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so this is the LGB 30 this is LG's big flagship for the second half of 2017 and the LGV series of smartphones has always been about photography videography and audio and that's what makes the LGB 30 so exciting and we'll get into all that stuff but first let's get all the basic smartphone stuff out of the way starting off with these specs you have a snapdragon 835 processor 4 gigabytes of RAM and it also comes with 64 gigs of internal storage standard but there's also a plus model which will vary by region that comes with a hundred and twenty eight gigabytes of internal storage but there's also a micro SD card slot if you need more now as far as performance goes it's very fast it performs just as well as you would expect for a flagship phone it's fast its fluid it's very responsive it's fast to launch apps it's quick to multitask it's also really good at playing graphically intensive games without any stuttering or slowdown so I've had no issues with the performance of the V 30 it performs extremely well in day-to-day use and even in heavy use like most phones that we're seeing in 2017 the LG v 30 is water and dust resistant it's IP 68 which means it's protected for up to one and a half meters for up to 30 minutes so this means you can use it in the rain or drop it in a puddle of water and it'll be perfectly fine the fingerprint sensor of the V 30 is on the back and it's nice and centered so it's easier to reach with your index finger and it's a very fast and accurate fingerprint sensor I haven't had any issues with it but what I really enjoy about LG's implementation with their fingerprint sensor is that it also doubles as the power key and this is something that LG has been doing for a while now and I kind of really wish that more manufacturers would adopt this feature like previous LG V Series smartphones the V 30 is military 810g transit drop compliant which means it's much more durable against drops but I still don't recommend dropping this phone because it's a really pretty looking phone now unlike the v10 and V 20 which arguably had a more industrial and more unique design the V thirty's design is a little bit more elegant and more mainstream and is very similar to a lot of smartphones in terms of design and what we're seeing in 2017 so it has glass in the front glass on the back and a metal frame that wraps around the sides and I really like the design of the v30 I think it's a very good-looking phone it feels extremely comfortable in the hand as well with the rounded corners and the slightly tapered back the glass back obviously does mean that it collects a lot of fingerprints but that's just sort of to be expected when you have a phone that's made predominantly of glass this new design also means that the battery is no longer removable which to me is not that big of deal and battery life on the LGB 30 has been extremely good it has a pretty decently sized 3300 milliamp hour battery which has been enough to get me through a full day whether I'm using the phone more casually with a lot of texting web browsing and social media maybe a couple YouTube videos here and there or even if I'm using it really heavily and playing a lot of games watching a lot of YouTube taking a lot of photos it still lasts me comfortably all day and screen on time typically hovered around the 5 hour mark on the front LG has made some pretty significant changes to the display it is now a six inch OLED display with quad HD resolution and an aspect ratio of 18 by 9 LG is calling this the full efficient display which is really just a fancy buzzword for a screen that goes edge to edge and has really thin bezels around all sides now the 6 inch screen may sound really massive but because of the thinner bezels and the aspect ratio that makes that screen less wide it actually doesn't feel like a 6 inch screen smart phone in your hand the screen itself looks absolutely gorgeous and I'm really happy that LG has gone back to using OLED the screen is very vibrant and colourful it has great viewing angles it's pretty easy to see outdoors as well and everything just looks incredible on this display and the corners are rounded just like it was on the g6 but they're actually properly rounded this time whereas the g6 looked a little bit funky but this is a beautiful looking screen and can easily give Samsung a run for its money it is that good of a screen the other big difference with the v30 screen is that it no longer has a secondary display like they'd be 10 and the b20 did and because the secondary display is gone now it's actually been replaced with a software feature called the floating bar and I actually like this a lot better because the floating bar can be repositioned to where you can easily reach it whereas the secondary display it was always at the top or was kind of hard to get to and it was little bit uncomfortable and the floating bar does all the same stuff that the secondary screen did so you still have access to app shortcuts click contacts meeting controls etc and because it's a software feature you can actually disable it if you don't want it whereas the secondary display you are pretty much stuck with it whether you liked it or not the rest of the software is pretty typical LG the icons are still very bright and colorful and the whole entire UI is still somewhat cartoony and there's still some weird animations like the stretch effect that you get from swiping between home screen to home screen but you can however switch things up a bit with the theme engine and sort of change up the look and feel of the UI if you don't like the way it looks by default and something I also really enjoy with the v30 is the always-on display feature it's highly customizable with a bunch of different clocks and there was also a ton of pre-loaded images they can use to customize the always-on display or you can use an image from your own gallery which I thought was really cool it's running Android new get out of the