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this is the new LG v40 thank you it's the latest high-end smartphone from LG and it will be available really soon for a flagship price now there's some interesting things to talk about with the v40 but first I want to set up where this sits in LG smartphone world like Samsung LG releases two flagship phones every year in the springtime there's the mainstream flagship phone so that's like the g7 that I have right here and then later on in the fall there's the other flagship phone which is really similar to the first model but with a little extra on top and this year that's the v40 now as a result the v40 shares a lot with the g7 it kinda has the same overall look and design it's got the same processor and specs it's got the same boombox speaker and so on now there are a couple of differences but the big major standout feature with the v40 that separates it from the g7 and virtually every other phone on the market is its new camera system this phone comes with a total of five cameras not one not two not three or even four that we've seen before but five cameras between the front and the back now there's two cameras on the front there's three on the back and the whole thing kind of makes the v40 look a little like a bug-eyed monster now it may seem crazy to have so many cameras on your phone but the way LG is using them on the v40 is actually pretty smart and interesting in addition to a standard camera the v40 has a super wide angle option and a telephoto camera unless you change your composition and feel the view really quickly and without having to put on any attachment lenses this is just something you can't do with other phones right now and it separates the v40 from the many other options that have multiple cameras on the back there's be clear the v40 doesn't just have three lenses as three different cameras on the back and they have different specs across them the main camera is 12 megapixels with 40% larger pixels than the g7 and in F 1.5 lens with a 78 degree field of view this is like your standard camera the super wide option has a 16 megapixel sensor and 107 degree f 1.9 lens basically the same as a super-wide camera on the g7 finally there's the telephoto camera which has a 12 megapixel 47 degree F 2.4 lens which gets you about 2 times closer to your subject than the standard camera and with the differences in specs between these it's obvious that you'll get a different quality image from each camera and I can tell you right now that the telephoto camera does not work well indoors that's largely par for the course with smartphone telephoto cameras though now in addition to having 3 different composition options the v40 unless you do some interesting things with the 3 cameras there's a standard portrait mode which blurs the background and there's some new portrait lighting effects but those aren't really any better than any other phone that does them and they're not that great but what is cool is the ability to preview the shot from each camera before you take it which you can do right in the camera app even more interesting is LG's new triple shot mode which takes a pic from all three cameras in one button press then it stitches them together in an animated clip and gives you the still images from each camera it's an easy way to get all three viewpoints if you just can't make up your mind but it could be a little faster and processing the animated clip which is fun but not particularly useful anyways over on the front there's a standard 8 megapixel camera and a wide-angle 5 megapixel camera but the second camera is only barely wider than the normal one and it maybe lets you fit one or two more friends in your selfie there's also the portrait mode and portrait lighting effects up front but again they really aren't that great for the rest of the phone the v40 has a standard snapdragon 845 processor 6 gigabytes of RAM 64 gigs of storage and a micro SD card slot it's 3300 milliamp hour battery is larger than the one in the g7 but definitely not as big as that note nines monster cell it also has wireless charging ip68 water and dust resistance and of course a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack LG has also included the same button on the left side for the Google assistant that the g7 has the v40 s displays a big six point four inch OLED panel has good viewing angles bright colors and dense resolution it may not be a searing or in-your-face as the note 9 screen but unlike older LG OLED panels I really don't have any complaints with this one most of time when we're talking about smartphone cameras we're talking about incremental improvements year-over-year the kind of things that are maybe noticeable but probably not unless you're comparing phones side-by-side all the time but with v40 you're getting an upgrade in what you can do with the cameras on your phone and unless you capture images and compositions that you just can't get with other phones if you ask me that's the kind of upgrade I'm into hey thanks 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