LG G6 - 32 GB - Unlocked GSM - Platinum

After a lifetime of Samsung's this and that's, the LG G6 is really high quality. This expensive phone new is more than i'd every pay for a phone (approaching $1000), but I bought it as a refurb unit that was listed on Amazon as 'Like New', for $109. I would normally be skeptical even though it's two models down from the current version. But Amazon listed, fulfilled and guaranteed it. After watching really good reviews on it, I ordered it, and got it in a day. It is absolutely great, not a scratch anywhere, it was unlocked and it works perfect! It is a fast 64 bit system with a great 8 core processor. It handles everything I've thrown at it, including flying a drone while watching the Hi-res video the drone seems back! Without skipping a beat!

Update October 2019. This phone has not received any security updates in over a year. LG says 'it's on the way' and can 't tell me when it'll get any updates. Others with G6 bought through carriers have received security updates. This makes me leary to buy another Amazon unlocked phone again. I see other posts on the web that Amazon phones don't get the Android security updates like carrier devices. In a world where malware and viruses and rootkits are prevelant, that is very concerning. ************************************************************ Needed a nano - sim. Went to Verizon, got one no problem. Went to activate device - couldn't do it in store as unlocked phones seem to have a 14 digit IMEI instead of 15. This caused confusion with the Verizon techs. Tech let me use his phone to call customer service - 5 minutes on the phone with a very professional lady and she had the SIM serial entered and the phone activated. No hassled whatsoever. 14 digit IMEI? - No problem she said. So just be aware that with Verizon you'll need to call customer service central command since they can't activate these in-store. Otherwise - Excellent phone: Unlike some others have listed - I find this phone to be just fine. I went to this from an LG G3 and I'm pleased with the performance of the G6. The camera is much improved and video quality is excellent. I find battery life to be good. I can listen to Google play all day at work and that battery still has 50% plus left in the evening. Volume buttons on the side take getting used to but the integrated fingerprint scanner is nice and makes for ease of use. It's nice to see the stock LG OS vs what Verizon or the other providers put on a device. If the built in apps don't meed your needs that's why there's a Google play store. I replace the stock voicemail, messaging, weather, email and launcher on almost every phone I have owned. Overall a good solid device. This one is $672 at Verizon - $419 today at Amazon for the unlocked non-Prime model. That's almost a $260 difference. No complaints from me.

Not sure how the phone itself is. But the one I received was not unlocked. Could not be used for verizon. The actual phone had no labels for tmobile so I thought I was good, but I took it to the verizon store to activate and it came up for tmobile only. They said it was not unlocked for verizon and can only be used with tmobile. I got this phone sold and shipped by amazon. I figured it was safe, because it was not a 3rd party seller and amazon would know if they had a phone that said it could be used on Verizon, that it actually would be. It was not the case. If you don't have tmobile, I would look elsewhere because too many people are getting only tmobile phones. The description is not accurate. Even if sold by amazon. I am returning this. Also, if you do have tmobile and want to get the phone, make sure you know that this requires a nano sim card. I didnt know either that the old sim cards are being phased out and the micro will not work from my old phone. Had to take to the store for a smaller sim card anyway. But those are the only 2 things i can comment on, because I cant use the actual phone.