box right now which I thought was a little bit weird especially since last year they were able to launch the b20 with the latest version of Android but I guess they couldn't pull the same trick off this year so hopefully it'll get updated to Android Oreo pretty soon now the two big centerpieces to the v30 is audio and the camera let's start with audio first and for starters yes it does have a headphone jack so no adapter required here to use your favorite pair of headphones and this year the headphone jack has been moved to the top whereas the B 10 and B 20 had it on the bottom I personally prefer it at the bottom I think it's a much more convenient location but it's not really that big of a deal just something to keep in mind there's also a 32 bit high 5 quad Daken side and unlike the g6 where it was a region exclusive all versions of the V 30 will have a quad AK and all of them will also be tuned by bno some of the benefits that you get from the quad DAC is less noise less distortion and much better dynamic range and can also properly drive a high impedance pair of headphones and you don't necessarily need a pair of high impedance headphones to hear the difference but that will give you the best audio quality possible and audio quality on the b30 is just absolutely incredible it sounds amazing and it's pretty much unparalleled by any other smartphone with the exception of maybe the you 11 but the audio quality is fantastic I think a lot of audio files will really enjoy what the b30 can provide with that quad DAC another feature on the V 30 that a lot of people really like is the support for mqa which stands for master quality authenticated and this basically allows you to stream high res audio at a much smaller file size so it's not going to kill your bandwidth and right now there aren't a ton of streaming services that support it but title is one of the most notable ones so if you have a title subscription and you have the proper subscription tier you can take advantage of this feature right away FX HD support is also on board which is Qualcomm's high res audio codec for wireless or Bluetooth devices Android or EO has this feature natively built in but LG was able to implement it regardless so you've want high res audio over Bluetooth devices you have that option as well alright so let's talk about those cameras so you have dual cameras on the back the main sensor is a 16 megapixel sensor with F 1.6 aperture which makes it the brightest lens on a smartphone right now and it also has optical image stabilization the secondary sensor is a wide-angle lens at 13 megapixels at F 1.9 no OAS here but it doesn't really need it because it's such a wide angle and the focus is set to infinity there's a couple of new features with this camera the biggest one is the ability to shoot log footage and log footage is something you typically find on a DSLR or a mirrorless camera and this basically lets you shoot a completely flat image that has much better dynamic range so you can manipulate it a lot heavier in post in terms of color grading and color correcting but the log footage on the B 30 is not really all it's cracked up to be it's really nice to have but the bitrate is extremely low and it also is a very green it's very tough to color grade very tough to color correct it's hard to get these skin tones and everything to look natural and because the bitrate is so low it's kind of hard to push things around without the image falling apart so it's definitely not all it's cracked up to be and it could have been a lot better if you don't want to deal with post-production which I don't think a lot of people do there's another feature called Sena video that allows you to apply color grading presets directly in camera and it's very simple very quick and easy to do and gives you the desired look that you want in just a couple of seconds as far as picture quality goes the photos are vibrant colorful with plenty of detail and I don't think the v30 over sharpen is quite as much as previous LG phones but the dynamic range is definitely not as good as something like Samsung's camera it does have the tendency to overexpose in a lot of different situations now as expected the wide-angle lens is not as good as the main sensor in terms of quality but it is a ton of fun to use I really enjoy using the wide-angle lens because you can get some really breathtaking lancia shots group photos are a lot easier to take as well there's just a ton of situations where that wide-angle lens really does come in handy it does struggle a lot more in low-light the photos are a lot softer and the white balance is not quite as good but they did at least fix the barrel distortion you don't have that GoPro like look the photos look a lot more normal now which I really appreciate but if you're really concerned about quality and low-light I definitely recommend sticking to the main sensor as the photos are a lot sharper they're more detailed and the white balance and overall color is a lot better pricing for the lgbtq starts around eight hundred dollars and that price will vary depending on carrier and it's pretty typical flagship price and I think the LG v 30 is worth every penny it has a beautiful design a gorgeous display and the audio photography and videography experience is just on a whole another level when it comes to smartphones and a lot of people have been underrating the V series over the last couple of years and it's about time people paid attention to it because the V 30 is doing a lot of really big things and it's doing them extremely extremely well so give it B 30 a look you might be very impressed by what you find so that wraps up our review of the LGB 30 I hope you all enjoyed it and found it helpful if you did please give a thumbs up down below we definitely appreciate it subscribe to the channel which is also down below and hit that notation bell so you don't miss out on future videos and of course check us out 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