LG is a good product. It has a good built quality specifications camera and display. And if you do spend 6 hours of watching movies – or talking or browsing the web – the LG G2 will have plenty of juice to get you through the rest of the day and even the next. The endurance rating is a very good 62 hours – the standby battery draw was a little higher than we would have expected, but it’s still a great result.
There’s one part of the G2’s design that goes against the grain. There are no buttons around the edge - instead, the volume and screen lock buttons sit on the back. We’re not convinced this works. The volume buttons sit within easy reach of your index finger, but we found the lock button hard to locate, and often ended up changing the phone’s volume instead of locking or unlocking the display. You can also unlock and lock the phone with a double-tap of your finger on the screen, which we found worked well most of the time. After a week with the phone we struggled to go back to using a button - tapping the screen just feels more natural. We still missed having a lock button on the side or top of the phone, though.
When comes to brand these features are really awesome.The default keyboard is pretty overwhelming at first due to the sheer number of icons scattered around. We liked having a dedicated number row, but there’s a shortcut key to a bewildering array of emoticons and cute little graphics to put into multimedia messages, and we feel the input language icon could easily have been relegated to a menu option. We liked the multi function punctuation keys at the bottom-right, which you can hold down to bring up a selection of commonly-used marks such as slashes, colons and parentheses, but we’d prefer these to default back to the commonly-used full stop and comma rather than remain on the last type of punctuation used.