LG Velvet 5G First Impressions - Hands On + Camera Test! By Rjey Tech

I just want to start off the video by saying this is a huge milestone for the channel, and I just want to take a second to thank all of you guys for your continued support. So, for the first time ever, we did get a review unit sent out to us from lg. This is the lg velvet and believe it or not. This is my first ever lg device in this video we'll be doing a real world. Camera test, and I'll also be giving you guys my first impressions on this device. So without further ado, let's get right down to it.

So lg's been in a smartphone game for quite a while now and with the lg velvet lg is looking to reboot their entire smartphone lineup. They are officially letting go of the g and v series and are looking to move into phones that are more individually thought out. Despite the premium look and feel of the velvet. This phone goes for 5.99, but that's mainly due to the mid-range snapdragon g processor found inside this device. For most of you, this phone won't mean anything.

It struggles to compete with the likes of the Pixel 4a and the iPhone SE, but I think by October November the velvet's price should drop to around 300 and for that price you are getting a ton of phone for your money just quickly before we do continue. If this is your first time here on this channel, I would greatly appreciate it if you guys, could leave a like down below and subscribe to the channel, because that would go a long way in helping the channel out taking a look at the design. This feels and looks like a thousand dollar smartphone. It features an all glass design, with a curved display towards the top. We find a teardrop notch and not to mention it also has an official ip68 water resistant rating.

You definitely want to put a skin or case on this phone, as this glass back is a really strong, fingerprint magnet, and it's also quite reflective, as you guys can tell. There- is a headphone jack towards the bottom right, which I feel like is a perfect placement for a headphone jack like on the Pixel 3a. It's found towards the top left, which I find to be a very awkward placement for a headphone jack. This display right here is a 6.8 inch, full HD, poled panel, and it's only 0.1 inches smaller than the new Samsung Galaxy note, 20 ultra. I personally don't like curved displays.

There are way too many accidental touches and, in my short time, with the velvet I've already experienced a few, so hashtag say no to curved displays. Let's get this trending over on Twitter, because curve displays definitely need to go. But despite all of that, this display is such a pleasure to consume content on. If you are comparing this display next to say a Samsung panel, you can definitely tell the difference, but in comparison to the Pixel 3a and the iPhone SE's display, the velvet for sure has a better vivid and brighter display for biometrics. Lg decided to go with an optical fingerprint scanner and I honestly hate these things like.

If you aren't going to include an ultrasonic fingerprint scanner, just grab the fingerprint scanner altogether and go with facial recognition. There have been so many instances when I get locked out of my phone simply because the fingerprint scanner is unable to read my fingerprint and there is no biometric alternative like face ID found on the velvet, so you're pretty much stuck with entering a pin half of the time. The velvet does feature a dual screen case. It doesn't come with the phone here in Canada, but I did hear some good things about it. So if you guys do want me to pick that up for testing purposes, let me know down in the comments below the velvet also features a dual stereo speaker setup and the speakers are actually quite good.

I do find the speakers on the velvet to get really loud way louder than the Pixel 3a speakers. Here's a quick secret comparison test for you guys. Let me know which one you think is better um. So let's talk about the cameras. The lg velvet features a triple rear camera setup, which sort of looks like a teardrop.

We have a main 48 megapixel sensor, an 8 megapixel ultra-wide angle sensor and a 5 megapixel depth sensor. The default lg camera app. I find it to be very user-friendly. It's easy to use with all the modes labeled clearly across the bottom. Some annoying things I did notice about the camera app is that whenever you switch the sensor to 48 megapixels and leave the camera app, it keeps resorting back to the 12 megapixel sensor.

This is done purposefully to save storage space on the camera, but I would have liked the option to decide that for myself, instead of my phone deciding for me, the default camera app, I find is pretty slow to launch. It does take a second, and this can be bad if you do want to capture those special moments quickly. The pictures that I find the Bella takes are alright, in my opinion, nothing great, but they are pretty decent. Some of these shots do look overexposed, and they do lack a little of detail. I feel like a tiny increase in saturation and contrast would have gone a long way in helping algae out in well-lit sunny conditions.

The phone does a good job with the dynamic range, but in poorly lit conditions like indoors. There is noticeable grain in some of these shots. The velvet does feature night mode, but I find it to be very disappointing. All of these images look very grainy, and the night mode really can't compete with the ones found on the Pixel 4a and the iPhone SE. The wide-angle lens found on the back can't record in 4k, which is a little disappointing.

Given that lg was a pioneer in the wide-angle lens department. The front-facing camera is a 16-megapixel shooter and that also can't do 4k, but it does take some pretty rather decent selfies, and if you want to enhance your selfies, you can't do so by adding a portrait mode or a beauty. Filter stabilization when it comes to video is okay. Once again, the video does lack detail, and we do notice some great in some of these shots. This camera system is not the worst and I have to give it up to lg, because the camera does look very good in this sort of teardrop sort of design, but when you are comparing it to cheaper phones such as the Pixel 4a and the iPhone SE, the velvet really can't even keep up day-to-day performance on the velvet is decent.

It does feature the snapdragon 765g processor, with six gigabytes of ram and 128 gigabytes of storage with micros expansion. Memory management I found was rather good. Apps very rarely crashed on me, and I was even able to play games from where I left off. Without the game. Restarting most of the games that I've tested were able to play in the highest frame rates with almost little to no lag at all.

What I really feel like is holding back the velvet and just lg overall, is their UI skin, and it's really unknown when you're going to be getting softer updates. The smoothness of the UI is lacking. Animations are rather slow and there is the occasional stutter and frame drop in some interactions from time to time. But the beauty of android is that you can install another launcher if you wish and get rid of all of this bloatware while you're at it did. I also mention this is a 5g phone which is able to support true millimeter wave 5g, but in my area I don't have any 5g towers up just yet.

So I couldn't care less about 5g right now, but it is nice to know that the velvet is future-proof. While I've only had this phone for a couple of days, I feel like the battery life on the velvet is actually perfect. We do have a 4 300, William hour cell and so far I've been averaging around five to seven hours of screen on time, which is actually perfect. For my usage, the velvet also features 18 watt, fast charging and surprisingly, even wireless charging. Given the price point, so I am a little disappointed with the velvet lg rebooted.

Their hardware and they've clearly done a terrific job just by the premium, look and feel of this device, but lg didn't reboot their software and I feel like cleaning up their software and getting rid of all of this unnecessary bloatware would go a long way in helping algae out. So if you had high expectations for the velvet, I think it's safe to say we should temper our expectations a little, but this phone, without a doubt, is one of the more stylish looking phones of 2020. Its design is fantastic and, quite honestly, it's better than some current flagships out right now. I feel like at this very time and moment squished between the Pixel 4a and the iPhone SE. The velvet is in a very awkward spot.

Its weak points currently are the camera and the software, but it does feature a very high-end design or large screen and 5g support. With the addition of the dual screen case, I can see this being useful for consumers who love to multitask on their devices, but for the average show they might find it to be a gimmick. I really hope you guys enjoyed this real world camera test and my first impressions with the velvet, if you do, want me to drop a full review on the velvet. Let me know down in the comments below and leave a like on this video. If you aren't interested in the velvet, and you are in the market for a budget friendly device like the Pixel 3a or even a more premium flagship like the OnePlus 8 pro, I will leave video cards right here, for you guys to keep watching, but that's with it for me guys I'll catch you all in the next one and don't forget to flex with your tech.

Source : Rjey Tech