LG gets shit on so much when really they are some of the best bang for the buck top tier brands. Not to mention they are unfairly picked on. LG has the first glass back phone in the Nexus 4. Reviewers questioned the design choice and called it a step in the wrong direction. Look at us now. LG releases the first globally available quad HD display in the LG G3. Reviewers at the time called it gimmicky and/or overkill. Look at us now. LG releases the first modular phone in the LG G5. It's panned, given nothing but negativity, and crap about only having 3 modular options upon initial release. The next year Motorola releases its modular phone, also with only 3 modules available upon release, and is not given a single ounce of grief over its same number of modules. While the implementation of the modular design eas done way better by Motorola, they were given a free pass on their same number of modules. Not a single reviewer who gave LG shit for only having three gave shit to Motorola. Hypocrites. LG does the first extra tall display in the LG G6. Reviewers do nothing but complain about the lack of compatibility with most apps upon release. A month later, Samsung unveils the S8, with an even taller aspect ratio, and is given universal praise and not ONR reviewer saying the same things about compatibility that was said about LG. LG has done more innovation and risk taking than any other phone brand in thw last 6 year's and they are always bashed, made fun of, or "but my bootloops" ad nausea the entire time. Meanwhile other companies follow their lead and are praised for their "risk taking" and "outside the box thinking". Thank you LG for being the real face of Courage.

Lmao he really was calling out MKBHD the whole time. G8 looks like a really impressive device for sure.

This video is a tight slap for those reviewers who mock LG without properly knowing or testing it..😂😂

Holy crap, I can't believe you filmed and edited both audio and video on the G8! 🤯 That's legit, great surprise at the end!

I think LG is the only company that cared about audiophiles

Kinda disappointed when MKBHD missed the Quad-DAC on the G8 on his review

Traded my S10e for the G8. Better battery life, much better audio, and fantastic hardware. Feels so much better in the hand.

I honestly think you and Flossy Carter and the two remaining, truly objective KZfaq tech giants who bring integrity to their work. MKBHD does whatever puts more money into his pocket, and many others as well. Thank you!

I owned an S10, and exchanged it for a G8...I haven't looked back since. The G8 is seriously underrated.

LG introduced 3 cameras ... "big channels: who needs such useless thing" Samsung n Huawei does the same ... "Big channels: its ground breaking n revolutionary" LG added ultrawide camera ... "Big channels: nice feature but phone lacks character" Samsung does the same ... "big channels: damn i always wanted this, this camera punch hole looks lovely, wow so amazing" LG has always been trend setters ...

Wow. Just wow. The internet needed this video. You are my only Patreon subscription for good reason. Thank you for actually reviewing tech instead of just being a hype guy. Keep it up!

My V20 is still amazing. Killer dac, cameras, IR Blaster, removable battery, need I say more. Listen to this man he's legit!

YES. Thank you for this. It's kind of tiring hearing the same old glossing over of LG.

Ordered my G8 today. I know it's not the best all around phone but what it is, is the best phone for me. I am a music lover and the single most important part of a phone for me is the audio. LG is simply the best when it comes to audio, hands down.

This is exactly what I expect from tech reviewers! G8 is indeed master of many things and most importantly the prices are dropping to 300-400 dollars on ebay. Just buy what you want and what you can afford conveniently!

The 32 bit dac and the manual camera mode beats almost every flagship out there. Most reviewers don't even bother to review it which is surprising considering they are supposed to give "a full review"... Keep up the good work you do...

You deserve so many more followers. Awesome content as usual. Keep up the great work.

Man you are one of the rarest youtubers who stands his own ground and makes his own choices instead of just following the boring queue of sheeps following the same Apple and Samsung phones year after year. Right from your kickass Lumia reviews to LG, you sure know the good phones. Feel sorry for LG who have to blame themselves for making awesome phones like the V series but being poor at marketing.

LG G8 is a great phone. As a Samsung fan boy I can use it any time without a second thought. KZfaqrs need to give credit where it's due. The G8 is dope!

Just bought a G7 at mid range price, still an amazing phone.

Tech reviews has become promotion for certain brand long ago. Sometimes we can see some reviewer bash the phone because it comes with Chinese brand. Atleast you thought about doing your job, good job.

