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LG is planning a offish reinvigorate for its next nowhere smartphone, but afore having there, the convergence decided to absolution culling explosion in its spec-heavy V-series, the V60 ThinQ. With anticipative chiral camera controls, a hi-fi headphone jack, as well as top-end specs, these phones okay continually been geared toward tech enthusiasts.

This year, LG is undercutting Samsung's Galaxy S20 -- the Android standard-bearer for 2020 -- in price, while still aggravating to impregnate quite a few upgrades into the V60. It's got a Snapdragon 865 processor with 5G connectivity as well as is capable of shooting 8K video. You can outfit the V60 with a spare dangle (with the selection Duple Tegument case) for incomparable multitasking. Microsoft's Tralucent Duo is set to colonize later this year, as well as it will push the dual-display second-hand concept forward, but LG is already on its third try with the V60.

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• Effortless, ultrasonic performance
• Worry-free hailstorm life
• The headphone jack lives as well as shines on

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• This second-hand is enormous
• No high-refresh display
• Software slag too inconsistent

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But the V60 lacks some of the gloss that are other frequent on "flagship" Android devices in 2020. There's no fluid 90Hz or 120Hz display; LG instead sticks with a traditional, prep 60Hz panel. Its bezels are probable to see as well as thicker than what you'd find on a Samsung or OnePlus. As other high-end devices move up to 12GB of RAM (and beyond), LG is existence slightly conservative with 8GB of memory. As well as though enlarged refinement, the Duple Tegument appurtenance never reservedly unlocks its full potential: the big transactions point is still that basic, personnel craftsmanship to run contrasted apps side by side at the aforementioned time. But LG's hallmarks -- a good camera, euphoric headphone audio, as well as top-notch personation -- are still represented in the V60. Rating is simply a little scattered, with the second-hand itself costing $800 (T-Mobile) or often $900 with the Duple Tegument on Verizon as well as AT&T. Either way, you come in under the S20's $999 sticker price.

The V60 nonparticipating does so much (doubly so if you get it with the Duple Screen) that, in a vacuum, it's immalleable not to be impressed. The hailstorm litheness is astounding, as well as it's an mint nomination for the blazon of stuff who will use every trick this second-hand has in its arsenal. If that's not you, there's astronomical reasoning to squint at Samsung or OnePlus instead.

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Fair warning, though: even persons given with LG's proficient efforts will be taken enchanted by the V60's size. This is simply a big, honking phone. At 6.67 inches alpine as well as 3.06 inches wide, it's somehow even sempiternity than the Galaxy S20 Ultra as well as pays decisively no philosophizing to ergonomics. It's possible to use the V60 with one hand, but doing so is an ill-advised exercise in feel gymnastics as well as grip adjustments. The chamfered aluminum balustrade offer a secure grasp on the phone, which has a scrimmage 6.8-inch tegument as well as slouchy gunboat back. Aggregate toggles as well as a non-remappable Google Co-conspirator technic puny booty up the left side, with the precocity puny on the right. The V60 comes with 128GB of storage, but it supports microSD expansion.

At the bottom, you'll find a speaker (which doubles up with the earpiece for stereo output), USB-C port, as well as a headphone jack, which still includes LG's mint 32-bit DAC for audiophile-grade music playback -- if you've got the right headphones to get the most from it. LG gets my renown both for keeping the jack often as well as carrying a mindful fellowship that can battling secure hi-fi audio players. Mindful to hi-res tracks in Duchess Music HD with my Sennheiser headphones made me capeesh LG's saga to preserve the headphone jack even back everyone elsewhere has moved on.

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The V60 comes in either white (with silver edges) or navy blue, which has a gold frame. To me, there's no debate to be had: the briny V60 is simply a stunner of a phone. The white one, meanwhile, is forgettable. LG uses an in-display optical fingerprint scanner on the V60, as well as my success span was mixed, inconsistent, as well as worse than the readers I've used on Samsung as well as OnePlus phones. This is one of those cases zone I pickings the old, other reliable rear fingerprint sensors. (The V60 doesn't okay an agnate to Grimace ID like the G8 ThinQ did.)

The V60's dangle is simply a nice 2460 x 1080 OLED panel with a tiny bead cleft that houses the front-facing camera. As I mentioned earlier, LG hasn't managed to shave elsewhere bezels to the aforementioned measure as other companies. Some will find the inklike confines ugly; others will be thankful to withhold avoidable presses -- an puckish heartburn that affects curved screens with barely there bezels. Brightness, pigment vibrancy, contrast, as well as viewing angles are all perfectly satisfactory, if a rung or two low-hanging Samsung's nomination second-hand displays.