Okay so I got this phone back in 2017 and right away I had to keep sending it back cause they kept sending me the wrong ones. I wanted unlocked and they kept sending me t-mobile ones. This is not LG's fault this is a amazon problem I would think or the sell problem. When I finally got my unlocked one it was great at first. But after less then a year the battery started having weird problems luckily it was still under warranty so I sent it into LG to have it repaired. They replaced the battery apparently because it was faulty but the warranty wouldn't be extended or anything so if it happened again I would be screwed. Later on I started noticing the phone was like stuck on one day when I woke up which had drained the battery most of the night for some reason. I took screenshots and sent them to LG and explained what happened worried that the battery was messing up again. On top of that I didn't have time to charge it that day and had to go to work right away after noticing the battery was down to like 12% or something. I had to try and charge it a bit at work. After that it seemed okay and working normally but LG suggested sending it in. Well I wasn't gonna send it in right away because I had a trip coming up around the time and didn't want to be without a phone or with a different phone im not used to when im on my trip. So I could be able to take decent pictures with the camera, and use the apps im used to. Plus it wasn't covered under warranty anymore cause of the fact it's only warrantied for 1 year after purchase. So I went on my trip and right away the first day I am on my trip I try to swap out the SIM card with a pre-paid one and the SIM/Micro SD card holder (the plastic garbage they use) was broken in more then one spot. I was really upset as well as stranded because I couldn't use my phone to contact anyone or use mobile data only wifi. I made it to where I was staying and contacted LG on my broken phone all panicked but figuring they could help and would have a place nearby (since it was a HUGE city and area thats very popular). I was told the closest place was over a 1000 miles away and that I would have to send it there and wouldn't get it back for 2 weeks or something like that. Like wtf!? I am on my trip and need it now! So they suggested taking it to a local cell phone repair place and have them try and fix it. I ended up having to do that and had to wait a day for the replacement SIM/SD card slot then the repair guy noticed part of the card slot was stuck in the phone thus you wouldn't be able to fit the SIM into it. So he had to open up the phone to get that piece in order for the SIM to work. Unfortunately in the process he damaged the SD card reader but was able to get the card holder opened up so I could insert the new card holder into my phone and use the pre-paid SIM card I bought to use so I at least had mobile data but my SD card could not be used so that meant not taking as many pictures or videos during my trip and got charged $60 dollars for my trouble. After I got home from the trip I contacted LG about getting it sent in to be repaired cause I still liked the phone and was used to it. But it would be 2 weeks before I would get it back so I had to end up buying a temp. smart phone to replace it which took some time. Also every time they e-mailed me about the info I was sending them about needing it repaired none of the links on their e-mails worked right so I had to go to their site and constantly type in the reference code etc if I needed to add any info to the problems or anything. I finally got it sent in and got an e-mail today with it addressed to a different family member for some reason (idk how that happened) and they had claimed before because they are LG they would have the right parts and stuff so it would be better for them to repair it so I figured it shouldn't be to bad. The e-mail currently is showing that because it was a "tampered device" and because it was no longer under warranty that it was gonna cost me around $380 US dollars to be repaired. I paid $450 US dollars when I first got it new and that included a warranty. That really annoys me. I am still contemplating on if I want to fork over that much money for something that might not last long anyways. But I would need to look for a new smart phone if I want to buy something else instead. I am someone who takes really good care of his phones. I never let them go below 20% and usually only let them drain down to 40% and only try to charge them to 80% like what iv seen on so many sites talking about keeping your batteries working in great condition. I rarely if ever drop my phone and usually it's only a small distance from like a chair to the floor but I always have them in a protective case and house them in a holster when im not using them. I try to keep them cool and not use them to often etc. My phones should last me a long time but manufacturers tend to make crapy products these days that only last a year it seems like. If it didn't have these problems the phone would have been pretty good to me. The camera worked well and took decent pictures. It has nice features, it was user friendly. The only thing I didn't like recently was the fact that the location thing would keep coming up (I think that's maybe googles fault) which I had to go in and turn off over and over again in the settings. Which would broadcast to whatever app is asking your location even if you have it set to off it would turn on by itself at times which was annoying. As well as the battery seemingly getting pretty warm at times just from using it normally. Sorry for the long rant. And I see this phone isn't being sold anymore on amazon from the looks of it. Will need to start looking at what new unlocked phones cost and if I might want to go with one of those instead unfortunately.