Thank you for giving the g8 a HONEST review.

LG G2 started it all for me eversince i've been a fan of LG phones

Finally, someone with brilliant, well-balanced opinions!! So refreshing.

I only care about the amp and dac, so it's LG all the way. V30 still going strong.

Kudos to you for shedding light on the darkness that is the KZfaqr “tech influencers” today. You got BALLS. You got integrity. Wish you tens of millions of followers.

LG just need to start caring about updating their phones more frequently.

I had an LG G4 back when it was still a thing, and I absolutely loved it!

Agree that from what I’ve seen (I have neither device) the G8 should get serious consideration.

I got my G7 because of the wide angle (which was more rare a year ago) and the sound quality. Still love it! (Getting a free 4k TV for pre-ordering was just icing on the cake)

Thank you again for the level-headed "ramblings". You're spot on with calling bs on the polarized hype that's passing for tech review these days.

This channel and Mr. Mobile is the only channel I trust when it comes to tech reviews

ROFL! Master of None - Shots Fired! Seriously though, all valid points. I commented the same thing on his video about the quad dac which he highlighted on previous models.

I totally agree, the flush camera is awesome too...

Haha I remember that master of none review. They really disregarded the music capability of the phone.

After seeing this review and checking others I have become one of your fans and I will continue following you as long as you remain like this. Very good sir. I was really becoming disheartened by these so called reviewers and now I only watch about four plus you now to get real reviews. Keep up the good work

Completely agree! The Samsung knights are quick to jump on any negative comments about their beloved company.. Even though most of them never owned any of the products. LG deserves more love

You are starting to be my favorite reviewer. MKBHD is history...

So glad i found your channel!! Real talk i avoid every tech reviewer and they're sponsored bias. Flossy Carter was my only go to now i have you to add. Thank you for your work. I wish you the most success in this channel and will forever be a fan and a subscriber.

Finally a real review on this phone !! Thank you for setting other reviewers straight I felt the same way

Got my LG g8 today im rolling with it

Good review! MKHBD ruined by saying "Master of none!"

Insanely good quality video. Its hard to believe that you shot the whole thing on a phone (any phone).

Excellent presentation of information and great topics to bring up for discussion! I appreciate the fact that you are honest about where you stand and are able to clearly give credit where credit is due. Unfortunately, the echo chamber issue is so far wide spread beyond even just tech. It is frustrating when people make it out that you have to take a side (or brand in this case) and cannot compromise on that or acknowledge that there are differing opinions and benefits that the other side brings. It is either all or nothing. Thanks for your insights and open mindedness (or perhaps actually testing the tech and providing the pros and cons and comparisons and providing that info without strong bias or push to one specific device).

Awesome video. You are right, most other reviewers just read off the spec sheet. They barely use the devices.

You got me again Juan, just sold my Nokia 9 (bought it cause of you) and getting a LG G8! Best youtuber ever! Other reviewers just see the LG brand and just hate it...

Subscribed. Missed you since you left Pocketnow, your camera reviews were the reason I even watched those videos. As far as I can tell you're the only one "real" reviewer left. Keep it up!

Nice one! I always commend Phone reviewers like yourself useful in my purchase decision since, you promote Benefits over Features! Thank you for sharing your insight!

I love samsung but have mad respect for other brands. Lg and Moto phones are definitely underrated. I agree with your points. Great video 💜

Did I detect a little shade to Marques Brownlee in there😂😂

Excellent Video Jaun - I am amazed by the lack of 'genuine comparisons' in capability between the various major phone manufacturer products. I laughed my a$$ off on a couple of occasions when watching your video - Great Work. I love my G8 and my only gripes are that we cannot get the Cranberry one here in Canada and LG needs to do a better job with their system updates - but otherwise this phone is the best LG phone I have owned from the G2 all the way to the G8. I have subscribed to your channel. Thanks for being honest and objective. Lee.

Juan, I got this phone yesterday,after viewing your associated content about it, on here. Thank you so much,for the straight shooting on it, I already love the thing so much more than I ever did my S9+. You da' man! 👍

Man I have been seriously thinking about taking my S10 back to at&t for the G8, now I'm convinced.

