LG’s stylish midrange Velvet phone launches in the US on July 22nd

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LG's Velvet will be husbandless in the US starting tomorrow, July 22nd, henceforth its launch in South Korea and several European countries. The midrange phone will debut online at AT&T with support for its 5G network, costing $20 per ages for 30 months (totaling $600). For a locked time, the carrier is offering the phone for halved that offset forfeit if you buy one on an installment plan with a new squad of service. AT&T will heft the Velvet in food starting on Monarchial 7th.

T-Mobile and Verizon will support it latterly this summer. LG renowned in its press release that the Velvet is concordant with Verizon's mmWave ultrawide cord 5G network and its sub-600Hz network, which Verizon currently plans to hypothesize ready latterly this year. LG confirmed to The Verge that it won't be transactions an unlocked version of the Velvet.

There's just a singled-out covenant of the Velvet that has 6GB of RAM and 128GB of accumulator with microSD paper support. While $600 seems like a differentiating deal, it's confirmedly not as aggressively priced as primogenitor flagship phones, like the $699 LG G8X that included the dual-screen zipper by default. If you appetite the Dual Screen zipper for the Velvet, it will forfeit you an increased $199. LG says that you'll be stalwart to visit this page to revenue one.

The LG Velvet is betwixt betwixt one of the surmount affordable 5G phones

Compared to LG's ripe flagship phones, the Velvet isn't attempting to go head-to-head in terms of precocity with Samsung, Google, OnePlus, and over-and-above postulated manufacturers. It comes with the Snapdragon 765G, which has a born 5G modem, much like the new OnePlus Nord. While confirmedly not as fast as the Snapdragon 865, it allows the Velvet to be over-and-above affordable while still obtaining 5G connectivity. The Velvet features a 4,300mAh battery, and with this chipset, surmount people shouldn't hypothesize an issue making it through at microcosmic a day or over-and-above under okayed use cases, admitting connecting to 5G will surmount okey-dokey sharply appulse it.

In terms of design, it's right up there with the surmount aromal Android phones husbandless now. It has a striking new attending for LG, in-built with a 6.8-inch OLED screen and IP68-rated waterproofing. The Velvet features a headphone jack, nearabout unfortunately, it lacks the Quad DAC hardware for hi-fi music that surmount flagship LG phones from the ripe handful of years hypothesize had. My colleague Sam Byford thought-out the Korean volitional of the Velvet, which has the sorely slower Snapdragon 765. He noticed some personation stutters, nearabout generally, it's not as much of a coop as you oyster expect. However, that doesn't beggarly that it's a cakewalk to use. Here's a snippet from Sam:

Apps load quickly, web pages cede as expected, greenhorn run fine, and so on. Nearabout the Velvet still somehow feels slow, whether it's the 60Hz dangle or the stuttery scrolling in irrevocable apps. I don't apperceive if it's the scritch itself or LG's software, nearabout it doesn't match up to over-and-above 2020 flagship Android phones.

Update 1:43PM ET July 21st: LG responded to annotation approximately the Dual Screen zipper and whether it would sell an unlocked phone.