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Finally, LG has equipped this smartphone with IP68 certification and support for wireless charging. The V40 features a 6. The panel is very good, although, despite its ppi, it is not as sharp as those offered by the competition. The lighting produced by the display is good but does not come close to the nits of the G7 and you may have difficulties under direct sunlight. However, looking at it from different angles, I've never noticed any kind of tendency towards blue from this display and the colors are extremely saturated, almost too much maybe. I mean, this display is either hated or loved, it's a matter of taste.
Of course, you will always have the possibility to change the calibration of the colors, as well as their temperature. This display is also HDR10 compatible, which means that you can enjoy significantly better multimedia content with than the optimized standard displays. Unfortunately, LG has not yet offered a top of the range software with the latest release of the green robot on board. The V40 ThinQ runs Android 8. Moreover, no release date has been declared for the Android 9 Pie update.
All we know is that it's going to land sooner or later! Android 9.
LG's user interface has never been a strong point and this time, as in the past, I have struggled with it. The design always seems the same for years and the stylistic elements offered by the company do not fit exactly into my personal tastes. The settings menu is still organized into four different tabs, which almost always made it difficult for me to find many of the submenus I needed. Also, by default, the app drawer is not active but for lovers of this feature, you can enable it in the settings of the launcher.
The latter integrates Google Discover the former Google Feed , which can be accessed by scrolling from left to right directly into the homescreen. If you miss Google Now, this is definitely a rather welcome alternative. In the United States, only the version with 64GB of memory is currently available.
The GB version tested by us is only available in South Korea. Like most of the other leading devices of , the performance of the V40 ThinQ has been solid. In my two weeks of intensive use, I have never seen or even noticed the slightest hesitation. Applications are launched quickly and multitasking performs excellently. I mean, it has no trouble keeping up with your daily activities.
We have performed our usual benchmark tests by comparing the V40 with other current top-of-the-range handsets. You can see the results in the table below. These are obviously the averages of three tests carried out for each device. Once again this year, LG's famous bit DAC is back, thanks to which you can enjoy high-quality audio that sounds better than any other smartphone at the moment. LG reigns supreme in the niche of audio quality, at least until consumers no longer worry about having the 3.
For now, its removal is seen as a bad move and LG is one of the few companies that still today has kept faith with the word of the users. If you prefer to listen to music directly from the speaker, the Boombox speakers inherited from G7 will not let you down on quality audio. I've never heard a smartphone sound as loud as this one. The camera is nowadays one of the most important aspects that is taken into account when purchasing a new smartphone. After the bad performance of LG G7, I want to reassure you immediately: the cameras of the V40 are undoubtedly in line with all the rest of the specifications of the device.
This year LG decided to play the wild card with three rear cameras. Some manufacturers choose to include a wide angle or a telephoto lens, but not LG: the company has decided to opt for all possible technology including both types of sensors. These cameras really amazed me and I'm pretty sure LG worked a lot on the software. However, the optical zoom has particularly disappointed me because instead of keeping the photos beautiful and sharp, these are taken with a clear presence of noise.
On the front, we find two other cameras and so we've reached five! This allows you to create both wide-angle and portrait selfies.
Honestly, as I said in our test dedicated to the camera, I expected a wider angle, but still a good job was done. Finally, I invite you to take a look at the album in which I shared some shots captured with the V40 ThinQ by clicking on the link below. The mAh battery aboard the V40 ThinQ offers not exactly spectacular battery life. To help the battery survive a little longer I recommend using the default resolution x pixels. Constantly using the maximum resolution and applications such as WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram and five synchronized GMail accounts, during my experience I was able to total an average of only 3 hours and 20 minutes of active screen, which is surprisingly negative.
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