I want to see LG make a stereo boombox speaker phone. Now THAT would be epic

Oh man that deep highlander cut. So good Juan.

This is the most thorough non-review review of any phone I've ever seen or read. It is informative and presented intelligently, with precision and examples to support your findings. Critics will still complain, but they are just uneducated & misinformed about how a product should be analyzed. One last comment...thanks for commenting on the "bootloop" issue from the past. If I read one more comment from someone every time an LG phone is released I'm going to be ill. Let it go people!

My LG V20 still rocks and have no plans to change at least for another year !! i love it very much !

I, totally agree with you and I would like to thank you for this very correctly and professionally review. Good job

Such a great video on the G8, this definitely gave me the final say on my next phone. However, I'm coming from LG V30+, any difference in the battery life that I can spot, comparing to the G8?

This is great, I just subscribed. I’m about to trade my S8 for the G8, the hdmi video and night camera were my biggest questions. Thank you for clearing up what an hour of googling couldn’t, and giving voice to my similar opinions about Samsung these days. We need more than one big company cloning the other.

I really love LG for taking risks that nobody else takes, and every time brigns something new to the smartphone world (wide angle cameras, Hi-Fi audio, facial recognition without having a huge notch like the X/Xs and Mate 20 Pro, really good battery life in the last 2 years starting from the LG V30 and it just kept getting better from there despite the kinda small battery capacity, no camera bump at all, under-display speaker) but LG doesn't get credit for all this, when the S10 brought the wide angle witch is more than 3 years later than LG did, everyone would be saying S10's camera is wider, but they don't know that LG's camera used to be 125° and they reduced it to 107° to reduce lens distortion witch the Galaxy S10 suffers from. It's just not fair, LG deserves a lot better.

Bravo! Samsung drones are as bad as Apple zombies. Watching on my G8

Great observation. Definitely made me want to get and review the g8. But some youtubers like myself aren't as technical as you are. I hope to be able to learn the tech the way you know it but a lot of tech tubers dont dig deep enough to accurately review a phone

A year later.... and this video is STILL holds true.

This is definitely the best option to buy if you want to get a flagship phone for $650 or less

I currently have the G8. Only one in my family. Totally agree with your assessment of the G8! Love your videos. Keep up the good work!

Honestly KZfaq needs more people like you, that are actually honest and not biased to the big brands

Great honestly! Just subscribed . Great style and content 👏

What a great video. Every single word is so true: many aspects of the KZfaq "tech" community are so biased. Keep it up!

Shots fired 🔥 🔥 🔥 This is what everyone needs to hear, thank you for keeping it real ✊✊

Great Vid Juan! I always give LG a good look each hardware cycle. I would love to hear what you expect/want to see in the V50.

Always enjoy your honest videos man. new sub here. long time lurker on your page.

Fantastic video as always, I really liked your point about people defending the S10 lineup or attacking the G8 and probably not even owning either. And I don't know if many comments highlight this, but you are so well spoken! Every point you make is concise and understandable, and pretty hard to argue! I hope you get much much bigger. Also, a good mkbhd sneak diss is always a pleasure ;)

Best KZfaq video i have seen since years. Thank you Sir!

Great points of observation Juan, a like your detailed reviews. Just subscribed to the channel, remember your camera reviews at Pocket Now.

Thanks a ton for the ONLY honest review that I've seen of the G8. Loved your honesty since you tore my Pixel XL (1gen) camera apart because you wanted to test the CAMERAS and not SOFTWARE. Was something NOBODY else did and it opened my eyes to just how much the Pixel line rely on software. Still love my Pixels though. Keep up the great work.

I'm loving my G8. My wife's Samsung G3 died just like yours. I thought that was am issue with the G3, not later models. EDIT: holy cow, this was done on the G8? That's SICK!

Lg G7 drives my Beyerdynamic dt990 pro and Sennheiser 650 like charm. Best phone for listening music with descent headphones.

This is called a non bias review. What you mentioned in the beginning of this video is very true. You got a new subscriber, such channel like yours should be more popular.

I just subscribed bro! So honest, so logical, i loved the video! Following from now on!

My LG G2 which was by far the best phone of that year is still going strong, granted I only can use it on WiFi but the battery life is still very good, pretty crazy really.

