ah, last i heard there weren't any specs for it. i guess it's based off the g3 beat and not the normal g3

8/14/2014 12:49:14 PM

I just saw this:

http://www.gsmarena.com/lg_g3_stylus-6555.php

8/14/2014 12:52:37 PM

...finally joined the rest of the world and installed a custom rom on my old as hell galaxy s3

I am effing blown away by how much faster it is

8/19/2014 6:38:46 PM

Just activated my LG G3. Great phone. The font rendering is weird though and the screen doesn't pop as much as my Galaxy Note II. I guess I'll miss the OLED screen. Guess I have 15 days to decide.

8/19/2014 7:59:17 PM

You'll love it, although if you do a lot of heavy gaming, prepare to be disappointed by the battery life. Browsing the web and looking at other static content is fine, but anything that pushes the screens refresh rate to the max kills the battery. For me, since I never gamed much, the battery life is the best I've experienced on a smart phone.

8/20/2014 12:31:02 PM

Yeah I don't game too much. First full day with it. Draining rather fast. Probably from me using it. I've yet to see the crazy stand by time everyone is talking about (other than it only drained 1% over night in airplane mode). I need a few hours of non screen on time to see it I guess.

8/20/2014 1:14:11 PM

anyone rooted an S5 and put Cyanogenmod on it?

8/20/2014 1:42:34 PM

Anyone want a AT&T Galaxy Note 2 with 2 spare batteries, case, and screen protector? Great condition. Going on CL/Ebay for $200-250. Looking for $200. Probably stick it on CL later today.

8/21/2014 1:46:12 PM

damn, i would be really interested in the Note 2 if i didnt just make a big purchase.

8/21/2014 3:03:36 PM

Yeah it's an amazing phone. I'm still deciding on whether to keep the LG G3. The screen is still better on my Note 2. The LG G3 still is just flat and fuzzy (due to some weird font rendering). I guess I'm just used to the OLED exaggerated colors of the Samsung phones.

I also sat for 10 minutes with both phones and opened probably 12-15 apps at the same time and with maybe 1-2 exceptions the performance was almost identical on the Note 2 as the LG G3 as far as open speed, transitions, etc.

Makes me almost tempted to to return the G3 and get the Note 4 next month...

8/21/2014 3:59:45 PM

Grr still torn. Watching videos side by side the colors on the LG G3 are just horrid. They're really flat. I know the OLED screen on the Note 2 is over saturated but the G3 screen just looks bad. I'll give it another week. I may be just waiting on the Note 4.

8/22/2014 10:55:35 AM

i also like the oversaturation of OLEDS

8/25/2014 8:22:30 AM

It's not just that. The colors and contrast aren't that area on the G3:

http://www.laptopmag.com/reviews/smartphones/lg-g3-att

Quote :

"Unfortunately, the G3's display is the dimmest of any flagship smartphone. At just 289 nits, the G3's screen is well below the smartphone category average of 355 nits, not to mention the Galaxy S5's 373 nits and the HTC One M8's 402 nits. Not only does the G3's dim display impact overall image quality, but it makes it much harder to see in direct sunlight than the S5 or One M8. In addition to being too dim, the G3's color reproduction also fell short of the competition. The G3 displayed 93.4 percent of the color spectrum using our colorimeter. The HTC One M8 showed 115 percent, while Samsung's Galaxy S5 offered 158 percent. What's more, the G3's color accuracy was lower than the One M8 and S5, with the LG registering a Delta-E rating of 5.5 (0 is perfect). That's worse than the One M8's 4.1 and not even close to the S5's 0.9. LG G3 (AT&T)Taking all of this into account, the G3's screen didn't stand a chance against the S5's or One M8's. While watching a trailer for "The Guardians of the Galaxy," colors were far more muted than those on the S5 or M8. Worse still, viewing angles on the G3 were poor, causing images to wash out when we tilted the device."

Still liking the phone though.

8/25/2014 10:47:36 AM

good*

8/25/2014 1:08:02 PM

So I've got like 5 GB of pictures to transfer from the old phone to the new one. What's the best app for that?

8/26/2014 1:14:05 AM

Dropbox photo sync automatically uploads all my photos so I never have to worry about it.

Or just plug both phones into a computer and transfer them.

Are you even backing them up somewhere?

[Edited on August 26, 2014 at 1:28 AM. Reason : backing not baking]

8/26/2014 1:27:56 AM

Don't transfer them to the phone, transfer them to an online cloud service instead. Apps on your new phone will still be able to use them, they will download them as needed.

8/26/2014 9:52:56 AM

Considering a lot of phones you can stick a 64-128GB card in them putting 5GB of photos on one and sticking it in a new phone isn't a huge deal.

8/26/2014 12:48:25 PM

When I did my last phone upgrade, I just selected all my phone photos and sent them to a Dropbox folder

8/26/2014 3:19:23 PM

Quote :

"Considering a lot of phones you can stick a 64-128GB card in them putting 5GB of photos on one and sticking it in a new phone isn't a huge deal."

Oh lawd. Next you'll be talking about swapping out batteries.

8/26/2014 3:54:06 PM

Considering almost all of the flagship phones (LG G3, S5, GN3/4) come with microSD slots it makes sense.

Sure I'll quadruple my storage for $35-40 for the price of a 64GB. Anyone who argues AGAINST that ability it just idiotic.

8/26/2014 3:57:13 PM

RAWR RAWR RAWR MY OPINION IS BETTER THAN YOURS

8/26/2014 4:26:01 PM

Storing your photos anywhere on your device (SD or internal storage) is the best way to lose them.

