The LG G7 Review: A Rushed Attempt?
by Andrei Frumusanu on August 9, 2018 11:00 AM EST- Posted in
- Smartphones
- LG
- Mobile
- LG G7 ThinQ
- 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
Honestly I don't take photos very often, so if you take that out of the picture... it's the best phone to buy right now because of the price as usual. Only cost $500 through my carrier.I'm pretty sensitive to display calibration with computer monitors, so I was surprised to see that mentioned here, as it looks perfectly fine to me.
Every time I read reviews, I'm always surprised how many annoyances in the S9 are glossed over, but every small issue with the G7 is a "major" defect.
S9+ size, super fast, amazingly bright display in sunlight, best speaker I've heard in a phone, tiny bezels and a smart implementation of the notch, I'd give this phone a huge recommendation at any discounted price vs the competition.
Alistair - Thursday, August 9, 2018 - link
I just checked my carrier, the LG G7 is $520 USD on promotion, the S9+ is $820. I really feel LG should launch with a lower MSRP so that reviews don't get misled, thinking the prices are similar. Just as good as an S9+ and the same size (but nice and light), and $300 cheaper.