse.

I would ignore that troll's review.

 

[Rdmkr]

They should not equalize brightness in the tests they should leave it on auto with a consistent source of light. Honestly in the past 4 years I don't think I've ever taken my phone off auto brightness

I'd rather they don't do tests at all if it leaves such an important variable (how auto-brightness behaves) unquantified. If they're going to let people just "sense" whether the auto-brightness is any good, why not do the same with the battery life. IMO they shouldn't pretend to be quantifying things when they're actually not.

Equalizing brightness is just simpler to do in a fully quantified way. IMO it's necessary to make the result mean anything.

If LG really sets standard brightness very low, who is to say this isn't the first phone to leave you disgusted by the auto-brightness setting.

I don't use auto-brightness on the LG G2. It's universally too dim for my tastes.

I would ignore that troll's review.

Why?

 

[mnewsham]

for the majority of the time I keep my G2 at 5-15% brightness, I really don't like it any brighter than that unless I am outdoors (rare occurrence). So for me the G3 battery life sounds like it would be a nonissue.

 

[dawheat]

I'd rather they don't do tests at all if it leaves such an important variable (how auto-brightness behaves) unquantified. If they're going to let people just "sense" whether the auto-brightness is any good, why not do the same with the battery life. IMO they shouldn't pretend to be quantifying things when they're actually not.

Equalizing brightness is just simpler to do in a fully quantified way. IMO it's necessary to make the result mean anything.

If LG really sets standard brightness very low, who is to say this isn't the first phone to leave you disgusted by the auto-brightness setting.

I don't use auto-brightness on the LG G2. It's universally too dim for my tastes.



Why?

I agree - I disliked the auto-brightness on the G2 quite a bit. Across the light range, except at very high ambient light, the phone would be too dim. Like most oh my phones, I used Lux and was happy.

 

[Commodus]

I would ignore that troll's review.

Read: "he didn't rubber stamp my preconceived opinion of the phone, therefore it's not a legitimate review."

Us techies really need to get over this urge to shout "troll!" or "paid off!" when we see a review we disagree with. Amadeo is using hard evidence (throttling, longevity tests) to show that the G3's screen chews up too much battery life. Even if you think that's not right, it beats basing your verdict solely on things you might have read.

 

[ibex333]

So I saw a detailed review of a G3 from MobileTechReview on you-tube.

I am not impressed at all. First of all, the phone doesnt offer much in the way of new features over the old model. Sure it's more powerful, but there is nothing that will run poorly on a G2 or Galaxy S4 that would run great on a G3. So a better CPU/more ram is just something to tout to people on forums. Nothing more.

Camera is not really "better". Slightly, maybe, but not by a mile.
Bigger screen and higher res? Higher res is useless. It was high enough already. Bigger screen is nice but it's dim! Whats the point in a dim screen when where's Samsung with it's vivid screens and Apple with the iPhone's bright screen?

Removable battery is probably the only significant upgrade. Cant remember if the old one had that or not. I just don't see why anyone would pick a G3 over the HTC One or a Galaxy S5. At least the Galaxy is more powerful and waterproof and the HTC one has a premium sound and premium design.

Oh.. and 4k... But the Note 3 had tht already. And so does the GS5.

The G3 might be a jack of all trades, but is a master of none.

 

[cmdrdredd]

And Samsung still has incorrect and overblown colors on its amoled screens despite burning your eyeballs brightness.

No phone is perfect and I would still pick the g3 over the gs5 because Samsung has lately been locking down the bootloader (no root), and the new LG skin on the os is much more minimal.

I am not interested in the HTC. I don't care about the phone being what is IMO too large, to accommodate the speakers.