Have any of you here who own the Note 4 considered the LG G4?

[ELAkid]

I will say, for the sake of fairness, that the LG OG Pro had one claim to fame - a massively awesome bright screen. It's a serious slab of beauty. It was also a very inexpensive phone. So the build quality may have suffered from it being a "budget flagship". I have little doubt that the G4 has improved on that.

However, the Note 4 build quality appears SUPERB. Plastic where plastic makes sense, metal finishing touches where they make sense. Everything feels solid, and the performance has been good.

I haven't seen a G4. It may be awesome. But I can't keep myself from associating LG with the OG Pro. Just like HTC with the Thunderbolt I carried, which was a complete dogpile of a phone.

But, as I said, I can phone hop on my plan, so I don't fret as much about build quality in general. I am freer than most to experiment, and I do. I went from the OG Pro to a Moto X (too small, gave it to a friend), then a Moto X 2014 (battery life was too short, battery not replaceable), and now the beast of a Note 4 I am now sporting. I liked and disliked various things about all four phones, but the Note 4 seems to have hit the sweet spot. For now.

I hear you about that thunderbolt it was horrible it would constantly reboot while I was doing something like textile or searching the Web I had a bad experience with that phone.

The note 4 is an awesome phone, and with everyone's feedback I'm feeling reassured to just wait and see what new phones come out this Fall.

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[sulla1965]

At this point I'd wait for the Note 5, which blow the G4 out of the water IMO

 

[ELAkid]

At this point I'd wait for the Note 5, which blow the G4 out of the water IMO

Yeah that's the phone I'm really wanting to see, hopefully they keep the removable battery and optional SD card features, and if they don't hopefully they at least make the 64gb one a little more affordable but we'll just have to wait and see.

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[Geodude074]

While the Note 4 may have occasional battery issues, these are largely rendered irrelevant by the fact that the battery can easily be swapped out.

I had an LG Optimus G Pro and it didn't even last 4 months before the LTE radio stopped working entirely, and the GSM/HSPA+ radio became less reliable. Big, bold, beautiful screen. Best screen EVER. But the build quality was terrible. And it suffered from horrendous performance problems. The GPU was completely inadequate for such a beast of a screen, and it didn't have enough memory.

Thankfully my plan allows me to switch phones at full subsidy any time I want, so it's now a very adequate tablet for my daughter.

I was wondering if anyone else had issues with LG reliability other than me.

I have an LG Nexus 5 and it's on its last leg, not even two years old yet but it's an old dying dog and needs to be put down. LTE/HSPA+ keeps dropping/freezing constantly which requires a reboot every time to get it working again. Sometimes when taking pictures the phone will just go black and power off, can't even turn it back on unless you plug it in/charge it. I'm on my second battery but the battery life is even worse now than the first battery, it only has about 80% of its original charge. The light sensor doesn't work, very annoying for when I'm on a phone call and I need to use the dialer to enter a number for a prompt, but the screen won't turn on.

All these reliability issues make me very hesitant to buy another LG phone, BUT I have had my Nexus 5 longer than any other smart phone, so maybe this is normal for smart phones actually?

 

[natehoy]

I was wondering if anyone else had issues with LG reliability other than me.

The Optimus G Pro is the only LG phone I've owned, and it was a big-screen phone built obviously on a tight budget and sold relatively cheaply. So I can't honestly judge all LG products for one "budget" phone, but to be honest it was billed as a flagship when I bought it.

 

[El Platanero]

I did. Then I got the note 5. No regrets.

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