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LG Electronics has mastered TVs, home appliances and so many more category killers, it's surprising that its cellphones and smartphones have been such a mixed experience. The new LG G6 marks a return of the company to making great Android phones, however, and while there are a few hiccups to be aware of, generally it's a solid option for Android fans with its bright screen and solid build.
Tech expert Dave Taylor of https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ explores the LG G6 and shows off some examples of its splendid built-in camera (with two lenses facing each direction). Is it perfect? No. Are there some things that LG dropped moving from the G5 to the G6? Yes, as explained. But overall, it's a solid addition to the LG lineup.
The LG G6 at AT&T Wireless: https://www.att.com/cellphones/lg/g6.html
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Is the LG G6 the best phone LG's ever made? Let's find out
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Dave Taylor here, and this time we're looking at the LG G6. That's this. This is a nice return to
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form for LG. Not every one of their smartphones, not all the generations of their G series have
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been great, but this one's very nice. There's a lot of features I like about it. Starting with
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with the nice bright colorful 5.7 inch screen you can see here
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It's not quite edge to edge. It's not going over the edge
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This is the modern style. Not everyone likes that. But it's a nice big screen, and it's a nice build quality
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The outside is all metal, has a good feel to it. And LG is doing something on this phone that I think is just a trend for the future
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It has a fingerprint sensor. Cool. We've seen that. but it's not down here, it's on the back. So I can pick it up, touch the back with my finger as I go
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and then it unlocks and I'm ready to rock and roll. Now, to be fair, it doesn't always work
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but we'll come back to that. So this G6 is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 821
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running Android 7.0, and it has 32 gigabytes of storage with four gigabytes of RAM
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and it supports micro SD. Apple, when are you going to add micro SD to the iPhone series? Come on
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This phone with micro SD supports up to two terabytes. Although I have not seen two terabyte
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micro SD cards on the market, they are coming. And that's a crazy amount of storage for a smartphone
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Even if you're watching lots of movies, even if you're doing, I don't know, what, 3D calculations
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There's a lot of storage. Now, also is a USB-C based unit. So the plug on the bottom here is
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actually USB-C. It's not lightning. It's not micro USB. It's a whole nother connector. Now
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USB-C is really nice because it gives Android devices that same benefit that iPhone users have
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been enjoying for a while, which is that when you plug things in, there's no orientation to the plug
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I hate micro SD. It is such a pain. It is such a pain to have to look at the plug, look at the
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connector and then orient it correctly because if you do it the wrong way sometimes it doesn fit in but other times it go in and it damage the device Who invented micro USB You should be fired So USB huge improvement and faster
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It also, this features a 3300 milliamp hour battery, which is good because it goes through
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the battery. Now, most people charge it overnight and you get up in the morning and by the end of
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the afternoon, in the middle of the evening, you're starting to need to juice it up again
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But one of the things this phone has is it has optionally an always-on time and display
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and I've found that that by itself consumes a substantial amount of battery, to the point
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where if I actually charge the phone fully and then leave it sitting untouched, within
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48 hours it'll be dead because that ate up all the battery. So, if this is going to be your day-to-day phone, you might think about whether you want to turn that feature on or not
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If you have lots of charging stations everywhere in your life, you're good to go
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So, 5.7 inch screen with 2880 by 1400 resolution at 565 dots or points per inch or pixels per inch
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Not points per inch. It's not printed. and it's an 18.9 or 18 to 9 aspect ratio, which is a little non-standard because most of what you
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see is 16 by 9. So what that means is that there are some applications and some programs you can
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run where you get a little bit of a bar on the side. So, you know, sort of squishing to that
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smaller resolution. But for the majority of the stuff I've used, certainly like looking at photos
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and streaming video and stuff, you get that full resolution and it's just a little bit more screen
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real estate. Pretty nice. Why they went non-standard, I'm not sure, but hey. So the LG6 also features two
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count them, two rear-facing camera, and they're at basically different focal widths. So here I have
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two photos. I stood in exactly the same place, and this first one is the 120 degree wide angle
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and then this photo is the more regular standard, I don't know, I think it's like 65 degree
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regular camera, and they're 13 megapixel. Both of these photos look terrific zoomed in
