The smartphone market is getting better each year, but you might never notice that things are getting better. Today, we are going to review the LG V40, with its unreasonable price tag and terrible battery life. The LG V Series has always been feature-packed, but this time, the LG V40 takes one step further. The LG V40 ThinQ was silently announced in New York City on Wednesday by the South Korean giant. There is a lot to say about this smartphone. LG made its version of the Samsung Galaxy S9+, which is enough to say. The LG G and V series are the same.
There are slight changes. This LG V40 has five different cameras: three on the back and two on the front. Which is just a standard camera for normal shots, with a super wide-angle camera for capturing a wider field of view and a telephoto camera lens to get closer to your subject?
The front has a standard camera lens and a wide-angle option to capture more in just the frame. In terms of design, this has an aluminium frame and glass front and rear. That means you can easily get scratches on the back, and it has a rounded design with a 19.5:9 aspect ratio, a notch on the top of the display, a massive 6.4-inch QHD+ display, and a chin on the bottom. This is light to hold all day long. It has an OLED display panel with a resolution of 3120 x 1440, which is set to 2340 x 1080 by default and packed with 538 PPI. Which brings a crisp and punchy display, a deep black with excellent viewing angles.
The display is protected by Corning Gorilla Glass 5. The device is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 SOC, coupled with 6GB of RAM and 64GB of onboard storage. Additionally, there is a MicroSD card slot for storage and a 3.5mm headphone jack for audio. The phone also has IP68 water and dust resistance and wireless charging. The LG V40 also includes a USB Type-C headphone jack on the bottom. It consists of an improved version of the BoomBox Speaker, 32-bit Hi-Fi Quad-DAC audio, and DT:X 3D Surrounding Sound.
The V40 also features an optic feedback system, which is as good as the haptic engine Apple uses in the iPhone, and I am extremely happy to have a dedicated button for Google Assistant. This LG V40 is running on Android 8.1 Oreo with its version of V405QA10d, which was released on September 1, 2018, as a security patch. LG has upgraded the 40’s battery capacity to a massive 3,300mAh for six-day screen-on-time. On the front of the phone, there was a standard selfie camera with an 8-megapixel and 80-degree wide-angle camera lens, which is a 5-megapixel sensor with a 90-degree f/2.2 lens. The phone also has portrait blur and portrait lightning effects for selfies. The phone still retails for around $750 new. Let us know what your thoughts are on our LG vV40 review.