hi guys today we're going to do unboxing of the LGB 40 and my first impressions
let's go do this baby hi guys so I've got the LGV 40 here let's go ahead and
unbox it pretty exciting day alright so sorry I'm a little excited
as usual comes with the LG microfiber cloth alright and we got the LG v 40 so
let me give you my first thoughts before I go any further feels very similar to
the g7 definitely feels larger alright let's go see what's in the rest of the
box real quick we've got the Senate Jack you later tool quick Stark I got some
USB cables adapter 9 volts 1 point 8 amps 5 volts 1.8 4 amps and we got
headphones let's check out the headphones real quick pretty nice rope
type you got nice ear buds here
okay so let's go ahead and talk about the design it's got a six point four
inch Pio LED screen this year so six point four inches across now the size of
the screen is actually slightly longer and narrower than the galaxy note 9 but
if you consider the notch on the v40 on the surface area of the screen is about
the same as the note 9 actually like how the v4 is much wider than the g7 which
has gotten huge but v4 is even bigger and lighter and I
actually prefer wider devices that help me type easier type better I'm out
pretty much full brightness out here in California Sun even though my camera is
not really picking it up but the viewing angles really good I'm actually pretty
happy that they went with Pio LED instead of LCD with the white sub pixels
on the g7 on the right side you've got a power button sim card tray with a micro
SD card and on the left you'll find volume buttons extra key for Google and
on the bottom you'll find USB type-c speaker ports 3.5 mm headphone jack
microphone and on top you'll have another microphone so the extra button
will bring up Google assistant which is a really nice something I really like
over samsung series where it'll bring up bixby that I'd never use alright so
coolest feature this year obviously is the three cameras on the back featuring
F 1.5 with 1.4 microns the sensor size itself is already 40% bigger than the g7
alright F 1.5 vs f 1.6 and based on my camera comparisons is definitely does a
ton better in low light the wide-angle is still F 1.9 super wide angle and you
get an additional you get additional F 2.4 telephoto so that's something
missing but it does not have OS but LG did include he is
electronic image stabilization z' for all three which means you can use 4k
with electronic stabilization on the regular telephoto and also wide-angle
and in my extensive testing in the last few days with the video camera I'm
actually really amazed how well it stabilizes now for photos telephoto does
not have oh is meaning in low-light you're not gonna get the best of
performance sometimes photos come out blurry but in daylight having no OIS
wasn't a big problem for me also on the front you'll find two cameras one normal
eighty degrees one wide angle 90 degrees which is something I really wanted and
I'm really glad that LG went with the wide angle instead of putting 3d facial
recognition which a lot of companies have been doing I feel like the wide
angle is much useful as a user but as the 3d facial recognition I could
completely live without so I really like that they went with the wide angle there
as far as performance on this phone everything is super duper zippy
obviously snapdragon 845 with six gigs of ram I don't think that's gonna affect
your games at all I've had zero issues with performance of this phone which is
really nice but we can go ahead and actually try out the camera while we got
this here the one of the beauties of this camera is I could do wide-angle and
I could do normal and let's say I want to get this shot without scaring this
bird I can go ahead and do that and look at that boom I was able to get some
really nice shots here alright so I find that three through cameras awesome now
there is also a new mode we could do triple shot basically with this mode it
will take it take three different shots one wide-angle one normal and one
telephoto so with it's just one quick you're gonna be able to get three
different shots it's gonna save you time that's really nice feature of this phone
and of course with the g7 you only has 720p slow motion but finally LG has
upgraded to a 240 frames per second 1080p that can be used in both the
wide-angle and the normal but not in the telephoto I think so let me go ahead and
take a quick slo-mo of this come on guys fly
hey come on
damnit alright guys as far as a front camera you're gonna get two cameras this
is gonna be the regular 80 degree camera and slightly larger wide-angle I really
liked the wide-angle especially for doing video livestream so that's gonna
be really great I've always wanted a separate wide-angle
man yeah this may become my favorite livestream camera portrait mode also is
