LG G PRO 2 REVIEW


LG launched its flagship android smartphone namely G Pro 2 in India which is priced @ 49,999/-. It is available is Black, White & Silver shade only.

DESIGN, BUILD QUALITY & DISPLAY
The design of this phone is very good. It has a corning gorilla glass 3 on front and a matte plastic back feels good in hand. It is slim a 8.3mm and weighs 172gms. It has 5.9 inch True FULL HD IPS LCD display of resolution 1920 x 1080 with 373 ppi. The viewing angles and sunlight legibility of the display is Great. It runs on Optimus 3.0 User Interface. The display supports 10 multi-touch points and the brightness of the screen is very good.

STORAGE, MULTIMEDIA & CONNECTIVITYS
It has 16GB/32GB of internal storage which is further expandable upto 64GB. The device features dedicated multimedia apps like music for songs, a gallery to store all images and videos and a video player for playing movies respectively which are pretty good. FM radio comes pre-installed. Conductivities like 2G, 3G speeds upto 21.1mbps download & upto 5.76mbps upload, Wifi a/b/g/n/ac, Wifi Dual Band, Wifi direct, Wifi hotsopt, USB OTG as well as Bluetooth 4.0 LE (Low Energy) and NFC & USB OTG. But also has IR Blaster. 

CAMERA & VIDEO RECORDING CAPABILITIES
It has a 13MP Optically stabilised rear camera with autofocus and Led flash which features Simultaneous image and video recording, Geo-tagging, Touch focus, Image stabilization, HDR etc. The camera clarity is Great overall. Daytime the images are Great and has good amount of details respectively but in the night is where the noise starts to become bit visible visible and to get better details at night HDR mode images with bit of steady hands helps to produce slightly better images still image quality at night is quite good. It does 4K Ultra HD 2160p@30fps, FULL HD1080p@60fps & 30fps HDR video recording with video stabilization and stereo sound having bit-rate of 49mbps for 4K, 34mbps & 17mbps respectively and stores in mp4 format. The video recording clarity is Great overall. Daytime the video clarity is Very good and has good amount of details respectively but at night video clarity is quite good. It also has a 2.1MP front camera for selfe's with 1080p video recording and clarity is pretty good.

SOFTWARE, HARDWARE, PERFORMANCE & BENCHMARKS
It runs Android (OS) 4.4.2 Kitkatout of the box with a planned lollipop 5.0 update. It has a Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 (MSM8974AC) processor running a quad core 2.3 GHZ (Cortex-A15) with 3GB RAM and Adreno 330 (550MHZ Single core) GPU. The performance is Excellent which provides number of graphic intensive games and multitasking run very well and there is no lag at all.
QUADRANT : 25290.
ANTUTU : 38950.
NENAMARK 2: 59.3fps.

BATTERY LIFE PERFORMANCE
It has a Non-Removable Li-Ion 3200 mah battery. The battery life is Pretty good which is given below.
BROWSING : upto 9H.
VIDEO WATCHING: upto 7H.
TALKTIME : upto 23H(2G) / upto 20H(3G).
STANDBY TIME: upto 500H(2G) / upto 460H(3G).

PROS
*Very good build quality.
*Great Display.
*Excellent Performance.
*Great camera and video recording clarity with OIS.
*NFC & USB OTG support as well as IR blaster.
*Knock on code (unique unlock feature).
*Good loudspeaker.
*Very good battery life.
*Unique placement of power & volume keys.

CONS
*Big even for a phablet.
*Display is bit on reflective side hampering sunlight legibility.
*Bit pricy & could have been bit premium.
*No dedicated camera key.

OVERALL PRODUCT RATING° : 9/10.
°overall product rating refers to all the aspects including the price, performance, overall quality, features, etc., based on individual product.

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