Thread: Think your smartphone is fast???

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Originally Posted by Bettyboo

(spent the last 6 hours setting it up, and sorting out the xperia Z for the missus... what a palava...)

Has it got the guest mode on it like the G2 ?, you can put in 2 pattern locks so you can hide all your Goat porn from the Missus

I see they've put a better speaker on the G3 and removed a load of bloatware

Mine has a fingerprint ID.

Originally Posted by DBell

Would throw it away if given to me.

cost 2000 baht per month for 5GB data and unlimited calls and texts and wifi hotspots.

Is that good or bad value?

Must be bad value as it costs more than my Samsung Neo did in total (1,800b). Can wake me up, take photos, and even ring people. Amazing.

99Rp. For 13 Gb here ( roughly 220 baht)

^ sounds cheap, Willy - bt what download/upload speeds are you getting? Prices for data here are basically the same as Thailand from what I can see, but the quality of service in Korea is far higher. On my 3G xperia z I was getting about 3-5mb upload and download speeds everywhere and consistently. The LG is getting 20mb consistently, and far higher when I'm near a CAT-6 (LTE-A) antenna (not often...).

Originally Posted by Dillinger

Has it got the guest mode on it like the G2 ?

Yes.

Originally Posted by Dillinger

I see they've put a better speaker on the G3 and removed a load of bloatware

Yes, the speaker is much better than the xperia z (the phone's not waterproof...), but not as good as an HTC One. I have some good headphones anyways, and the headphones that came with the phone are good compared to an iPhone or Samsung.

The UI is much improved over previous LG versions, it's lots better than Touchwiz. But, it's no better than Sony's or Apple's (probably not quite as good, but no problems at all).

The knock screen to turn on and off is good. The rear buttons and quick access to camera is good. The camera, video and screen, front 'flash', rear double flash, etc, are all excellent, probably the best on any phone (although I haven't tried the Z3 ir Nokia 1020...).

It's fast and smooth with the very fast 805 processor, 420 adreno and 3GB of RAM.

The 32 GB of onboard storage is good. Since my SD card on the Sony broke, I am preferring the onboard storage to the slow and breakable SD cards. I'm also using Google Drive and the photo/video storing facility a lot, so that's great for cross platform stuff and backup.

A couple of sw points:

The LG computer sw is good; it was easy to sync data, backup, view media files, etc. On par with the Sony version.

I've found WPS office to be really good; far better than any other Office style app I've tried. SoloVPN is also the best I've tried (I have paid for a 1 year subscription). The galery, music player and memo on the LG are all good; better than the Samsung versions and nearly on par, but not quite, with the Sony offerings (Sony Walkman is my favourite adroid music player). Skype, Line and Hangouts are all working perfectly and very fast. I've found the standard email app to be good, equal to the one on the Sony, but I cannot get Gmail to work???

This phone is very good, but for most day to day actions it is no different to the Xperia Z; actually it feels fragile, so I have to be really careful with it (especially the screen) while I just used to throw the Sony around.

If folks watch a lot of videos/movies then this phone is the best out there with a smallish form; it's the same size as the xperia Z but has a larger screen (small bezel).

These top end phones are all much of a muchness; this phone is very good, but really it's just a matter of taste...

Not too shoddy on the 4G...



Gotta master the pressing of the power and down volume keys for the screenshot...

Originally Posted by Bettyboo

bt what download/upload speeds are you getting?

probably not as good as yours....

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I think I see the problem...

I change phones more often that I change my undies - and If I was in the market (again) to buy a phone (as of today) I'd go with the Xperia Z3 compact.

All the power of it's big bro, but in a smaller, more manageable size (great for one-handed operation) + it's waterproof, great for perv-shots in the sauna (of chicks, not dicks of course)...

I've just bought a Chinese iPhone

^ poove...

^^ I like that phone too, and if I was buying for meself, outside of Korea, that's the one I would have gone for. Inside Korea, I get the 100mbps g4+, so it's either a G3 or an S5.

My feeling is it's a good phone, similar to the other top half a dozen phones; uses up data bandwidth at frightening rates due to the download speed!

Originally Posted by Bettyboo

Not too shoddy on the 4G...



Gotta master the pressing of the power and down volume keys for the screenshot...

You can customize those buttons on the bottom, you can even have 4 buttons there, One can even be screen capture, If I remember right it is called quick memo or similar

Originally Posted by Bettyboo

poove...

It's smaller than yours, has better build quality than yours, has a bigger battery than yours, has a better selfie front camera than yours and best of all.... it is half half the price of yours

Suck on these apples

^ You're confusing mine for the basic G# rather than my super fast Cat-6 version. I mostly use internet stuff, camera and video when I'm out and about, so the G3 is hard to beat although I'd prefer the ruggedness of the Z3 (I'd lose the Korean Cat-6) speeds...

Originally Posted by Dillinger

One can even be screen capture, If I remember right it is called quick memo or similar

Could be interesting. Thank you.

Download this Betty and lets see how fast your new phone really is..

https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...enchMark&hl=en

Just bought my daughter a G3 for Xmas. Noticed it lag a few times and on the antantu benchmark tests it does shite. No wonder you didnt upload your score Betty
The battery life is shite too and it doesnt fast charge to 60 % in one hour like my Mi4.
They are only 15,000 baht though now on amazon uk and the camera is great, so not a bad buy.

I will put the antutu benchmarks on here later and show you how its not as superfast as the boo makes out

the gizmag top 5 smartphones of 2014 article said the g3 would have made the grade except for its laggy interface

top phone - note 4

Originally Posted by baldrick

the gizmag top 5 smartphones of 2014 article said the g3 would have made the grade except for its laggy interface

top phone - note 4

The gf loves both of hers. One for the states (Verizon will not work in Thailand) and one for Thailand. I’ve even started using them.

^ the Note 4 is very good, same screen, processor and RAM as my G3 (Korean spec...)

Originally Posted by Dillinger

Just bought my daughter a G3 for Xmas.

Very nice, if a little bit boring. Of course, you probably have the European spec phone which is a bit laggy for the high spec screen!

Originally Posted by Dillinger

They are only 15,000 baht though now on amazon uk and the camera is great, so not a bad buy.

Good price/

Originally Posted by baldrick

the gizmag top 5 smartphones of 2014 article said the g3 would have made the grade except for its laggy interface

Yep, but not mine. Mine is superb with the 805 and 320 adreno grapics with 3GB RAM, and 300mbps 4G speeds (not that I've gotten close to that yet...). Never seen any lag at all; very fast at downloading too. Seamless when starting up and playing Youtube vids or Livejasmin...

Note 4 downloaded 2.2Mb/s this morning on LTE.

The Dogs Bollocks. Now if only I can keep it away from the company snooping software....

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Note 4 downloaded 2.2Mb/s this morning on LTE.

That's what, errm, maths isn't me strong point, abouuuuut, 2% of what I'm gettin...

Originally Posted by Bettyboo

Yep, but not mine. Mine is superb with the 805 and 320 adreno grapics with 3GB RAM

Run that benchmark test then and let's have a little looksee. Go on dip in the wife's handbag

Can't fault my Google Nexus 6.

Is that LG tat running pure Android Lollipop 5.0 or does it have a load of LG add ons slowing it down?