LG G8 ThinQ - The Bad Review By Android Headlines - Android News & Tech News

The LGG ate thin Q is Springs fresh reminder that the smartphone industry still has plenty of tricks up its sleeve. Despite initial impressions based on outward appearance, it's certainly one of LG's most interesting flagships in a while, but not all is right with LG's latest in this review, we'll be taking a look at what went wrong and what could Mar the experience if you were to pick up a g8 this year, want to see the other side of the coin head on over to our good review of the g8 and see what's awesome about LG's spring 2019 flagship there now for the phone, the g8 is a thicker and heavier phone than last year, owing partially to the larger battery and partially to some new audio equipment inside the battery size increase is certainly noticeable in daily use, but it took over a week to see any real improvement, and even then it isn't quite as impressive as the battery life on some other 2019 flagships power users that regularly find themselves with the screen on time of 6 hours or more are likely still going to have to top up before the day is over. What's particularly frustrating is that the advanced screen time statistics in android, 9pi, known as digital wellbeing, are completely missing from LG's version of Android adaptive battery, another PI tech her here, but what could arguably be called the best digital health improvement in androids? History is completely missing. On the hardware front, LG hasn't made many changes to the notch design. They began with the g7 thin queue. Last year, this year's design at least features a reduced chin, which is what accounts for the slightly shorter design, but no real reduction in the size of the notch or those bezels around the rest of the display itself.

Users who hate notches will certainly find no respite here, biometrically unlocking with the faces ideal, but unlocking with the hand, is far from it in practice, unlike the face unlock, which is straightforward and needs no tweaking out of the box, unlocking with your hand, is more difficult than what it feels like it should be. The biggest problem is that you're gonna need to hold your hand about four inches from the screen and then wait for it to eventually be recognized. This is a much more precise requirement than face unlock or fingerprint reading and a slow time that it takes to actually unlock the device is longer than were used to as consumers. As a result, it's likely most people won't even bother using this method of unlocking, as the setting is not only a bit hidden and not well advertised on the phone itself, but surprisingly, LG doesn't even prompt to set this up in the initial setup of the phone, which really makes us wonder about the implementation of this concept. Similarly, LG includes a new set of hands-free control gestures, called air motion.

These are designed to give users a way to interact with specific elements of the phone without needing to touch them, but the problems are similar to hand unlock and that it's way too specific about where and how you hold your hand and even then you can only add two shortcuts to the thing making it. A very limited use. Case scenario, I had a hard time figuring out the feature on my own, but thankfully LG released a set of how-to videos for these features, which finally helped me get it right. This steep learning curve is not something people want when it comes to technology, though, especially when that tech is originally designed to make things easier. So I can't see a lot of people going out of their way to try it that new, crystal sound OLED speaker, which emits sound to the display, is a big improvement over previous LG flagships, but unfortunately, pales in comparison to the quality on phones like the galaxy s, 10 or Google Pixel 3 bass is definitely better than other smartphone speakers, especially when it's on a flat surface, but the mid and highs are a bit flat and even with the DTS X virtual surround sound, enabled on the g8, the sound from the galaxy has 10 is just so much richer.

The speakers also tend to rattle when the volume is above 75% at times, which is distracting when it happens, and just sounds pretty terrible that DTS X functionality is a bit annoying as well as it constantly has to be toggled to get the best sound from the device. When enabled it enhances the speakers on the phone itself, but it also ruined the sound quality that comes from that high quality quad DAC via the 3.5 millimeter jack. If LG offered a way for DTS X to only be enabled for certain audio outputs, such as the phone speakers, this negative would completely disappear. This option is already available in game tools for certain games, so it seems like it should be pretty easily implemented in the rest of the OS lacking. A traditional earpiece means that the sound has to come from somewhere else, a configuration that might be a bit confusing when making the first few phone calls sound comes from closer to the middle of the display, which means it takes a while to figure out what sweet spot to put your ear is located.

This is more of a learning curve than anything, but it is something that appears to be a negative until you figure it out. On the software front, the g8 launches, with Android nine pi, but LG's history of updates has been extremely slow by any measure. Well, it's great to see. Pi launched at the g8 LG remains among the slowest of any manufacturers to put out regular updates on their phones. They have made quite a few changes to stock intro 9 pi though, and mostly for the better, but that old style of controlling volume is still present and very much unwelcome PI's volume, control sliders were moved to the location of the volume, rocker and swapped out to a vertically scrolling set of bars, all of which were easier to use and visually looked more pleasant.

These volume sliders sit at the very top of the screen and also require the panel to be expanded just to adjust all volume sliders, making it nearly impossible to use with one hand a few other antiquated bits are still hanging around too, like that ancient feeling, home screen and app drawer design, while the home screen launcher. Wouldn't normally be a problem, the biggest issue is that the app drawer is ingrained in the Android 9 PI's overview design and forces users to use this fairly terrible design. There's no automatic sorting of the app drawer, for instance, and in general I, just found that I had a really hard time finding things for some reason and constantly had to use that search instead of just swiping. Over and picking the icon, I knew pie, style navigation in and of itself, isn't the greatest navigation style in the world, and, while we're not going to critique it here, there is a problem with both this style and the stock 3 button design screen space is taken up by a dedicated navigation bar at the bottom. No matter what you pick not having full screen gestures puts the g8 behind many other phones, which often give users the entire screen used for content.

Lg has a notch and a nav bar which makes that tall aspect ratio seem less advantageous. Some third-party apps can hide this naval in favor of custom gestures, but these all require hooking up to a computer and running an ADB command, and most users simply won't feel comfortable doing this, we're still not a fan of LG's, quick, toggle buttons in the notification shade and while they're identical to stock Android 9pi. Other manufacturers, like Samsung, give the ability to quickly swap things like Wi-Fi hotspots or Bluetooth devices without having to navigate away from the app currently being used. Similarly, the stock notch handling behavior in Android 9pi has also not been modified. This is something most manufacturers have not bothered changing, so it's not exclusive to LG, but it's still an annoyance.

This behavior means that if a video is running full screen, the natural blocked part of the content, this is distracting and simply should not be allowed at an app or operating system level as it defeats the point of these devices constantly being tuned for better multimedia experiences. When part of that content is just going to be covered up. There are a few issues with the camera, but it is mostly a good experience. The biggest problem is related to the fact that different regions get different versions of the g8, with markets like the U. S.

being shortchanged on the number of cameras on the back specifically there's no telephoto camera on the US units, meaning customers who buy the g8 with only two cameras in the back are going to see worse zoom performance than the models with the telephoto camera. We also weren't super impressed with that new night view mode or that portrait video mode which didn't perform nearly as well as we expected or hoped check out our entire camera review here to see both the good and bad points of the g8 scammer. If you're interested price has always been a huge determining factor when it comes to deciding which smartphone is the right choice and LG is positioning of the g8 somewhere in between the MSRP of the galaxy s, 10 II and the regular s.10 puts it in a somewhat tough position. There's no denying this flagship has plenty of innovation and offers features and options that other flagships don't, but LG doesn't quite have the same clout with consumers that they used to, and much of this is their own doing, pricing this at or below the galaxy s 10. He would have made it an obvious choice for several reasons, but that extra hundred bucks makes it a tougher decision, especially when phones like the OnePlus 60, for instance, are now sold in the US at a significantly lower price.

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