[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SnowJim:
Hi,

I have got the LG G3 now and this is my first impressions.

Its a really nice looking phone, it feels vary premium. I would however hope that the finish was not that shiny, it attracts smudges and gives a bit of a cheap look in light(have the gray version).

Out of the box the phone is vary laggy, its really, really bad! After a 4-5 updates the phone is up to date and there is almost no lag anymore. By switching out the stock launcher to nova launcher I get vary good flow but there is still places in the phone that will lag. I would say that the lagg is simular to my old Samsung S3(also on stock with nova launcher).

The default GUI is in my opinion vary dull, icons looks old and cheap, the Phonebook, Dailer and so on feels dated. The nova launcher icon switch to lollipop makes the icon nice but the phonebook and dailer still looks the same.

The main reason to switch the launcher is that on the original launcher a big part above the button row icons(where the dots for the screens is) will not react when you try to swipe left, right. This is really bad becouse on a big phone like this its a comfortable place to scroll the screens. I runned in to this several times, I swiped and nothing happened before changing the launcher.

The screen is big and good enouth but it does not impress, My old Samsung S3 LTE have a more "popping" image, more colors and ALOT better black!? The Samsung S3 got a Super Amoled. The extra pixels do give a higher sharpness but its not that visible if you dont look for it.

The buttons on the back feels like a good way to go but after some use, Im not that sure. I often press the photolins instead of the vol up button and then the phone is laying on its back there is no way to fast change vol or turn on/off the screen!? You could tap it to wake but I have head that most user have hade to turn this off becouse it unlocks in the pocket. A regular placement of the vol and power button make it alot easier to use on the sides when the phone is laying flat.

Talking about laying flat, the back is not flat so its hard to do things on the phone while it is placed on a table or anything like that, it will tilt alot more then other phones.

I have compared the startup of diffrent apps with Nexus 5 and Samsung S3 LTE. Both new startup and cached starupt and the Nexus 5 with lollipop is ALOT faster and smother in most cases, I hope that this is due to the Android version. Comparing Samsing S3 LTE and the LG G3 there is vary little diffrence even while there are several years between them so I most say that the manufacture are good at hyping hardware that is not that much better.

I do really like the Samsung S3 LTE feel ove the LG G3 but the Samsung S3 LTE have old software and this is really the only thing that holds the phone back according to me. Nexus 5(also from LG) feels cheep right out of the box and can´t be compared(and should not) with the LG G3, the software is however alot smoother compared to both S3 and G3.

Im not really sure what to do at this point, switch the G3 for a OnePlus or stick with it. I like the wireless charging in G3, I have however not tested it so maybe its to slow to replace regular loading? The OnePlus will probably have a more updated software and also mor like the Nexus stock(if you want). Not sure if you lose the warrenty to install custom rom on the OnePlus as you do with the LG but the suport is so bad(from what I heard) so it will probably not matter.