Final Words
Simply put, I think the LG G Pro 2 is a solid evolution of the LG G2 design. While I went into the review expecting a phone that wasn’t much more than an attempt to cash in on the phablet trend, LG has definitely put in enough that I found the phone to be surprisingly good. LG has managed to avoid many of the pitfalls that TouchWiz has with its UI by keeping things somewhat more tidy and understandable, but also added features that are good enough to be incredibly obvious in hindsight. While there’s some room for improvement in display calibration, the UI could use a better theme, and I’m not sure who will use features like Content Lock, the phone is surprisingly good. Features like KnockCode are a great addition to KnockOn, Mini View helps to alleviate some of the issues with using a phablet, and the multiwindow function works well, if a bit clunky from a UI perspective. LG is doing many things right with this phone, possibly more than Samsung did with the Note 3. The real question now is whether it’ll come to western regions without major changes.
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gostan - Tuesday, March 4, 2014 - link
A writing style that's very unlike anandtech.JoshHo - Thursday, March 6, 2014 - link
How so? :)ASEdouard - Wednesday, March 12, 2014 - link
I feel it reads exactly like a usual Anandtech mini review.Hrel - Tuesday, March 4, 2014 - link
Am I the only one who doesn't want to stop EVERYTHING I'm doing because I have to 2-hand my phone to check a text?! Seriously, I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!4.5" is very near the upper limit of how big a phone can be. You gotta stay with .3" of that... on the absolute highest side of the scale.
ddriver - Tuesday, March 4, 2014 - link
Grow bigger hands :)retrospooty - Tuesday, March 4, 2014 - link
I think its a technique issue. You shouldn't need 2 hands on a 5 inch phone. 5.9 maybe, but not 5.Hrel - Tuesday, March 4, 2014 - link
I'm a 6'4" 240lb German Man. I can one hand a basketball. But I have to contort my hand to reach the upper left corner of a Galaxy S4. That's 5", that's too damn big.ddriver - Tuesday, March 4, 2014 - link
Is anyone forcing you to buy big phones? I don't understand why people have to complain for stuff that is not mandatory but entirely optional.fokka - Tuesday, March 4, 2014 - link
believe it or not, people want good phones, maybe even phones with flagship specs. but for various reasons, not everybody likes the ever growing form factors of the recent years. the problem now is that besides the z1 compact, there are almost no high end phones left under 5 inches, and phones continue to grow.if you are fine with those big phones, that's great. other people would prefer to get the same power in a device an inch shorter though, because they find it more practical. but sadly that got harder and harder. that's why we complain. we don't need you to join us, i just hope you can understand us a bit better now.
ddriver - Wednesday, March 5, 2014 - link
What is the purpose of a flagship phone with a tiny display? The tiny display only further cripples the functionality of a mobile device, there are much less things you can do on a small display, so why would you need the extra CPU performance or RAM? A phone with a small display will suck at watching videos, viewing photos, reading books, web browsing - so why do you need the performance?