Gadgetory

hey what is up guys I'm QB HD here and it's only October but I would say it's been a pretty quiet year so far for LG but this is for sure their most underrated phone out right now this is the LG v20 I don't know if you remember it but back when Android 7.0 was first announced it was this phone sitting down at the bottom of that website advertising that it would be the first one out the box with Android 7.0 nougat installed not a nexus not a pixel phone but this one and it still is it's a thing now so the height has died down a little bit and it's been a little bit quieter but the v20 is a really good phone from LG so these are the five best things about it number five is the deck so this phone has a headphone jack which we won't be able to take for granted much longer but the deck behind it is not just your normal typical digital to analog converter so the v20 is rocking a 32-bit hi-fi quad DAC for significantly improved headphone and speaker audio performance now the speakers themselves I wouldn't say are extraordinary I mean one of them is front-facing and they do get pretty good and loud so if that's something you care about that's a good sign but where you'll really hear the difference is with headphones you might not necessarily notice the difference in audio quality right off the bat even with the great headphones that come with it but with the quad DAC what it will do is drive higher impedance headphones so if you have the higher-end headphones that require much more power even too much power to get much sound out of previous phones this one is up to the task you will be able to drive much higher impedance headphones with a quad DAC in the V 20 so that is a nice bonus if you used to try to drive high-end headphones with a smart phone before you needed to buy like a mobile DAC external to the phone so you'd carry around extra things and you have to remember to take it with you you'd have to do any of that with the V 20 this one will handle all so number four is the hardware and just the overall build quality and fit and finish of the V 20 it is a lot better than the g5 from earlier this year not that that was a very high bar to clear but still this is a seriously well-built phone this time around it's a unibody aluminum phone from top to bottom and it actually is really it feels really light like it feels like it should be heavier for the size of the phone but it's really balanced across that size in the and the forehead is not too big the chin is not too big you got a pretty good use of space fitting a 5.7 inch quad-hd display onto the front of this body size and it has a ton of bonuses it's military-grade shock resistant against drops it has a fingerprint reader on the back that's really quick and also doubles as your power button and a sleep/wake switch it has a 3,200 milliamp hour removable battery and the weight removes in this version is the button on the side that pops the back off and it is way cleaner than the g5s method which would just force shut down the phone immediately so you can open the back and this way lets you take off the back without shutting down the phone which you might want to do because there's also expandable storage a micro SD card slot so those last two things right there the removable battery and expandable storage on a high-end smartphone by themselves kind of make it a rare breed so number three is the secondary display this is an LG thing for sure they did it in the v10 and I'm happy they're keeping it going with the V 20 so it's the secondary display right up in the top of the phone above the main display this second screen is like a dock for permanent shortcuts to things you might do often so toggles for some settings etc some quick Wi-Fi toggle a quick flash light toggle obviously it's even faster than dragging down the notification shade and then finding what you want selecting it because you can leave it there all the time forever just one click I do wish two things though one I wish I had more control over what exactly shows up on this top screen if I had a my way I would have just one top screen permanently no swiping at all and then I would just have this as a mixture of some apps and some shortcuts so I would have some of my favorite apps to launch all the time and some of my favorite click settings toggles I could have my favorite Twitter app out of Phoenix up here I'd probably have a camera app shortcut but I'd also have like a Wi-Fi toggle a Bluetooth pair button probably a flashlight but as of right now it's just whatever LG seized it and the other thing is I'm still not sure about the position of the screen on the top of the phone especially for people with smaller hands than me this is not easy to reach and if you're trying to make it a shortcut thing you want to make it as accessible as possible so I don't know maybe put it on the bottom of the phone maybe try another location other than up at the top above everything which is kind of a stretch for most people but that's just me right so the number two best feature in vivid xx is these dual cameras on the back so this is also a very LG thing they've been doing it before so no the iPhone is not the first one to do dual cameras in fact this one's not the first one LG did in previous phones with their g5 they did it in the v10 and I've done an entire video explaining all of the way dual cameras work and smartphones what they do why they're useful so I'll leave that video linked a little like button if you want to check it out for those unfamiliar the v20 is rocking 116 megapixel regular field of view camera and one 8 megapixel 135 degrees super wide angle camera so yeah every phone with dual camera seems to have a different way of utilizing them and this LG way is pretty much purely for recreation sometimes for utility if you're really close to a subject and you want to get zoomed out wide but the imagery from the second camera doesn't really get used to supplement the image from the first camera or vice versa they're totally independent cameras which you can switch between to get a different look and that super wide angle camera does look really cool it's kind of like that GoPro look so the cameras look really fun plus there's a bunch of other bonuses like having really good optical image stabilization their study shot 2.0 for video and you have all your manual modes for photos and videos you have your raw photo capability you have your improved microphone for better sensitivity for recording audio and like loud environments so in general this is shaping up to be a pretty great Android smartphone camera and then last but not least the number one best feature of the LG v 20 is the software this is like we mentioned earlier the first phone running out the box Android 7.0 nougat which is an interesting choice because this one's already skin so as Android 7.0 nougat with the LG UI on top of it we're going to see more Android 7.0 unscanned on some phones coming up very soon but until then we still get to see plenty of new gets features in action so there's Google's in-app search which lets you search your entire phone through all the apps installed you get doze of course which optimizes apps for standby and while this is a pre-production model I do have to mention the standby time has been actually amazing seriously impressive I slept it for like 24 straight hours with the second screen still on and I woke it up with 96% left so that kind of blew my mind still basically a full battery that's nice you get the new Vulcan API for gaming performance with the apps that do support it you get a direct reply feature though it is already skinned and you get the multi-window multitasking although that's already skin too so believe it or not you might have noticed this already you get the choice to have no app drawer and just have all your icons spread out across your home screens like it and I guess like an iPhone but that's not a requirement of Android and or anything that's just an option here like pixel launcher is still a thing don't get worried but I thought that was pretty interesting on performance throughout the whole OS as you can see on the phone has been pretty solid so let's turn it into a pretty complete package as far as Android smartphones go you know the specs Snapdragon 820 Adreno 530 4 gigs of ram 64 gigs of storage before you expand it quick charge 3.0 USB type-c I mean it's all there it's still very LG meaning the cameras at the back are still that LG style with the dual cameras it still got that second display up at the top and you can only let LG choose what can go there when and all the other things like the skin that's on top of the software but as of right now this is still the only phone that you can get out the box with Android 7.0 nougat and it turns out to be a really good one so I wouldn't turn you away from it you should check it out I'll link it below that's pretty much it thank you for watching I'll talk to you guys the next one peace