The LG G7 Review: A Rushed Attempt?
by Andrei Frumusanu on August 9, 2018 11:00 AM EST- Posted in
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- LG G7
Battery Life
Performing the battery life tests on the G7 was a daunting task as the display makes it extremely difficult to maintain a set brightness. While in daily usage this is not an issue, it has extremely aggressive APL brightness scaling / CAB (Content adaptive brightness) with swings of up to 100nits on the backlight intensity.
For the browsing test, I actually had to set the display brightness to a level that took into account the average APL over the duration of the whole web test cycle as to maintain an overall average 200 nits brightness on the backlight. Least to say, battery testing on the G7 is extremely challenging due to this.
The resulting battery life run for the web-browsing test was quite good as the G7 ended up with a runtime just shy of 10 hours. Considering the phone’s 3000mAh battery, this is an overall good result and well in the range of other Snapdragon 845 devices. As expected, the smaller battery didn't handicap the phone in comparison to the G6, as the SoC efficiency gains compensate for the 10% smaller battery and actually goes beyond that, outlasting the G6 by an hour and a half.
PCMark’s battery run ended up with only 7 hours, although because of the aforementioned display brightness variations I’m not all that confident in this result as I adjusted the screen to the best of my abilities.
Overall the G7 perfromed quite well in the battery tests. Again it’s to be noted that subjective battery life of the phone will very much depend on your screen brightness usage patterns, and the lower brightness you will use, the worse will the G7 fare against other devices. The brighter you drive the phone, the better it will fare against other competitors.
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Alistair - Thursday, August 9, 2018 - link
You know how Android is, I received the 8.0 update for the G6 a long time ago. You should contact your carrier and ask what's up :)frasesparainsta - Saturday, August 11, 2018 - link
https://frasesparainsta.infoJohnDune - Thursday, August 9, 2018 - link
That's a provider issue. I've been on Oreo (after doing an upgrade the day after purchasing it two months ago).faizoff - Thursday, August 9, 2018 - link
Definitely is a carrier issue. I just bought my phone a couple of days ago on AT&T and on the same day as activation got Oreo plus July security updates.melgross - Friday, August 10, 2018 - link
It’s also a manufacturer issue. They make different deals with carriers. Some are better than others.Kaboose - Thursday, August 9, 2018 - link
While Samsung is fairly slow on full feature updates, they're by far one of the best for regularly monthly security patches, which LG has seemingly abandoned. So lets not just throw them both together here, Samsung is demonstrably more reliable when it comes to security updates, even if they are slow on full android version updates (mainly because their version of android is already packing a significant amount of extras on top of stock android)phoenix_rizzen - Thursday, August 9, 2018 - link
I'd be looking at your carrier more than the phone OEM.I have an LG V20 from T-Mobile that only has Android 7.0, but has the May 2018 security update installed. Considering the phone will be two years old this October, I'm fairly impressed with the updates. Sure, it's not running Android 8.0 or 9.0, but the security fixes are only a few months behind.
repatch - Thursday, August 9, 2018 - link
Nothing to do with LG. My G6 got Oreo quite a while ago. My security patch level? June 1, 2018. Your carrier is the problem.collegsd - Friday, January 18, 2019 - link
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