​Sneaky! Actually had one before I sent it back due to the backlight bleed. The back did feel cold. I quite liked it. Shame the screen had issues and the chin didn't sit flush on mine!

Yup, lol. Techradar has turned to rubbish.
Choose a review and actually break it down. It's always the same format with totally minimal information:

Product introduction that covers who it is made by and some other very basic information.
A minor breakdown of the specs which basically rewords the manufacturers specification sheet.
A few generic shots of the product with phrases that do the most pointless comparisons to other products, along with other throw away sentences:

"The volume rocker and power/lock key on the right are easy to hit"...yes, because phones have had an epidemic recently with bad button designs.
"P9 looks and feels like a premium device, but it doesn't do anything to make itself stand out."...like what?
"There's plenty going on here"....LIKE?!?! What does this even mean?
"Taking a look at the IPS display and it's a pretty decent affair, although it doesn't pop in the same way as Super AMOLED offerings."....yes "pop", that technical term we all use when comparing screens. Contrast, brightness, colour gamut, pixel arrangement...? WHAT DO YOU MEAN TECHRADAR?!?

And then occasionally, a half decent verdict.

To be fair though, it's not really just TR doing this now. Trusted Reviews, Bit-tech and even Hexus are just taking the manufacturers information, adding a bit of glitter and shots of the device and then publishing it.

Compare to say, Anandtech and the difference is huge - proper breakdowns on the device. Specs in a table and not treating you like a moron, actual benchmarks they have done against other devices they have in house, actual technical information that is quantifiable (check out the screen review on the S7), and a conclusion that covers most areas well.

full tear down by jerryrig - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyP_cEpp2Zo

Alu body with primer on top. At least you can repair it with T-cut :smiley:

To be fair a friend has glass backed Samsung and is terrified of damaging it so stuck it in a case.
Wife has Iphone and thats a fingerprint magnet on the back.....so is stuck in a case.

*owner of a MotoG 2nd Gen for too long
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LG say the paint over the thick primer contains metal particles which is how they can say that it is metal body.

Cold....already posted

Review sites in my experience can only be trusted so far.

You have to remember that a said site could hack up a deal with a manufacturer to shift stock in return for €€€€, but that's just an opinion and I'm not saying techradar do this but I just don't trust these so called reviews or magazines and instead, trawl forums to get real user experience rather than that of somebody that tested the phone for a week or a day.

Review sites need to churn out content in turn to churn out clicks and revenue and it shocks me sometimes how naff phones get a great write up and good phones get a bad one...

​Actually it is aluminium with a primer and paint layer. No plastic but you are not touching bare metal

Also regarding the "full metal design" I'm pretty sure they've found that it is a metal body with plastic coating. So you get all the drawbacks of signal degradation associated with a metal body, and it still looks like cheap plastic.

Pictures here

I used to have a lot of faith in Techradar but it is now a terrible site where the reviews are based on how much advertising revenue they are given.

You can tell that techradar review is complete garbage within the first paragraph...


I can't be bothered to read any further if they can't get the basic information right.

Already posted here

Does this phone suffer from the dreaded bootloop of the G4?