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  • StormyParis - Tuesday, February 16, 2016 - link

    Dammit, I want *two* premium features: a huge screen, and a huge battery.
  • LiverpoolFC5903 - Tuesday, February 16, 2016 - link

    Another so called midranger with a poor chipset. Lg has a seriously crappy midrange line. Not one half decent phone in the 300 USD range. Unless we are talking about heavily discounted ex flagships like the G flex 2 and G3.

    Give us a Snapdragon 650 based 5" phone with a 720p rgb oled and a 3000 plus battery. Happy to pay 400 USD for such a phone.
  • RaduR - Tuesday, February 16, 2016 - link

    You have just described Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 Pro with a price below USD 200. The remaining USD 200 may be spent on beers.
  • WorldWithoutMadness - Tuesday, February 16, 2016 - link

    Yeah but you have to hit note 3 pro to concrete first and hope it will shrink 0.5 inch without any damages
  • Daniel Egger - Tuesday, February 16, 2016 - link

    Apart from being on pre-order til March for around $250, which part of '5" phone with a 720p RGB OLED' was so tricky to grasp?
  • LiverpoolFC5903 - Wednesday, February 17, 2016 - link

    Good shout, but as Daniel says, its got a larger screen (I can still live without the Amoled) and a highly customized version of android.

    The Lenovo Vibe X3 is a good performer in the 'mid range' segment but again it has a larger screen...
  • beginner99 - Wednesday, February 17, 2016 - link

    Agree. This is a general issue of the whole market. I have an LG Optimus G (eg. similar to Nexus 4). I'm not even sure these mid-range phones beat it my much on the CPU side with these low frequencies. Then the Optimus G has 2 GB of RAM. Some so called mid-range phones still ship with only 1.5. If I spent $300 on a phone it should beat a 3-year old flagship in every aspect but they don't. In fact they only beat it in CPU (not 100% sure vs these 2) and battery life. Even the screen are still all 720p. So I am waiting for however finally releases a good product that doesn't suck or isn't overpriced or oversized. Which is another issue the Optimus G has very little unused space so it's smaller than all new phones with same screen size. My preferred phone would be about 5"" (with small bezel), soft touch buttons (I hate phones with on-screen buttons + huge bezel. What a waste of space), 1080p screen (more is a waste of battery) and a real midrange cpu that AFAIK doesn't exist, like 2 fast cores (A57/A72) plus 2 slow cores. I don't need 8 A53 cores, what a crap idea.
  • LiverpoolFC5903 - Wednesday, February 17, 2016 - link

    Your Optimus G has a far better GPU and CPU than ALL Snapdragon 200/400 series phones. The S4 Pro still holds it own against the mid rangers in the market, including the Snapdragon 615 which has a single channel memory.

    I agree its a general issue, but LG is the worst when it comes to overpriced and underpowered mid range phones that offer a poor value proposition to the discerning customer.

    Samsung is also pretty bad when it comes to their mid range and low range phones. Poor support, terrible UI and performance combined with loads of bloat.

    Thank god for the likes of Xiaomi, Asus, Lenovo and others, for making decent handsets at reasonable prices. The 'brands' apart from Motorola do not have anything compelling enough in the 200-400 USD price range.
  • nirolf - Wednesday, February 17, 2016 - link

    Yup! You just can't get a decent mid-ranger that's not gigantic. Even 720p wouldn't bother me, it would help battery life. Combined with a 14nm CPU (Samsung apparently just announced Exynos 7 Octa 7870) that would make a nice little phone.
  • beginner99 - Wednesday, February 17, 2016 - link

    Yeah I could live with 720p if it was like a 4.5" screen + small bezel + light. But a 720p 5.2" phone at like 170 grams is just a POS. I just saw that Samsung announcement. Still these are low clocked A53. They aren't really much faster (if at all?) than my 3 year old one...Only good thing would be battery life one would assume.
  • phoenix_rizzen - Wednesday, February 17, 2016 - link

    Other than the capacitive buttons, you pretty much described the LG G2. It's barely a mm or two wider/taller than the Optimus G, has a bigger battery, faster SoC, 1080p screen. Unfortunately, it's ARMv7/32-bit only, and the last Android release for it was 5.0.2 (4.4.2 for the Canadian version).

    But there's not much out there today that compares to it, unless you spend $600+ CDN on a Galaxy S6 or LG G4.

    Or, the Sony Xperia Z3 Compact. Slightly faster/more efficient SoC than the G2, 720p <5" screen. Unfortunately, even with the Z5 line being out for 6 months, prices on this phone haven't really come down any. I'd gladly replace my G2 with one of these if they were available for around $300 CDN.
  • erple2 - Sunday, February 28, 2016 - link

    That can't be true - I thought the nexus 5 and the LG G2 were hardware twins? My Nexus 5 currently runs Android 6.0.1...
  • rancho - Monday, February 29, 2016 - link

    I still use an LG G2 and he's correct, the last official release was 5.0.1. There's a stable release of CM12.1 for 5.1.1 but I'm currently running CM13 6.0.1 and it works brilliantly.

    I could probably stick a new battery in it soon, but for now I don't see any reason to get a new phone the G2 is awesome.
  • asfletch - Wednesday, February 17, 2016 - link

    I'm thinking along similar lines, which is why I'm still running a ye olde GS3 with a big extended battery. Fix pentile and give me a moderate speed boost (SD650 would be perfect) and I'd be happy. NOS Droid Turbo for ~$300 might be as close as we can come...although I'm loath to buy anything without a removable battery. Wonder if the rumoured LG H840 (G5s?) will come to the party (without the OLED probably).
  • zodiacfml - Tuesday, February 16, 2016 - link

    Right. Yet, I wouldn't just consider any phone without the Nexus branding which makes it a premium feature for me. I feel it is time for Samsung to make a Nexus again with an AMOLED screen with a 14nm SoC.
  • Murloc - Tuesday, February 16, 2016 - link

    I bet some people would spring for a X battery
  • BurntMyBacon - Tuesday, February 16, 2016 - link

    @Murloc: "I bet some people would spring for a X battery"

    Ooo. Ooo. Pick Me. Pick Me.

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