Lg velvet 5g

Expensive for what you get. It easily activates in my pocket. The cameras should be better, considering the price. Performance stutters now and then, and the screen doesn't have a refresh rate higher than 60 Hz. Too much preinstalled bloatware. No unlocked model. The Quad DAC is gone. LG's Dual Screen case is no longer included. The company's software update track record is abysmal. LG has always made weird phones. Remember when it put all the buttons on the back of the LG G2? Then there's the But endearing doesn't sell phones. LG's market share has been on a steady decline for several years, forcing the company to now hopefully end up with a profitable mobile division. The answer? The LG Velvet, which ditches the G series' gimmicks in favor of simple, sleek looks. However, in LG's quest to quell the quirkiness and create a more mainstream phone, the Velvet is too bland. Outside of its suave and smooth design, you'll be hard-pressed to find anything noteworthy. Photograph: LG The Velvet doesn't look like any other LG phone before. The rear is simple, with cameras that look like water droplets rising up from a surface. The colors are what give this a visual edge, though— When you pick up this phone for the first time, it becomes even more clear that this is not something from the old LG. The back and front of the Velvet curve into each other, making the edge ultra-thin but not so much that it feels sharp or unpleasant. This design choice, coupled with the very narrow but lo...

I’ve used most of LG’s flagship phones over the past few years. Enjoyed using them, even. But heck if I could pick them out of a lineup. LG has pursued an aggressively bland design language adopted in near-identical fashion by virtually all of its recent phones. The G7, the V40, the G8, the V50, and so on are all fine devices on paper, but they’re only distinguishable if you can remember their specific screen sizes and camera layouts — and even then it’s a challenge. And so now we have the Velvet, a phone that sees LG take completely the opposite approach to its typical idea of a flagship phone, abandoning the long-running G-series altogether. It’s an attempt for the company to be taken seriously as a design leader, as it was in the days of the iconic Chocolate slider in the mid aughts. (LG even managed to restrain itself from including “ThinQ” in the name.) The Velvet is a mid-range phone with mid-range pricing but unmistakably high-end fit and finish. I would normally start a phone review by talking about its industrial design. It’s not all that often that I use phones where the choice of processor has a material impact on its user experience. In this case, though, LG’s decision to go with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 765 (and the slightly faster 765G in the US) informs almost everything about the device. Just about every flagship Android phone you’ll read about this year will use a Snapdragon 865 system-on-chip at its core. It’s the fastest chip available to Android device m...

Like • Sleek design • Headphone jack • Good battery life so far Don't like • No new standalone software features • Fingerprint reader is finicky. The Velvet is LG's signal that it's heading towards another, more affordable but thoughtful direction. But the company should go even further. After spending time with the Velvet, I would still prefer something like the The Velvet is available in the US on AT&T and will come to Verizon on Aug. 21 for $700. Verizon's model costs $100 more due to its ability to tap into the network's faster millimeter-wave technology. T-Mobile is expected to carry the Velvet later in the summer. When I first reviewed the phone I tested the South Korean variant, but have since spent time with AT&T's model, too. +14 more See all photos LG's best-looking phone The Velvet looks unlike any premium US LG phone before it and it's the best-looking LG phone I've handled in a while. Compared with the V60, for instance, the Velvet has tapered edges, sharper corners and a rear camera array that runs vertically, not horizontally. The left and right edges of the screen fall off to the sides, which gives it a more chic look, and though it's about as tall as the V60, it's narrower, slimmer and lighter -- and ultimately more comfortable to hold. If this introduces a new design language for LG phones, I'm for it. But I have a few gripes. For instance, I don't like how the corners of the screen don't run all the way to the edges. Unlike the Galaxy S20, where the beze...

Price and release date Design Display Camera Camera samples Performance Battery Should I buy it? Three parts seem similar to a true high-end phone. We’ve already mentioned the first. The LG Velvet has 5G. The LG Velvet has some expensive design touches too, like curved front glass that makes the screen surround appear smaller. Its tall OLED screen does not look dissimilar to that of ‘true’ high-end phones either, even if some of its specs are less impressive. LG Velvet price and release date • Announced in May 2020 • Now available to buy in the US • Costs $599 (around £500 / AU$850) The LG Velvet first appeared in May 2020 and was seen as an attempt by LG to compete with a slightly different approach. It wanted us to see the Velvet as an alternative to something like the We don’t have prices for all regions at the time of review, but it's now ready to buy in there US where it costs $599 (roughly £500 / AU$850). In the US, it's coming with AT&T first with T-Mobile and Verizon set to offer the phone later in 2020. We've yet to hear pricing or a release date for the UK or Australia, but we've asked LG for more details. It is significantly cheaper than large screen 5G flagships like the (Image credit: TechRadar) Design • IP68 water resistance • Curved glass and metal shell • 167.2 x 74.1 x 7.9mm, 180g Look at the LG Velvet front-on and you could mistake it for a $1000-plus phone. Its front glass curves at the sides, the screen is big, and there are no little plastic slivers be...

For Verizon Network GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 CDMA 800 / 1900 HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1700(AWS) / 1900 / 2100 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 12, 13, 20, 28, 46, 48, 66 260, 261 mmWave HSPA 42.2/5.76 Mbps, LTE-A (5CA) Cat16 1000/75 Mbps, 5G 2Gbps Launch 2020, August 19 Available. Released 2020, August 21 Body 167.2 x 74.1 x 7.9 mm (6.58 x 2.92 x 0.31 in) - Glass front, glass back, aluminum frame Pre-installed Nano-SIM IP68 dust/water resistant (up to 1.5m for 30 min) MIL-STD-810G compliant* *does not guarantee ruggedness or use in extreme conditions Display P-OLED 6.8 inches, 109.8 cm 2 (~88.6% screen-to-body ratio) 1080 x 2460 pixels (~395 ppi density) Platform Android 10, upgradable to Android 11, LG UX Qualcomm SM7250 Snapdragon 765G 5G (7 nm) Octa-core (1x2.4 GHz Kryo 475 Prime & 1x2.2 GHz Kryo 475 Gold & 6x1.8 GHz Kryo 475 Silver) Adreno 620 Memory microSDXC (uses shared SIM slot) 128GB 6GB RAM UFS 2.1 Main Camera 48 MP, f/1.8, 26mm (wide), 1/2.0", 0.8µm, PDAF 8 MP, f/2.2, 120˚, 15mm (ultrawide), 1/4.0", 1.12µm 5 MP, f/2.4, (depth) LED flash, panorama, HDR 4K@30fps, 1080p@30/60fps, gyro-EIS Selfie camera 16 MP, f/1.9, 29mm (standard), 1/3.06, 1.0µm HDR 1080p@30fps Sound Yes, with stereo speakers Yes Comms Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, dual-band, Wi-Fi Direct, DLNA 5.1, A2DP, LE, aptX HD GPS (L1+L5), GLONASS, BDS, GALILEO, QZSS Yes No USB Type-C 2.0, OTG Features Fingerprint (under display, optical), accelerometer, gyro, proximity, compass, barometer Battery Li-Po 4300 mAh, non-removable 25W wi...

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