It achieved 1,286 on the Geekbench 2 benchmark test, which is a little under what the Moto G achieved. Unsurprisingly then, it didn't exactly impress with its speed. That's the same as you'll find inside the Motorola Moto G, which is pretty laughable given how much more money LG demands for its phone. Instead of the 2.2GHz quad-core chip in the regular G2, the Mini offers a 1.2GHz quad-core processor, along with 1GB of RAM.
Like the display, the processor at the heart of the phone has been seriously watered down as well. Finally, as with the G2, you can wake the phone up on standby mode by double-tapping the screen - which you'll need to do when it's lying flat, covering the power button. It's hardly ground-breaking, but it's handy for scrawling notes on a Google Maps screen to send to someone trying to find your flat. LG has also thrown in a feature to quickly take a screenshot and then write notes over the top by tapping an icon in the pull-down notification bar. With KitKat, you can take advantage of features such as full-screen media and games (with no navigation buttons taking up screen space) and the ability to search for local businesses from your contacts list.
LG G2 X MOTO G SOFTWARE
It's good to see the latest software available at launch, particularly given the regular G2 is still running the older Jelly Bean.
LG G2 X MOTO G ANDROID
The G2 Mini arrives with the latest version of Android on board, known as 4.4.2 KitKat. Colours are vivid too, which helps make Netflix shows and YouTube clips look decent, despite the unimpressive resolution. It is at least quite bright, which makes it fairly easy to read under harsh office lights and, in my experience, an unusually sunny London sky. It's far from blurry - it's perfectly adequate for Tweeting, prowling Facebook or Googling your own name - but it doesn't have the crispness around icon edges or in text that you'd get from a higher resolution display. The low resolution results in a display that lacks the pin-sharp clarity of its larger sibling or indeed the Moto G. I imagine that after weeks of using it you may eventually get used to it and appreciate the location, but I feel LG is attempting to fix a problem that really doesn't exist to begin with. I found it took a lot of getting used to and even after a few days with the phone, I kept naturally looking to the sides for the power button. That's the theory anyway, but in practice, I'm not sold.
It sounds daft, but LG's reasoning is sound enough - the buttons sit exactly where your index finger naturally falls when you're holding the phone.
Like its big brother, the G2 Mini has its power and volume keys on the back of the phone beneath the camera lens, rather than on the side. You'll need to use an external card - you'll blow through the 8GB of built-in storage pretty quickly once you start downloading big apps and saving your music locally.
LG G2 X MOTO G PLUS
On the plus side, the removable panel means you can swap out the battery and there's a slot for a microSD card too. I certainly prefer the matte, rubberised feel of the Moto G. It's not helped by the scratchy texture, which is similar to designs I've seen on various low-end budget phones. The back panel is entirely plastic, immediately making it feel much less premium than the glass-backed Sony Xperia Z1 Compact (although to be fair, the Z1 Compact is more expensive).
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