LG G8X Review: Two Screens ARE Better Than One! By JuanBagnell

It's just so much fun, I've run a bit of coverage on LG this year, I mean who else was gonna. Do it and then BAM right in the homestretch? They drop this bad boy, and it's just so much fun standard, cranky, soapbox, rant, YouTube, SEO trains reviewers to focus on the most popular search topic. Smaller brands get fewer views, so they a less coverage, and it's likely that many consumers miss out on products which might be perfect fits for their actual individual needs. Oh, but let's get back to the phone I think LG's onto something here we can make a solid phone that can be a regular phone and pair it with a cool accessory to enhance multitasking I've, been really critical of folding tablets, which turn into fragile, clumsy phones. No such compromises here I'd say my use is about 70/30 regular phone to dual screen, either with the case completely removed or with the screen folded. Behind.

Most of our interactions are built around a traditional bar form factor. Not an awkward square tablet shape as a phone LG has done a terrific job of straddling their standard premium phone strategy and moving it closer to something we might see from a1 plus I have a whole separate comparison between the g8x and the regular g8. Now I still think, the regular g8 is the better standalone phone. The higher resolution display more secure, face, unlock rear, fingerprint sensor that sexy red casing, but the g8 ex streamlines in smart ways improves on speaker audio and brings a bigger battery to the table. This Hardware brings a lot of fun perks now I'm, not the biggest fan of wallet cases, cases that cover the screen, but making this hinge a bit more rigid takes care of one of my biggest pet peeves, propping up a phone screen, no more buying kickstand cases with only one, maybe two angles.

We now have a little baby laptop clamshell that can line up. However, you need it to, and I use this a lot in the kitchen. It's going to be great on an airplane, it's just so damn handy speaking of handy. It also makes for a good handle if you're chasing around an active toddler, disable the second screen, and you can use it as a grip while you're running around and shooting some video. Nearly every part of this experience has been touched up and refined over the v50, dual-screen and I have a separate video comparing those to screen cases to now.

The concern I have with these dual screen cases. As someone who likes to baby their glass on glass, sandwiches they're really well fit, there's almost no clearance when the case is closed. So, if you're someone who likes to use screen protectors, it probably won't work great here. I didn't even try on the g8x, but it didn't take long for a glass protector to crack on my LG v 50. It prevents the case from fully closing.

So it's not surprising this cracked right near the case hinge the other concern this extra chin on the g8x, so angled headphone, connectors, aren't going to work. Lg delivers a novel solution for charging, though, and I love this little magnetic clip. I wish there was a universal pin solution for magnetic USB, because this has already saved my phone from taking a slide off of a table. The only issue is losing this adapter, while cleaning up in the gadget lab cleaning off that table, I literally lost it in a pack of gum took me days to find it. I had a good facepalm of a laugh over on the same gadgets guy discord.

It was pretty good. Happily it's not just for charging. This is a data compatible solution when you plug it into a PC. My only serious gripe with the phone Hardware I've, never loved, in-display, fingerprint sensors, and this one is not going to change my mind. It's a bit slow and after the improvements on OnePlus phones, you can feel that extra touch of lag when you go to unlock it.

Now for folks that have watched my previous LG reviews, software is often the weak link of an LG handset, but 2019 was a decent year for LG many of their phones caught up to Android Pi. The maintenance updates on the g8 and V 50 have been fantastic. Android 10 is rolling out to the Korean phones as we speak, and the g8x is the first phone to use LG's new UI, and it's pretty good a bit Samsung key, but good. Everything is a bit rounder and softer it's a lot of consideration for where your thumbs going to be pulling some elements down to the bottom of the screen and there's a more consistent application of panels and rectangles. It's really the most consistent UI ever produced LG still includes a ton of customization options.

Instead of an edge sense panel, hers there's a little slider. You got some options on there, it's very much in the style of the original v10 sticker display, but the phone can get a bit crowded between the slider and the controls for the dual display and I think this will be further complicated by gestures on Android 10. Where will it be safe to swipe for the back button? I am still likely to use Nova Launcher on my heavily skinned Android phones, I am a creature of habit. I have the same complaints here that I had with Samsung's UI, it's so friendly and bubbly, and it can sometimes get in your way, and these panels and menu options are larger, so even setting the font and the UI to the smallest settings there's more wasted space, but even for my personal preferences. This is a huge step up over previous LG interfaces, and if you want to get the most out of the dual screen, you really will want to use the LG experience and the LG keyboard for the best compatibility of services.

Only the browser has been tweaked to use both displays as one surface, but that's not really the trick here with the gap between the screens. This is awesome for multitasking and input I, really like playing video on one screen and having a whole extra phone to work on flipping the phone sideways to type. Something in reminds me of those old slider keyboard windows, phones, where we get one full screen to work on and a larger dual thumb keyboard to type on that's nice. The gaming features are just ok, anything which uses dual analog sticks is gonna, be difficult to play. There aren't any triggers, so you can't really move and shoot at the same time with just one thumb, but a lot of other arcade and classic d-pad games are going to play.

