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bldalager's review of the LG G2 (GSM)
original version, submitted Feb 25, 2014, 8:53 AM:
Nice phone, horrible battery life (AT&T)
I love my LG G2, I moved up from an Optimus G which was a great over all phone and had great battery life.
The G2 has a big beautiful screen and is a powerful phone with a lot of features. For having a big screen it fits easily in the hand and is easy to operate.
One great feature is you can change the arrangement of the capacitive buttons. Back on the left or on the right, include option for pull down menu or not, lots of options. If you are coming from a Samsung phone you can put the back button where you are use to it. Great feature, I think.
My issue is battery life and I'm really surprised with the huge battery.
If I don't touch the phone it will make it through the day. The minute I start doing something it starts to drain. If I do very light use I make it to evening, if I look a few things up on the internet, maybe read 1/2 hour of a book it will be down to 15% by 6pm.
Sucks and is very disappointing.
My Optimus G had fabulous battery life, I wish I had it back. It is the one thing that makes me NOT want to keep my G2.
Otherwise a great phone that is defeated by poor battery life.
edited Jun 11, 2014, 1:44 PM to the current version:
Perfection!
I love my LG G2, I moved up from an Optimus G which was a great over all phone and had great battery life.
The G2 has a big beautiful screen and is a powerful phone with a lot of features. For having a big screen it fits easily in the hand and is easy to operate.
One great feature is you can change the arrangement of the capacitive buttons. Back on the left or on the right, include option for pull down menu or not, lots of options. If you are coming from a Samsung phone you can put the back button where you are use to it. Great feature, I think.
My issue is battery life and I'm really surprised with the huge battery.
If I don't touch the phone it will make it through the day. The minute I start doing something it starts to drain. If I do very light use I make it to evening, if I look a few things up on the internet, maybe read 1/2 hour of a book it will be down to 15% by 6pm.
Sucks and is very disappointing.
My Optimus G had fabulous battery life, I wish I had it back. It is the one thing that makes me NOT want to keep my G2.
Otherwise a great phone that is defeated by poor battery life.
June 2014 update:
Found problem with battery it was Carrier IQ, used to track your location. I would go into apps and kill it when I started the phone and I would only use data when no WIFI was available and my battery life soared. I could go nearly 2 days, 3 if I didn't do much.
After KITKAT I now kill SVI Setting and most other apps that are running to be honest and again only have data on when no WIFI is available and today at 2pm I am sitting with 70% battery, after watching 1/2 hour video and some internet cruising.
This is now the PERFECT phone. I try others and they leave me wanting big time and I think why try another, this one is perfection.
What will the G3 be like, can it be better? I don't know how, does .2 inches of screen really make much of a difference?
