LG expected to sell a record-breaking amount of smartphones throughout 2014

2. joey_sfb (Posts: 6600; Member since: 29 Mar 2012)

G3 is a decent phone. I like the thin bezels.

5. Finalflash (Posts: 3527; Member since: 23 Jul 2013)

It is a good phone with many features from the Android community's wish list. All these sales are stolen from Samsung's sales I assume. The more the Android pie gets equally spread the better, more competition and more value for consumers.

7. StraightEdgeNexus (Posts: 3689; Member since: 14 Feb 2014)

G3's display is its biggest flaw. Poor brightness, blacks that look greyish, horrible contrast etc. That's one thing. The battery life is downright poor and that's because of its inefficient display. Same goes for the performance, the needlessly high resolution had cost it poor framerate in games, overheating etc.
Display is all to blame.

21. nebsif (Posts: 37; Member since: 27 Jul 2014)

doesnt matter dude, I want sammy shares to plummet this year just so they'll invest more money in R&D instead of marketing on GS6 - which hopefully wont suck so I can finally upgrade.

BTW, aside from the display, G3 is a beast and they deserve them profits for listening to the community.. htc for example doesnt, their phones are ridden with ultrapixel gimmicks, "hipsterecy" and bezels.

22. CanYouSeeTheLight (Posts: 1122; Member since: 05 Jul 2012)

Sure they are listening to the community, that might be the reason why they refused to guarantee updates because they simply don't care about their costumers. Optimus 2X took over a year to get ICS and finished support there. Optimus 4X launched with ICS and only got 1 update to 4.1 and ended there while HTC updated the One X to 4.2 and Samsung updated the S3 to 4.3(some variants even got 4.4).
Optimus G is still on 4.1 on most of the world. They make great hardware no doubts but software support is way behind the other manufacturers.

24. billgates (banned) (Posts: 555; Member since: 29 May 2014)

Why did you leave the G2 out? Updated pretty quick.. The old saying "what have you done lately" rings true here. LG is doing great

25. CanYouSeeTheLight (Posts: 1122; Member since: 05 Jul 2012)

What about the G Pro then? Early 2013 flagship that was stuck on 4.1 for over a year, and wow they updated one model "quickly" as the software was released in October 31 2013 and it arrived on international G2s in March 2014 so it wasn't that quick, not to mention they skipped 4.3 altogether.

26. marcski07 (Posts: 600; Member since: 25 Apr 2014)

that doesn't matter, gimmicks do sell, but the design was the big + factor, average consumer doesn't care so much on in-depth specification, as long it is pleasing to the eye, and smooth to operate, it will sell. Besides they are all android, the only difference on the average person's eye are the Gimmicky specs, and design, large percentage of consumer are not pros, so this is basic mindset of average consumer. was the marketing of LG, they are advertising LG the tips on how to use your LG G3, and so consumer feel familiar on product, that's one factor on marketing, you advertise how to use your product, so consumer is not afraid on being confused or alienated on their own device when they buy your product

3. rantao333 (Posts: 322; Member since: 21 May 2013)

STILL BETTER COOK THAN SAMSUNG, :)

4. StraightEdgeNexus (Posts: 3689; Member since: 14 Feb 2014)

Cook?!? O.o

6. doejon (Posts: 406; Member since: 31 Jul 2012)

lg g3 is a laggy batterie sucker.. no chance against the real flaggship of samsung the galaxy note 4..

16. thunder18 (Posts: 140; Member since: 06 Aug 2009)

It's not supposed to compete with the Note 4. It competes with the Galaxy S5. If you're looking for a Note 4 competitor, then look for the G Pro.

27. hurrycanger (Posts: 1625; Member since: 01 Dec 2013)

Umm... isn't there supposed to be something after that "Pro" word? Like a number?

8. sar44 (Posts: 278; Member since: 14 Apr 2014)

stupid haters, noobs and some paid reviewers won

14. thunder18 (Posts: 140; Member since: 06 Aug 2009)

Halfbaked?!?!?! They took all the complaints about the G2 and addressed them and more.
Removable battery...Check
Expandable storage...Check
Latest available processor...Check
Non-glossy plastic body...Check
Bigger screen while keeping the size of the phone in check...Check (subjective if you don't like big displays I suppose)
Innovative and improved Knock-on/Knock code...Check
First major manufacturer with a QHD display...Check

What part of it was halfbaked?

23. CanYouSeeTheLight (Posts: 1122; Member since: 05 Jul 2012)

The part that the display has laughable contrast, brightness and consumes a lot of power. It also makes the phone work more for the same workloads resulting in less battery, more throttling and overall lower performance. Regressed on screen gaming performance over the G2 too, just check gfxbench and compare both (on screen results are indicative of real world performance). See long term performance results, 23 fps for G2 and 12 fps for G3 which only shows it is indeed throttling more than the G2.

11. bucky (Posts: 3134; Member since: 30 Sep 2009)

I don't think 3.5 hours of on screen is very good at all. Or am I wrong here?

15. thunder18 (Posts: 140; Member since: 06 Aug 2009)

Note that he did say he still had 22% battery life left. That's nearly a quarter of the battery life left. My experience is over 5 hours on screen time before hitting about 5% at the end of the day. I willingly admit I use auto-brightness as my default setting with the slider set at 50% to limt how dim the screen gets, but it's plenty bright enough outside.

12. StraightEdgeNexus (Posts: 3689; Member since: 14 Feb 2014)

The standby is great. The on screen performance is poor. 3.1/5 hrs is quite a lame score.

13. Freecableguy (Posts: 42; Member since: 21 Jul 2014)

Same here. In fact I usualmente get more than 4 or 4 1/2 hours screen on time, much better than some people who havent used the phone said it would last. If you believe the Samsung fanboys then everything thats not a S5 is crap ... but reviews and sales show otherwise. Coming from an S4 this is an all around improvement, yes, even the display. And I know quite a few people who upgraded from iphones, S5 and m8 and didnt regret.. People should actually use these phones and then decide instead of posting crap on internet forums...

30. gaara6775 (Posts: 738; Member since: 20 May 2014)

That's still poor. You should get over 6hrs of screen time but you will get around 5hrs of screen on time which is similar to my M7 which has only 2300mah battery.

19. BobbyDigital (Posts: 2101; Member since: 29 May 2014)

Exactly how is the G3 a knock off of any current Samsung?

Maybe you meant to say that "LG is that stupid company that's about to knock Samsung off". Like Xiaomi is doing.

There. I fixed it for you.

28. hurrycanger (Posts: 1625; Member since: 01 Dec 2013)

Haha, I'm not so sure if LG is about to knock Samsung off, but I can't see how the G3 is a knock off of any current Samsung. From the outside, it looks awesome and very very different from Samsung's flagships.

20. Brosepower (Posts: 35; Member since: 21 Apr 2014)

Agree 100%. I also had the G2 and I have the G3 now. Its an upgrade in every sense of the word.