LG G7 ThinQ (LMG710EM.AGBRBK) Sim-Free Smartphone, 6.1-inch QHD+ Display, 4GB RAM, 64GB Storage, Android 8.0 - Black

I needed to replace my old phone and I needed a phone that would take excellent photo's and video's as well all the other things that a modern top of the range smartphone can do.I spent a couple of months researching suitable phones and settled on 3 contenders Pixel 2XL, iPhone XSMax and OnePlus 6T, then a couple of weeks ago I stumbled across a review of the LG G7, I started watching videos and reading reviews and finally ordered the phone off Amazon for around £400. The phone arrived yesterday and here are my first impressions:The phone came with 50% charge and included an LG UK 3 pin fast charger which will take the phone from empty to full charge in 90 mins and to 50% full in around 30mins.The phone is fast with a beautiful display.I found the setup to be easy and quick.Before I switched the phone on, I added my sim card and a 128GB memory card (also purchased from Amazon for about £20). The phone comes with 64GB so plenty of space, but as I will be taking lots of high res photos and 4K videos I wanted the extra storage. The LG G7 immediately recognised the extra memory and set up the phone to use it. Nice and simple :)The phone has a rear fingerprint sensor, which was a bit weird at first, but only after a few minutes of use seems so much better than having one on the front.Once set up, the next thing I did was to check out the cameras, the LG G7 has two cameras, normal and wide angle. Both cameras are excellent and the results very, very impressive.You get incredible photos and videos from the Pixel 2 and 3 phones, but the LG G7 photo's and videos look very close in quality to me, and what I really like about the LG G7 is the flexibility of the extra wide angle lens, plus the manual controls over both still photography and when filming videos, it's really impressive.Sound and Audio. I've been pleasantly surprised by the audio of this phone. It only has one small speaker mounted in the base of the phone, but it uses space in the phone as a kind of boom box, causing the whole phone to gently vibrate while you hold it (not an unpleasant experience LOL), but put the phone down on a table and the sound it produces gets deeper and richer, but if you use headphones then the phone has 32-bit Hi-Fi Quad DAC for wired headphones and a Bluetooth 5.0 connection that supports AptX HD, and DTS:X Virtual Surround as well.Now, one of the things a lot of the reviews I read/watched talked about is the battery life. I have to say I did notice this going down quite quickly, but while I would have prefered a longer lasting battery I'm happy to compromise on this and carry a small portable charger with me, and a bigger one (PISEN 10000mAh Portable Charger LED Display) when I'm out taking photos or filming videos.TLDR: Overall my first impression is that the LG G7 is a fantastic phone that takes brilliant photos and videos with a range of modes from Auto AI Camera and fully Manual, has awesome audio, a brilliant display and is marred slightly by the battery life.LG G7 ThinQ (LMG710EM.AGBRBK) Sim-Free Smartphone, 6.1-inch QHD+ Display, 4GB RAM, 64GB Storage, Android 8.0 - BlackSanDisk Ultra 128GB microSDXC Memory Card + SD Adapter with A1 App Performance up to 100MB/s, Class 10, U1Spigen a27cs23038 6.1 "Cover Blue Marine, Silver Mobile Phone CasePISEN 10000mAh Portable Charger LED Display Ultra Slim Power Bank High Capacity External Battery Pack for iPhone,iPad,Samsung,Nexus and More.(Silver)

Phone is advertised as sim free but was in fact locked, had to get it unlocked, phone shop says it's an American phone and has caused me a lot of grief trying to sort, still not sorted as I can't get any mobile dataNot impressed

Wow what a great phone for 320 pounds. I purchased an open box like new one. Great phone , super bright screen. Don’t know why this is not a sales success like Samsung ecc. better for me I got it super cheap.

Although things started out well both the volume up/down side buttons fell out within a day. Which is a real shame as everything was going so well. The audio output through the DAC is fantastic for playing music and of course it has a 3.5mm jack socket. But no good if you can't control the volume.Screen brightness, definition, general software operation was really nice.So yes, real shame but had to go back for a refund

DOES NOT WORK CORRECTLY FOR A DUAL SIM CARD...CANNOT EASILY SWITCH BETWEEN THEM AS PER A EURO OR UK SPEC PHONE. YOU CANNOT USE TWO SIMS AND THE SD CARD ALL TOGETHER. VERY DISSAPOINTED

Slick sleek phone. Performs flawlessly for any task. Battery is amazing, gets me two days average use but when you aren't using it the standby is forever. Literally drops about 1% every two hours when left alone. Screen isn't scratch proof tho found that I had to have a protector on straight away.

This was an upgrade for my Nexus 6P, primarily for the DAC feature that improves quality with headphones, as I use my phone for music whether travelling or at work etc etc.The DAC honestly wasn't as life changing as I expected, to get sound I like I had to:- create custom eq setting, & leave the surround sound thing on 'wide'- install the EQ app (Equalizer, with orange icon) I used on the last phone, and enable the 'Sound amplifier' option. This is the biggest thing - I found the sound was weirdly not 'punchy' in the mid ranges where all the interesting stuff is until I did thisThink it's an OK state now, but really I could have got a OnePlus and a 'Dragonfly' DAC or something and still spent less money than this...Other observations:Living in the UK, getting a phone whose screen's main feature is that it goes very bright was probably a daft idea. I miss having OLED, especially at night when you don't want to be blinded by light. On screen motion creates a blur, and there's absolutely no sense of 'wow this is a nice screen' when watching something on Netflix etc. Protip, in fullscreen video you can pinch to zoom in/out, if you want to use the full phone width for the video (chopping top/bottom off slightly).This phone is actually thicker than my old Nexus, slightly gutting.My Nexus 6P is still getting the most recent Android 8.1 security patches. Meanwhile this is on some ancient version of 8.0. I imagine it's gona be some wait for Android 9 :(The 'boombox' speaker thing is garbage. There's an inescapable '2010 chav on the bus' tinniness to the sound produced, even if the mid/lower bits sound slightly better than normal. Worse, having one speaker, on one side, means that your default built in speaker experience is sub par. You definitely notice it coming not from the phone in general, but from one side.Photos look nice, but look bad as soon as you zoom in, in a way that didn't happen with my Nexus. But maybe I need to tweak something. The AI Cam feature identifies everything as ham.Every time you insert a SIM card, it resets the default launcher. Said launcher is pretty reasonable (after enabling app draw) though; I've been switching between that and a sideloaded Google Pixel launcher.It feels fast! Wonder how long this will last...SummaryGet a OnePlus/something else. If you want Audio, this isn't all that. Otherwise you condemn yourself to walk the earth for the next few years with an LCD screen, ancient android version, seeing nothing but ham.

So far amazing phone for the price. Hust as good as my last phone wgich was a samsung 8. Does what i need it to quickly and has two days easy on a full charge. 2 hours to charge to 100% as well. Great buy at £399