Review LG G3 S D724

Test results LG G3 S (D724)

Expert evaluations

Dimensions and weight

Screen

Cameras

Working with text

Internet

Interfaces

Multimedia

Battery

Performance

Memory

Smartphone LG G3 S (D 724) should not be confused with a mini-version of the flagship. As a rule, mini flagship offer the same functionality as the older version, but with a smaller diagonal and processor easier. LG G3 S - not "mini" is just 5 inches in the display, and the characteristics of its flagship far.The only thing that unites him with the older LG G3  - it looks. On the one hand, compared to the  LG G2 Mini , the new product has been improved: increased display resolution to the typical young champions (HD), the smart phone has received a laser focus as LG G3, narrow frame around the display. On the other hand, it has the same processor as two years ago, as a small amount of internal memory, the brand and the display is no luminance sensor. But the smartphone has increased in size, but has become unsuitable for use with one hand and lost during runtime. No sign of "flagship" we found: the old standard Wi-Fi, there is no support LTE, no NFC, optical stabilization, as LG G3, «just» 1 GB of RAM. But LG has always equips the device with an infrared port. LG G3 S, of course, much cheaper mini flagship competition, but the price is still relatively high. Moreover, the overpayment is only for laser autofocus and design, like the LG G3.

Dimensions

Despite the fact that the smartphone LG G3 S can be taken as a mini version of the flagship, it is not a little: the diagonal "mini flagship" as much as 5 inches (versus 5.5 inches on LG G3). Nevertheless, its dimensions LG G3 S compact majority 5-inch smartphones and comparable with LG Nexus 5 due to the narrow framework of the sides, top and bottom. And the ratio of surface area to display a smartphone tends to one who knows, maybe the side frame on these flagship LG have seen with a magnifying glass? As for the weight of the smartphone, the 'lite' version became thicker than the original - the thickness of the convex hull comes to 10.4 mm. In his hand LG G3 S is convenient elder brother, but with one hand with him cope. The design of the smartphone LG G3 repeats every detail: the same grille speaker audio jack on the bottom, "sides" of the smartphone free of controls, making LG G3 S looks already. Meticulous consumers saying only that on LG G3 microphone hole was left of the USB-connector, and LG G3 S is moved to the right, but the difference is small. And of course, the main feature of the series - the volume keys and power button are located on the rear panel. And yet, in our opinion, a person with long fingers to use these buttons will be uncomfortable. Also unusual buttons can be noted arched smartphone and its stylized metal, which is created with the help of parallel notches.

Housing LG G3 S is not made of metal and plastic, but collected efficiently. Corpus way folding, cover is easily removed with it, you can remove the battery and the smartphone, insert the memory card and two Micro-SIM card. But to put the lid back is not so convenient, most likely, you will have to "go" and put pressure on some individual latches. Smartphone LG G3 S can be purchased in white, gold or black (or titanium) colors.

Screen

Display LG G3 S we left ambiguous impression, though, considering the price of the device, you can expect some drawbacks. Screen size 5 inches, resolution - typical mini versions flagships - 1280 × 720 pixels, the type of matrix - IPS. The pixel density is obtained is not the highest - 294 pixels per inch, visitors can even examine the individual pixels on the screen. True, you might be more than annoying stains on fingers, apparently oleophobic coating is not here. But the screen is covered with protective glass. What about display resolution, against the background of Quad HD on LG G3 (2560 × 1440 pixels), it seems more than a pale, but when compared with the recently released LG G2 mini with its resolution of 960 × 540 screen LG G3 S seem " SUPER FINE ". For our opinion on this matter - a typical resolution for devices of this class. The brightness level of the display is slightly above average - 397 cd / m2, even with a small, but stock.Viewing angles are average, with the flagship and some are not, but the colors on the display appear quite realistic. In the sun, reading from the display significantly more difficult, but it is real. Somehow only flagship smartphone LG equipped with a light sensor, as LG G3 S such does not, then it does not have auto brightness function, and only her pale copy - you can assign a "night" when the display brightness is reduced. Although accessibility, to our surprise, there were a function of "Shade" by proposing "muted lighting, providing blind preserving battery life." Maybe just the difficulties of translation.

Camera

The smartphone LG G3 S has two cameras 8 and 1.3 MP. Perhaps the only steep technical trick that got G3 S from the flagship - laser focus. With a smartphone faster laser is focused, in all other respects it is quite typical of the smartphone camera, the quality of shooting is slightly above average. Unusual shot can only be described on the tin on the front camera, that is, you have the opportunity to self with the help of hands we have to show the camera a hand, and when he finds her, squeeze her fingers. It is not clear why this is necessary, but it is interesting. The feature set is pretty standard, face detection, LED flash, mode of HDR, photography by voice command, Stitch, etc.
Maximum image resolution - 3264 to 2448 pixels. The camera interface looks minimalistic, setting here a little.The front camera shoots at a resolution of 1280 by 720 pixels. Maximum resolution when shooting video - Full HD 1920 x 1080 pixels at 30 / s. The front camera can shoot video in HD resolution, which should be enough for video calls.

