The LG V60 is here: My Phone of the Year.

[Mooncatt]

Trigger pulled. Now the real wait begins.

 

[editguy]

They're making money on shipping.

 

[ROE_HUNTER]

I ordered 4 and thankfully the shipping was the same

Ordered 2 of them this weekend. Just got the tracking number. Be here in the next couple of days. Shipping out of Ft Worth here in USA.

 

[editguy]

 

[jabtano]

I'm currently using the OnePlus7Pro. I went from the V20 to the V40 to the One Plus 7 Pro.I wanted to wait until today before I made my mind up with the release of the 8Pro. I'm all in on the LG V60 pretty much gives me what I want for under $1000. Plus I love the headphone jack. after reading all the revues on the V60 I'm going to head on back to LG I've never had any issues with the two that I have owned. I didn't have any issues with the One Plus 7 Pro. Samsung for me is out three devices 3 headaches.

 

[shook187]

Just bought a couple blue ones from T-Mobile not the dual screen, unfortunately it says they were back order now I have to wait a couple weeks.

Probably should have gone with the white and they were in stock

 

[Mooncatt]

I got the phone today and still working on fine tuning my setup, but here's my initial impressions. Some things to keep in mind: I'm really good at nit picking, I'm comparing this to the V20 in many ways (what I consider the epitome of phone design), and this is all based on the setup process without really putting it through its paces yet.

1. It's tall. Really tall. As in I can't reach the top 25% of the screen with one handed use. I'd much rather it have a bezel to house the camera, sensors, and a killer speaker, if not just be shorter all together.

2. Speaking of bezels, it needs one on the bottom too. I have to strain to reach the navigation buttons with one hand use, and constantly typing a row above where I intended on the keyboard. I know i can use gesture navigation, but that has its own drawbacks. A bezel would allow for better one hand use, plus give room to turn that bottom firing speaker up to front firing and better sound. The bottom bezel on the V20 was perfect.

3. It's not the slickest phone I've held, but still slippery. The back glass also feels more like plastic than glass, which I actually like.

4. The flashlight is rather dim compared to other phones.

5. The stock gallery doesn't seem to allow you to sort albums by name, only by date modified. If anyone knows if that's fixable, I'd love to know. Otherwise I'm switching to a third party gallery that is almost a direct clone of the V20's gallery.

6. Could they have cut the side protective film into any more pieces???

7. Anyone that thinks you need above 1080p on a phone display is just blowing smoke. It's the sweet spot on a phone, but the option for 90Hz refresh would've been nice to have (120Hz is not noticably better than 90Hz).

8. I thought i would like what looked like fine tuning of the display color calibration, but I barely saw any differences when making changes.

9. Tons of junk to disable/delete.

10. I can already tell battery life is good, even with all the extra setup going on. Just sucks that it's sealed.

I'll leave it at that for now. I know it's a lot of doom and gloom, but I'm hoping a lot of it is able to be overcome as time goes on. Admittedly some of it is subjective and will just take getting use to, but some of it is just functionally bad. I'm looking forward to getting more app use out of it and exploring the camera setup, and hopefully the dual screen case well help make the navigation bar easier to use with the added bulk.

BTW, anyone know if there's a stock way to hide the notch? I thought I saw someone mention doing that, which would be great. That camera notch is going to drive me nuts.

 

[Grabber5.0]

If it's like the V40 and V50, there's a setting to hide the notch, but it doesn't work in most apps.

 

[Mooncatt]

If it's like the V40 and V50, there's a setting to hide the notch, but it doesn't work in most apps.

I didn't have either of those phones, so not sure where that setting would be if it's available.

 

[Grabber5.0]

I didn't have either of those phones, so not sure where that setting would be if it's available.

I found it, but ugh. It requires disabling night mode, which takes away the dark theme. Anyway, the setting is called "New second screen" under Display settings.

 

[Grabber5.0]

I guess night mode kind of hides the notch by default. Until you launch an app, will is the same behavior anyway.

 

[Mooncatt]

I guess night mode kind of hides the notch by default. Until you launch an app, will is the same behavior anyway.

I just tried playing around with it and yeah, it's inconsistent at best. Thanks anyway.

 

[RaRa85]

Mooncat I agree usually about the screen but coming from the OnePlus 7 Pro I actually did notice the loss in resolution compared to QHD. It may have been how LG tuned the display but I knew right away it was not of the same caliber mainly only in watching YouTube videos though. I can tell it was not as crisp. The 60hz on the other hand didn't bother me at all. And also T-Mobile's current 5G in Baltimore is not ready for prime time yet. Almost every day I was met with buffering screens and slow page loading in Chrome when I supposedly have good 5G strength.

 

[ffejjj]

Lol @ #6! I thought the same.

 

[Mooncatt]

Lol @ #6! I thought the same.

Glad I'm not the only one.

Oh, and another dislike, related to the screen size/ratio: None of my old custom wallpapers fit right anymore!

 

[vasekvi]

Got my charging adapters in. Now I don't have to worry about taking it out of the case to charge or remembering to bring that one dongle I have everywhere with me.

 

[Mooncatt]

Anyone able to use Bluetooth voice dialing with the screen off? I run in to this problem now and then and can never remember how to resolve it. When I press the button to voice dial, I get a message to saying when it's safe to do so, enable it in settings. It is, but it still isn't working. Online searches have turned up nothing so far.

Never mind. It apparently resolved itself.

 

[eric12341]

Glad I'm not the only one.

Oh, and another dislike, related to the screen size/ratio: None of my old custom wallpapers fit right anymore!

You're sounding like this guy

https://www.wired.com/review/lg-v60-thinq/

 

[mustang7757]

[Mod redacted]

https://www.wired.com/review/lg-v60-thinq/

[Lets stay on the topic and no personal insults]

 

[editguy]

[Mod redacted]

https://www.wired.com/review/lg-v60-thinq/

What a joke of a "review". He probably spent five minutes with the phone. Here's an example: If you want a headphone jack, get a Pixel 3a. Yeah, like that Pixel 3a has a quad DAC. Reading that "review" is wasted life that I will never get back.