LG G4 review: Sharp and shooter

22 May 2015
Flagships get better with every generation but some of last year’s are as good as reborn. The LG G4 improves on the three best features of its predecessor: design, screen, the camera – and does so decisively. It adopts a G Flex curve, but makes...

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  • 22 May 2015

AnonD-69794, 22 May 2015Samsung flagship this year: best screen, sAMOLED with great... moreS6 has so many issues that yes, you should say a lot more...

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    • 22 May 2015

    Samsung flagship this year: best screen, sAMOLED with great color accuracy and also popping out colors (optional), best SoC, beating snapdragon 810 in both thermal and process power aspect, 14nm finfet with 3gb of ram DDR4 x problematic 20nm soc... best battery life because has the better efficient screen and processor; one of the best fingerprint scanner, fast, and "one touch" style... hdr 5mpx front camera plus the best smartphone camera with 16mpx (sorry lg, I prefer s6 camera) + optical image stabilization and the famous samsung hdr capability... IMO the best desing too, with the galaxy s6 edge... I have to say more?

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      • 22 May 2015

      Anonymous, 22 May 20156,000 mAH battery. The Z4 isn't going to do any better t... moreThat would be a joke...right?

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        • Bmu
        • 22 May 2015

        Anonymous, 22 May 20156,000 mAH battery. The Z4 isn't going to do any better t... moreDo not want to go into discussion on that, but someone mentioned ips and sd batterydrain so...
        for a ips 2k 10 incher with sd810, and prerelease unit on that, over 12h browsing and over 14h video is...remarkable (Sonys optimizations)

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          • Anonymous
          • tDx
          • 22 May 2015

          And my fear turn out true...
          When LG announced the G4 specification highlighting the display among others, I commented that it would have been nice to get more efficiency to go along with the improved contrast and colors. But now G4 provides worse battery life in test.
          What's wrong, LG? If your display eats too much into battery life, I suggest to replace it. If something else is the culprit, then fix it ASAP...
          Great device anyway...

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            • kCQ
            • 22 May 2015

            AnonD-391800, 22 May 2015Do visit z4 tab review ;-) 6,000 mAH battery.

            The Z4 isn't going to do any better than the S6 in battery life. It'll have about the same battery life as the G4.

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              • 22 May 2015

              Anonymous, 22 May 2015Waiting for someone to say this. The S6 has the latest S... moreDo visit z4 tab review ;-)

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                • Anonymous
                • kCQ
                • 22 May 2015

                AnonD-391800, 22 May 2015Ouch, the batterylife... Echooo from last years g3 commen... moreHuh? The S6 has good battery life.

                It has the best battery life out of all 2015 flagships so far.

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                  • t7X
                  • 22 May 2015

                  Anonymous, 22 May 2015Battery is good? It's terrible.Yes its good almost 8hours of browsing and 7hrs video play back is good enough. Plus the extra battery when you buy g4.

                  The browsing on g3 is the worst.

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                    • Bns
                    • 22 May 2015

                    Ouch, the batterylife...
                    Echooo from last years g3 comment
                    Enjoy your unoptimized 2k screen

                    Tho Why buy s6 instead, it has bad batterylife too, not on video side but standby ruins it, endures 18h on moderate usage
                    This even worse

                    A shame, bad battery, no flagship SoC,...
                    Only thing I like about this is Camera user interface

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                      • Anonymous
                      • kCQ
                      • 22 May 2015

                      Also, before anyone starts denying the battery life results, remember that so far, all the sites doing objective tests have the G4 battery life below the G3 and the S6.

                      The only people saying the battery life is decent or better than the S6 are subjective reviewers who are just guessing based on their usage.

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                        • Anonymous
                        • t7X
                        • 22 May 2015

                        AnonD-385367, 22 May 2015Everything is perfect except the endurance. The irony is th... moreAnd don't forget the s6 has smaller screen too.

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                          • 22 May 2015

                          Anonymous, 22 May 2015Waiting for someone to say this. The S6 has the latest S... moreYes I agree. I dint say impossible. But it's quite surprising. Dint expect the endurance to be so bad. That's all. Still I feel both the G4 and S6 are awesome.

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                            • kCQ
                            • 22 May 2015

                            AnonD-69794, 22 May 2015there's no irony or mistake here. the galaxy s6 is just bet... moreWaiting for someone to say this.

                            The S6 has the latest Samsung's AMOLED display and a 14nm processor, both of which are far more efficient than the IPS display and the 20nm processor on the G4.

                            There are other parts on the S6 that are more efficient as well such as the DDR4 RAM.

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                              • kCQ
                              • 22 May 2015

                              AnonD-385367, 22 May 2015Everything is perfect except the endurance. The irony is th... moreThe S6 has more efficient components than the G4, so I don't know why you think it's impossible that the S6 has better battery life than the G4.

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                                • 22 May 2015

                                AnonD-385367, 22 May 2015Everything is perfect except the endurance. The irony is th... morethere's no irony or mistake here. the galaxy s6 is just better in every aspect, even with a smaller battery, because it's better optimized.

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                                  • 22 May 2015

                                  no competition for galaxy s6 this year.

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                                    • 22 May 2015

                                    I am seventh to comment mobile is good providing something that today's flagships are missing god bless you LG

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                                      • 22 May 2015

                                      Everything is perfect except the endurance. The irony is that the S6 sports the smaller battery here yet in GSMs battery tests it lasts longer than the G4. There seems to be a mistake. The G4 is better than the S6 in terms of endurance. There are so many controversies rising between this review and the rest.

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                                        • Anonymous
                                        • kCQ
                                        • 22 May 2015

                                        Anonymous, 22 May 2015Battery life is disappointing, but if they are giving a fre... moreJust buy the S6.