I knew it was coming. Take that MKBHD

This guy is not Some gadget guy. He is THE Gadget guy. Thorough and logical. Quality and meaningful analysis and inferences. Unfortunately, this is noise to the 80% crowd and that's where the commercially popular average things and marketing budgets for those things come from. Those who know, know. Juan, there will always be a niche of us who get it and appreciate your views, and we don't care what the uninitiated think or do. We know you know what you are on about. Well done and keep it up!! In the words of Ali G : RESTECP!

Have had my G8 for about a week. Incredibly impressed with the performance smooth and seamless, and the red colored one looks unbelievable. Thanks for the reviews and turning me on to the G8.

Thank you for this video!! I really appreciate it the G8 is amazing.. Wait you filmed this on the G8?! That's even more freaking amazing.

Your the one tech utuber i acctually watch and listen to cause ur not biased to the big companies you actually look into tech and say positives and negatives for whatever ur reviewing noy just saying u should or shouldn't get it

Hey Juan! Just want to say thanks for all the research, field work, and homework you have done for the LG G8! Really. I've owned it for about a month now and mostly use the "auto" mode for taking pictures and videos. Honestly I was already impressed with the quality of the shots I got out of this phone, but watching your reviews on this particular phone have REALLY opened my eyes to what the possibilities are when shooting with the G8. I'm starting to use manual mode more often to obtain the PERFECT shots. And now I'm waiting on a gimbal to be delivered so I can start experimenting making cinematic videos. I really didn't think there was much to taking good pictures, but watching your videos lately have educated and motivated me to push the G8's camera to the limits and see how big a punch this camera can throw! Sorry for the looking comment but thanks for making my G8 feel brand spanking new again. LOL

Really nice review! Bravo Juan! PS : Here in Brazil, doing this "quotes" can be called TRETA

My G4 had the bootloop issue.. Got it fixed.. Moved on.. Happy with it until I decided to buy the LG G6.. Still happy with my G6.. Some people dont want to pay an arm and a leg (Samsung) for something you can buy at a slightly lower price that has all the premium features.. Thank goodness for LG..

Thank you very much for your review on the LG G8.

Very good video and excellent points. One question though... You said they "focus on different things" - Very true. I've owned just about every LG since G3, but have recently been forced to jump to S10 because LG has always been far behind the competition in the selfie camera department. My V40 had two fixed-focus front cameras that couldn't come anywhere close to the Samsung's camera with autofocus. Please tell me LG has done something about this for the G8... From what I understand, front camera has been upgraded, but is it as good or better than S10?

Hi Juan. Thank you for all your great job on videos. Really like the way you're doing it. I want to change my Galaxy S8 for an LG G8. Want to know how is the phone calls with sound on front glass? Cause it's hard to find now if a phone makes good phone calls. Want to know too if it's sounds good when you put on speaker for hands free. Also, how do you feel about the G8 one year after? It's still doing great? I own an LG Gpad, and sometimes, it has a few bugs thant need to reboot it, like the double tap stops to work.

I truly respect what u do!! Keep it up!

I loved my g7 but I'm a try out the Xperia 1 this time. Tired of no lg software updates lol

Awesome, been in love with LG since G2. Interested in having this device but I just can’t afford it. So Juan, what’s your take on V30 instead? Is it still a good choice this 2019 onwards? Thanks!

Great work Juan, I gave used g2, g3, g4, g5, v10, v30.... Good phones, great audio but software updates and battery life were terrible. Audio was outstanding. I decided to go with the s10e, I just wanted something different this time.

i have the v30 and the hardware is awesome with gcam and all, but many software features or bugs and ui can be improved, if only they updated every 2 months or even quarterly.

LG deserves more consideration. And this channel deserves more subs.

I just upgraded to a G8 from my V20 yesterday.....and really only needed to do it because I dropped the V20 (still totally operational, the corner got jacked). I am an LG loyalist at this point. The quad DAC being a main reason. Good video!

Dude, If I was giving an award for the VERY VERY best review/reviewer, YOU WOULD WIN HANDS DOWN. You are a fantastic talent in this industry of "same ole, same ole" reviews. Great job and keep up the fantastic work. What? I just hit subscribe? Oh hell to the yeah!