LG G4 smartphone launched, packs a Snapdragon 808 CPU

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The G4 features a 16MP main camera with f/1.8 lens and a new IPS Quantum Display.

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[lumireleon]

looks good than an iphone 6 but not as beautiful as the S6, THE leather is fine but the plastic brother is a mistake! is it water proof?

[Jowsey]

Looks pretty solid. The only thing I'd have liked to see is some front facing speakers. But can't have everything now can you? It's pretty interesting that the different leather colours look to have different textures.

[cheesemp]

Hmmm. Wonder if this will be the basis of the next nexus 5. I love my nexus 5 and would love the next one to be another LG. If not I might be tempted with this (or the G5). Little surprised its 808 rather than an 810 snapdragon however.

[this_is_gav]

Looks pretty solid. The only thing I'd have liked to see is some front facing speakers. But can't have everything now can you? It's pretty interesting that the different leather colours look to have different textures.

Indeed. Front-facing speakers might have tempted me. I wouldn't even care about the quality - it would just be for a quick video if it appears in one of my streams, not for blasting music out)

It's good having a strong choice of phones with Android, but a Note 5 Edge with front-facing speakers and a Google Play Edition ROM (with the Samsung S6 camera app) would be about as close as it could get to the perfect phone for me.

Each of these flagships have weaknesses, and it can't take too much to get the recipe right. You have to wonder what the rest of the world wants from a flagship phone.

[crossy]

looks good than an iphone 6 but not as beautiful as the S6, THE leather is fine but the plastic brother is a mistake! is it water proof?

Hmm, I'll beg to differ - think the G4 looks better than the S6 but not as striking as the S6 Edge, (and no, I'm not an LG fanboy - owned an S3, and still got a Note tablet). Sorry to say that I'm pretty sure that the G4 isn't waterproof. (IP0?) I'll reserve judgement on the plastic ("ceramic") until I see it for real - a lot of people criticised the G3 for it's plastic back, but I think it's been well implemented.

Dare say that there'll be a lot of comments that this is a missed opportunity and why didn't LG do the same as the rest of the herd and go with metal construction. Personally I'm not bothered by metalic construction, especially if it means losing wireless charging.

I'm pretty content with my G3, so a G4 isn't on the cards, but anyone know what the big deal is with the 'dragon 808 rather than the 810? From what I've briefly seen elsewhere it seems to be that the 808 swaps some performance for reduced battery consumption.

[explicitlyrics]

I read that the 810 had some major power problems and they couldnt get it fixed in time for release. I cant remember where I saw that, only that the problems might take a while to fix (i.e. late this year) and as such there may be more phones than you might expect using the 808...

[jimborae]

The 808 has two cores disabled so is in fact a hexacore chip. This is done to reduce costs, heat and prolong battery life it also has a less powerful GPU. Read between the lines to see what that says about the 810 and it's issues.

[babylon100]

So Samsung wasn't scare mongering then, Seems they had a valid point.

[AGTDenton]

I like my LG G3 but its a minor upgrade from my old S3 2nd edition. It feels 2 steps forward 1 step back. The G4 seems to fix a lot of the issues I have with the G3.

One thing i dont think it will fix however is the typing. It does all sorts of weird things e.g. when you edit a word it will sometimes randomly add the original wrong word after your correction. You have to be way more accurate compared with the Samsung. It will sometimes not let you edit a sentence and forces the cursor to the endso you cant add/edit words. I now fully appreciate the samsung keyboard and how it was able to continue with the right word without you knowing you'd not been accurate.

I like the S6 but with it not allowing upgradable/replaceable parts/peripherals the G4 is looking like my next partner in crime next year when the price drops.

G3+G4 looks better than S3 - S6 imo. The plastic back looks metallic on the one i have. Im not yearning for metallic at all.

[crossy]

One thing i dont think it will fix however is the typing. It does all sorts of weird things e.g. when you edit a word it will sometimes randomly add the original wrong word after your correction. You have to be way more accurate compared with the Samsung. It will sometimes not let you edit a sentence and forces the cursor to the endso you cant add/edit words. I now fully appreciate the samsung keyboard and how it was able to continue with the right word without you knowing you'd not been accurate.

Tried an alternate keyboard? I tried the LG keyboard and really wasn't that impressed. Then again, I'd been using SwiftKey on my Samsung gear, so maybe I'm "into" their mindset. And I originally switched from the Samsung keyboard because that kept randomly lagging.