Unlocked LG G6 32GB Smartphone - Compatible with AT&T, T-Mobile & Verizon - Prime Exclusive Black - Perfect for Streaming, Gaming & Business Use

Just got this two days ago, so not going to do cartwheels just yet.However, every crucial function is performing as expected so far (you know, like email, texting, phone calls, streaming data, wifi, camera).Also, Android Oreo 8.0 updated successfully without bricking the phone, so that's no small thing.Also, screen resolution is fantastic. I came from the MOTO G5 plus, and was very happy with that screen and skeptical that this one would be noticeably superior, but it is.Got this phone mostly because I wanted a larger screen and NFC, not because the G5 plus was not a really good phone.If I had had the MOTO X4 and not the G5, probably wouldn't have pulled the trigger on this because the x4 has NFC, which is the thing that bugs me most about lower and mid tier phones, most of them don't have or disable NFC, which is obviously more of a marketing ploy than a pure cost decision.The only potential "knock" I'll put on this so far is that this phone tends to get a little "warm", which I will be watching closely over the next few weeks. I had a LG G4 which eventually succumbed to the dreaded "bootloop", and that got not only warm but downright hot, and that was going on right from the start. I don't the same thing is going on here, but we'll see.Anyway, G6 is an impressive piece of work, remains to be seen if it's "reliable".10/1 Quick update: The "heat dissipation" issue seems to have completely abated and for the time being is no longer a concern, phone is not hot or really even warm to the touch.Interestingly, I had read somewhere else that the phone takes a day or two to kind of "settle in" in terms of heat, which seemedkind of curious and unlikely to me but that seems to be exactly what happened with my phone.All things being equal, this is by far the best buy for a phone on Amazon or anywhere else for that matter. I mean, you can'ttouch a flagship level phone with this feature set for $379 bucks.10/8 Update - Still working well, only real "niggle" would be with the battery. It's not awful, but it's far from great, not nearly as "robust" as the Moto G5 plus, which has a crazy awesome battery. I guess when you have a screen as large and demanding as this one, something has to give, and I suppose it's the overall battery life.11/8 Update - Phone works well, does everything it was "advertised" to do.As somebody who had the LG G2, which was a phone that was pretty universally praised, I was hoping that this phone would come up to that standard, but unfortunately I don't quite think it does.I figured that since this phone was 4 years down the line from the G2, it's performance would be that much "crisper", but surprisingly enough it suffers from some annoying video "stutter" when loading and using some apps.Coming from a Moto G5 plus, I thought that the performance of this phone would be a notch higher, but to be honest the G5 plus "feels" like a faster phone, which to me is quite disappointing. And as I had mentioned in the body of the review, the battery on the G5 plus is far superior to the LG.If I could go back in time, I might have taken a shot with the MOTO Z3 play, there's just something about the G6 that I don't love. It's not "bad", and it is a great looking phone with a nice screen, but it's just not as "crisp" as I would expect a premium phone built in 2017 to be.Final notes:It's a good, not great phone. Bought it here when it was $379, since then it's gone down to $359.It's best feature is it's generously sized, bright and sharp 5.7" display, and has all the flagship level features (800 class Snapdragon, dual cameras, facial recognition, wireless charging, NFC.) that you would expect.However, there is just something about it that prevents me from "loving" this phone, and it's hard to pinpoint.Battery life is only "OK", not nearly as robust as the MOTO line, and the overall performance is not as "snappy" as one would expect a "flagship" level phone should be. My MOTO G5 plus can hang with this phone, and it only has a 625 chip.If I could do it all over, I would have just bought the MOTO X4, because my main gripe with the G5 was that it didn't have the NFC chip.So, my final verdict would be this. Unless you just have to have a 5.7 inch screen, I would go with the MOTO X4 on this site. It's only got a 5.2 inch screen, but that is more than adequate for just about anything, and it has NFC, dual cameras, a very solid Snapdragon 630 and it's $150 less. By far the best value out there right now.Feb 3, 2019 update:Stumbled across a quirk in how the battery reports a "full charge" when it actually it's not.Up until a few weeks ago, I used pull the charger out almost immediately after it reported "100% full".This usually resulted in anywhere from an estimated 27 to 29 hour charge according to the G6.Compared to my MOTO G5 plus which sometimes would start off with a 2 1/2 day charge, I thoughtthat was a little chintzy.However, I experimented by leaving the charger in an extra few hours past the "100%" reporting, and have gottenup to 39 1/2 hours on the report. What that tells me is that the calibration for the reporting is way off, and alsowould contribute to the fact that many people report that their battery life is poor (It may be due to the fact that they think their battery is 100% charged when in fact it's only 75% or less.