Hey, how's it going, Dave 2D here. So the LG G7 was just announced and I was able to use this phone at a media
event so I thought i'd give some just kind of early impressions on this phone
But before I get into that I want to talk about the whole phone line as a whole
I Have this love/hate relationship with LG's phones the very first Android phone I ever purchased was the G4 I absolutely
loved that phone until it started boot looping and
Even the refurb unit that I got to replace it also boot looped the G5 didn't love very much the G6 was also a great phone
But this G7 was rumored or even reported to have been discontinued at the beginning of the year there were like
Reports of this thing just being straight-up axed from LG's lineup, but here
We are in mid 2018 and it's finally here now. This phone is gonna. Be really divisive because of one main feature
It's the notch and I would even call it a feature
It's like a physical characteristic some people hate it
Some people are tolerant of it and maybe a small percentage of people like it, but the fact remains
It's a notch and aesthetically speaking I much prefer devices that don't have notches
There's a lot of phone companies out there that actually take advantage of the notch like the iPhone 10 it
Requires a notch because there's just no bezel around the bottom and the top
But on this phone the G7 does have a bottom bezel, and there's a bit of a top bezel
So I feel like the notch wasn't entirely necessary it almost feels like they put this in just for aesthetics like they somehow thought that
This would look good with a notch,
Which I personally don't find that it does.
So here's the thing there's a lot of Chinese phone manufacturers out there that put a notch on their 2018 phones
Just so it could look like the iPhone 10
And I kind of get it for them because they don't have like design teams really and they just kind of go with whatever they
Think is working out there, but not for LG. I don't think they needed to do it like LG's good with innovation
They're really strong with innovation
Why they like why are they doing this it bugs me that leads there, so yeah right off the bat?
I don't like this notch, but the good thing is you can kind of hide it with their software
So they have this feature in settings where you can basically turn the whole top of the screen black
And it essentially masks the notch now in order for this to work
That black has to look really black and fortunately it does because the screen is incredibly good
It's a hundred percent DCI-P3 color gamut
A thousand nits
It's a very nice image
the blacks look
Super inky and the colors are really vibrant as well to the point where I thought it was an OLED panel
But it is an LCD screen, so you don't have issues like OLED burn in
It's definitely a nicer looking screen than the LG G6 I'd say it's very similar in appearance to the [Galaxy] S9 screen
It's really nice, and it's also a 1440p panel the speaker is loud like really loud
They claimed 10 times louder than some of the competitors, and I don't know where they're coming with that number, but it is loud
It's using some resonance chamber designs, so it's supposed to amp up the bass levels and because it's an LG flagship
They're sticking their quad DAC in here so if you're an audiophile you're gonna
Love the headphone jack and that improved audio quality coming from that jack
So they also have an assistant button on the side, and this actually launches the Google assistant
You can't remap it, but you can turn it off
It's kind of like how Samsung has their Bixby button
But this launches a Google assistant. The camera uses two lenses again with one of them being a wide-angle lens
And I've said this before in my previous videos
But I absolutely love phones with wide-angle camera lenses as the secondary lens they're just much prefer a wide-angle
Over a zoom
Now I haven't spent enough time with this camera to give detailed opinions on it
but it does have this AI feature where the camera tries to analyze the scene that you're looking at and then it will adjust the
Camera settings to best optimize a shot. Now, It's very early stages of the software
I wasn't able to test this camera thoroughly
But the idea of it is pretty neat the other features in this phone like Snapdragon 845 IP68 waterproofing
It's all gonna be very
2018 flagship feeling with your fingerprint sensor on the back and an iris scanner the batteries at 3000 milliamp hours is not particularly big
But because the screen uses I think like 30% less energy than the previous version. I think that's pretty cool
The battery life should be good
But just don't expect it to be amazing or anything like that so early impressions of this phone the hardware is great
It is an LG flagship, but they're always like pretty good with hardware. It's got some unique features
I've really liked the LCD screen on it. It's probably the best LCD screen on the market
It's got the wide-angle lens and really good audio quality from the DAC
These are features that are relatively unique to the LG flagships now the notch is something that I feel like they could have done without
I don't feel like it adds a lot to this phone
But it is what it is the G7 has a notch now the most important thing about this phone
Is this price tag and right now at the time of this video and at the media event they didn't reveal its final price
So I can't really like give recommendations, but I will say this: the technology is good on this phone
The hardware is good, and if it's priced well, I think it's a good option. Okay. Hope you guys enjoyed this video thumbs if you liked it,
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