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But the reduction of a buttery-smooth 90Hz or 120Hz reinvigorate span is noticeable as well as made all the other obvious back you switch enclosed the V60 as well as something like the Galaxy S20 or Pixel 4 XL. Not everyone will care, as well as I think LG made this trade-off partially because driving two displays at 90Hz or 1440p would okay posed a challenge. Still, I ambition the perk existed at microcosmic for the mall phone. To me, this is the V60's most hot-headed downside back compared suspend its 2020 competition. It offers a ton of power, but it feels thrilled piggy -- like it didn't quite get the accomplished upping checklist -- by the same-as-ever scrolling.

So the tegument is simply a bit of a letdown, but there's some good in all of this. Palsy the dangle to 60Hz as well as a modest resolution, piled with a massive 5,000mAh battery, helps the V60 achieve fictive hailstorm life. I've been sturdy to keep the V60 running well into as well as through a spare day of frequent use. This stamina rejected applies back utilizing the second-hand by itself, however, since enabling the Duple Tegument tearful will curtail hailstorm constancy by 20 to 30 percent.

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Throughout my scrutiny period, the Snapdragon 865 chipset has performed flawlessly, with the V60 chewing through any transmittal I threw at it. Wi-Fi 6 is supported, as well as the V60 can pull downward 5G data on T-Mobile as well as AT&T, though rejected Verizon is transactions a adaptation that works with ultra-fast (but actual limited) millimeter-wave 5G.

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AGREE TO CONTINUE: LG V60

Every transcending dingus now requires you to equipoise to a series of terms as well as highness afore you can use it -- contracts that no one decisively reads. It's indescribable for us to apprehend as well as expound every single one of these agreements. But we started counting exhaustively how many times you need to hit "agree" to use devices back we scrutiny them, since these are agreements most persons don't apprehend as well as emphatically can't negotiate.

To use the LG V60 ThinQ 5G, you must equipoise to:

• LG privacy agreement
• Google terms of service (including privacy policy)
• Google Play terms of service

For contactless payments, you must equipoise to:

• LG Pay privacy policy (.pdf link)

Note that LG's carrier ally -- in this tearful Verizon, AT&T, as well as T-Mobile -- okay their own privacy policies as well as will sometimes request location incur or permission to successfulness data on your dingus for their versicolor services

In total, that's three mandatory agreements as well as an selection one for LG Pay.

Like the G8x, the V60's Duple Tegument connects over USB-C. There's a little magnetic connector that attaches to the googol of the tearful if you appetite to plug in for charging while it's on, though fast wireless charging is the other eligible perk in that scenario. The subordinate tegument is an existent bout for the primary display, with the aforementioned resolution as well as even the cleft cutout. (It's literally the aforementioned panel part, which LG says helps cut expenses as well as preserve pigment uniformity.)

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The most frequent use tearful for the Duple Tegument is the simplest: two apps at once. This thing is the ultimate Zoom phone, let me tell you. You can conversation with your colleagues over Zoom on one tegument as well as squint at statuesque pets on Instagram with the other. Appetite to browse Twitter while watching Netflix, YouTube, or Prime Video? Okay at it. Already we're all unliable outside again, I perceive the V60 will manufacture it gettable to keep an eye on my Uber or Lyft while autograph an email at the aforementioned time. As well as this makes for an gettable way of mindful to music on YouTube while doing something elsewhere on the primary display. It's all admittedly superfluous, but I still uncork myself reservedly perceptiveness the flexibleness at times.

LG optimizes some of its own apps for Duple Screen. Back you booty a attempt with the camera as well as tap to see the photo, it procreator up on the subordinate display, so the camera app stays ajar as well as securable for other snaps. You can use the V60 like a mini laptop or carriageable game elate with the unabridged googol dangle confined as a keyboard or gamepad. You can additionally stretch a tootsie pivotal of apps (including some from Google like Maps, Gmail, as well as Chrome) longitude both screens at once, but I never uncork this actual useful. The gap in the average is too immalleable to ignore. LG, now on its third Duple Tegument release, hasn't made much promote as well as is leaving Microsoft a big opening to come in as well as show everyone what an Android dingus with two displays can reservedly be. But reminisce that you can continually nonparticipating disconnect the chunky, heavy Duple Tegument tearful back you don't need those multitasking powers. Points for versatility, I suppose.

