After eight years with LG, since the G4, I may be heading back to Samsung.
I don't know who the person is or the people are at LG who decide on which form factor to give their phones or who they ask about it, but it certainly wasn't me. I wonder if they do customer surveys or have focus groups.
All the LG people I know really loved the v40 and v50... especially the v50. THEN bam! Along comes the V60. Now of course it's a VERY good device. But a lot of people I know, including myself, are put off by its monstrous size..
However, my v40 recently went belly-up so I was in search of a new phone and of course I turn to LG. I was wavering on getting the V60 and then the Velvet came out. All set to run down to T-Mobile to get a velvet when I discovered they don't offer the dual screen through T-Mobile. But check this out...
Single sreen velvet at T-Mobile, $600 (ok, 588).
Single-screen V60 at T-Mobile $650.
Dual-screen V60 $700.
Now you would think that not only would T-Mobile carry the dual-screen Velvet, but it would only be $50 more than the single screen.
If you thought that you would be wrong.
You need to buy the single screen from T-Mobile for the $600 then you have to get the dual screen accessory from LG for $200.
That makes the dual-screen Velvet $800.
Yes the T-Mobile version of The Velvet has that MediaTek 1000c doohickey processor in it. Which is supposed to give it a little punch over the snapdragon 765. But I don't think that makes adding a dual screen to it worth $200 versus adding the dual screen to the V60 $50
On top of that, I think they made the Velvet a little too narrow and I'm not a big fan of that curved display edges.
So what phone fits my need better? The Samsung s20 FE.
Generally with less that 2mm difference it's the same size as the v40 with a nice flat screen and a bit of a punch up over the Velvet as far as performance goes.
LG should have just made whatever improvements they could have in the v50 and called THAT the V60. Yes the current V60 is a really great phone. But who told them the go that big I will never know.
I don't know who the person is or the people are at LG who decide on which form factor to give their phones or who they ask about it, but it certainly wasn't me. I wonder if they do customer surveys or have focus groups.
All the LG people I know really loved the v40 and v50... especially the v50. THEN bam! Along comes the V60. Now of course it's a VERY good device. But a lot of people I know, including myself, are put off by its monstrous size..
However, my v40 recently went belly-up so I was in search of a new phone and of course I turn to LG. I was wavering on getting the V60 and then the Velvet came out. All set to run down to T-Mobile to get a velvet when I discovered they don't offer the dual screen through T-Mobile. But check this out...
Single sreen velvet at T-Mobile, $600 (ok, 588).
Single-screen V60 at T-Mobile $650.
Dual-screen V60 $700.
Now you would think that not only would T-Mobile carry the dual-screen Velvet, but it would only be $50 more than the single screen.
If you thought that you would be wrong.
You need to buy the single screen from T-Mobile for the $600 then you have to get the dual screen accessory from LG for $200.
That makes the dual-screen Velvet $800.
Yes the T-Mobile version of The Velvet has that MediaTek 1000c doohickey processor in it. Which is supposed to give it a little punch over the snapdragon 765. But I don't think that makes adding a dual screen to it worth $200 versus adding the dual screen to the V60 $50
On top of that, I think they made the Velvet a little too narrow and I'm not a big fan of that curved display edges.
So what phone fits my need better? The Samsung s20 FE.
Generally with less that 2mm difference it's the same size as the v40 with a nice flat screen and a bit of a punch up over the Velvet as far as performance goes.
LG should have just made whatever improvements they could have in the v50 and called THAT the V60. Yes the current V60 is a really great phone. But who told them the go that big I will never know.