LG's leather G4 is the swiss army knife of smartphones with a killer camera

With LG's new flagship G4 Android smartphone, life really is good. No, scratch that, life is great.

The best Android smartphones all have compromises. The Galaxy S6 has a fantastic camera, but dumped the removable battery and storage expansion Samsung so proudly trumpeted on the GS5HTC's One M9 has great speakers and a sleek design, but it's camera is junk. The Nexus 6 runs unaltered Android and has a big screen, but it's too damn big.

The G4 cuts no corners. I dare say, it's the first no-compromise Android smartphone, and that's no joke.

The G4 is better everything. Better design, better cameras, better software, and a better display. It's not like last year's G3 wasn't great — it had the best smartphone display at the time — but LG's somehow improved it even more. The 5.5-inch QuadHD (2,560 x 1,440) IPS Quantum display has 20% better color reproduction and 50% greater contrast. It's also 25% brighter and 11% more power efficient. Read more...