Saturday, July 02, 2016

First review of LG G5

Remember last month I talked about my new LG G5? That was while I had just got it, and did not managed to use it much yet. So far the phone has basically been "functioning well", why I said that? Well, after using it for about a month, it's true of my believe that the technology in G5 is not as advanced as Samsung, not really on par with S7.

Although it came with the AOD, but I don't really find it useful, especially at night, when it's dark and you are trying to sleep, there you go, some faint light coming from the phone. So, it's good to use it as a night light for you to find the phone in the dark. If you want to sleep, turn the phone upside down or turn off AOD. One more thing, although it was advertised to use little battery power, but I think it's really not so. I found that if you switch it off, the phone's battery can last longer, hey, that's me saying, you don't have to agree, do you own experiment!

It's much easier to do screen captures, instead of pressing both phone rear's power button and volume down button together for G2, you use the Capture button on the top menu.

Yes, the camera is good, take good picture, the wide angle camera is very useful for capturing more. Do you notice that there's a flashlight icon on the 'top menu' (tell me the name if you know this)? Hit it to enable the flashlight. Cool! Now I don't have to install 3rd part apps to have that.

Now, one thing I don't like, they took away the 'Smart Stay' and 'Smart Pause' functions! I have it in my old G2. It was such a good functions, now I have to place my finger on the screen just to stop the screen from turning off when I'm reading something on the phone! Unless, I try to find another app to have these functions. LG, please bring the functions back!!!