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  • Available for preorder tomorrow..still not getting it til June 3rd ?

  • Well done Tmo! I wish AT&T was shipping the G4 this fast. Looks like I’ll have to take up bestbuy on that $100 giftcard.

  • WOW! If that’s not a typo, you should be able to easily sell that card for $70 or $75 separately and really be rocking! This reminds of the good ol’ days of 2009-2011 when microSD cards were when Verizon and Samsung bundled 32GB class 2 microSDHC cards with the Droid Charge. The card, while dog slow, was worth a good chunk of change just by itself back in mid 2011.

  • May I suggest Kellen, that stock Tmobile LG G4 pictures be the tan leather back,being that it’s exclusive and all….Yes I know I’d make a great writer.

  • I’d wait a few months to see if this gets the crazy lag that my G3 had after a while. It acted like a 6 month old Samsung after 4 weeks. Still, better than how my Moto X just decides to freeze or how the home screen takes 10seconds to replace all my apps whenever I click it.

  • I really wish phones were compatible between all the carriers like the N6 and iPhone 6 are. I’d love to walk into T-Mobile and buy it, and switch it over to my Verizon account later.

  • Why is Tim so damn in love with this POS? It’s an LG, so among ALL of the other flagships it is probably the slowest. I’d be willing to bet that ANY current phone outperforms it. LG is for people on prepaid.

    I read the review but I don’t trust anything I read about LG phones. Made that mistake with the G3 and ended up having to eat a restocking fee thanks to the “advice” given on this stupid site.

    How much is LG paying you all for good reviews?

    • I had the G2 and now the G3, and they are both excellent phones. Large screen and very small bezels, fantastic camera, extremely good battery life, and premium look and feel. Sure early on the UI had some lag, but nothing that wasn’t fixed with a new launcher or updates to the phone.

      Have you used the G4? If not, how do you know it’s a “POS” and “Slow”?

      • Regarding the G3, I agree with everything except battery life. I usually had to swap battery by 6-7pm (my OPO goes 1.5 days). And the G3 screen is large, but colors are washed out.

      • After the disaster that was the G3, I am not going to spend $700 to take my chances. And NOTHING made the G3 faster. Note I am not a total LG hater, LOVED my Nexus 5. And thought that their FLAGSHIP would be a better device. It was not.

    • “LG is for people on prepaid.”

      Gotta say I appreciate that line. (Even though I’m G3/postpaid.)

    • Not the stupid site part because I love Droid-Life but FINALLY people are starting to tell the truth about the G3, that was the WORST phone I’ve ever purchased and now my gf has it and she HATES it. Just like you I let this site hype me up into purchasing the G3 and I don’t understand how people here try to praise and defend LG they make garbage phones! And that’s being nice.

      • Thank the lord SOMEONE agrees with me. My G3 continually overheated, was always operating in a throttled condition, and in most cased performed slower than Snapdragon S4 Pro based devices. A replacement didn’t help. In most cases my 2013 Nexus 7 was much faster.

    • The S6 and S6Edge stomps a mudhole in the battery draining G4. ..m.youtube.com/watch?v=YEsJWfSce6E&feature=youtu.be

      • 1. Except for the end, the S6/Edge battery life isn’t ever shown, and they could’ve made those numbers up.
        2. I noticed though most of the test, the Wifi reception was down a bar or 2. This would negatively impact performance and could skew results in favor of the S6, unless when they tested the it, they had the same Wifi signal strength (highly doubtful).
        3. Watching Youtube videos for 4 or 5 hours straight is not even remotely real world conditions, and not a good metric, especially if they played different videos on the different devices. Lower quality videos will pull less battery because it takes less power to transfer the data (inherently smaller file size), and less processing power to decode/display the actual video.
        4. A more apt test strictly for battery life would be to put devices in Airplane mode and play locally stored movies or music. Or put them in Airplane mode and just let them sit there. Differences between modems, antennas, and signal strength also play a huge part in real world tests.

        • 1. S6 edge is 5 hr 1 min. S6 is not listed but I am sure it falls between the S6e and G3. Yes, he could have made up any of the results, just like any other reviewer/blog could make up any test results.
          2. Signal strength can influence results, but I am willing to give him the benefit of the doubt and assume all testing was done under the same conditions.
          3. The point of the test was to determine screen on time from 100% to 0%. Watching YT is a perfectly acceptable metric, even if the devices pull different quality videos, because that is what would happen in the real world. Different devices pull videos of differing resolutions. Typical users aren’t going to override their device’s settings to pull videos that are not optimized for that device. Geeks may do it, but the average user won’t.
          4. I agree with your last statement. If you want to get really picky, the testing should be done at the same nits, rather than an arbitrary brightness level of “50%” or whatever.

  • This is awesome for tmo but I will be getting either the UK unlocked version of the AT&T version with the plastic back…then just buy the red leather from ebay.

  • oh my goodness. this is awesome. can you preorder if you’re on jump and can upgrade?

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