LG G8X review. After one month.

I have been using the LG G8X for the past one month as my daily, and here are the things that I came to notice. The phone has excellent performance thanks to the snapdragon 855, which is still a powerful chip. The phone hasn't lagged or stuttered even once. The build quality is amazing. The phone has gorilla glass 4 on the front and back with metal side rails and feels premium in the hand, but it is very slippery, so a case or skin is recommended.

The 4000 mah battery is great. I have been getting 5+ hours of screen on time everyday. The phone also supports fast charging, and the 18watt charger given in the box can juice up the phone from 0-100 in an hour and a half. The screen is a G-OLED which has great viewing angles and color reproduction. The brightness is okay for outdoor viewing, but is not clearly visible under direct sunlight. The speaker at the bottom paired with the earpiece acts a nice stereo pair. There is distortion at very high volume, but 80-90% volume is excellent and has a very good stereo separation. 

Coming to the cameras, the phone has a 12mp main lens, a 13mp ultrawide and a 32mp selfie shooter. The camera hardware is capable of  producing really good images, but LG camera software is not that great. Portrait mode is bad, night view is not usable at all, the photos lack dynamic range and the colors are also not good. Things are same with the front camera as well. But every problem the rear camera has is solved by GCam. GCam photos are flagship quality with outstanding dynamic range, excellent portraits and night sight is really good. But the front facing camera still is very noisy and lacks detail.

The video on the phone is good. Rear main lens can shoot 4K 60 fps video with OIS and the other cameras can shoot 4K 30fps video. The video lacks dynamic range and exposure control, but with good lighting the cameras can produce really good video.

Coming to the highlight of the phone, the dual display, the secondary display is the same as the main display, so everything good on the main screen is applicable to the second screen as well. Multitasking is a breeze with the second screen and I enjoyed playing games with LG gamepad on the second screen. But I stopped using the secondary screen because is makes the phone really heavy. My hand started paining after holding the phone for an extended period of time. 

Coming to software, the phone runs on LG custom skin on top of Android 10. The software has good features but the user is bombarded with a landslide of bloatware that cant be removed and this really bugged me. Other than that, the phone has really good haptics and my personal favorite, the headphone jack. I just love the zero latency gaming on this phone due to that headphone jack.

Summarizing, the phone has fast performance, good display, haptics and speakers. It also has IP68 water and dust resistant and wireless charging. The cameras will also turn out good if you can do some tinkering with the software. I would recommend this phone to any power user, to whom performance is the top priority. Selfie lovers will be disappointed with the front camera but cant complain as this phone is available for around RS 25k during sales on certain e-commerce websites.