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The LG V40 ThinQ is a unique smartphone. It features a 5 camera setup (3 rear cameras and 2 front cameras). Can the LG V40 compete with The Samsung Galaxy S9+, Note 9 and others?
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It don't really matter what you say
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Now I'm excited for this one, okay? You guys know I look at a lot of smartphones
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And I'm always on the lookout for some type of differentiation From what we're used to seeing
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The V40 ThinQ from LG, it has five cameras This is the kind of thing that seems like a concept
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Like you would see some image floating around Twitter But now it's a real product and it comes in price-wise
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little bit under some of the others it's still gonna be expensive depending on the
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market that you're in close to a thousand bucks but not quite a thousand bucks
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we of course have snapdragon inside and you can see this DTS logo as well
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something else that's exciting about this particular device is the fact that they kept the headphone jack and they're very proud of the DAC that they're
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using on that headphone jack for higher quality audio than what you could
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achieve through wireless headphones. A microfiber cloth is going to greet us first. We have a 6.4 inch
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OLED display QHD Plus. It also has a dedicated Google Assistant key in the place where other
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manufacturers have put their own assistants. That is a very light smartphone. Granted, I think part
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of the reason is because the battery in here is not huge. It's not like Galaxy Note huge. I believe
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it's around 3300 milliamp hours. Let me put this down for a second. Also in the package, some
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paperwork, fast charge power brick, that's a must. We also have a type C cable to keep it charged up
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and because of that headphone jack, we actually have some pretty high end earbuds here
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in ear design, as you can see, interchangeable ear tips to get a better fit also
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This color is black, but depending on the angle you have it on, it kinda goes a bit blue
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So what you have back here is a wide angle, a standard lens and then an optically zoomed lens
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each with its own aperture. They've also got the fingerprint scanner right here
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where I like it, where your finger lands naturally. It also has wireless charging
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Bottom of the device you see USB type C connector This is the aforementioned headphone jack that so many people are excited about Power switch is over here on this side and then the dedicated assistant button
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is right below your volume buttons. Real quick before we turn it on
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let's get a look at the notch set up. Standard selfie camera
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as well as a wide angle selfie camera. I should mention on the SIM card tray here
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dual slots, so you do have expandable storage on there as well
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It takes a nano SIM and a micro SD. Now this is kind of interesting, they're giving you the opportunity to turn off the notch right within the setup
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In fact, it's the very first screen that you see. The other interesting thing, they're not calling it a notch, they're saying second screen
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That's my preference right there and then notch city. Alright, it's up to you. Maybe for the purpose of this video I'll leave the notch on, I don't know
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No, I wanna go, that's my taste, alright, that's my flavor. This doesn't bother me that much
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Apple, you know, I've been using the iPhone XS Max for a while now
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I wish they gave you this option. We'll go ahead and set up the fingerprint scanner
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It's definitely not the fastest I've seen. Wow! There are a ton of settings in here, so I have boosted up the brightness on the OLED now
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Now this settings layout is a little bit different. Of course this is running a skin as well, which may or may not be to your taste
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These are the display settings and there's a ton. So second screen here, that's what standard looks like
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And then within custom, you can actually change the color of the notched out portion
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If you want to go rainbow, you can even change the shape of it for the app corners
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Look at that. Screen resolution, that's also up to you. By default, it's at 2340 by 1080
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You can toggle in your color temperature based on the RGB levels you can fine tune
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There's also tons of presets. I love the level of configuration they give you here though because then it's up to you
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Screen looks pretty good first glance. Definitely OLED based on viewing angles that I'm seeing here
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All right, let's check out the audio here. I'll turn this video up. That's for dialogue
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Oh, some high quality audio cables. We're getting most of our sound out of the bottom grill
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and maybe a little bit out of the earpiece region I don know the sound seems a bit dull Let me see here if I go to my equalizer and try to boost the high end up and see what happens
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Oh, you can. That's way better. It sounds better than the iPhone when I..
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With the custom... You can fix it. Now, of course, the speaker is not even really what LG is happy about on this device
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It's all about that headphone jack. So let me try out the included headphones
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Now that I have these plugged in, it's gonna light up all kinds of extra options as you can see here
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Okay, so we're gonna turn on DTS and we're gonna turn on Hi-Fi Quad DAC
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So this is mostly for music, so let me go ahead and load up some music real quick
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You probably already know this, but there's no substitute currently for a wire when it comes to audio
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Like, this is still it. If audio quality is a major focus of yours, you kinda gotta be looking at this phone
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Alright, now I realize at this point I have not covered, I have not told you about the most important features on this phone and they live in the camera department of course
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Ok, so by default I booted into the camera app here. That's your default focal range right there
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As you can see over on the side here you have many more options
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At the top you have a zoom represented by this icon showing a zoom and on the bottom is the wide
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Okay, now this will give you a real quick representation of the differences as you can see there
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It is a ton of focal range that you're gonna cover and it's optical, right
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This is not digital at all. There's also an AI cam. This is the AI photo version of the wide
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You can see it brightened it up a bit actually. All right, now switching over to the selfie camera
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It's a similar situation. You have two lenses on the front. Oh, wait a second
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There was a beauty by default. How dare you? I thought I told you
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No, it's okay. At least I can turn it off. Look, there's settings for it. So this is the contrast that I'm generally looking for
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It just looks more like me, like me here, you know what I'm saying. I'm gonna try the AI selfie, see what they're doing, if they're doing anything fancy there
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It actually pretty nice It doesn I mean it definitely doesn look like I wearing makeup This is the group selfie button but of course this could also be used to capture something that behind you like if you travel a lot and you like look where I am I at the Taj Mahal There your wide one and that not so wide It not as much of a jump as I
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would like to have seen. It's definitely more in a frame, it's wider, but still not crazy wide. The two
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cameras actually look quite a bit different too from a color perspective, a contrast perspective
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It's interesting. I actually prefer the look of the wide one now something that I do think is cool to have
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Directly in the camera app is Google lens, and so they've done that here
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And that allows you to just you know hold up an object like something
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In front tap on it. Molson Canadian nails it. It's a beautiful look
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I get the alcohol percentage and so on now speaking of Google They also have this dedicated assistant key you just hit the button done all right, but a dedicated key is kind of nice
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the only criticism I have about that key, why not make it configurable? There's so
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many other configuration options like with the audio and the display and so on
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but as of right now it appears that it's just Google Assistant. Now obviously this
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is a very unique device because of that camera setup, the headphone jack sticking
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around and being a priority, it has piqued my interest personally maybe even to
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the point of testing it out over an extended period of time as my main
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device if that's something you would like to see you can let me know by leaving a thumbs up down below
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I'm just curious how I would use all these cameras and the types of photos that I would create and if I would actually end up
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utilizing this headphone jack after all like what I plug in for a little extra quality course there's some things I'm a little worried about with this device
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including the battery means definitely not the largest in the flagship department especially compared to something like the new note
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And then also the skin. It's definitely not stock Android. Otherwise the specs here look good. The phone is super slim and light
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But anyhow, there it is. The LG V40 ThinQ. Right now, it's promising. It has my attention
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