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Man you seriously have a hard on foot trashing the G5 don't ya?The G5 is DOA. Small battery. Small screen. Very thick phone for all of that.
And that modular stuff will cost $$, who's truly willing to spend that much extra money on these kits ? And then these extra kits don't work on any other smartphones, only the G5, and will they even work on the G6 next year ? I wouldn't want to invest that money in these modular parts, and then next year they no good on newer phones.
Man you seriously have a hard on foot trashing the G5 don't ya?
I hope it doesn't flop. What LG did here is truly innovative in an all metal construction. This is also the "first gen" design of the sort. So next year's could be even better.
But I'm not buying it though... I just don't see any reason to leave my iPhone for now. One thing I had expected to see more of is other OEMs making shatter-proof designs like Motorola did in the Droid Turbo 2. But that didn't happen. DT2 being a carrier exclusive sucks.
Here's to the hope that the HTC M10 or the HTC Nexuses would be.
I agree, the only phone from Android I'm interested in right now is the G5 and most are slamming it before its even released/reviewed!
This thing could walk on water but its being written off before it gets a chance.
I am no Samsung fan whatsoever, I HATE Touchwiz
I can already tell you how the G5 reviews will go;
- Battery life = Small 2,800mAh battery gives the G5 pretty good battery life, not bad, but certainly not great
- Display = Will be reviewed as good, but not #1 best rated screen
- Overall size = For a 5.3" phone, it's nearly the same size as the G4 with a 5.5" screen and S7 Edge's 5.5", plus the G5 is rather thick
I think the G5 will be seen as a pretty good smartphone, but realistically the S7 Edge will destroy it with much better battery life, top rated display, great camera, waterproof, very compact size, etc...
This is what hurts phones the most, making claims before they came out. The S6 was announced with a smaller battery than the S5 and a higher rez screen but everyone claimed the battery life would be atrocious and ended up being completely false.
HTC One M10, reading some Korean websites on the M10, they all seem to be saying the same thing regarding spec's;
- 5.2" QHD display
- SD820
- 4GB RAM
- 3,000mAh battery
- USB-c
- Entire new design, still metal build like previous One's, but not a M8/M9 clone, and Not an iPhone clone, but something new
- Fingerprint scanner
- 32GB base option
- Sense 8 based off Marshmallow
- Similar camera as to the Nexus 6P, but a newer version
Supposed to be announced at an event sometime in March, and on sale in April / May.
This is what hurts phones the most, making claims before they came out. The S6 was announced with a smaller battery than the S5 and a higher rez screen but everyone claimed the battery life would be atrocious and ended up being completely false.
The S6 has shit battery life. I've never had to worry so much about my phones battery than with the S6. I don't think I've ever managed to get through a day of normal usage without having to charge it at one point or another. God forbid you don't have the fast charger with you, it will drain faster than it is charging.
Honestly it feels like Samsung hasn't done shit in the past 3 years for it's usability. This S6 feels exactly the same as the S3 when I got it 3 years ago. Great internals, nice design, but lags and has mediocre to bad battery life. I would be insane to give the S7 a try.
He said S3, not Note 3... 2x completely different beast's.. S3 was May of 2012 & the note 3 was September of 2013.. So in the terms of Samsung that was 2 major product releases between them (note 2 & then galaxy s4). The note 3 is still quite usable today. It was a flat out beast when it was new. The s3 to me is not something I would even make my kid use.Funny, I had the exact opposite experience with the Note 3, best in class for everything! Screen, battery life, performance, storage (not sound).
Then an OTA hit it that I didn't accept to and ruined everything. Samsung has yet to fix the battery life issue on the Note 3/S6 and the 5.0 update.
GSM Arena did a quick comparison of the cameras in the LG G5 and the S7e
LG G5 vs. Samsung Galaxy S7 edge: Flagship slugfest
I'm going to stick to what I said before. I take most of my pictures in low light environments cause I don't go out during the day. So GS7/Edge would probably be the phone I'd choice between the two, but I'm still waiting on HTC and Nexus (if the rumors are to be believed that the Nexus is coming in April/May instead).
