Use code: JAN20162 to get 10% off, which brings the price down to £200.26. Also, you get 1,000 points = £10 to spend in Rakuten / Expansys store + free delivery.
Please note: This phone comes with an EU plug. This is the 16GB ROM/ 2GB RAM model
Specs (GSM Arena)
NETWORK Technology
GSM / CDMA / HSPA / EVDO / LTE
LAUNCH Announced 2015, January
Status Available. Released 2015, February
BODY Dimensions 149.1 x 75.3 x 7.1-9.4 mm
Weight 152 g (5.36 oz)
Build Curved body and display
SIM Micro-SIM
- Self-healing back panel coating
DISPLAY Type Curved P-OLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
Size 5.5 inches (~73.5% screen-to-body ratio)
Resolution 1080 x 1920 pixels (~403 ppi pixel density)
Multitouch Yes
Protection Corning Gorilla Glass 3
PLATFORM OS Android OS, v5.0.1 (Lollipop), upgradable to v5.1.1 (Lollipop)
Chipset Qualcomm MSM8994 Snapdragon 810
CPU Quad-core 1.5 GHz Cortex-A53 & Quad-core 2 GHz Cortex-A57
GPU Adreno 430
MEMORY Card slot microSD, up to 128 GB
Internal 16 GB, 2 GB RAM/ 32 GB, 3 GB RAM
CAMERA Primary 13 MP, f/2.4, laser autofocus, OIS, dual-LED flash, check quality
Features Geo-tagging, touch focus, face/smile detection, panorama, HDR
Video [email protected], [email protected], HDR, stereo sound rec., check quality
Secondary 2.1 MP, [email protected]
SOUND Alert types Vibration; MP3, WAV ringtones
Loudspeaker Yes
3.5mm jack Yes
- Dolby mobile
COMMS WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, dual-band, Wi-Fi Direct, DLNA, hotspot
Bluetooth v4.1, A2DP, LE, apt-X
GPS Yes, with A-GPS, GLONASS
NFC Yes
Infrared port Yes
Radio Stereo FM radio with RDS
USB microUSB v2.0 (SlimPort), USB Host
FEATURES Sensors Accelerometer, gyro, proximity, compass
Messaging SMS(threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Mail, IM
Browser HTML5
Java No
- Fast battery charging: 60% in 30 min (Quick Charge 2.0)
- DMB TV tuner (Korean model only)
- Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic
- MP4/DviX/XviD/H.264/WMV player
- MP3/WAV/FLAC/eAAC+/AC3/WMA player
- Photo/video editor
- Document viewer
BATTERY Non-removable Li-Po 3000 mAh battery
Stand-by Up to 520 h (2G) / Up to 450 h (3G)
Talk time Up to 18 h (2G) / Up to 20 h (3G)
MISC Colors Platinum Silver, Flamenco Red
SAR US 1.10 W/kg (head) 1.07 W/kg (body)
SAR EU 0.68 W/kg (head) 0.44 W/kg (body)
Price group 6/10
TESTS Camera Photo / Video
Battery life
Endurance rating 62h
All comments (57)
Shaydog
27 Jan 161#1
Great phone! Had this and its predecessor, both from Rakuten.....great deal!
mrew42
27 Jan 161#2
To be clear this is the 16Gb/2Gb model (not the 32Gb/3Gb)
no_Sunshine to mrew42
27 Jan 16#5
Thanks.
no_Sunshine
27 Jan 16#3
You also get 5X times Rakuten/Expansys points with this purchase, which can later be spent on Rakuten/Expansys
Shaydog to no_Sunshine
27 Jan 161#6
I bought 2 pairs of cargo trousers with my points. Trousers and phone for under 200 quid and 15 quidish from TCB....boom!
submerged
27 Jan 16#4
I got one last week. Indeed a lot of phone for the money. However selling mine as I prefer the moto g 3rd gen in my pocket as dont seem to worry about phones under £100.
mrew42
27 Jan 161#7
Yay - somewhere to put the phone :smiley:
mrew42
27 Jan 16#8
NP
Heat by the way. This is £400 in CPW!!
