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hmm now I'm excited for this one okay guys no I look at a lot of smartphones and I'm always on the lookout for some type of differentiation from what we're used to seeing the v40 thinkyou from LG it has five cameras this is the kind of thing that seems like a concept like you would see some image floating around Twitter but now it's it's a real product and it comes in price wise just a little bit under some of the others it's still gonna be expensive depending on the market that you're in close to a thousand bucks but not quite a thousand bucks we of course have snapdragon inside and you can see this DTS logo as well something else that's exciting about this particular device is the fact that they kept the headphone jack and they're very proud of the DAC that they're using on that headphone jack for higher quality audio than what you could achieve through wireless headphones a microfiber cloth is gonna greet us first we have a six point four inch OLED display qhd+ it also has a dedicated Google assistant key in the place where other manufacturers have put their own assistance that is a very light smart phone granted I think part of the reason is because the battery in here is not huge it's not like Galaxy Note huge I believe it's around 3300 milliamp hours let me put this down for a second also in the package some paperwork fast charge power brick that's a must we also have a type C cable to keep it charged up and because of that headphone jack we actually have some pretty high-end earbuds here in ear design as you can see interchangeable ear tips to get a better fit also this color is black but depending on the angle you have it on it kind of goes a bit blue so what you have back here is a wide angle a standard lens and then an optically zoomed lens each with its own aperture they've also got the fingerprint scanner right here where I like it where your finger lands naturally it also has wireless charging bottom of the device you'll see USB type-c connector this is the aforementioned headphone jack that so many people are excited about power switch is over here on this side and then the dedicated assistant button is right below your volume buttons real quick before we turn it on let's get a look at the not set up standard selfie camera as well as a wide-angle selfie camera I should mention on the SIM card tray here dual slot so you do have expandable storage on there as well it takes a nano SIM and a microSD now this is kind of interesting they're giving you the opportunity to turn off the knotch right within the setup in fact it's the very first screen that you see the other interesting thing they're not calling it a notch they're saying second screen that's my preference right there and then notch city alright it's up to you maybe for the purpose of this video I'll leave the notch on I don't know no I want to go that's my taste alright that's my flavor this doesn't bother me that much Apple you know I've been using the iPhone 10s Macs for a while now I wish they gave you this option we'll go ahead and set up the fingerprint scanner it's definitely not the fastest I've seen Wow there are a ton of settings in here so I have boosted up the brightness on the OLED now now their settings layout is a little bit different of course this is running a skin as well which may or may not be to your taste these are the display settings and there's a ton so second screen here that's what standard looks like and then within custom you can actually change the color of the notched out portion if you want to go rainbow you can even change the shape of it for the app corners look at that screen resolution that's also up to you by default it's at 23 40 by 1080 you can toggle in your color temperature based on the RGB levels you can fine-tune there's also tons of presets I love the level of configuration they give you here though because then it's up to you screen looks pretty good first glance definitely OLED based on viewing angles that I'm seeing here alright let's check out the audio here I'll turn this video up wait that's for dialogue we're getting most of our sound out of the bottom grille and maybe a little bit out of the earpiece regions I don't know the sound it seems to look a bit dull let me see here if I go to my equalizer and try to boost the high-end up and see what happens potato you can that's way better taste it sounds better than the iPhone when I would the customs it's for somebody who has you can fix it now of course the speaker is not even really what LG is happy about on this device it's all about that headphone jack so let me try out the included headphones now that I have these plugged in it's gonna light up all kinds of extra options as you can see here okay so we're gonna turn on DTS and we're gonna turn on high v quad DAC so this is mostly for music so let me go ahead and load up some music real quick you probably already know this but there's no substitute currently for a wire when it comes to audio like this is still if if audio quality is a major focus of yours you've kind of got to be looking at this phone alright now I realize at this point I have not covered I have not told you about the most important features in this phone and they live in the camera Department of course okay so by default I booted into the camera app here that's your default focal range right there and as you can see over on the side here you have many more options the top you have a zoom represented by this icon showing a zoom and on the bottom is the wide okay now this will give you a real quick representation of the differences as you can see there it is a ton of focal range that you're gonna cover and it's optical right this is not digital at all there's also an AI cam this is the AI photo version of the wide you can see it break it up a bit actually alright now switching over to the selfie camera it's a similar situation you have two lenses on the front oh wait a second there was a beauty by default how dare you I thought I told you no it's okay at least I can turn it off look their settings for it so this is the contrast that I'm generally looking for it just looks more like me like me here you know what I'm saying I'm gonna try the AI selfie see what they're doing if they're doing anything fancy there is actually pretty nice it doesn't mean definitely doesn't look like I'm wearing makeup this is the group selfie button but of course this could also be used to capture something that's behind you like if you travel a lot and you're like look where I am I meant to Taj Mahal there's your wide one and that's not so wide it's not as much of a jump as I would like to have seen it's definitely more in a frame it's wider but still not crazy wide the two cameras actually look quite a bit different too from perspective a contrast perspective it's interesting I actually prefer the look of the white one now something that I do think is cool to have directly in the camera app is google lens and so they've done that here and that allows you to just you know hold up an object like something in front tap on it Molson Canadian nails it it's a beautiful look I get the alcohol percentage and so on now speaking of Google they also have this dedicated assisting key you just hit the button done all right but a dedicated key is kind of nice the only criticism I have about that key why not make it configurable there's so many other configuration options like with the audio and the display and so on but as of right now it appears that it's just Google assistant now obviously this is a very unique device because of that camera setup the headphone jack sticking around and being a priority it has piqued my interest personally maybe even to the point of testing it out over an extended period of time as my main device if that's something you would like to see you can let me know by leaving a thumbs up down below I'm just curious how I would use all these cameras and the types of photos that I would create and if I would actually end up utilizing this headphone jack after all like would I plug in for a little extra quality of course there's some things I'm a little worried about with this device including the battery I mean it's definitely not the largest in the flagship department especially compared to something like the new note and then also the skin it's definitely not stock Android otherwise the specs here look good the phone is super slim and light but anyhow there it is the LG v40 thin queue right now it's promising it has my attention