[G2 General] cpufrost:
Seriously though who is going to run out of the box these days? Sky Note 9.3 was probably the king of TW roms for the Note II, still runs great, flawless. From Quadrant scores it's hard to believe it's 1/3 the speed of the G2. Of course synthetic benchmarks vs. real world! har har!

Now since throttling was mentioned...

A custom kernel is needed yesterday for the G2. The throttling is horrendous with this phone. Don't believe me? Run Antutu when it's cold, notice the 35k+ score. After a few runs when it heats up it's trailing way behind my HTC One at 2GHz (Team Venom 2.7, Flar ElementalX 3.12 kernel). Either its internal cooling isn't very effective at dissipating heat or throttling is seriously aggressive. I'm betting on the latter, and hopefully since that is an easy fix with a proper kernel that allows adjustments.

That brings on Samsung vs. LG. Have to look at the big picture from the perspective of a phone nerd and super tweaker as well. I just don't see development blossoming on the G2 as you will for the Note 3.

I've owned the original Note I and II and love them. However after switching to the S4 and HTC One, I've gotten used to the smaller phones and they are more comfortable especially for one hand use. I have big hands (can pick up a basketball single handed!) and find the Note series just a tad large to handle single handed! People with normal to smaller hands definitely going to have a hard time holding it, dropping it a lot, etc. Put a big case on it? Reminds me of the 80s when portable cell phones were carried around in gym bags! Ok perhaps not, but around here the Note got the nickname "toast" because (like the original HUGE blackberry devices) holding it to talk was like holding a piece of toast to your head! Bluetooth earpiece recommended! ;)

The G2 with the button hiding app (you have to pay for the pro version for it to be really useful IMHO) the 5.2" display is great and holding the device in your hand consumes no more physical palm real estate than the S4 yet the screen seems much larger. Not phablet class but nipping on the heals. Certainly enough to make iphone 5 touting great danes hold their tail between their legs when you fire up Netflix and do side by side...

I have not owned the Note III to determine if its AMOLED display has the issue plaguing the S4, which is white text looking a bit pinkish when scrolling across a black background with the tapatalk app in dark mode. I don't know why but I find it very distracting. Luckily LCDs don't do this. The HTC One smears a bit as if its pixel response time could be better. The G2's display does NOT have this phenomenon so if you know what I'm talking about you may be happy to hear it!

If the Note III camera is like the S4 then you should be happy but I'm not a big fan of the mic sensitivity on the video camera. Even still, it's far better than the G2's poor quality audio. I have audio engineering experience and from what I'm listening to this fault should be correctable either in firmware or software or both. Time will tell. And to close that's what scares me most about this (LG) hardware, is the possible lack of updates and third party development. That *won't* be an issue with the Note III!