Well, MWC was cancelled but that didn't stop LG from showing off their newly announced LG V60. It's not flash or bleeding edge. It won't win any awards for best design. And yet this is the most exciting phone of the year so far for me personally. I fell in love with LG when they came out with the original V10(one which I reordered a while back off eBay as a backup/give to the kids device). An OEM who gives the user control over not just photos but video as well. All user changeable on the fly? I had never seen anything like it on a phone. It was amazing. But the bootloop issue(it hit me and my brother-in-law who I convinced to get one as well) was a real thing. The uncertainty of the V10's reliability took me right to the V20. The V20 truly had everything a power user could want. Removable battery, IR blaster, and the now wide angle camera and the updated HiFi recording app. From then on I upgraded to the V30 and finally last year I gave OnePlus a chance and it has been a really fun ride.
The 7 Pro is truly a great phone and I thought I could make up what I lost in manual video mode with apps like Filmic Pro but that just wasn't the case. Android still has the too many phones, too many APIs, and not every phone supports a certain feature not to mention how much access the OEMs give third party app developers. So I was quite jealous to see Apple and Filmic show off recording from multiple cameras at once on the 11 Pro last year or even the fact that Filmic Pro does indeed support all three lenses on iOS. No such case on Android or OnePlus devices. Also OnePlus doesn't have any flash options at all in the pro mode for photos. Options that LG uniquely covers with rear curtain flash and other flash options in pro mode. As fun as a 90hz QHD screen is especially with no interruptions, I knew I would eventually go back to what I love.
And here we are in 2020. The LG V60 has arrived, or it will be soon. They went with some interesting decisions in going down to a FHD+ panel(no high refresh rate screen) instead of a QHD one. I kinda disagree with that one the most but when I think of the battery life this phone will have at 5000mAh I'm a lot more forgiving. Also no optical telephoto option. LG is using the 64mp main sensor for all your zooming needs and I really think this is the route Google should have went with the Pixel 4/XL. If this allows for decent zoom even in lowlight I'm all for this sacrifice.
No other compromises were made here. Well it is a huge phone though. I definitely would've liked a smaller one. You get one of the most complete packages outside of those two things. 8GB of RAM. 128GB of expandable storage and a second screen. HiFi audio through the headphone jack and recording app. Second screen accessory. All for a price cheaper than the $999 S20. I'm all for this. And the fact that T-Mobile is getting it this year unlike the V50 is just the icing on the cake. Here's my main man Juan Bagnell on a pretty hectic day covering the things I care about in the V60. Mind you the whole video is shot on the V50. The quality is amazing. And I included a video I shot on the V10 from a few years ago.
https://youtu.be/ItrBiBp37gc
https://youtu.be/Fa495cN9I0Q
The 7 Pro is truly a great phone and I thought I could make up what I lost in manual video mode with apps like Filmic Pro but that just wasn't the case. Android still has the too many phones, too many APIs, and not every phone supports a certain feature not to mention how much access the OEMs give third party app developers. So I was quite jealous to see Apple and Filmic show off recording from multiple cameras at once on the 11 Pro last year or even the fact that Filmic Pro does indeed support all three lenses on iOS. No such case on Android or OnePlus devices. Also OnePlus doesn't have any flash options at all in the pro mode for photos. Options that LG uniquely covers with rear curtain flash and other flash options in pro mode. As fun as a 90hz QHD screen is especially with no interruptions, I knew I would eventually go back to what I love.
And here we are in 2020. The LG V60 has arrived, or it will be soon. They went with some interesting decisions in going down to a FHD+ panel(no high refresh rate screen) instead of a QHD one. I kinda disagree with that one the most but when I think of the battery life this phone will have at 5000mAh I'm a lot more forgiving. Also no optical telephoto option. LG is using the 64mp main sensor for all your zooming needs and I really think this is the route Google should have went with the Pixel 4/XL. If this allows for decent zoom even in lowlight I'm all for this sacrifice.
No other compromises were made here. Well it is a huge phone though. I definitely would've liked a smaller one. You get one of the most complete packages outside of those two things. 8GB of RAM. 128GB of expandable storage and a second screen. HiFi audio through the headphone jack and recording app. Second screen accessory. All for a price cheaper than the $999 S20. I'm all for this. And the fact that T-Mobile is getting it this year unlike the V50 is just the icing on the cake. Here's my main man Juan Bagnell on a pretty hectic day covering the things I care about in the V60. Mind you the whole video is shot on the V50. The quality is amazing. And I included a video I shot on the V10 from a few years ago.
https://youtu.be/ItrBiBp37gc
https://youtu.be/Fa495cN9I0Q
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