Summary: No doubt, this phone has some rocking features - gorgeous screen, fast processor, lightweight formfactor - but all of these are entirely negated by its terrible battery life. Essentially, to ...
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Summary: No doubt, this phone has some rocking features - gorgeous screen, fast processor, lightweight formfactor - but all of these are entirely negated by its terrible battery life. Essentially, to get you through even your workday, you'll need to turn off data, wifi, bluetooth, gps, set the screen brightness to minimum (essentially turn off all the features this phone is known for) so that, hopefully, you'll have 10% left in case of any emergencies on the commute home.
Were hoping to use this phone as a gps and tracker for your 6hr bike ride over the weekend? Sorry, battery won't make it.
Hoping to listen to music during your 10hr bus ride visiting your parents? Nope, you won't have enough battery life at the end to call your parents to pick you up from the station.
Hoping that this phone would let your throw out your own Garmin? Nope, unless your trip is less than half an hour long.
Wanting to play angry birds during your flight to Europe? Sorry, you'll be down to 3% halfway into the flight.
Hoping to use this as a kindle substitute? Nope. Can't make it more than 50 pages into a book.
I switched to this phone, hoping that it would be an upgrade from the limitations of the iphone. Boy, was I wrong. The iPhone would last me half a week with wifi, gps, data, bluetooth, and screen brightness at full blast. This phone, I have to leave in brick mode just to get me to dinnertime.
Don't be naive like me, thinking that poor battery life will be but a minor nuisance. It affects everything! All the great features of the phone are negated by this one issue - you can't use any of the other features meaningfully because the battery just wont let you. To add insult to injury, LG won't even offer the me the option of buying a larger battery. The company is scum; they push out like 5 phones a year, which means that none get enough testing and quality assurance and all have minor flaws like this that ruin them. They could learn a thing from Apple: calm down, focus on a single product, and devote all your energy towards making that one product perfect. 1 good product is far better business than dozens of crappy flawed ones.
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