Modular flagship LG G5 comprehensive evaluation

LG G5 is an Android smart phone with iris recognition launched by LG Company in 2016, equipped with Qualcomm Xiao Long 820 processor, camera pixels 20 million, the sensor size to 1/2 inch. G4 did not add fingerprint recognition can be said that some regret, but in the G5 LG will focus on making up for this shortcoming, for G5 at the same time to join the fingerprint identification sensor and iris recognition sensor. However, while this LG new flagship is full of topics in the international mobile phone circle, it did not cause enough discussion in China.

This is not only related to the low performance of LG mobile phone, in March and April major mobile phone new released flagships is also an important factor for dilution of attention. The current mobile phone consumers are happy, we own much more than the past on the choice of cellphones, but also regret that too many choices scattered our attention, resulting in we may miss some good products. Will LG G5 is the missed good thing?

ID Design

In fact, LG mobile phones have a distinctive design tradition, insist on no physical function keys, LG LOGO printed on "chin", the volume and power button located on the back of the fuselage, the rear cover can be removed, replaceable battery design and plastic body. But on LG G5, LG's some traditions are broken, the volume key is moved to the left side of fuselage, the back cover is no longer removable, and the use of all-aluminum alloy to build the fuselage.

Breaking the old tradition means to make new breakthroughs, LG R & D department is very bold, unprecedented in the phone using a plug-in modular design. The bottom of LG G5 can be directly separated from the fuselage through switch, the battery installed in the bottom module. In this way, in the integration of fuselage structure, it is still able to replace the battery. The bottom module can be replaced according to user needs with different functions of modules, now LG for the G5 supporting the camera module and Hi-Fi module.

G5's front screen fused throughout the black panel, and for the first time using 3D curved glass cover, looks softer than the previous product. LG LOGO is printed on the front of the detachable module, between the module and fuselage there will be a little gap. In the past, LG G5 volume keys placed on the left side of the fuselage, the key assembly is tight, on pressing the feedback damping feel is also very good. Switch button for unplug the module is also on the left side of the fuselage, hold down the button to pull out the module, and easy to remove the back cover.

Hardware performance

LG has maintained a very close partnership with Qualcomm, G5 has also become one of the first batches of products using Xiao Long 820 processor, so LG G5 has no doubt that the top configuration. Xiao Long 820 +4 GB LPDDR4 performance is almost impeccable, challenge any large-scale hand travel are effortlessly, Xiao Long 820 heat control is also good. Due to the metal body, the temperature change is obvious when running large projects. This is mainly due to the thermal conductivity of the metal is more sensitive, but the actual test temperature is not outrageous.

LG G5 is also equipped with UFS 2.0 storage technology the same as the Samsung S7, storage data read and write speed is three times faster than eMMc, which in the actual experience will be clearly aware. The LG G5 system running fluency and large application read speed are called Android top. The use of GFXBench G5 graphics processing capabilities were tested, the results were pleasantly surprised, LG G5 graphics capabilities are quite powerful enough to cope with all kinds of large mobile games.

The screen display has been the strength of LG, early G2 and G3 in the phone screen affect almost have no opponents, G5 also inherited this tradition. On G5 5.3-inch 2K display the highest brightness even up to the metamorphosis of 850 nits, in direct strong lighting it is still very clear to show. The overall screen color is slightly high, the display is sharper, so LG adjust the screen more pleasing eyes. LG G5 screen support long time screen standby, in off screen mode it can display the time and notice. Through the LG special technology tuning, the screen always bright will spend much power, not dazzling, the actual power consumption difference is less than 5%.

System software

LG G5 was equipped with Android 6.0.1 system, the biggest feature is simple. This phone may be the least built-in APP Android phone I have seen, and even less than iOS system built-in applications. It can be said that G5 operating system is a framework to achieve the basic functions, and even photo editing, voice assistant, global search, yellow pages these features are not joined, the need for third-party software support.

At the bottom of G5 system the virtual touch button support custom, return key, Home key and menu key sequence can be free to swap, you can also pull down the notice, Quick + Memo screenshots, multi-task split screen and SIM card switch, from the four functions to choose two on the virtual touch key bar, allowing up to 5 virtual touch keys exist at the same time.

Overall, LG G5 is such a mobile phone, which has very distinctive features, at the same time has some obvious shortcomings. And as the entire LG mobile phone product line, LG G5 puts great emphasis on consumer experience. At present you can choose to buy a piece of LG G5 Screen Digitizer Assembly Replacement at only 80.31USD on Cell Phone Age com.