I got mine this morning
pics and first thoughts shortly - just setting it up now
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I got mine this morning
pics and first thoughts shortly - just setting it up now
Worry not Mr Mike!!!
Right - pics first......
Went for the black leather rather than the brown leather. What I didn't know, is it also comes with the silver phone back as well. Looks like it'll be easily replaceable with 3rd party or official 'backs' later down the line.
Battery is sizeable and adds weight to the phone, it's heavier than my N5, but granted it is also larger. It's about as thick as the N5. It has the illusion of being slimmer as it is at the edges, then thicker in the middle as the rear is bevelled slightly.
Booted up very fast, has Android 5.1 installed and the LG stuff is not so bad. I've put a launcher on it and made it exactly the same as my N5 already though (bar the 5.1.1 OS that my N5 got the other day)
Using NFC it synced up to my N5 and setup my accounts, took over my photos etc etc. Very swift, very impressive.
Build quality on par with the N5 I'd say, screen is lovely though, really nice and vibrant once you take the auto brightness off.
Camera is excellent, that's the one failing of the N5 and this is a very good improvement.
Having had the phone for about an hour I obviously haven't tried everything with it, so no idea re battery life etc yet.
TLDR; G4 in, N5 out. Loving it so far.
Black and red models for £462 here
http://www.mobilephonesdirect.co.uk/contract-mobile-phones/lg-g4-red-leather
http://www.mobilephonesdirect.co.uk/contract-mobile-phones/lg-g4-red-leather
Ok, had it nearly a day so here are some brief thoughts:
Size & Ergonomics:
Coming from a Z3 Compact, size was always going to be an issue. I'd previously sent back an S6 as I couldn't get on with it's ergomics and software. It's pretty big, it's the same size as a Note1/2 I think which at the time people were screaming "it's too big" but this seems to be the norm now. The back is tapered on the sides, which makes holding it quite good. It fits quite nicely in the hand and doesn't feel uncomfortable. I much prefer it to the S6.
Screen:
It's big and it's bright, it's really high resolution so no pixels in sight. It's obviously not AMOLED, but you can tell it's been tweaked for vibrancy and saturation. It would be nice to have some sort of calibration or adjustment. I dare say if you want AMOLED then this will be a negative, but I'm fairly impartial and would say it's about on par with the S6. It's one of those things where you'd possibly only see any differences when you put the 2 side by side to compare.
Software:
It's not vanilla android if that's what you're after, but it's quite pleasant. There are some nice design choices for colours, the quick settings are in keeping with Material design and you can turn off some of the sliders so that it takes up less room at the top of the screen (take note Samsung!). The settings page is tabbed by default (you can revert to a standard list though) which is different to almost every android phone I've used and can take some getting used to. There's a few bugs here and there, hopefully these will be fixed in an update, nothing major though just a few niggles here and there.
Some reviews have said the Touchwiz on the S6 is better/more refined. Personally I'd say the LG UI is nicer, but this is subjective. I'd still prefer stock android, but most of the LG stuff can be removed or disabled.
Battery:
Only a day in, it's hard to say. But so far, not too bad. I was expecting it to be quite poor, but in reality it's ok. I'm down to 55% now, but thats with a lot of messing around with it and about 2½ hours SoT, WiFi and BT turned on etc. I don't have access to a quick charge 2.0 charger so I can't comment on that, I am going to see if I can pick one up though.
Camera:
I've had limited time to play with this, but from the quick go I've had it's seems as good as the S6 - I wouldn't say it was better though. Manual mode is way better than Samsung's Pro mode though, it's really nice to use and has all the settings you'd want. It also defaults to open in whatever mode you had it in last, which is nice as quite often it'll default open in auto mode on other phones. It takes about a second when the screens off to open the camera via the Vol Down shortcut. The only down side though, is that the camera settings don't appear to have any settings to change resolution? Not really an issue, but a bit odd.
Size & Ergonomics:
Coming from a Z3 Compact, size was always going to be an issue. I'd previously sent back an S6 as I couldn't get on with it's ergomics and software. It's pretty big, it's the same size as a Note1/2 I think which at the time people were screaming "it's too big" but this seems to be the norm now. The back is tapered on the sides, which makes holding it quite good. It fits quite nicely in the hand and doesn't feel uncomfortable. I much prefer it to the S6.
