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The G5 looks like it's cheaply made to me.
A metal build that doesn't feel like metal due to a plastic layer underneath (supposedly for the antenna) doesn't start things off very well. Add in pretty bad backlight bleed, the LCD "blooming" when touched due to the panel being so thin, a noticeable panel gap between the chin and the rest of the phone and general quality control problems. I mean, on paper, it's a solid phone. But with all these problems, it's just....ugh.
At this point, it's hard for me to recommend spending over $600+ on this phone if this is how LG's quality control is like. It also makes me fear that the G5 may also fall victim to #BootloopGate like the G4.
And it's not just Erica's G5 that suffers from the backlight bleeding. David Ruddock's 2 G5s that he used for his review at Android Police also suffers from it, particularly from the chin where the modular stuff goes.
You know, this whole modular thing isn't gonna work out. Just too many sacrifices.
A metal build that doesn't feel like metal due to a plastic layer underneath (supposedly for the antenna) doesn't start things off very well. Add in pretty bad backlight bleed, the LCD "blooming" when touched due to the panel being so thin, a noticeable panel gap between the chin and the rest of the phone and general quality control problems. I mean, on paper, it's a solid phone. But with all these problems, it's just....ugh.
At this point, it's hard for me to recommend spending over $600+ on this phone if this is how LG's quality control is like. It also makes me fear that the G5 may also fall victim to #BootloopGate like the G4.
And it's not just Erica's G5 that suffers from the backlight bleeding. David Ruddock's 2 G5s that he used for his review at Android Police also suffers from it, particularly from the chin where the modular stuff goes.
You know, this whole modular thing isn't gonna work out. Just too many sacrifices.
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