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LG Introduces The V20, The First Android Nougat Smartphone (venturebeat.com)
An anonymous reader writes from a report via VentureBeat: LG has unveiled its V20 flagship smartphone, the successor to the V10 that LG introduced last year, and the first smartphone to run Google's Android Nougat OS out of the box. It's also the first phone to get In Apps, a new homescreen shortcut in Android that makes it easy to search through content on all installed apps. There's a customizable "second screen" at the top, the fingerprint scanner/power button on the rear, and a removable smooth aluminum alloy back cover that can allow you to remove the battery. There's no longer two front facing camera sensors, just one 5-megapixel wide-angle camera. There are however two rear-facing camera sensors similar to the G5. There's an 8-megapixel 135-degree wide-angle camera sensor and 16-megapixel 75-degree camera sensor. The new phone features a Snapdragon 820 processor, 4GB of RAM, 64GB of storage with support for up to 2TB of storage via microSD, a 3200 mAh battery, and a 5.7-inch QHD display. It measures 159.7 x 78.1 x 7.6mm and weighs 174g. The USB-C adapter supports fast charging. The phone will be available in titan, silver, and pink, although pink won't be coming to the U.S. market. LG has yet to disclose the price, the release date, or carrier availability for the phone. It's also the first smartphone to feature a 32-bit hi-fi quad DAC.
LG Introduces The V20, The First Android Nougat Smartphone
... It'll melt in your pocket!
These are the reasons I will be getting an LG for my next phone. (current phone is a 3+ year old galaxy s4)
The only thing that may hold me back is the difficulty gaining root on LG phones, for the US versions.
Summary is wrong, there are two front facing cameras- 2x 5mp 1.9f one traditional, one wide angle.
Almost like we're caught in a phone loop.
And tomorrow, Apple announces the next iPhone, and nobody cares about the latest unsecurable piece of crap from the Android camp.
Why bother with a spare if you have to shut the entire OS down, swap hardware, and then cold boot the system. Most of these Android phones take longer than Windows XP to boot up. If you're going to drag around an extra battery, you may as well make it plug and play - don't have to shut down, just plug in and keep working.
Oh, and I call bullshit on the inability to make a replaceable battery waterproof. Nearly a grand for a phone and you can't make a battery with an o-ring-sealed contact port?
I mean, it's a nice phone and all, but it seems that nobody is even trying to do good things anymore.
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All anyone cares about: Which Android game does it come with?! :(
Please not another Flappy Bird with different textures.
It's a horrible design and the people who made it should be shot in the face. Do not buy anything that has USB-C!
The 23% of the market (and dropping) still on iPhone probably already dont care.
However the 74% and growing of the market who are not busy drinking the ex-Jobs coolaid of propping up excessive profits for Apple probably do care.
I wonder what android features Apple will clone in this round? Or is it only the masterful stroke of removing the headphone socket
so as to improve profits through a new Apple-only (apparently) hifi wireless standard? I guess they have to try and turn around the
disaster that beats(tm) is somehow.
Pretty simple really, aint it.
Not really a V20 unless it has 8080 mode.
I see a port for a headphone jack. Just say'in ...
Nobody in my family has a phone with a non-replaceable battery, and that's not going to change in the near future. And I will do my best that it doesn't change in the long run, either.
It's a deal-breaker.
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Turns out, this phone does have a replaceable battery!
Well done, LG! Now take my money. Shut up and take my money.
"The agriculture ministry is not in charge of Gundam" - Japanese ministry official.
The first? Interesting, I've been running Android 7 on my phone for quite a few weeks now...
I go into an Apple store, pay about as much as I would for a standalone battery, and it's replaced...
Or at least that's theoretically how it would work since I've never had to replace an iPhone battery, even after using one for over two years. In the meantime I have essentially a waterproof phone... which has a lot more utility to me than a battery I'll never replace anyway.
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ikr? Tech reviewers are so useless as of late. All they do is complain that it isn't thin enough, not metal or glass enough, and doesn't have the best camera in the known universe. What happened to actually reporting on specs and features? I want to know if I can replace the battery, insert an SD card, or wirelessly charge it. I couldn't care less how thin a phone with a 5.5+ size screen is. And yet, that's all they talk about.
Seriously, since when 5.7" is considered a phone?
... and it wants it's interface back. Yikes!
