The list of things you can do with a smartphone seems to get longer every couple of years, but one bugaboo that always seems to stand in the way is battery life. Keeping the lights on and the data flowing requires more and more under the hood, which explains why smartphone battery capacity has been creeping up faster than before.
LG leapfrogged others with the X Power, cramming a huge, 4,100mAh battery into a relatively small frame, climbing to the top of the battery-life food chain for mid-range handsets. Its name feels appropriate, but how much “power” is there in this phone otherwise?
A battery with a shadow
It’s important to put the LG X Power in context: This phone is a far cry from the company’s flagship G5, and the only thing “bigger” or “better” here is the battery. Corners had to be cut everywhere else to make the X Power really competitive on price (it’s $150 at Cricket).
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