Hey what's up guys, I'm Ray Wong,
Mashable's Senior Tech Correspondent,
and today, we're unboxing the LG G8 on this episode
of ASMR Unboxing".
Very plain looking box.
This is the T-Mobile version.
And, whoa, this is a cloth.
I've never seen this.
I haven't seen this on a phone in a long time.
An LG wiping cloth.
(cloth thudding)
It's a microfiber cloth, alright.
Nice and durable.
Okay, let's get to the phone.
And here is the LG G8, it is in red, oh.
Let's do our plastic peel.
Which way, which way?
And then we have to peel away some of these stickers.
Okay, here's the phone.
We're gonna put this aside for a second.
LG's promise, okay that's warranty information.
What else is in the box?
More paperwork.
Not so easy to peel.
SIM card tool ejector.
Okay cool.
And all your various terms and services,
all that good stuff.
Charging cable.
Boo, it's USB-A to USB-C.
We need USB-C to USB-C, guys.
And a little charging brick.
And that's it, nothing else in the box.
Let's open the phone itself.
Powering on.
Did it power on?
There we go, I felt the vibration.
Let's check out these buttons in the meantime.
So we have a volume rocker over here.
(buttons clicking)
(phone music jingling)
That's T-Mobile logo.
Oh wow, these buttons are very quiet.
Can't even really hear 'em when you press it.
And here's the Google Assistant button.
It's a little clicky, a little bit more clicky, louder.
And there's also a power button on the side.
It's a little more tactile.
So let's go over some specs.
We have a 6.1 inch display, quad HD resolution.
You have a camera on the front,
and this one's a special camera.
It has a Z camera which lets you hover over it
and you have to do this weird thing
where you turn your hand into a claw
and then you can use gestures to control your phone.
I think it's gimmicky, not sure why anyone
would ever wanna do that when it's so much easier
just to use voice or touch,
but I guess it's a new idea.
There's a headphone jack over here, so yay.
There's USB-C for charging.
Speaker over here.
One thing you will notice is that there is no earpiece
on the front of the display,
so how do you listen to calls.
Well, the whole screen is actually a speaker.
So sound is vibrated off of the display and into your ears
which is pretty cool.
And I gave it a shot a couple months ago,
and it sounds pretty good.
The phone itself, it's a little thick,
but a lot of phones are actually getting thicker.
There's a, oh crap.
There's a fingerprint sensor over here.
So that's nice.
I prefer this instead of an in-display fingerprint sensor
so it's more accurate, and faster.
And here is a 12 megapixel regular camera
and then there's a 16 megapixel ultra wide camera.
So a lot of you guys don't know this,
but LG was actually one of the first companies
to put an ultra wide camera inside of a phone
and now everyone's copying it.
Samsung's copying it, copied it with the S10.
Huawei has it with the P30 Pro.
And rumor has it, Apple's gonna put an ultra wide camera
in the new iPhones this year.
So, so far I guess the build quality is pretty good.
I like this red color.
It's just less boring than your traditional black.
It is fingerprinty.
It's super smooth.
(buttons clicking)
(tapping)
It's so, it's.
I'm not sure I love that.
It's very thud like, thud thud thud.
But overall, sounds pretty good.
So that's it, that's really all you get in the box.
That's the LG G8
and stay tuned for our full thoughts.
Until next episode, see you guys.