8/26/2014 4:34:01 PM

No one said storing them ONLY on your device. Storing them on your device AND having cloud backup is the best solution. I can't view photos on a plane without wifi or camping for example. Plus pulling up photos over the cloud is slower and it's harder to scroll through them.

It's much easier to copy my old phones from my old phone to my new phone. Space isn't an issue and it allows me to look through them quickly while still maintaining a copy on the cloud.

8/26/2014 5:24:26 PM

Does anyone have one of those external battery chargers? I picked up a Mophie XL because it was on sale and I had like $40 of credit at Bestbuy. Mainly for my tablet as I can't swap out the battery. Probably use it for the phone and bluetooth as well when the spare is dead.

8/26/2014 7:52:31 PM

Yeah I'm using one now...http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B009V5X1CE...works great.

8/26/2014 8:09:57 PM

Cool saw that one too. If I didn't have the credit and didn't need it tomorrow I probably would have ordered one off Amazon. Charges my tablet (Tab Pro 8.4") at about 3% / 5 min which isn't bad. Have yet to test it on my phone.

8/26/2014 8:13:03 PM

I love those things. Helps mostly mitigate the non-removeable battery issue

8/27/2014 2:44:08 PM

Yeah except when I'm backpacking and I count every ounce.

8/28/2014 3:28:28 PM

see my usage of the word mostly

8/28/2014 5:23:35 PM

They mostly come out at night. Mostly.

8/28/2014 5:39:38 PM

When you're backpacking, where do you plug in your charger

8/28/2014 7:47:04 PM

Hence the spare battery...

8/29/2014 12:24:27 PM

Whoosh

8/29/2014 12:54:33 PM

Hahahaha

8/29/2014 1:12:51 PM

I must've misread "non-removeable battery" in the post directly above the backpacking post

8/29/2014 1:22:41 PM

Why carry all that extra weight?

Make your own lightweight, solar-powered, backpacking charger for a few bucks

http://www.instructables.com/id/How-20-Make-a-Solar-Cell-Phone-Charger/?ALLSTEPS

http://makezine.com/projects/3-solar-powered-cell-phone-charger/

You're welcome.

8/29/2014 1:27:35 PM

That's a really stupid idea. A 3000mAh spare battery weights what? A few ounces? A solar charger is slow and unreliable. Sure if you're sitting out in an open field with sunlight on it it might work half the time. Not to mention it's much larger than a battery that's barely larger than a few business cards stacked on top of each other.

8/29/2014 1:37:37 PM

Look guyz let's stop talking about his batteries. He's obviously really sensitive about them.

[Edited on August 29, 2014 at 1:43 PM. Reason : His Clash of Clans won't play itself while he's hiking!]

8/29/2014 1:39:03 PM

Yeah, a 3,000 mah battery will be ~4-6 oz.

This solar panel + 1,000 mah battery can be ~3.8 oz if you remove the protective cover:
http://www.gofastandlight.com/Ultralight-Portable-Solar-Charger-Panel-and-Power-Module/productinfo/PO-R80005/

Or this one has a 2,200 mah battery and only ~3.1 oz with no modification needed:
http://www.rei.com/product/852557/bushnell-solarwrap-mini-100-solar-power-charger

So why would you take a standard battery that requires you plug it in?

8/29/2014 3:08:20 PM

At this point I think you're just trolling.

You're seriously trying to make the argument to take a solar charger that takes how long to charge a phone? Over a spare battery which is barely the size of a few business cards that's maybe 1-2 ounces heavier? Do you know how much an ounce is?

Swapping out a battery takes 10-15 seconds. I don't think the benefit of saving 1-2 ounces is worth the hours of charging and finding sunlight it takes to charge a phone with a portable solar panel.

And who said anything about plugging it in? I take two full batteries on trips that are 4-5 days. Usually one battery in a modern phone is fine for 2-3 day trips.

How often do you actually backpack?

8/29/2014 3:26:52 PM

This is the one I'd get,

http://www.amazon.com/Intocircuit-11200mAh-Portable-Smartphones-USB-charged/dp/B00BB5GR0A

3-4 full charges, compact, multiple ports, relatively cheap. I personally have no use for such a device, but it looks like the best in class to me.

8/29/2014 4:02:46 PM

neodata is one of the people to annoyingly defend removable batteries and physical keyboards any chance he gets, stop giving him the chance

8/29/2014 4:45:35 PM

Only because it's so much fun arguing with you guys.

Also for the record i have never been a proponent of physical keyboards. Micro SD cards were my other required feature because storage is so cheap these days.

8/29/2014 5:19:30 PM

Madden is once again free this year. As much as EA Sports are money hungry assholes, can't hate on em for that.

8/30/2014 9:42:27 AM

Anyone else ever get this? I don't recall it prior to the 4.4.4 update. Restarting fixes it and it doesn't happen often, but it's odd.

9/2/2014 2:28:40 PM

your phone is just mad at you for using skeuomorphic widgets

9/2/2014 8:48:36 PM

lol, that widget actually appears correctly

that's the stock Droid Maxx widget (not sure if it's on other Motorola phones). But I tried probably 8 or 10 other weather widgets but that one was the best I found for me. The time and date are big and visible, the weather isn't the most detailed but it tells the pertinents, and if you swipe on the settings link, it shows battery life

damn fonts though

9/2/2014 8:53:41 PM

Meh nothing too surprising on the Galaxy Note 4. Think I'll be happy with the LG G3. Never used the pen on my Note II anyway.

If anyone wants a Note 2 with case, screen protector, and 2 spare batteries + charger I'd be willing to part with it for $200.

9/3/2014 1:10:13 PM

9/3/2014 1:15:03 PM