Working with text

The LG G3 S uses the same convenient built-in keyboard, as well as on the LG G3. Unfortunately, not counting the additional characters in the Cyrillic layout and is only available when working with latitsinitsey. This top of the keyboard hangs separate digital series, you can switch between languages ​​with one button and a number of typical for LG keyboard functions. For example, one-hand - you can "move" the keyboard left or right to adjust its height, layout and share it with two fingers out, pre-checking the desired setting. In general, everything is fine, just do not understand why there is a stroke of the finger input (Swype).

Internet

On the smartphone LG G3 S preinstalled Google Chrome and Android-standard browser. With the first all is clear: the synchronization of tabs with the desktop Chrome and "one-time" scaling of text under the pre-selected size. In the second case: the standard "trick» Capture PluS to capture screenshots from the entire page. But no multiple masshatabirovaniya text with its fit to the width of the screen or a separate reading modes, but you can ask the browser not to load images.

Interfaces

In terms of interfaces, LG G3 S bit disappointed. It is, of course, it supports the most common wireless interfaces: Wi-Fi (standard 802.11 b / g / n), with the possibility to distribute other Internet device. Available with Bluetooth low energy and A2DP profile to stream music, A-GPS with support for GLONASS from an unusual here only infrared to control home electronics. However, with all of this dual-band Wi-FI in the smart phone is not supported, there is no NFC-chip does not support LTE. LG launched the modification LG G3 S (D724), capable of operating in the LTE-networks, but in Russia it is almost common, we have, as a rule, are sold D 724. Even USB-connector does not support USB-Host or MHL. LG G3 S has the support of two SIM-cards, but only one radio, so when speaking with a SIM-card, the second is not available.

Multimedia

The video player in the LG G3 S supports many popular formats and video codecs and normally plays video in high quality. There is also support for subtitles. The music player in LG G3 S supports popular formats like MP3, WAV, uncompressed audio to FLAC format player personally did not find, but if you tell him to files through the File Manager, and then played them.

Battery

The smartphone LG G3 S has a removable lithium-ion battery capacity of 2540 mAh, the capacity is not bad, but the results still are not that high and only slightly, but ahead of the flagship "unfortunate results." Phone lost HD-video at the maximum brightness of about 6 and a half hours. The music playback with the screen off the discharge unit for 56 hours. One might have expected a better result than the LG G3 because of much lower resolution, but apparently not contributed to a smaller capacity.

Performance

Chipset :	Qualcomm MSM8226 Snapdragon 400
Number of cores and frequency :	four cores, 1.2 GGtsts
Memory :	1GB
Built-in memory :	8 GB
Graphics processor :	Adreno 305

All predictable in LG G3 S uses an inexpensive mid-level platform - Qualcomm MSM8226 Snapdragon 400 quad-core processor with 1.2 GHz, Adreno 305 graphics subsystem, and 1 GB of RAM. The results in terms of performance - the average for a typical telephone tasks missing. Though in the "heavy" browsing smartphone brakes, and these elements of web design as sliders on pages moved discontinuously rather than smooth. As a gaming platform phone will not work, though, you can run most modern games, but limited in the schedule.By the way, in the test 3dmark Ice Storm Unlimited smartphone received 4655 points, which is slightly higher than, for example, ASuS Zenfone 5. In AnTuTu - 17635 that the benchmark assessed as "good", but ASuS Zenfone 5 usually got about 19 thousand points the same test.

Memory

The total amount of internal memory in LG G3 S is 8 GB, of which the user can use a little less than 4 GB. You will have to buy a memory card, well, that has a slot for a memory card and supports cards up to 64 GB. There are also hot-swappable, you only need to remove the cover, then access to the memory card does not difficult, restart the smartphone to work with the card is not necessary.

Features

LG G3 S runs on OS Android 4.4.2, with a proprietary shell from LG. Here and its launcher, the browser dialer and many other embedded applications with its own design and features. It is worth noting the possibility of including the display without having to press the power button - by double-clicking on the display. Also interesting are the buttons on the rear panel, which is necessary to get used, and the laser auto-focus, however, it is not very much helps to improve the quality of shooting. As for buttons on the back of the device, not all will just get used to it if you have a big hand, you have an unnaturally bent finger, and can create a "risky" situation where the smart phone can fall out. Of the applications can be noted company file manager, radio (headset), Quick Remote. As in many smart phones, there are intelligent function screen - the display will remain switched on until the phone recognizes your face in front.

Competitors

First I wanted to compare LG G3 S with such phones as the Samsung Galaxy Alpha, Samsung Galaxy S5 mini and Sony Xperia Z3 Compact. But, as shown by tests, it is not one of our kind. The level was above the expectations of harsh reality, LG G3 S (D724) is not drawn to the level of mini flagship, all the basic criteria, so we can only compare it with inexpensive phones easier. In the spring of 2015 the price of LG G3 S is about 15220 rubles. Its competitors can be called Asus Zenfone 5  and Huawei Honor C3. Both these models are significantly cheaper, also have the support of two SIM-cards do not work in the LTE-networks are the same diagonal and resolution screens. At the same time their displays have oleophobic coating, which LG G3 S was deprived of more RAM.  By the way, ASuS Zenfone even possible to find the internal memory of 16 GB, in fact (the volume available to the user) will be not two, but three times more than the LG G3 S. LG G3 S can recoup only unusual design which is not to everybody's taste, laser focus, not much improved picture quality and slightly longer battery life. Is it worth it to pay for several thousand - you decide.