Regardless of performance it's still iOS...

Stay away from anything LG made... Until they sort out bootloop issue affecting pretty much all their top range phones.

It doesn't work like that. You will pay £733 + £288 goodybag. Goodybag doesn't reduce phone costs. If it works like that everyone would take £20 goodybag:
£20 x 24 = £480
£733 total cost - £480 = £253 cost for phone? :wink:

Just wondering whats the difference is in having a sim contract direct from o2 when compared to a third party company

I've had both the G3 and the G4 (broke the G3 being clumsy) but I'll not be buying the G6 because of the sealed battery. I'll likely just keep buying G4 batteries until it's too hard to source a quality one at a reasonable price and then have a look to see what's available.

Is the G5 still worth a buy for someone not wanting to either get a contract, or not used to flagship performance?

I've been eyeing one up today.

That would be a total of £842. £650 for the phone and 24 x £8 is £192. Terrible deal, I vote cold.

Contract, whoever invented is the worst thing in the world, you have to tie it up for 2 year, every 1 or 2 year before you buy the phone apply for lowest interest free credit card and buy PAYG phone using that credit card and buy monthly rolling or 1 year SIM only contract for example £8 a month without contract from ID gives you 3 GB and 1000 min. or , £10 a month for 5GB and 5000 min monthly rolling, it's a cleaver move

and that's only the 64gb in grey.

that's like paying £580 for the phone though!

best i can find on contract.

O2 website £32 a month £99.99 upfront. total cost £867.99

you probably can't

Oneplus 3T midnight black edition is a awesome, same processor, 6 gb RAM, and 128 GB internal, dual SIM, front fingerprint reader, 16 gb camera on front and back and price is £439, Pure android like Google phone, full modding and custom rom support, fast battery charging 60% in 30 min, and easily beat S7 and G6 in many benchmarks so do your math, and yeah battery life is much batter than G6 which is proved and tested by GSM arena and other website, nobody pay nearly £200 extra for just whatsoever G6 have, G6 is completely disappointed

The edge-to-edge type screen on the LG, waterproofing, expandable memory and dual cameras might be enough for some too over the OnePlus 3T.

Seems like a good deal for the LG G6, tariff that comes with it for £27/month isn't bad either.

I have a G4 and my wife had the G3 and we never had any problems with the phones et all. No boot loops etc. And they were amazing phones and still are.

Issues with phones are completely user specific and may happen to some.

As for warranty I recently had a chat with Samsung and they confirmed that they need paper receipt as well for warranty. Every other company wants a proof of purchase.

And these LG phones come with 2 year warranty unlike the Motorola or Google phones.

Processor wise, none of the apps need this much processing power anyway unless you play heavy graphics games on your phone. Even a Snapdragon 625 will be able to do everything that a 835 will do may be a few milliseconds slower but really do you care. If time was that important for someone to count seconds would they be in this forum in the first place.

Hot for this price.

I had the G2 and thought it was the best phone i ever had, really happy with it and v good battery life and a quick responsive phone. When the battery started to lose its ability to hold a charge well after a few years i decided to get the G3 and what a disaster of a phone the G3 is. Awful battery life, laggy and just a pain to use for any period of time. How they could go from the magnificent G2 to the worst phone on the market, the G3 is simply astounding. I am therefore reluctant to buy another LG phone as they appear to suffer from various bugs.

It was in reply to Morpheus comment saying software is horrific.

horrific is a phone exploding in your pocket!

Another nerdy thread for an overpriced phone! Give it 5 minutes and this will be yesterday's technology anyway.

Had a go on this phone at the MWC. Feels like a cheap piece of **** and the camera was terrible. Low light shots looked like a painting. Would say go for the Sammy but there is no way you can justify what they're asking anymore. Yeah r&d blah blah blah but there have been no amazing advancements to justify such a price hike in any of these phones. Especially this, it uses last year's chipset.

Of course iOS is fast it hasn't changed since it launched in 2007 its like me running Windows 3.1 on a modern ish pc it would fly but would look terrible.

I give up with LG. I've had a G2 and G4. Both suffered mysterious deaths after 2 years. Whereas my old Samsung Note2 and HTC Wildfire S are still fully functional.

LG software and support is horrific. Shame because the hardware is often decent. I'll never buy LG again unless it's a Nexus and even then (5X not loops) it's a risk. Better to steer clear.

never buy LG again Bootlooping **** would not honour warranty without paper receipt

Everyone talking about the s8 getting snapdragon 835.. it's not comfirmed that the UK version of the Samsung S8 is even getting the latest snapdragon chip. You might end up with the Samsung chip.

:confused: in essence its just a phone for £733 over 2 years.

I suppose I'm getting old. But my smartphone calls, messages, goes on internet etc. If BT charged £300 a year to make phone calls there would be outrage.

If the cost of the phone is just £445, can I order it, cancel air time, pay £445 and keep the phone?

I adore my G5. but I had to repair its GPS problems myself (had to do way more than bending those three pins. They revert back again.) G4 bootlooped due to a dodgy mobo, and G3 had issues too right? (Only had G4 and G5. Each bought from CEX). LG's warranty is absolutely worthless also, I agree with the previous poster on that.

a 32gb phone has no place among other flagships in 2017, although that wide angle camera is a winner!

Yeah I remember Intel chip failed due optimisation of Android to Intel chips which is the major reason it failed. Like I said if software is not optimised for the hardware properly it will not give you a good user experience. Item chips on paper were better faster but due to the way it processed instruction set compared to arm chips which android were better optimised for. In theory the 835 will produce better battery performance only if it's optimised better.

Stay away from anything LG made... Until they sort out bootloop issue affecting pretty much all their top range phones.

I don't really care for your Galaxy S8 or your 'coming soon' in October pixel 2, especially if it's going to be the same pricing as the previous pixel. I'm still running a Nexus 6P 128gb which I bought new for only £450, shame on me. The effective price of this handset which this deal is referencing is £445 but anyway enjoy your Snapdragon 835! ☮️

As per the news reports , it may be announced in Google Io conference soon.

october soon?

Each to their own. I'll stick with the tried and tested 821 which we know from the pixel is spot on.

It is not the cpu, it is the modem speed and power consumption in a phone that matters most . Intel has the fastest cpus but failed miserably in mobile phones so it gave up due to large losses it made in last few years. The snapdragon 835 is made on 10nm process so battery lasts longer and cat 16 modem so fast download speeds.

brilliant deal

https://youtu.be/cAzFV1RuGU8

Speed test of course 835 will be faster but not by much the 821 is still a very good and capable processor. Software optimisation is probably more important that pure cpu performance at this stage now.

821 is a glorified 820. 835 is a new chip made on 10nm so less power consumption, cat 16 modem, better quick charge 4.0, better camera, display support, faster cpu etc.

There are a whole bunch of of phones coming very soon. The S8 is the first.

Not in LTE speed ... Qualcomm's modems are far more superior to Intel's. :smiley:

Regardless of performance it's still iOS...

an iPhone 7 at twice the price of the android handset probably too, sounds like value V performance wasnt taken into account ;-)

Only last year's snapdragon 821 not snapdragon 835 in such expensive phone.