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hey guys this is Austin 20:18 has been a very interesting year for smartphones we've lost our friend the headphone jack and instead we now have notches on almost every smartphone you can buy and dual camera setups are everywhere but what if I told you that there's a smartphone flagship in 2018 that does things just a little bit differently the brand-new LG v 40 think you takes all the boxes you would expect out of a modern flagship you're getting that huge six point four inch OLED display it does have a notch although it actually is hidden by default which looks nice and you're getting that classic glass and aluminum build with well something's a little bit different if you look closely you'll find not one camera not two cameras but three cameras on the rear and just to sort of add to that there's also two front-facing cameras the three cameras aren't just for show they each serve a different purpose so the main camera is what you would expect on most smartphones it's a roughly thirty millimeter equivalent but the wide-angle camera at 16 mil is going to give you a much wider field of view and the telephoto with a roughly 2x zoom at around 50 millimetres is going to get you much much closer to the action I sound like the the LG ad right now it'll get you closer to the action the main camera is the highest quality of the three now I do have a wide F 1.5 aperture but there's also optical image stabilization as well as dual pixel autofocus that wide-angle can give you a very different perspective now to be fair this is something that LG has been doing on their flagships for a little while now but usually you lose out on the telephoto option whereas with the v40 you literally get at all the telephoto camera is the weakest of the three all of that comes down to the sensor which does seem a bit inferior to the wide and the standard you don't quite have the same range and you are losing some features like it does not support raw and the color just isn't quite on par quality wise the v40 cameras do a pretty good job but they're a little bit different than the iPhones and the galaxies of the world so out of the box it's not going to be as punchy however I think a lot of people were buying the v40 are going to really be into sort of customizing and tweaking their images and there's a lot of flexibility here specifically thanks to that raw processing there's just a lot of dynamic range that you can get out of the wide and the standard photos it might not be quite part would like an SLR or something that's really impressive what you're able to get out of this if you don't mind doing a little bit of editing low-light performance is pretty impressive on the standard shooter as is the bokeh it's very nice even without the portrait mode and on top of that the AI cam is actually decent so like most smartphones in 2018 it has some kind of mode which will give you a little bit of an optimization based on what you're taking a photo of for example if you take a photo of food it will boost like saturation or sharpness or whatever the case is usually I don't find this all that useful and you can of course turn it off here but it actually does a pretty good job out of the box the portrait mode on the v40 is actually pretty decent so to be fair we do have pre-release software so I have noticed a few issues like sometimes it does a really good job of cutting you out of the shot but then it will slightly miss focus but generally speaking it's pretty solid it is a little bit weird that you can't take a portrait mode shot with the telephoto camera like pretty much every other phone instead you have to use the main shooter I assume that's probably something to do with the fact that the telephoto camera isn't as good but there are some cool modes including a contour lighting modes very similar to what you're getting on the iPhone but my favorite is the code backdrops so as opposed to just cutting you out and putting like a black background behind you can pick a bunch of different colors and some of them look really nice assuming you don't have hair or anything that it doesn't like mat looks great on it this one's top notch video is a huge component of the v40 so as a little test we are now shooting on the v40 at 4k 24 frames per second you can't go all the way up to 4k 60 but for this test because this is a 24 p video that makes a little more sense we have the high bitrate mode enabled we are shooting an HDR 10 and then grading it down to rec 709 to fit inside standard YouTube timeline so you guys we get a good sense of sort of the quality of the image as well as the audio because we are using the hi bye audio that is built into the phone as if three rear-facing cameras weren't enough you also have two selfie shooters so one is going to be a standard email excel and then we have an extra-wide 5 megapixel option to be honest I can't tell a huge difference at first glance between the two shooters but once you actually switch over to that wide-angle that can make the difference between getting your friends in the shot or only your favorite friends in the shot the bottom line is that while it sounds excessive to have 5 cameras on your smart phone they actually do all serve a purpose props tell chief we're not just adding gimmicky features like a extra depth sensor or a monochrome sensor all five lenses really do give you something different here the v40 continues LG's trend of nella including a headphone jack but a properly good one so this is rocking a 32-bit - wah Zac and what better way to test that then with the sponsor of today's video mass drop and the sennheiser 58 x jubilee headphones all you do is jump into the LG settings and enable the high fived ack and we should have the full power of the phone so one of the reasons why this actually is a really good combination is that these headphones give me that they're only $150 our proper audiophile grade and they sound almost identical to the $500 version of the sennheiser headset these headphones actually are able to be driven with a normal headphone jacks if you want to plug it into a standard phone or laptop they're going to sound good but if you have something they can give them just a little bit more juice such as the v40 it really does help them to come alive so you were probably able to hear my music pretty well with these and that's because there are open-back headphones now there are pros and cons to this design one of the pros is these like a lot of other high-end headphones do give you a very wide soundstage - rich rich sound but on the downside it is definitely going to be a little more for home use because well it's not exactly a stealthy way of listening to music if you've been curious about getting into higher end audio the HD 58 X Jubilees are an awesome way to get into it and right now there are only a hundred and fifty dollars on not strop but if you guys know how masks drop works they're not going to last for long they've sold over 20,000 of these pairs of headphones so you'd better get them soon or you might be waiting quite a while enough excuse me I'm to go back to listening to a little bit of music Tom a LGV 40 and my super dope headphones coming back to the v40 the hardware is very similar to a bigger g7 that means you have glass on front and back with an aluminum build as well as if a prince sets are right where it belongs unfortunately what you're not going to find is any kind of face unlock but and I mean fingerprint sensor still works right the screen looks terrific it's a six point four inch OLED display with a 1440p resolution and they actually have a lot of different customization options as you would kind of expect on a high-end phone like this that's aimed for more of the creative wes's of the world yes I like how the display is customizable for the creative professionals like me in the world thanks boss unfortunately early software on the v40 means that we can't actually do our full screen regiment of tests but based on at least subjective impressions it looks very accurate although maybe not quite as bright as stuff like the iPhone 10s or the note 9 inside you'll find a snapdragon 845 paired with 6 gigs of ram as well as 64 gigs of storage and that is expandable with the micro SD card slots aka it has almost the exact same spec as every other Android flagship in 2018 now we are shooting this video before the official announcement so at the moment we don't have the final price or the release date but assuming that it is somewhere in that 800 to $1,000 flagship range it looks interesting the cameras really are the selling point of the v40 having three individual options is something that is legitimately helpful to have on a phone there's a lot of potential here and I'll tell you what this certainly will not be the last phone we see with three or even five cameras this year or next year it's probably going to be a thing now