Re: Who's switching to th G4?
I'm quite happy with the S6 so no plans to, plus I don't have the money to just be swapping around phones. To be honest LG is pretty much at the bottom of the Android manufacturers for me. The phone is just to big, 5.1 or 5.2 is about as big as I want. It is still a plastic phone unless I want to pay more for leather that I'm not 100% sure hold up over 1 or 2 years of general use. The UI is just...blech. I played with a G3 on lollipop that is used for testing where I work and the UI looks pretty close and I'm sorry but it's just not all that attractive to me. The icons are to big for the LG apps, the style is garish and I see very little of material design in it. Not sure why some reviews were gushing over it, but it's as heavy handed as Samsung is to me. Samsung has it's UI issues, no doubt, but LG UX 4 just seems like a less polished TouchWiz. I know phones can have launchers and all that but I don't put launchers on my phone. For the money I pay I am either going to be happy with it out of the box or I am not spending the money for it.
Add in the fact that the G4 is beaten by the S6 hardware wise in every area but the battery (I'm not going to compare the screen, screen tech is so subjective to each user I don't like comparing. Personally I think the G4 matches or comes close to matching the S6 screen wise) and for me the G4 just isn't an S6 killer. It's a great phone, no doubt, and will appeal to certain segments to the Android crowd but it's just not for me. I get buttery smooth (well, as buttery smooth as Android can get) performance and a bit over 4 hours SoT on a 16 to 19 hours charge so I'm good.
The G5, M10 and maybe the S7 I think we will be the bigger leaps forward and it'll be interesting to see what happens then.