no_Sunshine
27 Jan 16#9
I forgot to check Quidco or TCB :/ The points are great, bought a couple of 32GB memory cards (free) through the points I got from previous purchases - Can someone check TCB/Quidco, please?
no_Sunshine
27 Jan 16#10
I have stopped going to CPW for this very reason... too expensive... HUKD and online deals are the way forward!
mrew42
27 Jan 16#11
Looking at the rest of the phones on expansys and they look quite expensive. This however is an uber bargain. Very Tempted
no_Sunshine
27 Jan 16#12
They keep reducing the prices on some of them... This was over £250 a few months back... I am getting mine tomorrow (hopefully), will let you know what I think of it... Still about 217 more in stock!
mrew42
27 Jan 16#13
Thanks
The contract on my M8 is coming to an end and this phone would keep costs down if I could switch to SIM only
submerged
27 Jan 16#14
Main problem with these is system takes 7.49 gig which is massive. Plus it will be a **** to sell on without loosing a fair amount.
no_Sunshine to submerged
27 Jan 161#16
I read that in the comments... with the new updates it only takes around 4.5 GB in space, the rest is free + it can take memory cards up to 256GB capacity (I think).
no_Sunshine
27 Jan 16#15
That's what I have... All you can eat from Three network... I think I pay around £15-£16 and get something like 6-700 mins, 1200 mins three to three, unlimited texts and unlimited data...
pavel76
27 Jan 16#17
This phone was for £200 at expansys/rakuten recently - with deals posted here for £175 after code... so looks like expansys have bumped price up actually...
submerged
27 Jan 16#18
Mine is up to date but still takes 7.49gig. Have a 32gb card in it but its useless until marshmallow is released for it. But read LG block the use of unified storage? I ran out of space for apps very quickly.
Main reason I am selling it is how nice it is though as I hate cases and scared I will make a mess of it lol. No doubt I will keep it though until MM comes out as I will loose too much to sell anyhow.
submerged
27 Jan 16#19
Oh and battery life is terrible to say the battery is a good size. I have screen brightness at 40% and use black wallpapers since its oled but its still poor.
no_Sunshine to submerged
27 Jan 16#20
I've read reviews to the contrary :/ Let's see... getting mine tomorrow and will put it through its paces...
no_Sunshine
27 Jan 16#21
I think LG recommend factory resetting the phone after installing all updates?
submerged
27 Jan 16#22
Not sure about factory reset, will try. Battery is not good though getting better. Its great if you dont use it though lol. Xda forums say otherwise about battery.
no_Sunshine to submerged
27 Jan 16#24
That's what I am thinking.... All the reviews suggest the battery is great... some people swearing that they can get 2 days out of a single charge... strange
no_Sunshine
27 Jan 16#23
It was... with code... around £200
pavel76
27 Jan 161#25
£175.94 after code - 5 weeks ago
no_Sunshine
27 Jan 16#26
Link, please?
pavel76
27 Jan 16#27
"Search engine" on top of this site... easy to find:)
no_Sunshine
27 Jan 16#28
Not finding anything remotely around £175... can you please help us? You found it once, you can surely do it again... unless....
pavel76
27 Jan 16#29
Cannot do this at the moment as I'm typing on my mobile now... give an hour when I get back home... or check my profile if you cannot wait:)
submerged
27 Jan 16#30
Just done a factory restore and system takes up 7.28 gb which is slightly smaller but still a ridiculous size for a 16gb phone. So in my opinion it will be a pain for anyone until mm is released.
no_Sunshine to submerged
27 Jan 16#38
I guess it'll be a long wait till Marshmallow... personally I can live with 9 GB of internal storage + my 64GB card...
just sold mine in red after six months use paid 190 off eglobal and sold it for 200 so they don't lose value very fast.great phone.have moto g 3rd gen now.miss the g.flex screen and shape but moto g is excellent.waterproof and battry life is amazing.g.flex 2 battery life is good to but roughly five hours screen time moto g has nine hours.this is on mostly wifi and auto brightness
submerged to tranceazure3933
27 Jan 16#33
Where you manage to get £200 for it?