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and then on the front, although you can barely see that there's anything there
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there is a 5 megapixel front camera that also has the option of going wide or having it be a little
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tighter which is to say it basically like zoomed in a little bit I really like the camera on this and to me honestly with smartphones the camera is one of the biggest places that these companies are competing and one of the biggest differentiators
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because they all take calls, they all run Facebook, they all have Twitter apps, you know they all do
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the same basic thing. So where's the differentiator? One of those is in fact the camera. Now this also
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has wireless charging and it's water resistant rated ip68 which means if you drop it in the sink
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you're good to go if you drop it in the ocean by the time you recover it probably not so much but
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30 minutes at three feet depth supposed to work fine i haven't tested it i'm pretty sure that the
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at&t that loaned me this phone would not be happy if i sent it back and said well that waterproofing
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was a little optimistic. But hey, I'm sure this is in fact waterproof. Now, one thing about the G6
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that people who own the LG G5 are going to be cranky about is that it doesn't have a removable
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battery. G5, you could actually pop out the battery, put in a different one. So you could have two
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batteries for really long days. When you're starting to run low on juice, you just swap
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batteries, you're good to go. You can't do that on this. The G6 doesn't have that feature
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But, you know, there are a million and one external battery chargers going from the size of a lipstick to this size phone, to twice this size, to ten times this size, to actual wall plugs
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So, I don't think that's a showstopper, but it's definitely something to know if you're looking at the G6 and you have the G5
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It also has something that is perhaps going to become non-standard over time
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it is an actual headphone jack. You can actually plug headphones into this. Pretty interesting idea
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actually. And let's see, what else can I tell you? The G6 is the only handset that actually runs
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Google Assistant full out, plus LG's assistant called Bixby. And so, well, to be fair, so it runs
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Google Assistant also, the Google Pixel does, but this is the only non-Google phone that has that
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feature. If you were hugely into Google, then having Google Assistant on here is nice
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And let's see, the only other thing I'll say is that some users have said that
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because the back surface has a glass, the back has a glass surface on it, that
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some users have reported that it a bit prone to scratching I haven had any issues but I haven really used it aggressively over the course of months or years So again something to know Now the other thing I want to come back to is the fingerprint sensor
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And I will say that I've been a little disappointed with this because when the phone's off and I push
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the sensor because it's also a button, then sometimes that wakes the phone up all the way
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And other times it wakes the phone up halfway and it says fingerprint sensor can't be used and gives
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me the chance to punch in a pin. It doesn't tell me why the fingerprint sensor can't be used
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I'm always using the same finger. Slightly awkward statement, but it's just not 100
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reliable. Now, by comparison with other phones that I've used with fingerprint sensors
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100% of the time, if it's locked and I push on it, it unlocks. So this might be something that's
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maybe LG software, or maybe it's some element of Android 7 that I'm not fully aware of
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but that's something else worth knowing. Overall though, I gotta say I'm really impressed with the
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G6. It takes really nice photos. It has a really wonderful feel to it. I really like the metal edge
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and everything. It just feels really nice and the screen's big and bright and colorful, really
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and it's fast and that's pretty much what I'm looking for in a smartphone. Now, you can find
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out what I'm looking for in a smartphone by subscribing to my channel. So click that button
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Then you can see my other videos. Thank you. Now, the only other question is, how much does this
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thing cost? Now, this one is through AT&T Wireless, and it will run you $719 if you want to buy it
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flat out, or you can use AT&T's purchase program, and then it's down to $24 a month. So
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that's pretty painless. So, other carriers are going to have it at different prices
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that also comes in ice gray, which is this color, or black
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And lots of options, lots of different places you can pick up one of these LG G6 phones
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But as for me, I'm impressed. I think LG is moving very much in the right direction
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and this is a definite contender. If you're looking for a great modern Android phone
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I would check out the LG G6. This is Dave Taylor, and I'll catch you in my next video
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