LG Q7 released - the G7's smaller, cooler brother

[D13H4RD]

7 hours ago, Djole123 said:

The source I cited suggests a Snapdragon 43x, the Q6 had a 435.

 

To be fair, the 435 is a perfectly capable chip, it's got 8, while not powerful, still decent cores.

435 is alright but also a little slow by today’s standards. I’ve used the Nokia 6 2017 with an identical chipset and it felt a little sluggish.

[Zodiark1593]

1 hour ago, DocSwag said:

These are A53 cores we're looking at though, which are way less powerful than the A73 based Kryo 260 cores in the Snapdragon 636

Tbh, Cortex A53 at high clock speeds seem sufficient for a lot of basic use cases. Android in general is really well optimized for many small cores.

[kokakolia]

2 hours ago, D13H4RD2L1V3 said:

435 is alright but also a little slow by today’s standards. I’ve used the Nokia 6 2017 with an identical chipset and it felt a little sluggish.

Well, it looks like everyone will buy the latest Motorola Moto G phone instead if we see specs like that. 

[D13H4RD]

1 hour ago, kokakolia said:

Well, it looks like everyone will buy the latest Motorola Moto G phone instead if we see specs like that. 

Or the new Nokia phones 

[Brooksie359]

11 hours ago, Rupe said:

No it's there because you need a place to put things like the camera and speaker. It creates more screen not less

Yeah that little bit of extra screen is so important that you have part of the image being covered up by a damn notch. I mean I would rather see the whole picture on a smaller screen than see part of it on a bigger one. I mean the screen size difference is so small but not being able to see part of the image is kinda a big deal, at least it is to me.

[D13H4RD]

3 hours ago, Zodiark1593 said:

Tbh, Cortex A53 at high clock speeds seem sufficient for a lot of basic use cases. Android in general is really well optimized for many small cores.

An SD435 is adequate but looks pretty underpowered in comparison to the phones in its class packing SD630 and SD636 SoCs

[kokakolia]

24 minutes ago, D13H4RD2L1V3 said:

An SD435 is adequate but looks pretty underpowered in comparison to the phones in its class packing SD630 and SD636 SoCs

The LG Q6 had the same problem! It just got ignored because other phones had better specs for the money. Even Apple seems to pack more value with the iPhone SE... 

[D13H4RD]

1 hour ago, kokakolia said:

The LG Q6 had the same problem! It just got ignored because other phones had better specs for the money. Even Apple seems to pack more value with the iPhone SE... 

It's just like the Samsung Galaxy J phones 

 

Except the J phones sell because it's Samsung. LG doesn't have the same recognition and the G4 plus G5 kinda left customers with the old "Lucky Goodstar" image 

[Nineshadow]

15 hours ago, Zodiark1593 said:

From a pure objective standpoint, curving the display around the sensors (aka, the "Notch") would be only advantageous with a good status bar implementation. Use of OLED (or on LCD, an extra OLED strip could be used along the top) to show only battery life, time, notifications, etc against a black background can allow use of the space without making it visually contrasting. 

 

Where I see the opposition to the "notch" is how the empty area encroaches upon your actual frame (the stuff you want to see), which I would agree wholeheartedly with.

I think LG was among the first ones to go with this trend with their secondary screen on the V10.

[Rupe]

6 hours ago, Brooksie359 said:

Yeah that little bit of extra screen is so important that you have part of the image being covered up by a damn notch. I mean I would rather see the whole picture on a smaller screen than see part of it on a bigger one. I mean the screen size difference is so small but not being able to see part of the image is kinda a big deal, at least it is to me.

But this is not how it is implemented. It shows notifications and battery and the such but when their is content like a video or game it black bars, so it's just like having an ordinary screen. (Or you can set it so it cuts off part of the image if you prefer)

[D13H4RD]

1 hour ago, Rupe said:

But this is not how it is implemented. It shows notifications and battery and the such but when their is content like a video or game it black bars, so it's just like having an ordinary screen. (Or you can set it so it cuts off part of the image if you prefer)

That depends on the implementation.

 

I know Android P will add universal support so apps getting parts of their UX chopped off won’t be a thing.....hopefully 

[mrchow19910319]

21 hours ago, iamdarkyoshi said:

Yeah. I can't stand the notch or rounded corners. You're essentially making a phone screen that is incapable of showing the entire image that the GPU is rendering

just a FYI... your cat is high... 

[DocSwag]

On 5/27/2018 at 8:02 PM, Zodiark1593 said:

Tbh, Cortex A53 at high clock speeds seem sufficient for a lot of basic use cases. Android in general is really well optimized for many small cores.

Sufficient, sure. Not as good? Definitely. Going from a SD810 OnePlus 2 that, because of how OnePlus handled burst workloads, essentially used A53s during web browsing to a SD835 I noticed an improvement in website loading time.

[poochyena]

On 5/27/2018 at 11:29 AM, Rupe said:

So if some of the top bezel had been screen it would be a worse phone?

yes. Having some bezel on top and bottom makes it much easier to hold the phone. No bezel at all would mean I am constantly accidentally touching the side of the screen.