That is the LG 8 thin Q in a nutshell.
It's pretty decent at pretty much everything fact. You probably wouldn't regret getting one but it doesn't stand out in any major way for eight hundred twenty bucks above the competition to actually give you a reason to go get one.
So yeah a little harsh but it's true so you can start with the design of this phone. It's nothing special. It's familiar to a lot of people who have seen other LG 2019 phones. It's a slab of glass with Rounded Corners. There's a power button and a good place volume rocker on the other side Google Assistant below those so there's absolutely nothing wrong with it at all. It's just very plain, you know, like I hate to encourage, you know, going crazy or making weird choices just to be different and design but Like maybe they need a bit of a stronger identity here.
Like if I asked you to describe an LG phone and a couple words what even comes to mind really, you know, so I'll say this red color definitely pretty cool. It is also still a fingerprint magnet though like the other colors which are gray and black but also the cameras on the back are totally flat. So this is one of few phones I can actually say they really have no camera bump at all. So this is one of them which is nice, but I also think it makes it the sneaky slippery as the phone of all time. But other than that nothing really stands out to me, you know, it's a design.
It's a smartphone so you get a 6.1-inch display up front and it's quite good.
It's super high resolution 1440p and plenty bright not the brightest but it's viewable outdoors and with a very average Notch about the top and we'll talk more about why the notch is so big in a bit but the side bezels are a little bit more than slim. Its kind of feeling like the Galaxy S 10 e or the iPhone 10 is as far as bezel sighs anyway, and then the normal stuff at the Bottom is what you'd see in any other LG phone. You still have your USB C still your boom box speaker.
"Still your headphone. Jack back by high-quality DAC. This phone is ip68 water resistant and it still has wireless charging over all the builders good. It's not really like missing anything.
Although there are two things to note one is Boombox speaker. It still has at the bottom for some reason sounds worse to me".
I don't know what's worse than I remember like it's pretty flat and Hollow sounding and of course, it still comes from the bottom corner of the phone. So it's easy to block by accident. But number two. The other thing is if you actually look at the top of the phone where the earpiece normally is. This phone doesn't have one instead. They have a speaker behind the glass called Crystal sound OLED which fires from sort of the top third of the phone which to my ear sounded just like a normal phone call in terms of quality and volume, but I could also sort of here this buzzing like a thin rattling sound that you don't normally hear in a normal speaker. So that's the first time I've actually heard one of these replacement speakers sound a bit weird, but it's not a deal-breaker for me because I don't make that many phone calls in the first place and the bonuses it can sort of act like bone conduction and it works in more than just the top eighth of the phone.
Snapdragon 855 six gigs of RAM 128 3500 they're fine.
There's no upgraded version with like eight gigs of RAM or something. And if you want more storage, you have to go with micro SD which is kind of a bummer considering we have phones with way more internal storage for people who do lots of things on their phones and the battery size. It's fine. It's not pushing the limits or anything. It's bigger than the Galaxy has tens battery but it's not pushing the 4040 200 million Powers. We see on some other big phone. So the specs are fine and performance through LG software has been pretty smooth and predictable except for scrolling for some reason. So overall, I think LG skin is fine again.
I've used that word a lot. It hasn't changed much since last year. So the settings app is still a little overwhelming. It's still buried some things but for the most part things flow pretty smoothly and you can easily get used to it, but for some reason, the scrolling physics, especially in the app drawer is super stuttery and it's been a while now and really weird for a new phone like this to straight-up stutter.
But yeah, definitely not to mention that overall though performance just using the phone every day through LG software.
It's fine. I don't want to make this just a list of reasons not to buy this phone. So some of the good stuff for my favorite things about this phone is on the back and it's the two cameras LG was one of the first to consistently do that ultra-wide over the years that were just now starting to see on the backs of phones everywhere and they still do it. The sad thing for them is it was so easy to copy that now everyone just added an ultra-wide and they're now all caught up. It's not like LG mastered the ultra wide and Ice special way. So the cameras here are pretty fun, but they're not incredibly unique or anything but I like the consistency of these cameras.
It's a confidence shooter. It's fast. The color science is pretty good. It doesn't overexpose that often and the similarity in color between the 12-megapixel standard camera and the 16 megapixels ultra-wide I think is actually better than Huawei is in Samsung's and even in the camera UI as the nice little things like the Zoom with the shutter icon that are a nice touch. The camera is good in the G8 and again so many others have gotten so good that you just have to wonder about the ones who don't get it right like the razor is in This is of the world. But I guess that's a rant for another video. Now if you've noticed pretty much everything so far about this phone's been it's good. It's fine, you know, so you would think there's got to be something about this phone that takes it to the next level. I really make it stand out Above the Rest to make it LG's Flagship.
I guess for LG those things are hand ID and are motion.
Yeah, so the notch up here in the phone is so big because LG has dropped a few extra sensors up there including time of flight camera and an infrared blaster and receiver to be able to read and identify and track your hand and its movement. So with hand ID, you're supposed to be able to just hovered over your phone to unlock it and with our motion. You're supposed to be able to open apps and control media and things like that without touching your phone and I will say it is a cool idea. I kind of wish it worked better than it did but in practice, as you can probably understand from my tone and from the first impressions video, it's far from ideal.
It's usable at best but it's not good. So with hand ID first, I mean it works, but you have to hold your hand in a very specific distance and spot around in front of the phone and the learning curve even for me was just a bit too much and it just makes you not want to use it plus straight up the feedback on the screen to help you correct yourself is blocked by your hand that you're trying to unlock it with. So yeah, I mean it has a fingerprint. Her on the back.
I just turned off hand ID and use the regular fingerprint reader. Like I think most people will and they are the motion to be fair. It seems to be a tiny bit more responsive than when I first tried it in The Impressions video a little while ago specifically the volume knob actually seems to be more responsive now and easier to trigger correctly and then the twisting motion tracks really well, which is awesome. Put the rest of it like the waving to the left or right to open apps or take your screenshot.
"Also, this is how long it takes to pause something that's playing so we have music playing. Oh someone calls you. Oh, wait, hold on one second".
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