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LG put __Infrared sensor__ and its remote app in G3 too. It worked with your TV out of the box. Setting up was easy enough; selecting TV's make, then trying out one or two times. You were good to go. App UI was nice too. I couldn't say anything bad about it.
LG put an __infrared sensor__ and its remote app in G3 too. It worked with your TV out of the box. Setting up was easy enough; selecting TV's make, then trying out one or two times. You were good to go. App UI was nice too. I couldn't say anything bad about it.
__Back buttons__ were one thing I was disappointed. They weren't anything bad about it. Placement was good; tactile was nice. Did it feel weird using it? No, it did not. However, they were not useful at all. I meant they could get rid of them altogether and put a power button on the side. LG G3 would still be the same phone to me. I just couldn't find use of them. Maybe if they could make up and down button _trackpad-like_ to scroll the page. That would be much more awesome, but so far they were useless to me. Unfortunately capturing screen with this button layout was awkward at best. Not difficult, but awkward since power and volume down were next to each other.
__Back buttons__ were one thing I was disappointed. They weren't anything bad about it. Placement was good; tactile was nice. Did it feel weird using it? No, it did not. However, they were not useful at all. I meant they could get rid of them altogether and put a power button on the side. LG G3 would still be the same phone to me. I just couldn't find use of them. Maybe if they could make up and down button _trackpad-like_ to scroll the page. That would be much more awesome, but so far they were useless to me. Unfortunately capturing screen with a combination of power and volume down buttons was awkward. Not difficult, but awkward since the two were next to each other.
There was a gimmick for volume down buttons though; LG did assign it for camera app shortcut while screen off. It also acted like a shutter. You needed to remember not to hold it, only press it short to take a photo. Maybe I got used to hold-half to focus before hard-press to get the photo from DSLR. Anyway, shutter at that position was awkward at best unless you were a stalker pretending to look at your phone while taking photos. (It indeed worked great for that matter; please be careful to turn any sound off lol)
There was a gimmick for volume down buttons though; LG did assign it for camera app shortcut while screen off. It also acted like a shutter. You needed to remember not to hold it, only press it short to take a photo. Maybe I got used to hold-half to focus before hard-press to get the photo from DSLR. Anyway, shutter at that position was not so comfortable unless you were a stalker pretending to look at your phone while taking photos. (It indeed worked great for that matter; please be careful to turn any sound off lol)
On software side, without front buttons, LG had to find the way to turn the device on w/o reaching back buttons. LG found _knock code sequence_ which was pretty darn nice to have. It was basically your own tapping pattern on screen. It wasn't as smooth log in as Apple Touch ID experience I had to admit since sometimes it didn't recognize the pattern on first try or you found yourself knocking again and again while the phone was upside down. Wake up time was a bit delay. I usually thought that I tapped the pattern wrong and started tapping once more before screen on. Maybe Moto X with a touchless gesture was the only more convenient way to turn on the phone--I wish I had Moto X to prove my assumption but I wasn't in the US no more--that made Moto X quite a rare item.
Surprisingly LG G3 got a chance to taste __Lollipop__ at very early day. That proved LG commitment to the phone firmly. Although some could say that LG didn't have as heavy framework as Samsung did with TouchWiz, I didn't not see a thing missing when upgrading from KitKat to Lollipop either and that wasn't little IMHO. Indeed Lollipop on LG G3 wasn't vanilla and in my opinion that was the best thing for every Android manufacturers. I bought LG G3 for LG flavor of Android. If I wanted to have a pure AOSP, I would go to closest ROM like CyanogenMod or just take a Nexus route instead.
Surprisingly LG G3 got a chance to taste __Lollipop__ at very early day. That proved LG commitment to the phone quite strongly. Although some could say that LG didn't have as heavy framework as Samsung did with TouchWiz, I didn't not see a thing missing when upgrading from KitKat to Lollipop either and that wasn't little IMHO. Indeed Lollipop on LG G3 wasn't vanilla and in my opinion that was the best thing for every Android manufacturers. I bought LG G3 for LG flavor of Android. If I wanted to have a pure AOSP, I would go to closest ROM like CyanogenMod or just take a Nexus route instead.
 
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__Camera app__ was simple. It was quick to take a photo or video, but other than that it fell short. Focus was fast; faster than iPhone I would say although you couldn't adjust exposure or any extra thing. Photos were mostly good; however, comparing to iPhone's ones, LG G3 photos were sharpen a lot more and small details were lost too. At night, photos looked sorta good until you zoomed 100% that's where you saw everything had been processed too much and nothing was crisp. Yes, it was better than most and nothing at all.
__Camera app__ was simple. It was quick to take a photo or video, but other than that it fell short. Focus was fast; faster than iPhone I would say although you couldn't adjust exposure or any extra thing. Photos were mostly good; however, comparing to iPhone's ones, LG G3 photos were sharpen a lot more and small details were lost too. At night, photos looked sorta good until you zoomed 100%; that's where you saw everything had been processed too much and nothing was crisp. Anyway, it was better than most and nothing at all.
If you were swiping in anyway, it switched back and forth between back and front camera. Some who always did selfie might like that, but surely that wasn't me. No way to turn that thing off. Hell.
_Warning:_ If you swiped to any direction in camera app, it meant switching back and forth between back and front camera. Some who always did selfie might like that but surely that wasn't me. No way to turn that thing off. Hell.
Although G3 powered by a huge 3000mAh battery, __battery life__ wasn't up to iPhone 6+ level. It lasted a day easily for heavy users, but that was about it. G3 surely needed to charge over the night to ensure that recharging or power bank wasn't required during the next day.
Although G3 powered by a huge 3000mAh battery, __battery life__ wasn't up to iPhone 6+ level. It lasted a day easily for heavy users but that was about it. G3 surely needed to charge over the night to ensure that recharging or power bank wasn't required during the next day.
### Downside
With these many goodies packed in the G3, LG did miss something to make it perfect.
* How on earth they could forget to have __Flashlight__ or _Torch_ app. Although you could get an app for that, it should have to. I used [Quick Torch](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.yoavst.quicktorch) which was nothing but flashlight. Anyway, this app's widget was unreliable at best although torch on and off in the app worked as expected.
* _Dual window_ was restricted too much if they could ever let any other apps in there. It might be buggy, but you could blame each app's developer for that.
* How on earth they could forget to have __Flashlight__ or _Torch_ app. Although you could get an app for that, it should have to. I used [Quick Torch](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.yoavst.quicktorch) which was nothing but flashlight. Anyway, this app's widget was unreliable although torch on and off in the app worked as expected.
* A magic _Dual window_ was restricted too much. If they could ever let any other apps in there, it might not be as smooth but it was better than nothing at all.
* LG's ROM came with junk too. McAfee Security, Update Center, SmartWorld, RemoteCall Service, and Voice Mate. Most junks required you to agree to the terms; I just didn't and was happy that it didn't run. As of Voice Mate, it was Siri-like, but I was sure of that everyone preferred Google Now to this hit-or-miss.
LG should had taken a more polished route. Never brought half-baked stuffs into a product and met the expectation before aimed to amaze people with impractical gimmicks. I knew they were capable of that.
LG should had taken a more polished route. Never brought half-baked stuffs into a product. They shouldn't have aimed to amaze people with impractical gimmicks.
sipp11
10 years ago