Screen:
It's big and it's bright, it's really high resolution so no pixels in sight. It's obviously not AMOLED, but you can tell it's been tweaked for vibrancy and saturation. It would be nice to have some sort of calibration or adjustment. I dare say if you want AMOLED then this will be a negative, but I'm fairly impartial and would say it's about on par with the S6. It's one of those things where you'd possibly only see any differences when you put the 2 side by side to compare.
Software:
It's not vanilla android if that's what you're after, but it's quite pleasant. There are some nice design choices for colours, the quick settings are in keeping with Material design and you can turn off some of the sliders so that it takes up less room at the top of the screen (take note Samsung!). The settings page is tabbed by default (you can revert to a standard list though) which is different to almost every android phone I've used and can take some getting used to. There's a few bugs here and there, hopefully these will be fixed in an update, nothing major though just a few niggles here and there.
Some reviews have said the Touchwiz on the S6 is better/more refined. Personally I'd say the LG UI is nicer, but this is subjective. I'd still prefer stock android, but most of the LG stuff can be removed or disabled.
Battery:
Only a day in, it's hard to say. But so far, not too bad. I was expecting it to be quite poor, but in reality it's ok. I'm down to 55% now, but thats with a lot of messing around with it and about 2½ hours SoT, WiFi and BT turned on etc. I don't have access to a quick charge 2.0 charger so I can't comment on that, I am going to see if I can pick one up though.
Camera:
I've had limited time to play with this, but from the quick go I've had it's seems as good as the S6 - I wouldn't say it was better though. Manual mode is way better than Samsung's Pro mode though, it's really nice to use and has all the settings you'd want. It also defaults to open in whatever mode you had it in last, which is nice as quite often it'll default open in auto mode on other phones. It takes about a second when the screens off to open the camera via the Vol Down shortcut. The only down side though, is that the camera settings don't appear to have any settings to change resolution? Not really an issue, but a bit odd.
First 3 images are RAW vs JPEG
http://www.cnet.com/uk/pictures/check-out-the-lg-g4s-impressive-camera-tests/
Does this work:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B9U5FSarXfh9eGNfT3hOd014d0U
Point of note, neither G+ or Onedrive will auto upload dng files.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B9U5FSarXfh9eGNfT3hOd014d0U
Point of note, neither G+ or Onedrive will auto upload dng files.
Thank you
Thanks very much mate! I will take a look when I can sit at my pc as the laptop I'm using doesn't want to play ball!
That's a great find kona. Am seriously tempted in cancelling my order with Amazon and picking one up from here. Good price too
The non-leather ones cost more?!?!
Still a good price though, since it's below £500. I'm tempted at ordering my Gold from amazon.de , so does anyone know if there's additional delivery costs to the UK? And will it be exactly the same as ones we order in the UK? I've forgotten all my German so I hope the packaging goes easy on the Deutsch.
I have heard some of these G4 phones come with Quad-beat headphones. Anybody who already has their G4, were there any included headphones? Perhaps the cheaper ones are the ones without?
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That's a great find kona. Am seriously tempted in cancelling my order with Amazon and picking one up from here. Good price too
But the returns policy...
Available on O2 Refresh for £439.99, select the 5GB plan with £79.99 upfront cost. All other contracts work out as £480 so not sure if a mistake from them but see if you can nab one before they spot it. Naturally can get it unlocked for free with O2 before cancelling airtime.
I know! I'm keeping the order.
I had a few problems with Mobilephonesdirect.
Firstly they didn't have the red one in stock and secondly they deliver to the billing address the card is registered at. No good for me.
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I've been trying to get a pair of these Quadbeat 3s. I can import them from South Korea but for £25 I'm not sure it's worth it.
I'm only £30-ish away from a G4 too but the N5 with Android M is calling, as is the Z3/Z3+
I'm only £30-ish away from a G4 too but the N5 with Android M is calling, as is the Z3/Z3+
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O2 refunds are a right PIA though