After the failure of the LG G5—the company lost nearly $400 million in Q3 2016, which it blamed on “weak sales of [the] G5″—LG is scrapping just about everything from its prior flagship. The modularity is gone, as is the removable battery. Instead, we get a simple slab phone with IP68 water resistance.
Let’s first talk about the most eye-catching part of the G6: the screen and slimline bezels. The screen aspect ratio is super-tall: 18:9 (or 2:1? I’m still not sure what to call this yet). The phone is about the usual height and width of all roughly 5-inch phones, but the tiny bezels make room for a taller screen. The corners of the display are rounded to complement the corners of the phone body. The whole thing looks fantastic—if you buy a G6, you’re buying it for the design.
I’m a fan of the taller screen. The device is skinny enough that it feels like a “small” 5-inch device, but you get a 5.7-inch screen. The display is bigger in the dimension that really matters—height. A taller screen means more list items, so you can see more emails, more app icons, and more webpage text. Besides watching videos in landscape, a wider screen wouldn’t be of much benefit in Android.
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