On Wednesday I picked up my review sample of the LG G Flex 2. This is the second time I’ve used the phone, the first was at a pre-brief meeting in Las Vegas for CES. My initial reaction to the phone was “wow”. The reason for that was because I had used the original G Flex, and really liked it, despite it being somewhat impractical in size. But the new phone, it’s much improved, and it has far wider consumer appeal too.
But I’m not here today to fully review the phone, I need to spend longer with it first. What I have done is spend a little time with benchmarking app to see just how fast this phone is. I am, it has to be said, rather against benchmarks because I think they don’t express any real-world facts. But the G Flex 2 is the first phone with the controversial Snapdragon 810 system-on-a-chip, and I wanted to have a look into the overheating issue, and see how well it performs.
From what I’ve seen, the LG G Flex 2 is blazing fast and beats every other phone on the market according to the benchmarking tools I used. In every test (with one minor 64bit hiccup) the phone beats both the Note 4 and Galaxy S5 as well as, with 3DMark, the iPhone 6.
The model LG UK has given me is the SK Telecom model. It has a slightly different model number (LG F510S), but the specs compare to what we will see in the final US and European phones. There may be some differences in 4G frequency support, but that’s irrelevant here.
The specification of the G Flex 2 is somewhat interesting in itself. Although it has the fastest Snapdragon chipset, LG has opted to go with only 2GB of RAM (3GB is more usual on high-end Android devices) and a modest 16GB of storage onboard (there’s a microSD slot that can take 2TB cards, in theory). If nothing else, this will have an impact on how the phone runs day-to-day under normal use.
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