I've only had it about a week but so far and I really like it. My last phone was a Moto X Pure and I really loved everything about it, so I had a hard time justifying spending money on a new phone. I kept telling myself if I came across a great deal on a new one that I would jump on it. I bought this during Amazon Prime Day and I'm really glad I did. I can definitely see a difference between the two with the camera, speed of which the apps open, and even internet speed. I really don't have anything bad to say about it. Update: Two and a half weeks in and I still love this phone! Some of the reviewers are saying that they received a T-mobile version and not the factory unlocked version. I don't know, maybe there are some sellers on here that didn't give an honest and accurate description of the product. The phone I received, which I bought from Amazon and not a third party seller through Amazon is definitely factory unlocked and I activated it on Verizon prepaid network. I'm pretty sure you can activate this with most prepaid networks but I would google it first before you buy.

I received the US997 unlocked version of the LG G6, not a T-Mobile version. I also purchased an unlocked HTC U11, so I will add some comparison details in this review as well. This phone has 4Gb of ram, a Snapdragon 821, and 32 GB of internal storage. I added a micro sd card for photos and video storage. After installing my typical selection of apps, I have about 10GB of internal storage left. I was initially concerned about the 32GB of internal storage in 2017, but it is ok. I don't have any games installed, so that helps I suppose. This phone has been praised and panned by the critics. A lot of the criticism is about the Snapdragon 821, when competitor phones have an 835. This has been over blown and is not really an issue, but I can tell you that compared to my HTC U11, this phone does feel slower. There is side scrolling lag in the app tray (I enabled it, because the default setup does not use an app tray). There is noticeable, choppy, vertical scrolling lag in apps like Facebook. Its not terrible, but it is noticeable if you have used a phone that scrolls smoothly. This is probably attributable to LG's user interface over top of Android. So let's talk benchmarks. I Geekbench all my phones. This phone initially scored a 1343 single core score, and a 3719 multicore score. After about two weeks and some OS updates, I retested, and it scored scored a 1788 single core score, and a 4235 multicore score. My HTC U11 scored a 1914 single core score, and a 6416 multicore score. Compared this to my Note 5, which I was upgrading from. The Note 5 scored a 1404 single core score, and a 3961 multicore score. Note: I usually look at single core score when comparing phones to put things on an even level. The LG G6 has 4 cores, while the U11 had 8 (this is why the U11's multicore score is dramatically higher). The standout feature of this phone has been the screen size. First, despite what every video review and article says, a 5.7 inch diagonal screen with an 18:9 aspect physically has less surface area that an 5.7 inch display (or even a 5.5 inch display) with a 16:9 aspect ratio. You can do the math, and calculate the surface area. A simpler way is to just look at the same photo or app on both phones, and do not pan or zoom in. The photo (or app) will be smaller on the 18:9 phone. The screen is longer, but not wider, so everything designed for 16:9 phones will look bigger on a 16:9 display. I thought the 18:9 display would cause a lot of apps to need to be adjusted using LG's built in app scaling tool in Settings. It turns out that I haven't had to adjust any app. It all just works on the default “standard” setting.. Netflix supports the new ratio and it simply lets you fill the screen if you choose to do so, but Youtube does not (at the time of this writing). The one thing I do not like about the current trends in the industry are curved screens. I don't like the curves because using screen protectors is difficult. I pride myself on how well I apply screen protectors, but I tried all of the protectors for the U11 and none of them worked perfectly. So, one of the great benefits of the LG G6 is that it is completely flat! I absolutely love this because I can have a screen protector on this phone. I’d be remiss if I did not mention the wide angle camera. There are two ways to use a wide angle lens. Used in the correct situations, you can get some great artistic photos, where the wide angle plays a role in the composition of the photo. The other way, is to “try to fit everything in”, which frankly is not the purpose of wide angle lenses. Sure, that’s what wide angle lenses let you do by default, but you are really just snap-shotting something if that is the approach you take. I don't mean to get on my soapbox though. Let me just say, I cringe every time I read or hear someone say its purpose is to “fit more in the shot”. Overall, I recommend this phone. There are faster phone though. If you want a flat screen, or a wide angle camera, this is the phone for you. I think you will get at least a year of solid use before you will feel the need for a Snapdragon 835 or better. The 821 will probably serve you well for two years, but since you are looking at this unlocked review, you probably don’t care about two years anyway since you aren’t locked into a contract. Given the recent sales reports about this phone not selling, you’d think you should not pick it up. But it is now often on sale and is worth every dollar.

