hi everyone Aaron here for ZolloTech and this is the LG G8 ThinQ this
is LG's flagship for this year and I picked one up to check out and they come
in at about 650 to 850 dollars depending on the carrier you get them on so let's
go ahead and cut this open and unbox it and let's see here oh like this and I
think that's it we should be good so let's take this out of the box here and
the first thing that's kind of interesting is a little microfiber cloth
on top then we have the phone itself and this is a black color it does come in a
silver and a red as well we'll set this aside under here we have a free second
year warranty it looks like if you register the device in this box here
let's see what we get it's a little bit thick so it comes with a free case which
is always nice it's a little clear plastic TPU case and then we've got some
literature along with a SIM card removal tool here and you've got a QuickStart
guide and product safety and warranty information then in the box below we
have our wall adapter AC wall adapter it says fast charge and this one is it
looks like it's about 9 volts and 1.8 amps or so and then we have a USB a 2
USBC cable that's included and then also let's see what we have here in this
little box we have some earbuds as well so those are included and it looks like
it has a headphone jack on the front of the phone it says air motion hand ID
crystal sound OLED and Google assistant button with the qualcomm snapdragon see
if we open this up here
we'll take the IMEI sticker off the back and the phone itself is not very
exciting looking in fact it's pretty plain but that's not a bad thing it's
not flashy but if it's high quality it doesn't really matter on the back the
cameras are flush you'll see we have a fingerprint reader on the back as well
on the right hand side we have our power sleep/wake button we also have a SIM
card slot and inside the SIM card slot let's take a look here it's kind of an
elongated one but we have room for a micro SD along with our SIM cards so
that's really nice and on the bottom we have a speaker we also have USB see we
have a microphone a headphone jack and then on the other side we have our
Google assistant button volume up and down it looks like another microphone up
here as well and then on the top we have another microphone so quite a few of
them and then on the front there is a little bit of a notch and a forward
facing camera let's run down the specs real quick and then we'll boot it up and
set it up and take a quick look at it the display of the LG G8 is a 6.1 inch
AMOLED display it's 31 20 by 1440 with 564 pixels per inch internally it has a
snapdragon 855 with 6 gigabytes of RAM along with 128 gigabytes of storage
that's expandable as I showed before it also has a nice audio DAC it has the
boombox speaker on the bottom and then also has a 3500 milliamp hour battery
with quick charge 3.0 so it should charge pretty quickly it also has what
LG calls hand ID so you can unlock it without touching it using air motion to
control it it also has a front depth sensor along with that 8 megapixel
camera with an F 1.7 aperture now for the rear camera it has a 12 megapixel F
1.5 aperture lens and then also it has a wide-angle 16 megapixel of f 1.9
aperture lens it has larger pixels for better low-light records in 4k 60p and
also HDR 10 now let's go ahead and boot this up turn it on here we go it
vibrated a little bit there we go it says welcome we'll hit the next button
then it says insert a SIM card I'll skip that for now do that a little bit later
it says your phone's not connected to the internet I'll connect it to Wi-Fi
here now it does have some updates to do so apparently I'll have to install the
updates first and now it's asking if I want to transfer data from something
else I'll just hit next for now and we can hit don't copy for now I can set
that up a little bit later if I want to anyway now I can add my fingerprint so
I'll add my fingerprint I'll set up a pin here super secure one two three four
of course I wouldn't normally use that and it says place your finger on the
fingerprint reader so I'll use this here my right finger here my right hand
registers pretty quickly okay that was pretty quick so a lot of optional
agreements here for privacy and things like that I want to greet to any of
those now it's saying do I want to set up from an old device I'll put later and
this display looks pretty good the bezels are a little bit thicker than I
would have expected but the display itself looks good from different angles
so it doesn't look too different from stock Android if we swipe to the right
though this is where all of the apps are these are pre-installed apps so most of
them look like they're stock apps except things like LG health we've got all our
google apps here management and recommended we take a quick look at the
settings there's quite a lot of different options in here compared to
stock Android there's floating bar and smart cleaning these are all extensions
gaming context awareness and then you can use two separate apps at the same
time or two separate accounts for an app by installing a copy of that app so it's
got some interesting things in extensions now under the biometric
settings we have hand ID I can unlock the phone with my hand so we'll hit next
put in my pin here and it says position your hand six to eight inches away so
let's go ahead and set that up very slippery phone by the way
so we'll hit start put my hand over this and it's saying bring it down until the
yellow circles there and then slowly lower it there we go
you successfully successfully scanned your hand okay slowly raise your hand
okay now it says I can unlock my phone with my hand see if I can do that I'll
just put my hand over it there we go it's unlocked so that's kind
of interesting I don't know if I would use that too much but it's there if I
want to let's take a look at the camera and it's talking about camera modes and
location so as you can see here we have AI cam and manual let's see we've got
ultra wide so if you can see that in the background there's my monitor and some
memory cards and things that's normal that's ultra wide so that's kind of nice
and let me just show you one more example of that so in the background you
can see there's the 10s Max and the s10 plus here's normal kind of zoomed in
there's wide so that's really nice let's take a quick picture that was really
nice and fast and looks like it focused on the iPhone it's pretty good the light
is not sunlight but it's pretty good let's go back into here we'll flip the
camera around and you can see it finds my face right away and then of course we
have portrait modes and things like that built-in it also has a depth sensor so
it should do real-time bokeh effects so if we swipe back here and then we can do
video depth control as well so if we go into video we can do video depth if we
want to do that I'm not going to do that right now but people that have tried
this before me have found that it doesn't work terribly well but it seems
like it's got some nice options as well for k60 like I said before HDR as well
we'll go into video and there's all your video options so it's a pretty nice
package the thing that interests me the most probably is the top here where it
actually vibrates the screen instead of having an open speaker so
that helps with waterproofing it is ip68 certified it helps with keeping it
water-resistant and that's pretty much it it also supports wireless charging as
well so it's got pretty much everything you could want let me know what you
think about the LG G8 in the comments below
it's a pretty plain looking phone but I think anyone that buys this is going to
be happy as it has a lot for the money and as long as you don't need something
flashy like an s10 plus for example you'll probably be pretty happy with it
but let me know your thoughts in the comments below if you haven't subscribed
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not the other ones okay - as always thanks for watching this is Aaron
I'll see you next time