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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!
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.
All anyone cares about: Which Android game does it come with?! :(
Please not another Flappy Bird with different textures.
You're an idiot.
so as to improve profits through a new Apple-only (apparently) hifi wireless standard?
Since when is Bluetooth an Apple-only standard?
coolaid of propping up excessive profits
It's so cute the way you unemployed twats have to pretend you don't want an iPhone.
I see a port for a headphone jack. Just say'in ...
I've heard that it isn't Bluetooth..
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.
"The agriculture ministry is not in charge of Gundam" - Japanese ministry official.
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.
Better to just wait until you get home tonight to charge it again.
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.
Or just plug it into one of the dozens of cheaply available power banks (rather than paying $100 on a spare battery) and continue using the phone. No rebooting, just a cable running between your pocket and your phone. Many power banks now support fast charging too. And it'll be compatible with your next phone.
Then when you're at home, plug your power bank in, and plug your phone in, and they'll both be ready when you need them tomorrow.
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? Guess you'll have to make do with just one battery. Because very few phones have docks that let you charge a spare AND the main battery. So if you forget, you're screwed. You'd be better off carrying a power bank and letting the replaceable battery happen a few years down the road when it is degraded enough to be a problem.
I'm sure you'll still be able to use Bluetooth headphones with your new iPhone, but I've also heard that Apple's upcoming "AirPods" use a new proprietary standard (big surprise there).
Of course, Apple doesn't have to create a new & incompatible standard just to get better wireless audio than A2DP. They could happily support aptX over Bluetooth (or even AAC or MP3). But I expect the prospect of a whole new field of Made for iPhone peripheral licencing just proved too tempting, so I expect we'll hear plenty about how this glorious new standard is well worth the extra cost you'll be paying.
Why would anyone engrave "Elbereth"?
... and it wants it's interface back. Yikes!
I don't respond to AC's.
Extra note: iOS devices already support AAC over Bluetooth as of iOS 7, and some higher-end BT headphones do too. So improved wireless quality is already available for iOS users that want it.
Why would anyone engrave "Elbereth"?
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.
For one thing your phone's battery might be old and is losing charge and so you want to replace it permanently with a new one. A bank will not help with that.
Secondly, you could maintain a second battery at full charge, swap it in and now you have full power. A power bank trickle charges your phone so if it's at 2%, then it's still 2% with the charger plugged in, and it might require an hour to charge it up. In the meantime you have phone with a dongle hanging off it. And during that period you can't do much with the phone since even having the display on could use more power than the charger is supplying.
And frankly charge banks are a solution that should have not existed in the first place. There is virtually NO BENEFIT to the user of a sealed in battery. It doesn't make the device appreciably smaller or thinner. A battery occupies almost the same space regardless of it being accessible or not to the user. The only benefit is to the manufacturer who gets to build obsolescence into a device and therefore increase sales. I'm somewhat surprised that someone like the EU doesn't block the practice.
In theory USB-C is better, but the cables and charges are still expensive compared to Micro-B, even when the only difference is the connector, and there are also problematic cables and chargers. Benson Leung has gone on a 1-man crusade to highlight the bad ones but to me that only highlights problems with an overly complex spec and how certification has been conducted to allow it to get in this state.
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
Nothing here for me to see.
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Actually, no. You'd give them your phone and wait a number of days. In the meantime, you either have no phone or you have a spare one to use.
That's NOT what they mean by replaceable battery.
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My point is I pay $0, while you pay $15... I remember the days of replaceable batteries, the problem is you actually had to replace them.
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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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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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You can still use older USB-A chargers for a type-C device. Just get Type-A to Type-C cables. They're not very expensive (I recently got a 2-pack of 6.6ft Type A to Type C cables for $12 off Amazon). I'm sure that the costs of full USB-C chargers and cables will come down as they become more ubiquitous.
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