Jan "Jenkings" Škoda - blog

The first of the electronic gifts from Tom. The LG G5, the 2016 flagship model. It has 4 GB of RAM and a Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 processor. It's a really beautiful piece of hardware and, even though the reviews complained about the design, I actually like it.



The phone is designed to be modular. Unfortunately, no modules are available nowadays and I guess there weren't many of them. However, this does not matter, as the phone is really good as it is.

I was surprised by the USB-C port, as this was not common in 2016. It comes with a fingerprint sensor on the back that also works as an unlock button, which is quite unusual for sensors on the back. Nowadays, it is common for the side unlock button to also be a fingerprint reader. However, in the past, when the readers were on the back, phones had a separate unlock button on the side. It's uncommon, but not bad. :)



The volume buttons on the left side are a bit more problematic for me, as they are not intuitive for someone who controls the phone with their right hand. But it's not bad, just unusual.

Everything else is just great. I really like the display with the always-on function and I enjoy using the camera, which takes great photos, even in darker spaces.



What I enjoy the most is how incredibly smooth everything is. I have never experienced any delay or micro-lag, except for a few seconds after booting up. I guess it's the smoothest phone I've ever held. It's a really nice experience.

It runs on Android 6, but the interesting part is, that the Play Store is still working and is able to be updated to latest version. So i can still download apps and games the official way, which i thought is not possible even on Android 8. Of course the ammout of supported apps is really small, but still exctining that it still works.

I was thinking about flashing some custom ROM and use it as my daily phone, because it is really great, and theoretically there is support of LineageOS up to Android 14, however the process of upgrade is as tricky, as i am a bit aware of wasting such a nice phone.