LG released the upgraded G3 Cat. 6 of its flagship mobile phone G3 at the end of July. It is also the second mobile phone in the world to use Snapdragon 805 processor, and its frequency is higher than Samsung Galaxy S5 Broadband LTE-A, reaching 2.7 GHz, which is also the highest frequency processor in the world. In addition, G3 Cat. 6 also supports LTE Cat. 6 technology with a speed of up to 300Mbps. It is also the fastest mobile phone in the world. Now follow us to experience the charm of this flagship:

The packaging of G3 Cat. 6 is the same as that of G3.

The bottom turns red, and some key technologies are introduced.

The first layer of the package is the true face of G3 Cat. 6, and its structure is the same as that of G3.

The appearance of G3 Cat. 6 is almost the same as that of G3. With 5.5 inches, a narrow border and an arc back, it has a better grip than other phones with the same size screen.

From the front, it is exactly the same as the ordinary version G3, and only the difference in color is shown in the figure (left G3, right G3 Cat. 6).

The top border is narrow.

There is a brand logo on the lower border. The golden lines are concentric circles, while the white lines are thin stripes.

G3 and G3 Cat. 6 are also identical in the rear cover design, but the characters printed on the rear cover are somewhat different. These two phones in the picture are Korean version phones from SK Telecom, of which G3 is printed with LTE-A, G3 Cat. 6 is printed with LTE-A X3 logo, G3 has the brand logo below, and G3 Cat. 6 is directly printed with the model.

There is a 13 million pixel camera at the rear. On the left is laser assisted focusing, on the right is dual led fill light, and below the camera are volume keys and power keys. The brushed texture of the gold back cover is more delicate than the white back cover.

LG's imitation metal wire drawing process.

There is no difference between G3 and G3 Cat. 6 on the top. There is an infrared sensor and a noise reducing microphone. Since it is a Korean version, there is an antenna on the right.

The bottom is micr O-USB interface, call microphone and 3.5mm headphone interface.

The side of the phone is very simple because the keys are placed behind it, with only a silver middle frame.

G3 Cat. 6, like G3, adopts the design of removable rear cover, and NFC antenna is attached to the rear cover.

Compared with G3 and G3 Cat. 6 after removing the rear cover, there are many differences. The layout of the body antenna and the location of the card slot are different (left G3, right G3 Cat. 6).

Unlike G3, G3 Cat. 6 does not use the integrated design of SIM card slot and TF card slot, but separates them like most mobile phones. G3 Cat. 6 uses micro SIM card.

Like G3 Cat. 6, G3 uses a BL-53YH battery with a capacity of 3000mAh.

Compared with the rear cover, the NFC coil contact positions of the two are different, so the rear cover is naturally not universal (left G3 Cat. 6, right G3).

The back cover is made in Korea.

Finally, let's take a look at the accessories of G3 Cat. 6. They are exactly the same as G3.

As the Korean version of "industry conscience", two original batteries are attached.

The UI of G3 Cat. 6 is exactly the same as that of G3, so we won't introduce it here. Starting from G3, LG's UI is more flat, moving towards a "small and fresh" style.

Drop down menu, the icon is in circular design.

The system setting menu is divided into four tabs.

The system is based on Android 4.4.2, and the system kernel is 3.10.

Due to the system kernel, Sina Weibo before version 4.5 will be forced to close, for example, mobile 4G Weibo will be incompatible.

As the world's second Snapdragon 805+mobile phone with the highest main frequency, the G3 Cat. 6 SoC really makes us look forward to it. What about its actual performance? First, we use LG's engineering mode to check the CPU's "constitution". It is clear that, as usual, the Snapdragon 805 also has a PVS value. However, the previous query methods are no longer applicable. We can only view them through LG, a simple and crude method.

The Snapdragon 805 on G3 Cat. 6 is composed of four Krait 450 cores with a main frequency up to 2.7GHz.

The GPU driver version is V84, and the maximum GPU frequency is 600MHz.

G3 Cat. 6 has 32G Rom, which can be close to 25G.

G3 Cat. 6 has a total of 3G Ram and can use 1.7G.

Next, we will check the strength of this high-frequency Snapdragon 805 through some score running tests. First, Anthare V4.5.2. The performance is not very good. Look carefully at the score, the processor performance is not different from the 2.5GHz Snapdragon 805/801.

The main reason for the low score is that the GPU score is very low. Generally, the 3D drawing scores of high-end mobile phones in the run on rabbit V4.5.2 range between 9000 and 10000 points, while G3 Cat. 6 only has a poor score of more than 7000 points. It is estimated that the test encountered a serious phenomenon of frequency reduction

The EMU.GBA simulator test is an application that can test the burst performance of CPU. Due to the high frequency, G3 Cat. 6 can achieve more than 180 frames here, which has opened a gap with 2.5GHz Snapdragon 801/805 (generally around 170 frames).

Pi, a test to measure the performance of CPU floating point operations, although the performance of more than 27 seconds is good, it is already low for the 2.7GHz Krait 450.

The soft decode of 1080P fps60 ref=15 mp4 video has only frames, which is not superior to 2.5GHz Snapdragon 801/805.

GFXBench， We conducted two off screen tests. Of course, the reference object is the Galaxy S5 Broadband LTE-A with the closest configuration. However, the frame number of G3 Cat. 6 again disappointed us. It did not show the level of Adreno 420. Of course, it is still significantly improved than Snapdragon 801.

From the above tests, although G3 Cat. 6 has the highest main frequency processor today, the frequency reduction is very serious, especially in the GPU. If you are a user who attaches great importance to performance or likes playing games, you should choose carefully.

The sensor used by G3 camera is Sony's first generation stack IMX135, which we have verified. See this link for details: New flagship old formula LG G3 confirms to use IMX135 sensor

  Will G3 Cat. 6 use the upgraded IMX214? Many netizens are looking forward to knowing this answer. We use the same method to capture the keywords when G3 Cat. 6 starts and shuts down the camera. Unfortunately, G3 Cat. 6 still uses the IMX135 sensor, so theoretically it is the same as G3's photo taking effect.

In actual use, G3 and G3 Cat. 6 also have very similar photographic experience, and their imaging speed is also similar. The fierce performance of Snapdragon 805 is completely not reflected in the camera

One of the major upgrades of G3 Cat. 6 is to support LTE Cat. 6, an ultra high-speed network. However, this upgrade is meaningless for domestic users for the time being. After all, our 4G of China Unicom has just begun to be commercially available... Here are the LTE network bands supported by the "S" version of G3 Cat. 6.

In the actual measurement, after we inserted the Unicom 4G card, G3 Cat. 6 can use the LTE network normally, and no additional settings are required.

More tests on G3 Cat. 6 will be announced in the next detailed evaluation.