When comparing Samsung Galaxy Note 4 vs LG G3, the Slant community recommends Samsung Galaxy Note 4 for most people. In the question“What are the best phablets? ” Samsung Galaxy Note 4 is ranked 1st while LG G3 is ranked 5th. The most important reason people chose Samsung Galaxy Note 4 is:
N4 has a 3220 mAh battery that according to Phonearena will last for more than 8½ hours of typical use. The battery can be charge from 0% to 50% in about 30 minutes and from 0% to 100% in less than 100 minutes.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Removable battery with excellent life and fast charging
N4 has a 3220 mAh battery that according to Phonearena will last for more than 8½ hours of typical use. The battery can be charge from 0% to 50% in about 30 minutes and from 0% to 100% in less than 100 minutes.
Pro Great 16 MP rear-facing camera with OIS
Note 4 has a 16 MP with optical image stabilization as well as software image stabilization. It can record great 4K30, 1080p60 and 720p120 video.
Pro Stylus
Located at the bottom edge is a stylus called the S-Pen. It's reasonably accurate and has a button for highlighting making it easy to copy and paste text or look up words in a dictionary.
Pro Good performance
Note 4 has two chip and cpu combinations available.
- 2.7 GHz quad-core Snapdragon 805 with Adreno 420 GPU
- ARMv8-A Exynos 7 Octa with a quad-core 1.3 GHz and quad-core 1.9 GHz CPUs
Both variants have 3GB or RAM and are capable of handling anything thrown at them.
Pro Takes great advantage of being so big via TouchWiz
Note 4 runs TouchWiz Nature UX 3.0, an Android reskin, that has a multitasking interface for using two apps at the same time in split screen mode or by having another application in a floating window above anything currently on screen. Touchwiz also adds support for S-Pen functions and includes additional gestures, menus and apps that take better advantage of the big display.
Pro Excellent 5.7" QHD display
N4 has a 5.7" 2560×1440 (515 ppi) AMOLED display. It's sharp, with good contrast, saturated colors and viewing angles.
Pro Includes a heart-rate monitor
Pro Has a fingerprint scanner
Pro Has a UV sensor
Pro Great 5.5" QHD display
The LG G3 has a high quality 5.5" 2560x1440 IPS (534 ppi) display with accurate colors, good viewing angles, contrast and outdoor performance.
Pro Relatively lightweight and compact for a phablet
Compared to its main competitors the LG G3 is lighter and fits a 5.5 inch display into the same overall dimensions as the HTC M8 does with a 5 inch display.
Pro Solid build quality and atractive design
The LG G3 has a high quality, scratch-resistant plastic case that's supposed to look and feel like brushed metal. Volume and power buttons are placed on the back. The phone has small bezels making it compact for a phone of its size at 146.3 x 74.6 x 8.9 mm.
Pro Removable battery with reasonable life
LG G3 has a 3000 mAh battery that according to Phonearena will drain in about 6h of typical usage. Considering the high resolution display, it's actually a good battery life overall.
Pro Useful OEM skin
G3 comes with a custom front-end touch interface called Optimus UI. It adds additional functionality to the device.
For example, it allows changing the height of the keyboard, has an enhanced clipboard feature that remembers multiple things copied and a dual window feature for multitasking.
It also has an intelligent personal assistant called "Smart Notice", supports Knock code for unlocking the device and includes "Content Lock" that allows storing files in a secure, private area.
Pro Expandable storage
A micro SD slot is located behind the back cover allowing the storage to be expanded up to 128 GB.
Pro Good 13 MP camera
G3 has a 13 megapixel camera with optical image stabilization and good low-light performance. The phone uses "laser autofocus" allowing for very quick autofocus (276 milliseconds). If the data from IR is unreliable due to light conditions it can still fallback to contrast autofocus. It's also capable of 4K video.
The accompanying software allows taking selfies by making a fist gesture that will then start the countdown timer.
Pro Good performance
The G3 has a 2.5 GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 CPU with 2 GB (for the 16 GB version) or 3 GB (for the 32 GB version) of RAM. The device is snappy in everyday use.
Cons
Con TouchWiz bloatware slows the device down a bit
Con Qi wireless charging in US is only available if QuickCircle case accessory is installed
Although the G3 natively supports Qi wireless charging in other markets, in US, due to carrier's restrictions, it is only supported if QuickCircle case accessory is installed.