Can This Phone Beat the Galaxy S8? #Helpful Post

hey guys this is Austin new Galaxy s8 is

promising to shake up the smartphone

games but LG might just have something

to say about that big shout out to LG

for hooking us up with the g6 a little

bit early now they are not sponsoring

this video but I am curious to see how

it stacks up take a look inside the box

and we have the g6 you know the galaxy

si is getting all the hype for having

essentially no bezel on a giant screen

if you take a look at this it's not

actually that far off there's not a lot

in the box we have the power adapter as

well as the USBC cable now this is in

comparison to the galaxy s 8 which comes

with a really nice pair of AKG

headphones in the box when you look at

the g6 next to the galaxy s 8 plus and

the iPhone 7 plus you'll see that well

this just sticks out the idea of having

much thinner bezels just gives you more

screen in the same footprint

well the g6 does have thin bezels it

can't quite touch the s8 this is a

little bit more of a blocky phone so

it's got a completely flat display

compared to the s8 which has curved

glass both front and back if you look

closely you'll see the g6 has a slightly

more pronounced gen but generally

speaking they do look fairly similar

they both do have the slight curves

around the edges of the display and with

so much screen with so little bezel it

does feel like a new generation of smart

phone this isn't a perfect comparison

the galaxy s 8 plus is a little bit

bigger than the g6 but if you have a

standard si it's going to be about the

same size but what really separates both

of these phones from other devices is

the aspect ratio so the g6 has a 28 80

by 1440 P IPS display where the galaxy s

8 and s 8 plus bumps that up to 20 960

by 1440 what that means these are much

taller screens than what you're probably

used to so if you open a normal app such

as YouTube all this means that you get a

little bit of extra vertical real estate

but if you're watching something like

video what that means is that you end up

getting black bars on either side of the

video now this is not exactly a huge

deal I think that the extra screen real

estate and 95% of your apps there's

worth the trade-off but it does mean

that video is not going to fully eat up

the screen it should be no surprise that

these are two of the best smartphone

displays out right now so the LG G 6 has

a couple cool features like it supports

HDR 10 as well as Dolby vision so as HDR

video becomes more and more popular the

G 6 is ready to handle it this 8 might

not be a huge upgrade over the last

generation but there is still a terrific

looking AMOLED display so the contrast

is absolutely on point

it's nicely saturated and it gets really

bright so out of the box it actually

runs at a slightly lower 12:20 by 1080

resolution now there's nothing

necessarily wrong with that it still

it's reasonably sharp and they're doing

it I presume to save battery but when

you buy a super high resolution great

looking display on a smartphone you kind

of want to you know run it at full

resolution as flagships in 2017 build

quality isn't an issue with either phone

but I do prefer the design of the Galaxy

s8 what's cool here is that because it

has glass on front in fact and they both

have the same taper it's a very seamless

sort of design especially with the very

thin frame that goes around the edges it

really does feel great in the hand no

it's not perfect it would be nice this

had better speakers instead of one small

one on the bottom and the fingerprint

sensor on back is not quite ideal but

taken as a whole this is an absolutely

killer design I love it in comparison

the g6 just feels a little bit more

old-school so with the flat sort of

edges around the side it just doesn't

feel as thin in the hand and it's not

exactly a bad foam don't get me wrong it

does have nice glass in front and back

and if I had not touched the s8 this

would be great but in comparison it just

doesn't quite hold up but there are some

things I do prefer on the g6 and

probably the biggest one is the power

button

not only does it double as the

fingerprint sensor which puts it in a

much better location on the Galaxy s8

but it just feels like a clever use of

space sort of combining your fingerprint

sensor which already has to be there

anyway with a physical button to turn on

and off the phone one area where they

are the same is with the ip68 water

resistance so no you shouldn't go

swimming with either of these phones but

if you like for a flagship in 2017 there

is no reason not to have at least some

sort of water resistance it's just nice

to know that when you spend this much

money on a phone the little bit of a

splash is not going to kill it both

phones are also running Android 7.0

nougat with their own skins now I prefer

what Samsung is down a little bit more

this time around it's a little bit of a

cleaner interface and while they have

included things like bixby which I'm

just not going to use because Google

assistant exists but for the most part

both phones are completely fine you can

live with either skin and of course you

know launcher sort of thing one of the

biggest differences between the two

phones are specs so the LG G 6 has the

older Snapdragon 820 one the Galaxy s8

has the brand new Snapdragon 835 so I'm

curious to see how they perform

that's actually pretty close some of the

big advantages of the s8 is that it's an

octa-core processor instead of quad core

on the g6

which means that it definitely does win

on the multi-threaded side but on the

single threaded side it's actually not a

huge difference however because it's

that 835 and it's based on newer process

and theory that should help battery life

cameras might actually be the biggest

difference between these two phones so

the Galaxy s8 has the same 12 megapixel

camera from the s7 with just a few

software tweaks the LG G 6 has dual 13

megapixel cameras so it's cool about

this dual camera on the g6

is that while it was available on the g5

there was a huge difference in quality

between the two cameras whereas on the

g6 yes the standard camera is a little

bit higher quality it looks a little bit

nicer but it's not a huge difference and

a big part of that is that both cameras

have the same 13 megapixel sensor behind

them now you jump over to the galaxy s 8

it is not a bad camera by any means if

you can get some really killer shots the

big downside though is that just isn't a

huge upgrade over the s7 so Samsung is

doing some additional image processing

so essentially just like the pixel there

cost like taking stills and using the

best bits of each one to combine it into

a final image and it does look really

nice I do think the s8 a little bit more

of a natural image it's not quite so

sharp and that bigger sensor actually

does give you just a little bit of depth

of field one of the big advantages of

the Galaxy s8 though is that new 8

megapixel front-facing camera not only

is this fairly wide but it also looks

really nice especially in video and this

is what the g 6 front-facing camera

looks like it's not bad but it does not

even come close to the s8 yeah even for

stills the G 6 it's fine but I think the

s8 does went out so this is what video

looks like on the LG G 6 so it looks a

little bit over sharp to my eye but it

is still shooting in 4k however one of

the cool things is you can seamlessly

switch between the two cameras this is

what the wide-angle looks like and then

we can jump right back into the standard

on the other hand the galaxy s 8 video

looks pretty impressive it's not only a

saturation nice but because it does have

the bigger sensor we do get some depth

of field here also the stabilization

seems to be reasonable and C it may be

trips up just a little bit when you make

a big move but it is hard to argue with

this camera I mean sure it's not a huge

upgrade over the s7 and the g 6 camera

especially having the wide-angle

both cameras look great especially for

stills when you look at the whole

package I think it's going to be really

tough to beat this sa

and that kind of tells the story I'm

afraid the g6 is a good phone if the s8

didn't exist it would be a great phone

the problem is this just does so many

things so well that's going to be hard

to argue with so what do you guys think

about the g6 and the Galaxy s8 let me

know in the comments below and I will

catch you on the next one