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hey guys this is Austin if you're really into smart phones you've probably heard of the LGV series of phones however this year they're doing something a little different this is a pre-production model of the LGV 30 pre-production is a key word here as LG sent out an early version of the V 30 to take a look at so some things will definitely change most notably a lot of the software stuff but it should give us a good look at what the phone will be like once it actually hits shells put the V 30 side by side with the g6 as well as the s8 it's actually a pretty big jump in design so Notley doesn't have smaller bezels than the g6 but it also a little bit more curved both on the edges as well as on the sides of the display very much similar to what samsung is doing with the s8 the V 30 is rocking a 6-inch 28 80 by 1440p OLED display the Samsung is kind of been on top of the smartphone screen game for a couple years but the V 30 is right there which makes sense LG's been making OLED TVs for a few years so it's only natural for that tech to trickle down to the V 30 well the speaker isn't exactly amazing it's just a single one on the bottom of the device the screen really does look nice so the only issue here is that because this is a smart phone at 2017 with essentially no bezels it's actually a slightly awkward looking 18 by 9 aspect ratio for most content this is no problem but when it comes to video that means you actually have some small black bars on either side of the video the design looks really nice and also very similar to the Galaxy Note 8 that is certainly not a bad thing so this guy is rocking an all glass and metal bill with Gorilla Glass 5 on front and back what it doesn't have is a stupidly placed fingerprint sensors right here in the middle and it doubles the power button good job LG it also has IP 68 water resistance which means that should be able to survive in a meter and a half of water for up to 30 minutes just like the Galaxy S II the iPhone 7 it's a fairly standard spec on smartphones these days but something that you really should expect when you're paying this much for a phone not only does it have a USB C port as well as the speaker on the bottom but importantly it also has a headphone jack on top spec wise it's exactly what you would expect out of a 20-17 flagship so it's rocking a snapdragon 835 processor 4 gigabytes of RAM either 64 or 128 gigs of storage and that is backed up with a micro SD card slot the only thing that's a little bit of an unknown right now is the battery life so to be fair it has pretty decently sized 3300 milliamp hour battery right in there with stuff like the Galaxy Note 8 as well as the s8 plus however because this is pre-production it's hard to say too much about that just yet never someone who has a lot more perspective on the v30 is Wes our resident cinematographer and colorist which sounds super cool so you've been playing with the V 30 but you actually have experience with the earlier V Series phones yeah I've actually been on on that gravy train since the v10 what initially kind of drew me to the V series is it Stefan a little more utilitarian yeah and and for me as someone that like when I'm out on the field like honest said I like the idea I just carry a second battery that's no up didn't I go have you listened to the headphone jack yet dude legitimately really impressive so because come down you had to turn on the DAC we were testing it straight we did not do that yeah so there's actually a hi-fi quad DAC option that enables what if you disable what happens it just becomes a little quieter a little flatter I don't know that that's why I can't go away from having a headphone jack for me I just really love music and having that sort of quality just like in my pocket like even if I'm in an airport or something just putting in my earbuds and pumping something like that it's it's just cool as far as the cameras go LG was one of the first to embrace dual cameras and the V 30 is no exception so in addition to a 16 megapixel standard shooter it also has a 13 megapixel wide-angle camera so for example this is what a standard shot looks like and then we switch over to the wide-angle camera you can see there is a massive difference and specifically with the wide-angle on earlier phones like the g5 and the V 20 it was not quite as high-quality as the main and you could actually see a pretty big difference in quality but here this actually looks pretty good and honestly while a lot of dual camera setups are going to be more focused on having like a second telephoto lens having something that's this wide actually is kind of nice does give you a very different perspective so this is what the standard video looks like on the main camera but if I jump out to the wide angle you can see that we're getting a lot more in this shot in fact I can get uncomfortably close to Ken here and it still actually doesn't look crazy but we get back into the normal shot it looks really goofy something else interesting about the V 30 camera is that the main shooter has a pretty large 1.6 aperture and for comparison a lot of other smart phones have 1.7 or 1.8 or even 1.9 what this means is is that it actually is going to be able to collect more light which is especially useful in low light situations so one of the things with the v20 that is a pretty major upgrade are the cameras you know I played on let them a little bit but coming from the b20 what do you think um just from my initial impressions they're they're both better in a bunch of different ways so with this one unlike the iPhone which has like a telephoto right and the standard this one has basically standard view and a white angle which I found to be incredibly useful just because you find yourself in so many neat situations where you're like I'm in the middle of some cool woods I just want to take a picture of this so the raw capture is 10-bit which actually the b20 was 10 bit as well um but let's go a lot better than most smartphones though if they even have Ron first place just from just from my initial tests I think the V 30 rivals of the SI when you're shooting raw here it it's gonna take a little more monkeying with but the range that you get versus what I'm seeing you get on the s8 I would say if you are confident going to Photoshop going to Lightroom going into DaVinci Resolve yeah if you're if you're that dedicated then I I think the V 30 outshines a little bit one of the big features of the V 30 is the improved video performance it actually adds a lot of really cool sort of more high-end features to it yeah which kind of the most interesting one to me is it just shoots log okay so is log for you guys who are not giant camera nerds essentially a more flat picture profile that is sort of meant to be able to kind of allow you in post-production to kind of get the most out of the image this is really just refining and making the cameras as good as possible now that they kind of have the the form factor and the idea down they know who they wanted before and they know kind of the idea that they people like the wide-angle and then they like the more of the standard with so this is really just an improvement on everything well this is pre-production so some things could change between now and release it is pretty clear to me that the V 30 is absolutely up there with other big flag ships so what do you guys think about the LGB 30 let me know in the comments below and I will catch you in the next one