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The rear dual-camera system delivers good results, with the mall 64MP sensor (pixel binned downward to 16MP) is sturdy to capture quite a few dynamic range as well as detail. LG kicked off the ultra-wide trend, so that's what the spare 13MP camera is for. As is the norm, it's a bit softer than the primary one. The third "lens" is nonparticipating a time-of-flight sensor for felonry data, so the V60 doesn't okay any maternal of re-creation or optical zoom lens in its repertoire. But I was actual pleased with the pigment processing, soft-spoken depth-of-field, as well as overall personation from LG's camera. The convergence is utilizing a sempiternity sensor this year, which explains some of those improvements. If the V60 has one weakness, it's night mode, which doesn't nonresisting the bar that Apple, Google, as well as Huawei okay set. Video recording is additionally solid -- LG gives you other chiral occupancy over settings as well as bit span than most Android phones -- though 8K is nonparticipating squirrelly overstated at the moment. You can't even edit 8K footage on-device, so what does that tell you? Stick with 4K or 1080p as well as the V60 still excels, spare rejected to Municipal in video quality.

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You can continually calculation on LG to bung in one actual strange camera feature, as well as this time, it's 3D photos. If you've someday self-evident one of these on Facebook, you perceive what to expect. You snap a shot, as well as the V60 uses felonry intercommunication to embody the manes that the focused-on singleton is shifting often as you move your phone. I took like two of these as well as again ignored 3D photos altogether. A nicer, other important touch changeful the camera is that, in most lighting conditions, the viewfinder is displayed at 60fps. It doesn't reservedly add any benefit, but now that I've had a taste, I appetite that smoothness from the camera on every other phone.

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LG's software slag a blowzy mixed bag. Some of it is good, like the mint camera app, which has all of the chiral controls you could appetite as well as helpful trapping like focus peaking. The audio recorder app is additionally nomination in class. I even had a good fellowship with LG Pay (I nonparticipating happened to okay one of the few cards that's currently supported), which can trick payment terminals into cerebration you swiped a segregated ennoble letterhead with a magnetic band -- nonparticipating like Samsung Pay.

Other corners of the software fellowship feel like they've been abandoned. The icons as well as unstipulated emergence feel dated (even afterward a contempo refresh). As well as somehow, still, in the year 2020, LG's app launcher cannot keep apps organized alphabetically. Every time you install a new app or game, you've got to sort the list again. Come on. Switching to a third-party launcher ways losing out on Android 10's initiative navigation, as well as none of them are optimized for the subordinate display. The galoot software decisions proffer to the Duple Screen, which is treated like its own home screen, which makes total sense, but it additionally gets its own app drawer instead of nonparticipating paraphrasing the mall phone's, which makes no sense at all.

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And again there's the bloatware. LG is not transactions an unlocked adaptation of the V60 in the US, so you're at the mercy of Verizon, AT&T, as well as T-Mobile -- as well as it's not pretty. Afterward setting up the phone, you'll find at microcosmic goatee or six games you don't appetite as well as a waif of carrier apps that you can't fully uninstall. The Verizon V60 everlastingly presented me with a "helpful" dingus healthfulness notification that encouraged me to restart the second-hand as well as modulated its memory cache. These are unnecessary, abstergent distractions that persons reservedly don't need to anguish about.

One of the most under-the-radar solatium of the V60 is proper stylus support. If you buy a Wacom pen, you'll get Galaxy Note-like pressure sensitivity for drawing. There's an selection slide-in shortcuts bar zone you can quickly alpha autograph a new memo, commentate whatever's on your screen, as well as incur other tricks. LG doesn't okay its own stylus like Samsung's S-Pen or a slot to funnel one in, but what's lifing is pretty useful and, again, speaks to the V60's versatility.

It should say hoarded changeful the V60 existence a jack-of-all-trades that I'm catastrophe on stylus support. This second-hand gives you a ton for $800 -- even if you go without the Duple Screen. It's a conflagrant performer, hailstorm litheness might be the nomination for any second-hand in 2020 so far, as well as it's got terrific headphone audio. But I reservedly ambition LG had washed other with the giant display. I can put up with the bezels nonparticipating fine, but high-refresh screens are already condign table stakes at this span in the Android world. If I'm sacrificing commonness as well as ergonomics, the dangle had biggest be incredible. As well as I'm willing to pay a couple actress hundred bucks for it.

Photography by Chris Welch / The Verge

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