LG G4 REVIEW

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LG launched its flagship android smartphone namely G4 (Dual Sim) in India which is priced @ 51,000/-. It is available is Grey, White, Gold, Leather Black, Leather Red & Leather Brown shades.

DESIGN, BUILD QUALITY & DISPLAY
The design of this phone is very good. It has a corning gorilla glass 3 on front and a durable plastic back feels very good in hand. It is slim a 9.8mm and weighs 155gms. It has 5.5 inch True QuadHD IPS+ LCD  display of resolution 1440 x 2560 with 538ppi. The viewing angles and sunlight legibility of the display is Great. It runs on Optimus 4.0 User Interface. The display features quantum technology and supports 10 multi-touch points and the brightness of the screen is great.

STORAGE, MULTIMEDIA & CONNECTIVITYS
It has 32GB of internal storage which is further expandable upto 128GB. 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 4.1 LE (Low Energy) and NFC & USB OTG. But also has IR Blaster. 

CAMERA & VIDEO RECORDING CAPABILITIES
It has a 16MP (1/2.6 inch sensor) Optically stabilised rear camera with phase detection/laser autofocus and dual Led (dual tone) 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 Excellent 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 Excellent and has good amount of details respectively but at night video clarity is quite good. It also has a 8MP front camera for selfe's with 1080p video recording and clarity is very good.

SOFTWARE, HARDWARE, PERFORMANCE & BENCHMARKS
It runs Android (OS) 5.1 Lollipop of the box. It has a Qualcomm Snapdragon 808 (MSM8992) 64-BIT SOC (System On Chip) running an Hexa-Core processor with combination Dual-Core 1.8 GHZ (ARM Cortex-A57 Architecture) & Quad-Core 1.4 GHZ (ARM Cortex-A53 Architecture) with 2GB RAM for 16GB storage 3GB RAM for 32GB storage and Adreno 418 (600MHZ 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 : 26190.
ANTUTU : 49297.
NENAMARK 2: 58.9fps.

BATTERY LIFE PERFORMANCE
It has a Removable Li-Ion 3000 mah battery. The battery life is very good which is given below.
BROWSING : upto 7:45H.
VIDEO WATCHING: upto 8H.
TALKTIME : upto 20H(2G) / upto 17H(3G).
STANDBY TIME: upto 580H(2G) / upto 550H(3G).

PROS
*Great build quality with subtle curvature body and leather back options.
*Excellent Display.
*Excellent Performance.
*Excellent camera and video recording clarity with OIS.
*NFC & USB OTG support as well as IR blaster.
*Knock on code (unique unlock feature).
*Pretty good loudspeaker.
*Unique placement of power & volume keys.
*Removable battery with pretty good battery life.

CONS
*Bit pricy.
*No dedicated camera key.
*No waterproofing features. 

OVERALL PRODUCT RATING° : 9.2/10.

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