tranceazure3933
27 Jan 16#34
on shpock local buyer collected
submerged to tranceazure3933
27 Jan 16#35
Lucky to find a local less clued up buyer. Will give it a try:p
tranceazure3933
27 Jan 16#36
not really the red 32gb model is worth more and quite rare over here.doubt the silver one would make 200
submerged to tranceazure3933
27 Jan 16#37
True but you never said it was the 32gb model as that was a real good price especially 6 months ago.
no_Sunshine
27 Jan 16#39
Thanks. I guess I missed that. Nvm
submerged
27 Jan 16#40
Yeah will be ok once mm comes and it actually uses an sd card as it should.
My main reason I dont like it is for a flagship device it is not the best build. Maybe because it can flex but it creaks like a cheap un. Though I don't need much of an excuse to swap my phone, already had 6 since xmas lol. Think I have an addiction problem.
no_Sunshine
27 Jan 16#41
Addicted to smartphones... that's a new one!
submerged
27 Jan 16#42
I assume your being sarcastic lol. I think many are. My google account device list is like a book lol. Wife goes mad.
submerged
27 Jan 16#43
Just checked and its at 78 android phones since june 2012. Oh dear lol.
no_Sunshine to submerged
27 Jan 161#44
Oh dear... U really are addicted... I have had 4 or 5 in the last 6 years...
submerged
27 Jan 16#45
Need to seek help lol. There will have been around 10 which were iphone/windows phone too ha
no_Sunshine
27 Jan 16#46
I hope when you get rid of them you make a profit or at least break even.... not good for the finances :smiley:
submerged
27 Jan 16#47
Always loose a little but not too much as they are always mint. I am gonna keep this now and my moto G and swap between them when I want a change. Gonna try hard not to have another phone this year.
Hope you like yours when it comes. It is very fast and screen is awesome.
no_Sunshine to submerged
28 Jan 16#48
Thank you. I hope so... Coming off an S5 for this :smiley:
Elevation
28 Jan 161#49
Damn. Apple users pay £800 for their phones to do this!! Don't cheapen it!
no_Sunshine
28 Jan 16#50
Paid £5.40 extra to get it delivered today (next day delivery). No order tracking confirmation, no shipping status. Had to cancel mine as rep on phone said they're having issues with stock numbers.... and I was the one who posted this deal and most probably the first one to buy this yesterday when their site said they had 218 of them in-stock????
submerged to no_Sunshine
28 Jan 16#51
Buy mine ......Only joking. Was there not another thread with them in stock somewhere else?
don't get the sd comments here, 'move to sd' is clearly available in the usual place on my one. it even creates a empty mirror folder on the sd for large data/obb files of games, so you manually move them and see if it will work from sd, doesn't always work but quite often does.
and marshmallow isn't likely to bring an improvement as the 'extend data partition with sd card' feature wasn't part of the g4 marsmallow release, last time i looked anyway.
no_Sunshine
28 Jan 16#54
Thanks buddy! I was about to order again, from chitter chatter... but then thought I should give it a few days and keep an eye on the 32GB version (I had already ordered when the comments abt the storage started coming-in yesterday).
Ps I had over a 1000 Rakuten points already = £10 + Was gonna get a 1000 points again = 10 + 10 = 20 - 5.40 (delivery) - 200.26 = so Rakuten was around £15 cheaper for me at that time...
let's wait and see... :smiley:
submerged
28 Jan 16#55
So getting one still? Decided to keep mine after my son sort of decided to have my moto G 3rd gen which sort of made my mind up to really.
no_Sunshine
28 Jan 161#56
Getting one definitely... but will wait for the price to drop close to £175-£185 or if the 32GB 3GB Ram is on offer around £200 or if a G4 is on offer around £200 mark...
Wheresmylaptop
29 Jan 161#57
If anyone is looking for a screen protector, this one is great.
I tried plastic ones and cheaper glass. They were all fingerprint magnets. The cheaper glass ones were thicker and didn't stick to the curve too well.
RInke cases are good too, but cover up the nice shiny back.
