{"id":15578,"date":"2017-04-24T11:03:39","date_gmt":"2017-04-24T09:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.pricecheck.co.za\/?p=15578"},"modified":"2017-04-24T17:41:13","modified_gmt":"2017-04-24T15:41:13","slug":"lg-g6-vs-samsungs-galaxy-s8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/lg-g6-vs-samsungs-galaxy-s8\/","title":{"rendered":"LG&#8217;s G6 vs Samsung&#8217;s Galaxy S8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The battle for Android supremacy is heating up in 2017 with both LG and Samsung releasing the best phones they&#8217;ve made, to date.<\/p>\n<p>Both handsets have a phablet size displays in smaller phone bodies which means that the screen to body ratio averages in the region of 80%. Keeping up the similarities, both handsets are waterproof with IP68 ratings as well as a rear mounted fingerprint scanner and both use Android 7.0 as the operating system.<\/p>\n<p>The LG G6 is currently on sale with a recommended retail price of R12 099 (or from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pricecheck.co.za\/offers\/93013241\/LG+G6+32GB+Platinium+Silver+Single+Sim+Local+Stock?sst=g6+lg%2Cfkey&amp;ssp=3&amp;sso=1&amp;rc=rgroup2\">R10 999 on PriceCheck<\/a>) while the Galaxy S8 will be on sale from 5 May (pre-orders are currently open) with a recommended retail price of R15 499, however you can find it on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pricecheck.co.za\/offers\/92582271\/Samsung+Galaxy+S8+64GB+Midnight+Black?sst=s8+takealot%2Cfkey&amp;ssp=1&amp;sso=0&amp;rc=default\">PriceCheck from R12 999<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you can&#8217;t decide which of these Android powerhouses should be your next phone, we&#8217;ve put together a head-to-head comparison of both handsets to help you decide.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-15576 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.pricecheck.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/1-2-410x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"410\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/1-2-410x1024.png 410w, \/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/1-2-120x300.png 120w, \/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/1-2-768x1920.png 768w, \/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/1-2.png 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 410px) 100vw, 410px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-15577 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.pricecheck.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/2-410x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"410\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/2-410x1024.png 410w, \/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/2-120x300.png 120w, \/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/2-768x1920.png 768w, \/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/2.png 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 410px) 100vw, 410px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The battle for Android supremacy is heating up in 2017 with both LG and Samsung releasing the best phones they&#8217;ve made, to date. Both handsets have a phablet size displays in smaller phone bodies which means that the screen to body ratio averages in the region of 80%. Keeping up the similarities, both handsets are<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"\/blog\/lg-g6-vs-samsungs-galaxy-s8\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15592,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"amp_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[155,1919,1846,496,676],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/gs8-lg-g6-5-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15578"}],"collection":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15578"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15617,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15578\/revisions\/15617"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}