The LG G6 smartphone, the awesome anti-Galaxy S8 weapon from Samsung

TEST A few days after the official launch of the Samsung Galaxy S8, the main competitors are filling their weapons to try to cope with the tidal wave of the Korean brand's new smartphone. Like the LG launching the G6, a device dreadful for more than one reason.

If LG knows how to make good smartphones, it is always difficult to win in the world top 5. The Korean consumer electronics giant does not succeed in singing his Samsung companion, who has managed to secure himself on the top step of the podium, ahead of Apple, Huawei and two other Chinese brands unknown in Europe (Oppo and Vivo). The Galaxy S8, Samsung's new smartphone, will have the heavy task of forgetting the recent setbacks of the Galaxy Note 7, which was taken off the sale for battery defects.

LG therefore needs iconic flagships to try to stick to the leaders. In 2016, it sold 55 million smartphones when the world number 5 Vivo was 77 million devices (and the world number one took off with 311.4 million units sold). And the G6, the latest born, can be the sesame of a new era for the builder who makes the choice of reason here with a device that falls into the ranks. The new premium smartphone of the brand wants to be the most gathering possible and breaks radically with the technological bets of its predecessors, such as the choice of modular for the G5 for example. "We remain a challenger," said Stéphane Curtelin, marketing manager for France, "the G5 was a bold product." 2017 announces the age of reason and reconstruction for LG, over time and with a road map behind.

The age of Reason

And this age of reason is realized first of all by a classic design for the G6 that no longer seeks to be cleavage. Place to metal and glass for very premium finishes. With a large place made on the screen which is the great novelty of this device. LG is part of the great trend spring summer 2017 by pushing the boundaries of the screen and proposing a quasi border-less slab in 18: 9 format. The manufacturer manages to hold a 5.7-inch screen in a device case equivalent to that of a 5.2-inch. Either the screen of a tablet that holds and can be ordered with one hand. That is the G6's great strength. All the more so with its resolution QuadHD Plus (2.880x1.440 pixels) and Dolby Vision technology, it offers here a very high quality image that will delight fans of videos on smartphone. This format is rather convincing to use is not free of defects since all applications and videos (in 16: 9) are not yet optimized for such a display. It will not be unusual to have black bands that will limit the interest.

Another undeniable advantage of the G6, the dual camera. It takes again the dual objective of the G5 with two sensors of 13 million pixels one of which offers a normal angle of 71 ° and the other a wide angle of 125 °, very appreciable to make pictures with a very viewing angle large. The result is amazing whether it is day or night. This is undoubtedly the other strength of the G6. Another point to note is the possibility of making selfies with an angle of 100 degrees, in order not to exclude his comrades in the image.

On the technical level, the configuration offered here is part of the top of the range, with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 quad-core processor, 4 GB of RAM, 32 GB of storage, a 3.300 mAh battery capacity ... Another advantage is IP68 Which makes the device resistant to water and dust.