Great I would like to see more tablet views and panels, though, instead of one big surface full screen file, browsing could be interesting with navigation on one side and folders on the other documents and spreadsheets could be killer, apps, maybe maps with more detailed navigation or points of interest information on one side in your actual map. On the other side, it's like the early days of split screening apps it's going to take a while for individual services to get folding and dual screen modes. Lg is making a solid case for a customized gadget, though I know we're all supposed to preferred stock Android, but LG is adding some smart stuff on top. The GA tax is on Android 9, but is able to use a lot of Android tens dark themes in apps, Android 10 brings more screen awareness and the beginnings of a desktop mode, but LG is already offering better monitor connectivity. The g8x will change up aspect ratio on the fly to better match a TV, regular Android 10, just letterboxes landscape content from a phone, not to mention the custom, software and hardware needed to drive an audiophile grade, headphone jack, which is aware of what you plug into it.

It's not easy. Adding this stuff on top of Android software has been LG's weak spot for a while, but this year they seem to be turning that around the g8x is a fun look at where LG will be headed in 2020. Camera situation is solid. We've got standard and wide shooters. The front camera now shoots 4k video, but this is one of the areas where I think the regular g8 is still a bit better.

The g8x uses a smaller aperture on the standard shooter on these tiny little phone sensors. It's not going to be a dramatic downgrade. The bouquet gets a little busier with the longer depth of field you might have to hold just a little steadier in lower light conditions, I'm not entirely sure how noticeable the differences will be if you're not shooting. On the two phones side by side, the g8x is not going to struggle with the standard point-and-shoot situations. Most people will use it for, and it still packs all the great manual controls to push content creation farther than any competing handsets well.

This is a nice surprise. We actually have 4k video from the front-facing camera on an LG. It's taken them long enough, but we're finally here, but if you wanted to do your own walking talk plug. We also want to hear how do the mics perform when you're actually out and about and tractors, are driving by and there's environmental noise all around you. So now that I've got a sample of this, we can take it back to the lab, listen to how it sounds, and you'll get a sense of what you can really do from these phones.

The one bummer for me, the wide angle on the g8x does not support UHD at 60 frames per second I really hope. That's not a trend for LG moving forward. I! Don't want LG to copy other manufacturers here. I want all the same capabilities and controls on the wide as I get on that standard sensor. But what good is all of this cool tech? If your battery can't hang, it seems LG figured out this year that improved power management and bigger batteries are a good combination.

The g8x is now the LG battery champ has a standalone phone, it slightly outperforms my v50 and has a dual screen device. It's able to run longer than my regular g8. That's a good combination. The recharge game still isn't the fastest, but that's by design. I completely missed this in my V 50 review, but LG is employing a more aggressive adaptive charging not too dissimilar to what Sony is doing.

This year the phone starts to learn your behavior and adjusts recharge rate to keep thermals in check. You can turn it off and get the full range of 18 watt charging, but even with the adaptive charging on it's still decently, quick when you need to top it off, but that's enough rambling from me, we should probably wrap this up. Where's that leave us with the LG G 8x, this phone rocks. The comments from my LG reviews are often flooded. With should herbs they just copy LG should have done something original LG should have charged less for a phone that does more some really astute gadget commentary in there.

But here comes the g8x. It's got this fun trick that no one else is really competing with right now and if you grab it early, it arrives at a price in one plus territory, so they're going to be all new should'VES for this phone. As I've seen numerous reviews point out the serious flaws here, my favorite so far. How bulky this case is, even though it's thinner than a galaxy fold and the g8 X is going to be way more durable than that $2,000 vanity piece. So I expect we'll see a lot of hoop jumping for the g8 ax it'll be a mostly positive review, but then some teeth gasping and then a final conclusion, which makes people who didn't buy a lg feel better that they didn't buy an LG and then maybe some fond words of encouragement.

Maybe not this phone. But there are some good ideas to look out for after they've been refined. Better luck next year, LG, when you do all the things we asked you to do, we'll figure out new deal-breakers. So we can keep recommending more popular devices on YouTube, that's better for our channel metrics but fun, dual screens, great performance, great battery life, very good cameras, a memory card slot and an audiophile headphone jack that outperforms pretty expensive standalone media players all for 250 dollars less than a Galaxy Note 10. But it's still not good enough.

You know what you're right, let's splurge, add $100 to the price of the g8x for a 512 gigabyte memory card, and you'll have double the storage of a note, 10 twice as much screens a bigger battery. All the same camera features plus true manual controls, the amazing headphone, jack, and he'll still save a hundred and fifty dollars. How is that not a great gadget fight this whole bash? The smaller brand game is getting exhausted because it's really obvious 20:19 has been an incredible year for competition, but my YouTube feed right now is cluttered with Galaxy S, 11 and iPhone 11s roomers, 11s and s's are going to be such a pain in the butt next year. There's so much more going on out there LG delivered a badass bargain with the g8 axe. I just hope that people don't miss it all, of course leave links below where you can find more info on the g8 X, maybe shop, one of these puppies online, as always, thanks.

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