Some of you have likely had your device since launch now. I've somehow managed to delay myself, whether it was waiting for final Note 3 reviews to come out, waiting to see if the Nexus 5 was really going to get a reveal on the 15th (even though I don't expect it on Verizon and wouldn't really want the smaller battery and 8MP camera anyway), etc. Trigger finger is starting to itch.
I keep watching reviews and comparisons and rather than finding things that change my mind, I keep finding more I like about it. That notebook feature that comes on the stock ROM where you can create different notebooks, give them covers, etc, looks pretty cool. If I recall the video I watched correctly, somewhere in the status bar is a button that you can press to take a screenshot and doodle on top of it prior to saving it like the Note 3 does. All extra little features that I wasn't even aware of until recently.
Just today I started hearing about Verizon rolling out the AWS band and some cities starting to see 50mbps + speeds. I thought for sure I'd go check if the LG G2 supports this band and find out that it didn't, and be sent all the way back to square one in my search for a new phone, but it does support it! Totally would have crossed this phone off my list if it was already going to get outdated by not supporting the newer bands that VZW is rolling out. So just one more thing making me want the G2. My Bionic certainly won't be able to jump on this new AWS band 4.
If you saw my other thread I am still very concerned that LG is going to suck at updating this phone and that will be the only thing I see making me regret this purchase sometime in the (near?) future, but I'm trying to have faith that the dev community will provide for this phone and maybe even once the Nexus 5 comes out we'll get some stock stuff ported over. (Not looking to discuss the potential of updates again, as that would be a repeat of my last thread) Although I'm seeing so many cool things about the stock ROM, and occasionally come across a tidbit like somebody claiming optical image stabilization only works with the stock ROM (?), that this might be the first phone where I don't really care to flash something custom anyway.
A few of the things I didn't like about the stock G2 have already been modded. You can trick the phone into thinking it doesn't have a menu button in the nav bar to get the overflow menu back in most apps, can modify the status bar to have a recent apps button, flashable zips to make the sound output much better (reportedly), etc. Only thing I remember hearing bad about the G2 that I'm not sure is fixed yet is that LG did something weird with the system fonts where apparently certain italic text doesn't show up in the Play Store or something like that? I can live with that.
Anyone have this device and had such a rough experience that you'd want to tell someone considering purchasing at full retail not to do it?
I keep watching reviews and comparisons and rather than finding things that change my mind, I keep finding more I like about it. That notebook feature that comes on the stock ROM where you can create different notebooks, give them covers, etc, looks pretty cool. If I recall the video I watched correctly, somewhere in the status bar is a button that you can press to take a screenshot and doodle on top of it prior to saving it like the Note 3 does. All extra little features that I wasn't even aware of until recently.
Just today I started hearing about Verizon rolling out the AWS band and some cities starting to see 50mbps + speeds. I thought for sure I'd go check if the LG G2 supports this band and find out that it didn't, and be sent all the way back to square one in my search for a new phone, but it does support it! Totally would have crossed this phone off my list if it was already going to get outdated by not supporting the newer bands that VZW is rolling out. So just one more thing making me want the G2. My Bionic certainly won't be able to jump on this new AWS band 4.
If you saw my other thread I am still very concerned that LG is going to suck at updating this phone and that will be the only thing I see making me regret this purchase sometime in the (near?) future, but I'm trying to have faith that the dev community will provide for this phone and maybe even once the Nexus 5 comes out we'll get some stock stuff ported over. (Not looking to discuss the potential of updates again, as that would be a repeat of my last thread) Although I'm seeing so many cool things about the stock ROM, and occasionally come across a tidbit like somebody claiming optical image stabilization only works with the stock ROM (?), that this might be the first phone where I don't really care to flash something custom anyway.
A few of the things I didn't like about the stock G2 have already been modded. You can trick the phone into thinking it doesn't have a menu button in the nav bar to get the overflow menu back in most apps, can modify the status bar to have a recent apps button, flashable zips to make the sound output much better (reportedly), etc. Only thing I remember hearing bad about the G2 that I'm not sure is fixed yet is that LG did something weird with the system fonts where apparently certain italic text doesn't show up in the Play Store or something like that? I can live with that.
Anyone have this device and had such a rough experience that you'd want to tell someone considering purchasing at full retail not to do it?
