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LG Announces V30 Smartphone With 'FullVision' OLED Display, Dual Cameras (phonedog.com)
At a press conference in Berlin, LG announced their newest flagship smartphone, the LG V30. The V30 doesn't feature a removable battery or a secondary display like its predecessor, but it does feature faster performance and a significantly redesigned build construction that puts in more in line with Samsung and Apple's offerings. PhoneDog reports: A bigger device with beefier specs, the LG's V series took more design cues from the G series this year more than ever. As expected, LG got rid of the secondary display in favor of a single 6-inch LG P-OLED display (not Super AMOLED, although practically the same with rich black and vibrant colors). The V30 switches out its secondary display for slimmer bezels, which may prove to be a smart move considering how popular the concept is this year. Specs look pretty solid, although there were reports that the device would feature 6GB of RAM rather than 4GB. The bread and butter of the V30 are its sophisticated audio and its dual rear camera set-up. Speaking of the back of the device, another small advantage that LG may have over the competition is the center placement of its rear fingerprint sensor, which has been a bit of a pain point for Samsung this year with the S8 and the Note 8. The LG V30 is set to release on September 21 in South Korea, with releases in North America, Asia, Africa, and Europe following shortly after. LG also has yet to announce a price for the V30, although rumors peg it to be around 800,000 KRW in South Korea (which equates to about $699 in the U.S.). For those interested, GSMArena has a full spec sheet available for the LG V30. Some of the noteworthy specs include a 6-inch LG P-OLED display with an 18:9 aspect ratio and QHD (1440 x 2880) resolution, Snapdragon 835 processor with 4GB RAM, dual 16-megapixel/13-megapixel rear-facing camera sensors, headphone jack, 32-bit/192kHz audio, wireless charging and Android 7.1.2 Nougat.
The removable battery, SD card, and 2nd display is why I bought the V20 over the Galaxy and iPhone. If I wanted one of those I would have bought them, and come next upgrade I'll just buy Galaxy if there's nothing unique setting it apart that's not trivial.
At the present time at least, anything more than about 20 bits is lost in the noise so what's all this 32 bits of analog resolution of audio stuff? Just big numbers for advertising if you ask me.
I wonder how some can consider it a feature to have a touch-display that reaches from edge-to-edge, with no more non-touch-sensitive space to handle the device without causing unintentional clicks/action.
Let me be the first to say "Fuck you LG" as you are presumably going to deny UK users access to this as you did with the V10 and V20.
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Yeah more EBT cards a/k/a slavery reparations cards for all the socially justice responsible disadvantaged minority's you stupid fucking DEMOCRATS. Do productive humans a favor: find a mass grave, jump in.
Another V20 user here who specifically chose the phone so I could get through a long day without a charger using good old fashioned "battery swap".
Batteries in heavily-used phones wear out in less than 12 months.
Being able to buy a new one and swap it in without damaging the phone for $20 is a major selling point.
Its getting harder and harder to find a good phone with a removable battery as the years go on.
I really didn't expect Samsung to ditch it so comprehensively after their "wall huggers" advertising campaign.
That was gold.
On a side note: if the V30 uses nearly as much power as the V20 (and I expect it would), 3,330mAH is a _horribly_ small non-removable battery. You'll be looking for a charger before 3pm when the phone's still new.
After the way they handled my bootlooping nexus 5x warranty claim... probably going to give this one a miss.
at least they know how to build a proper fridge
Dear LG,
18:9 is also known as 2:1.
Signed,
your 2nd grade teacher.
No goddam user-replaceable battery = NO SALE! Idiots.
My first LG phone had a motherboard problem that limited it to less than the speeds of 2G half the time. I thought it was just a bad network connection, until a replacement part made it ten times faster. Since that was a Nexus, I thought I'd give LG another chance. My next LG phone died after six months due to a processor defect which is common to every handset of that model. LG wouldn't repair their garbage phone since I had no warranty. (They clearly *could* have repaired it, but wanted me to pay the price of a new phone to correct their mistake.)
I wonder what the predictive power of LG's record of zero for two is. What's the base rate of smartphones (from all manufacturers) having serious defect that makes them unfit for general use as a smartphone?
A cat can't teach a dog to bark.
Great! Another $700 Android device that will be obsolete in a year and will fall behind a full Android version after 18 months.
It will then catch up to the latest Android a little after 24 months... and then yet another Android version will be out and you. will. never. get. it.
Atte. Former V10 user.
How is this news? It's just another bar smartphone with specs lower than other flagship devices. What, is this LG's personal advertising space now? Less nonsense posts about average device announcements, plzthxbye
Are you people retarded? Why would you glue the battery into the phone after Samsung's Note 7 debacle?
You do realize one of the only reasons to buy an LG phone over a Samsung phone is the longevity promised by a device without a battery that's been glued in, right?
No sale for you. :(
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Can we please tax the living shit out of devices with planned obsolescence / glued in batteries? It's incredibly wasteful and the cost should reflect that fact.
A government is a body of people notably ungoverned - AC
Never ever ever buying another LG phone after the debacle with my V10.
Bought it new, after 9 months it develops the dreaded "bootloop" problem, which is a manufacturing defect that takes a while to surface. Also affects the G3 and G4 phones.
Send my phone in for repair, LG denies it due to "corrosion caused by liquid damage". Phone has never been near water, all stickers are white, logic board is pristine.
So die in a fire, LG, I'm never going back. I should have learned after having a G2x a few years ago (just a garbage phone, but at least it "worked").
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