ibrating Screen Instead of Speakers? LG G8#Helpful Post

so we could have done a full review of

the LGG 8 but the reality of it is that

most phones are pretty much the same

thing I look at a couple of key gimmicks

these days anyway so we figured what the

hey why don't we just do a phone gimmick

video instead focusing on of course the

big gimmick of the g8 the rear

fingerprint sensor just kidding that was

what the g2 anyway no the screen that

actually vibrates to make forward-facing

sound yes my friends there's no speaker

on the way though you think that's the

biggest gimmick there's worse it gets

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so do you want to show off the weird

vibrating screen speaker first or the

hand on lock first I want to do the

vibrating screen first when you heard

that this phone had that feature did you

assume that it had no other speakers and

no other holes I did and then I got

really confused because as soon as I sat

here and you put it on the table I was

like woah hold on a second it's got

speaker holes in the bottom and making

matters even more confusing it doesn't

even seem like it's a good speaker

solution because it's the old-fashioned

fire into your palm and you know curve

your palm real nice so you can actually

hear anything thing like there's

actually no speaker at the table the

exciter is right about here kind of

right where that Google search bar is it

is meant to be a top speaker even though

it does kind of shake the whole screen

let's put some sound on you can might be

able to hear that it's louder at the top

and the bottom I would say the stereo

effect on this is far less convincing

than even like a really a really small

amplified earpiece speaker like what

I've got on the note 9 it's you can

really tell like where it's coming from

and it's especially because you've got

that downward firing one into your hand

it's like kind of out here yes and then

this one is like here so it's almost

like a weird offset like if you were to

take your projector screen and put one

of your speakers well behind it and then

one of them way over on the side like

it's not a proper stereo effect and it's

really quiet the other issue here is

that this phone just doesn't sound very

good I'm not only 7080 percent right now

and there's clear Distortion okay

compare that to a pixel 3 that has dual

front firing speakers in stereo yeah

like it crushes it but I bet you can go

higher without Distortion

a little bit okay hold on let me crank

this though

it's ugly the phone really vibrates

noticeably in your hand so what I'm

trying to figure out though is whether

that's from the vibrating screen aspect

or if it's from the boombox speaker

thing so the g7 the phone that came

before this had these boombox speakers

so they actually utilize some of the

space of the phone as an acoustic

resonance chamber for the speaker so

they actually hollowed out some aspect

of this and that vibrated your hand on

the g7 even though there was no

vibrating screen it's actually kind of

unpleasant and it's really unfortunate

because my first impressions of the g8

are honestly really good like I like the

really natural curve they've got for the

glass back here I really like the

rounded corners down here it fits nicely

in the hand it's not gigantic so if

you're the kind of person who doesn't

want like a frickin tablet in your

pocket then it's it's actually like it's

still one handable you know like I can

actually type on this with one hand it's

got glass on the sides now and look what

they did this isn't even improvement

compared to the g7 as they managed to

have no more bump no camera bump at all

oh it felt really sleek but I couldn't

put my finger on why oh okay well now we

got to try a phone call then yes because

there's another aspect that is

potentially awesome which is it's

somewhere between speaker and bone

conduction speaker apparently they say

if you're in a noisy environment you can

just put it closer to your jaw and you

can hear better than you can with a

normal phone okay so we figure what

better way to create a noisy environment

than to just crank something on our

brand-new okay it's not all set up but

it should still make noise home theater

setup this is still a home theater if

it's at work so this is bizarre I could

hold my phone right here like some kind

of freaking moron and I can still hear

this pine that's pretty cool all right

now let's introduce some noise pollution

let's say you go to Hawaii

okay come on back in so that's

impressive I actually wasn't that

convinced again while I was trying to

hold the phone to my ear at the top like

I would be in the habit of doing but

then once I actually put my ear sound

absorption hole right here where the

actual exciter is I was able to even

after he turned it back up I was able to

hear you quite clearly so are you saying

that it's not great for consuming

content but I can for calls it's pretty

sweet actually

yeah I'd say that's that's really fair

if you actually take a lot of phone

calls in crowded environments cuz you

could hear me pretty well - yeah that's

impressed I was literally standing next

to speakers with obnoxious music like

the epitome of obnoxious music playing

so I think as long as you have the right

expectations then you might be impressed

with this because I thought it was gonna

be awesome sound and no speakers and

that's what I thought based on the TV

demos and that's not even the most

gimmicky gimmick though right they claim

that you can unlock the phone with your

palm it's like with my Palm Pilot

I can remote into it and unlock it

uh-huh does anyone even get who's gonna

get that no one something so they put

one of those time of flight sensors on

the front of this which is what face IDs

all go and this does have face on lock

which is sweet but for some reason the

feature you never knew you didn't want

you can also use your hand to unlock it

you can now unlock your phone with hand

ID in theory you did it did it yeah do

it again okay

I've never got two in a row

yeah

so it's not fast though yeah an under

screen fingerprint sensor is clearly a

better solution with that said the one

plus 60 is fast but the ultrasonic

sensor wrong phone not impressive to me

so far check this out it might as well

be an iPhone 6 it might as well be hand

unlock it's our new punch line for LG

hand game

everything's gate with this thing

vibrating screen gate ok ok so lucky you

it unlocks for you that's great now that

actually has other features that you can

do with your hand

other than unlocking it they're called

air motion gesture sounds terrible air

motion try holding your hands 6 to 10

centimeters away 6 to 10 shooting let me

get that dialed right in for you ok

don't pretend like you aren't intimately

familiar with that line ok so you see

that green bar that came up yeah ok now

move your hand

20 centimeters away ok now you're

supposed to be able to like swipe to

start an app or pinch for pinch for a

screen shots like that like a duck but

it's supposed to be giving you a preview

where it kind of images your hand and

you can see what your hand is doing but

it's not even giving you the preview

anymore

oh wait why isn't the preview coming up

if the bar is coming up I can't take

this anymore and then the last unusual

feature is that portrait mode now

instead of just having stills capture

and the ability to change your

background blur let me just blur you

somewhere here now it also has video

mode yeah this is not good like you add

some Twitter compression to this and you

are looking at a pretty bad time it's

almost a shame that those gimmicky

features suck because underneath all

that is like a pretty decent phone

Snapdragon 855 six gigs ram 128 gigs ROM

there's just the one SKU it's got IP 68

water resistance it's got a headphone

jack including LG's hole 32 pit HiFi

quad DAC thing they've actually got a

pretty good reputation for their analog

sound output it's got USB type-c 3,500

milliamp hour battery there's actually

not a lot to complain about here 6.1

inch display it's just like it feels

like the same thing I've been saying for

the last I don't know five years eight

years however long it's been about these

about phones really is like yeah it's

like pretty good except that they try to

write their own software instead of just

using Android and they apparently do

that so that they can build in these

weird features that mostly don't work

the speaker I mean it's not better than

a phone that you know just has a a

single bottom firing speaker but that

was the norm not that long ago and it

has the benefit of being able to use in

a crowded environment and not have to

like fuss around with you know holding

your phone in exactly the right spot so

that's pretty cool this thing though can

just disappear

for all I care I'd recommend it if it

wasn't running LG's skin that will

always be a problem for me it's actually

looks like they've made a lot of

improvements here to be perfectly honest

with you the icons are not ugly I don't

LG's skin it's better than Samsung's

well the way Samsung's was before it

recently improved it also pricing and

availability this will be out in the

next coming weeks depending on your

carrier for about probably 800 bucks

the g7 was 750 so it's a flagship it's

not the most expensive phone out there

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