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Opening post
Please note: This phone comes with an EU plug. This is the 16GB ROM/ 2GB RAM model
Specs (GSM Arena)
NETWORK Technology
GSM / CDMA / HSPA / EVDO / LTE
LAUNCH Announced 2015, January
Status Available. Released 2015, February
BODY Dimensions 149.1 x 75.3 x 7.1-9.4 mm
Weight 152 g (5.36 oz)
Build Curved body and display
SIM Micro-SIM
- Self-healing back panel coating
DISPLAY Type Curved P-OLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
Size 5.5 inches (~73.5% screen-to-body ratio)
Resolution 1080 x 1920 pixels (~403 ppi pixel density)
Multitouch Yes
Protection Corning Gorilla Glass 3
PLATFORM OS Android OS, v5.0.1 (Lollipop), upgradable to v5.1.1 (Lollipop)
Chipset Qualcomm MSM8994 Snapdragon 810
CPU Quad-core 1.5 GHz Cortex-A53 & Quad-core 2 GHz Cortex-A57
GPU Adreno 430
MEMORY Card slot microSD, up to 128 GB
Internal 16 GB, 2 GB RAM/ 32 GB, 3 GB RAM
CAMERA Primary 13 MP, f/2.4, laser autofocus, OIS, dual-LED flash, check quality
Features Geo-tagging, touch focus, face/smile detection, panorama, HDR
Video [email protected], [email protected], HDR, stereo sound rec., check quality
Secondary 2.1 MP, [email protected]
SOUND Alert types Vibration; MP3, WAV ringtones
Loudspeaker Yes
3.5mm jack Yes
- Dolby mobile
COMMS WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, dual-band, Wi-Fi Direct, DLNA, hotspot
Bluetooth v4.1, A2DP, LE, apt-X
GPS Yes, with A-GPS, GLONASS
NFC Yes
Infrared port Yes
Radio Stereo FM radio with RDS
USB microUSB v2.0 (SlimPort), USB Host
FEATURES Sensors Accelerometer, gyro, proximity, compass
Messaging SMS(threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Mail, IM
Browser HTML5
Java No
- Fast battery charging: 60% in 30 min (Quick Charge 2.0)
- DMB TV tuner (Korean model only)
- Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic
- MP4/DviX/XviD/H.264/WMV player
- MP3/WAV/FLAC/eAAC+/AC3/WMA player
- Photo/video editor
- Document viewer
BATTERY Non-removable Li-Po 3000 mAh battery
Stand-by Up to 520 h (2G) / Up to 450 h (3G)
Talk time Up to 18 h (2G) / Up to 20 h (3G)
MISC Colors Platinum Silver, Flamenco Red
SAR US 1.10 W/kg (head) 1.07 W/kg (body)
SAR EU 0.68 W/kg (head) 0.44 W/kg (body)
Price group 6/10
TESTS Camera Photo / Video
Battery life
Endurance rating 62h
All comments (57)
Heat by the way. This is £400 in CPW!!
The contract on my M8 is coming to an end and this phone would keep costs down if I could switch to SIM only
Main reason I am selling it is how nice it is though as I hate cases and scared I will make a mess of it lol. No doubt I will keep it though until MM comes out as I will loose too much to sell anyhow.
My main reason I dont like it is for a flagship device it is not the best build. Maybe because it can flex but it creaks like a cheap un. Though I don't need much of an excuse to swap my phone, already had 6 since xmas lol. Think I have an addiction problem.
Hope you like yours when it comes. It is very fast and screen is awesome.
and marshmallow isn't likely to bring an improvement as the 'extend data partition with sd card' feature wasn't part of the g4 marsmallow release, last time i looked anyway.
Ps I had over a 1000 Rakuten points already = £10 + Was gonna get a 1000 points again = 10 + 10 = 20 - 5.40 (delivery) - 200.26 = so Rakuten was around £15 cheaper for me at that time...
let's wait and see... :smiley:
I tried plastic ones and cheaper glass. They were all fingerprint magnets. The cheaper glass ones were thicker and didn't stick to the curve too well.
RInke cases are good too, but cover up the nice shiny back.