I was a little worried reading some of the reviews that phones arrived and were t-mobile or another service providers locked phone. Since I ordered from a sold and shipped by Amazon listing I knew that if there was an issue they would take it back. Phone arrived quickly, was brand new and was a fully unlocked phone with no service provider logos or apps. Phone itself is a pretty good phone overall and does what I need it to do.The phone itself takes great pictures, decent sound for watching movies, and video is also good. It is pretty similar to the G4 it replaced. Major difference I would say is the battery is sealed in the case, you can use a micro sd card to add extra storage which is located with the SIM card. Being able to add storage is a must for me as I like to load movies, games etc for my kids and I.

In researching devices I decided on the LG G6 and I'm very pleased! At over 200 less than a galaxy S8 without compromise! Battery life is much improved! This is the first LG since the LG G2 that I truly enjoy the experience. Really glad LG focused on battery, bezel, and ruggedness with this device! The 2 year warranty just shows you LG is dedicated in making reliable devices and giving you piece of mind. The wide-angle camera is fantastic! I highly recommend this device over anything out there if you want a flagship device under 500 with IP68! The 18X9 screen takes some adjusting but all in all I like the minimized width of the device.

El LG G6 no vendió tanto como LG esperaba cuando salio en 2017, las razones fueron por que Samsung gustó mas al publico con el diseño de su S8, y por que los geeks nos quejábamos que no tenia lo ultimo de lo ultimo en cuanto a procesador. Pero su procesador sigue siendo bastante rápido y se nota la fluidez al momento de realizar tareas rutinarias en el celular. Pero entonces por que me lo compre un año después de que se lanzó sobre todo cuando hay mas opciones en el mercado? Simplemente, la relación calidad-precio es insuperable en estos momentos (primera mitad del 2018) ya que el celular esta barato, y las especificaciones que tiene son y siguen siendo bastante buenas y merecedoras del titulo "flagship" o Buque insignia de LG. Con $8000 solo te alcanza para Mid-rangers, pero con eso me pude comprar este teléfono de gama alta con excelentes especificaciones y excelente cámara. Si lo que no te gusta del LG es su software, Recuerda que Android es altamente personalizable, yo puse un tema del Google Pixel (Play Store) e instale Nova Launcher y el celular se siente muy fluido y rápido. El celular viene con ROM de Telcel y trae su bloatware, pero puedes desactivar estas aplicaciones e incluso desinstalar algunas otras que vienen incluidas como los juegos que incluye Telcel o Facebook App que también viene por defecto. La batería me dura todo el día incluso si me paso horas jugando, muy recomendable y sin problemas, si te da problema de batería prueba desactivando el bloatware. UPDATE: Hay una actualización del teléfono que solo se puede obtener mediante LG Bridge, el software de actualizaciones de LG, solo instala LG Bridge en tu computadora, conecta el teléfono y busca actualizaciones, recibí una actualización que ayuda con el rendimiento y mejora mucho la aplicación de la cámara, recomendado.

El cel llego en excelente estado completamente sellado está muy padre trae todos sus accesorios le coloque mi SIM at&t y sin problemas funcionó

Excelente producto, el celular se siente muy sólido y tiene un software muy limpio y buena cámara, solo espero que lo actualicen a Android 8 😀

Gran equipo a un bien precio. No le pide nada a otros.

La caja venía abierta y el celular súper mal empacado. Es de la compañía verizone pero si funciona en México.