LG G3 Review: Ultra-thin Bezels And A Quad HD Display Brings A New King

Basics

• Display: 5.5-inch Quad HD IPS (2560 x 1440, 538ppi)
• Chipset: Qualcomm Snapdragon™ 801 Quad-Core processor up to 2.5 GHz
• Connectivity: Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, Bluetooth 4.0 LE (APT-x), NFC,
• Memory: 32GB eMMC ROM (up to 24GB usable)/ 3GB DDR3 RAM / microSD support up to 2TB
• Price: $598 off contract

Pros:

• Gorgeous display
• Design
• Great camera
• Good battery life

  Design

  With its ultra thin bezels and gorgeous 5.5-inch display, you’ll find yourself staring at the large display for long periods of time. The phone looks better than its successor with its curved back and slightly rounded edges. The brushed-metal design on the back adds to the phone’s design, but it is still plastic (polycarbonate to be technical).
  The phone is big, but 5.5-inch phones are becoming a dime a dozen these days, so it’s not surprising to see LG releasing a phone of this size. The G3, weighing at 149.8 grams, fits comfortably in my hand (bear in mind that I have large hands) mostly because of the curved back, but it will definitely be too big for a lot of people. The size of the phone and the texture on the back makes it feel rather slippery and I had a few close calls where the phone slid out of my grasp.
  One design feature recognizable from the G2 that I’ve grown to like is the volume and power buttons on the back of the phone. It took me a day or two to get used to the button placement, which won’t work well for everyone. I still mistakenly hit the volume up button instead of the power button sometimes, but I think continued use of the phone would fix that.
  The phone comes in five different colors: Metallic Black, Shine Gold, Silk White, Moon Violet and Burgundy Red.
  

  Performance

  You would think the Quad HD screen would sacrifice performance on the G3 but apart from some minor lag when opening and closing apps or returning to the home screen, the 2.5GHz Snapdragon 801 processor and 3GB of RAM keeps the phone running just as well as other flagship phones on the market.
  The phone does tend to overheat when using it excessively, but most of the time this was moving through apps and playing multiple games for a while. Few others have also reported issues of overheating, but it’s unclear if it is an issue specific to certain models. Running less-intensive apps such as Gmail and Chrome didn’t affect the phone’s temperature at all.
  The G3 has a 13MP Optical Image Stabilizer Plus camera with a clean user interface — following LG’s motto that “Simple is the New Smart.” The camera uses Laser Auto Focus technology that shoots out an infrared sensor that helps it find the focus point quicker, which in turn helps take faster photos.
  
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