I don't respond to AC's.
It records at 132 dB instead of 120, whatever that means, but the white noise is 50% lower i.e. a 3 dB increase in performance.
Well done, but where are the missing 9 dB lol.
Or are those "dB" for something, like recording concerts through the microphone?
I will never buy an LG device anymore - I bought an LG G4 for my wife almost exactly one year ago. The phone is stuck in a boot loop - absolutely not working. Please see here for more info : https://www.reddit.com/r/lgg4/comments/4dibyz/bootlooped_post_your_info_here_megathread/ There are more than 1600 posts discussing this problem.
LG have even admitted the problem is one they caused: http://www.androidauthority.com/lg-admits-g4-bootloop-problem-hardware-fault-669603/
When I sent the phone to support, they refused to repair it, said we had caused the problem and offered to repair it for more than it would have cost to buy the phone new! I objected - no response from their support.
So do not use LG phones, terrible quality, made worse by shitty support.
This issue has absolutely plagued that model and it does appear to be happening with the G5 as well. After 2 phone replacements and headaches with store and contract (they changed my contract illegally) plus the device itself having issues I won't be touching LG again. Nor Samsung it seems.
From TFA;
I want to know if I can replace the battery,
The V20 comes with several unconventional features that were part of the V10, including the customizable “second screen” at the top, the combination fingerprint scanner and power button on the back, and a case you can snap off to replace the battery.
insert an SD card, ...
The phone features a Snapdragon 820 processor, 4GB of RAM, 64GB of storage with support for up to 2TB of storage via microSD
or wirelessly charge it.
If it supported wireless charging, they'd mention it. So no.
Any other questions? Or did you mean that you don't want reviewers to talk about anything else other than your particular little bugbears?
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rather than paying $100 on a spare battery
I have never paid $100 for a phone battery in my life. And you should not either.
Or plug your phone in, wait for it to charge, then remember to swap the batteries (reboot again) and charge again. Oh, you forgot to swap?
You do not have to put your battery in a phone to charge it, just drop it in the charger (that cost $10 on ebay).
You realize that "power bank" is really just a battery, right? A battery that requires an inconvenient cable.
LG still comes with features many phone makers are no longer supporting or have plans on removing:
1. Replaceable battery
2. Replaceable and upgradable memory
3. IR (blaster) port
4. Headset port
That sucks. Mine fell in the boot loop just a couple months ago, right after the 1 year mark. They accepted it for repair and fixed it. They even replaced my poorly done replacement lens cover. All free of charge. I wonder if your experience fell into a period of denial that they've since repented of.
I agree with LG's support being remarkably "shitty". I RMA'ed and sent my Nexus 5 phone for repair after it refused to boot up...LG also refused to repair it saying that there was water damage. The phone was never dunked in water or exposed in the rain. I, too, will *NEVER* buy an LG device again.
Nothing here for me to see.
deleting the extra space after periods so i can stay relevant, yeah.
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thanks for the heads up. I have an LG Washer/Dryer set. I had to reboot my washing machine. So, the thread you pointed to makes me think twice about LG.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_VIC-20
I've been a fan of LG phones for quite a while... Started in the EnV days (and its predecessor w/ the same form factor), all through their higher-end feature phones, switched to an HTC ThunderBolt, hated it, and went back to LG for the G2, G3, and now G5.
It always surprises me when people talk about Samsung as if it's the only Android device manufacturer out there, the Intel to MS/Google's attack on Apple once again. LG phones are pretty great. They've always had good battery life (replaceable!), a quirky feature set, and absolutely excellent cameras. I do miss some of the manual long exposure times, but the equivalent generation LG G# phones simply blow the iPhone cameras out of the water. If you do low-light photography (San Diego's a dark city) or video (ie, DJ lighting inside of a nightclub), the LG's camera options are great.
Anyway... Guess I'll be upgrading again this fall. If you haven't tried an LG phone out, I recommend :)
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I'd be more concerned that LG is calling it their flagship phone. That means it will receive a single, minor version update and be promptly forgotten about.
It's happened just like that with every other phone LG has named as their flagship.
Dammit, that was the first thing I thought of and wanted to post it. Just drop in an NEC V20 chip in the 8088 socket and BOOM! you get a 20% faster IBM PC. Magic!
Ok, ok. Up to 30% faster. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEC_V20
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