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hey it's Joshua Vergara what's going on everybody and this is the LG V 30 now bringing the style and elegance of the LG G 6 with the features that made the V Series standout LG is hoping the V Series is really the phone to beat this year at first glance the LG v 30 looks a lot like kind of a cross between the galaxy s 8 and the LG G six mainly because it now has a glass back unfortunately the LG v 30 won't be retaining the metal look that we actually really liked that industrious look from the LG v 20 but that doesn't mean that this phone doesn't have a design that we still really like there are curves on the display and also on the back that really helped with the ergonomics and at seven point three millimeters thin and weighing only 158 grams it's actually really comfortable despite its size and it's really Pleasant in the hand it's one of the lighter phones that we've seen recently and given that there's so much that this phone can do the fact that it's so light is really impressive like the g6 before it the V 30 adopts an all screen mantra and delivers 82% screen to body ratio thanks to a six inch quad HD display now one of the best parts about this display is that LG has finally gone away from the IPS LCD and now they're going for their own P OLED displays this is not like the AMOLED that you would be used to from Samsung but it uses the same general technology resulting in deep blacks and very vibrant colors so the 18 by 9 aspect ratio makes it onto a larger body but to the vu series has also been known for one other standout feature a great camera package the first step in this direction is called Sinha video which aims to allow anyone to produce videos like a professional using built-in cinematic effects when taking a video cine effects allow you to add various movie grade hues to your videos and produce the kind of scene that you want or you can always leave the effect off in order to basically record log video which allows you a lot more freedom when editing it in post another new feature is the point zoom feature that is part of Sinha video which aims to solve a problem that's not really always apparent to the cinematographer essentially this allows you to zoom smoothly into any part of the video so that you can actually draw the focus to the correct portion of the frame however color grading is also a part of the photography game and LG hopes I can help introduce a new wave of mobile photographers to the manual mode on its phones using the graphic applications algae runs graph II and allows users to select a reference picture from a pre-loaded list in order to have the correct white balance ISO aperture and shutter speed applied directly to the manual camera so that you know exactly what kind of shot you're going to get now unfortunately we were not really able to see this in our preview units but we will be able to give you our thoughts on graphy once we have our hands on a unit that uses it the main lens is a 16 megapixel shooter with f 1.6 aperture and the 13 megapixel wide angle lens returns to this time with AF 1.9 aperture and to add to the camera experience LG has added new crystal clear lenses which are designed to give an overall realistic image mainly instead of using just plastic inside of the lenses this glass will be able to absorb even more light and thus make the camera more accurate and more capable so that's the camera but also the v-series has also been known as a multimedia powerhouse and that will continue this time around as the V 30 will have the hi-fi quad deck onboard across all of the different devices and all of this is in a body that is not only light as a feather but still has the milspec standard and comes with ip68 water and dust resistance in our first impressions were really impressed with what LG has managed to pull off here a phone that has a large great-looking screen a lot of features underneath a dual camera a quad deck and all in the body that is sleek but still accessible and along with all of those specifications you get the snapdragon 835 with 4 gigabytes of RAM and 64 gigabytes of on-board storage in the standard model and as far as software additions go you might notice that the second screen has been put away but there are a couple of things to replace it mainly the addition of a floating bar which is a software version of the second screen that just sits on one of the sides of the display tap that area and you'll be able to scroll among four different panels but this same second screen like experience can be found in the always-on display where the top bar provides you the same amount of usability the v30 will go on sale in South Korea on September 21st followed by releases in other markets we don't really know when it will launch in the US but it should be pretty soon and so there you have it our first look at the LG v 30 what do you think of LG's powerhouse phone especially when you consider all of the other flagships that were starting to see near the end of this year the V 30 is a powerhouse not only for audiophiles but also for photographers and cinematographers making it maybe one of the most capable devices that we've used so far it of course will have to go up against the likes of the Samsung Galaxy Note 8 and other flagships that we've seen this year so make sure you stay tuned to Andrew thority for even more about the LGV 30 for our comparisons our tests and of course you can stay tuned for even more from Aoife in Berlin so make sure you subscribe to the channel if you haven't already because we are your source for all things Android