It seems that HTC "10" will not have boomsound where as the Nexus 7 (2016) would. I wouldn't be surprised if the Nexus will be called the Nexus One M10 instead. With Google purchasing HTC for the VR...
275 million Android phones imperiled by new code-execution exploit
This just make me stop considering any phone without an update guarantee. I hope HTC will guarantee the One 10 like they did the One A9, but that was an unlocked phone... Oh, well, there's always the Nexus.
I'm so over this stuff. It's not as easy to exploit as they make it sound. That's why there still has been ZERO attacks using Stagefright. Hell my V10 is still vulnerable to some of the original Stagefright vulnerabilities.
I'm not saying this isn't bad but it just doesn't raise my defcon level anymore. Nowadays it's just posturing and bragging about who found the biggest vulnerability.
Every day there's an exploit for this or an exploit for that. An exploit for iOS and Android and Windows and Linux. It's the world we live in. Do OEMs need to update on a more regular basis? Yes, but just because a device is EOL on 4.x or 5.0.x doesn't mean doom and gloom like so many people claim. And Google appears to be doing some neat stuff with Android N that may just help with faster updates.
A very small part of me does wish something like this would get exploited though. Get a lawsuit against carriers and OEMs for not patching properly. That would force the issue and force faster updates across the board.
Loving my decision to get the Nexus 6P. It does not have the latestest and greatest on paper specs, but the whole experience has been flawless so far. Oh how do I enable that pesky mobile hotspot when you have an unlimited plan on verizon? Oh wait I don't have to, it's built in! etc etc. Unlocking the bootloader is a toggle in the system menu etc. Trying to talk my Dad into picking up the M10 so I can still play with it, and try to get him to move away from his Samsung he is always frustrated with. I think the M10 will be a great phone, and hope I didn't compromise too much on battery life getting the nexus (in comparison to what the M10 will be). It's crazy to me how the nexus 6P can have such a large screen and older 8 core 20nm processor instead of 4 core 14nm CPU and still get better battery life than some more recent phones...
I don't get how Samsung continues to ruin excellent hardware (or in this case, just "good" hardware) with terrible software. I got a Verizon branded S7 Edge a few days ago, and over all...
TouchWiz is far less objectionable now, with the option of native themes, turning off lots of offending UI elements, and so forth. It's really not bad. I'd prefer CM 12 / 13 or AOSP any day of the week but once you pare it back as much as possible, it's livable. Certainly not as "in the way" as it once was -- I had a Galaxy S2, S3, and S4. I remember.
That said, even with a new launcher (Nova Prime) and everything possible turned off, plus using Package Disabler to make 90% of the bloat disappear and not run constantly in the background, I'm seeing "Android System", the catch-all process behind which all the Samsung crap I still can't turn off hides, using 25%+ of my battery, all the time. I'm getting descent battery life, yes, but with a 3600 mAh battery and the aggressive battery saving policies brought in with Marshmallow, I should be seeing far better. I certainly shouldn't be seeing almost an hour of keep-awake from idiotic background processes in a 12 hour day. They need to reign this shit in, because it's making what should be an amazing phone just mediocre.
Also, I hate the curved edges. They're impractical and purely for show -- if the standard S7 had a 5.5" screen I never would've even looked at the S7 Edge. I regularly find myself touching things on screen I don't intend to while holding the phone normally, but the touch screen response is much poorer in those areas, making it difficult to hit the right thing when you are intentionally tapping there. The Q/1 and P/0 keys on the Google Keyboard are especially bad in this respect. I miss the form-factor of my LG G3 already. Basically, a G3 with a SD820, more RAM and smaller (or really, even the same, I don't care) bezels and a 3000+ mAh battery would be my dream phone. Sadly, LG went backwards in terms of screen size and battery capacity with the G5, so it was off the table from the start.
Also, Samsung. Quit with the stupid hardware / capacitive buttons -- one of the primary means of interation on a $800 device shouldn't feel like a cheap toy. And put the keys in the right order. This is insane.
To use the S7 Edge, you pretty much have to stick to TouchWiz (launcher and all) to not render the already gimmicky edges not completely useless.
So I'm at the position of anything is better than TouchWiz.