improved now you can go ahead and adjust the blur because it's using the second
camera now as a def sensor let me go ahead and do a quick test why the Live
View isn't exactly exact I'm taking a look at this photo pretty exact on a lot
better processing of the portrait versus the g7 in my opinion and also of course
you can go ahead and adjust the blur which is really nice so you can go ahead
and get rid of the blur completely maybe blur out a little bit or just blur out
completely alright so portrait mode definitely want
the best out there this year also another surprise this year um is that
when you take videos alright um it's got the is for both back and front Y
electric stabilization isn't really required for the front camera but it
does still have he is for the front which is I think a first for a
smartphone so whether you're takin regular or slightly wider um you're
gonna be able to use GIS alright all the extensive tests on this but you do lose
a little bit of the view so if you turn it off you get much wider angle as you
can see here I for both regular and telephone
now of course there is Senna shot for both back and front which allows you to
basically make an animated photo all right and you can go ahead and use it
for the front let me go ahead and demonstrate with the front camera this
is kind of fun actually with the front camera so I'm gonna go ahead and alright
I'm gonna just go ahead and move my my um my eyes so I'll stabilize a video and
you can go ahead and paint over on the spots alright um if you want to try
again you want to get it a little bit more
exact let me go ahead and go into my eye there and we're gonna just get just get
the eyelid just right there alright let me go ahead and save and you can get
some really fun selfies out here yeah look at that of course you can also use
it for the back camera I hear some samples they look pretty good I mean I
wouldn't say this is a feature I would buy this phone but it has it which is
cool anyway guys pretty impressed with the phone if you absolutely need
wide-angle for both front and back along with telephoto this literally gives you
a full range of zoom and wide angle which is really nice and that's actually
something Samsung's working on and I think the s10 will also have wine angle
mix here of course for those who don't know um all the newer LG phones are ip68
rated I dumped this in the spa a bunch of times and it's working just fine if
use headphones that you normally require an amp like my HD 800 here actually does
require an amp with the be 30 you're gonna be able to power it pretty much
all the way I've actually had to turn it down a little bit because it's a little
too loud it's that powerful quad TAC the 3d surround it's gonna work out great if
your headphone addicts alright there's no substitute the g7 also is very good
the v40 they both have about the same performance I would say it's the same
thing and of course the boombox boombox just like the g7 you're gonna be enjoy a
much louder sound whenever you put your phone on the desk
alright actually we'll do a real quick so here is the music here and then now
it's on my desk
you can really feel that extra bass so that's not a new feature but the v40 has
a lot of good features from the g7 it's been carried over the v40 but of course
the biggest difference between these two really are the better cameras extra
telephoto camera E is enabled for all cameras in 4k and front camera that's
something that g7 doesn't have of course also the larger screen which I really
like I like the g7 and I you know LG made the screen super huge but they went
even wider and bigger with the v40 know this is the best phone out there I
wouldn't say so alright in my camera comparisons the v40
comes very close to many of the flagships front camera is almost as good
as the note 9 on the back camera also almost as good as the note 9 I mean
there are advantages and disadvantages but yeah this does keep up with pretty
much all the flagships out there and of course it's gonna probably launch around
the 900 price range area but I'm sure if you wait around at least a month or a
month and a half you should be able to pick up the international version for a
usual like seven hundred eight hundred dollar range
all right at that price I think is pretty fair I actually really like it
because I make a lot of videos especially the EIS works quite well and
I actually had about 20 minutes of footage I was gonna actually show you
that I shot and I made a mistake of recording them in 1080p so I'm gonna
have to redo that this week um so I'll have that coming also have some I've did
a bunch of camera comparisons against the note 9 the pixel 2 yada yada yada so
I'll have some videos up on that soon also I got some little videos I'm gonna
upload on my other channel at high on Android so check those out I'll try to
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