LG Velvet 5G reviewed - the chic phone By Ryan Moore

Hey everybody Ryan here from android calls I'm here to do a little review here on the lg velvet. Now it's the lg velvet 5g, which is slightly different from the regular velvet, but in Canada, as far as I can tell be only getting the 5g variant, which I don't know if that's means anything really to anybody at this point. L, you know, 5g is not really anything there. Anyways, let's dive in so the velvet is an it's an interesting. I mean they've, always had this g series. They've had this v series they've had a k and a q series, which is a mix-up of all their different kind of lineups of uh.

You know quality top quality middle line economize whatever out there. This is entirely something somewhere in between where it's not a flagship, but it's not an economy, because it's such a stylish one. They really went for who are the chic sleek users of this phone. That would really want the best as good as they need features, but really make it a fashion statement, and they've done that with us. The they really curve the 3d arc design they have, they call it their infinity or immersive content display where it's a really full screen, um yeah, so I'll go through it.

It's a really nice sleek, looking phone- and I have to admit it- has a lot of what I do like, which is the QI charging it's got ip68, which is also the military standard, 810 uh for protection um, but it just doesn't have the top end flagship stuff, like the top 800 series, snapdragon um processor, doesn't have the quad, HD or 90hz display big whoop, okay, what it does have uh, since the g6 series is the two volume and an assistant button which you can set up to do different things. If you double press it long, press it etc. We have the power button here. There we go, and then we also have a fingerprint sensor right on the screen so kind of nice. You can just pick it up, touch it not superfast, but I've seen worse.

Let's do that again, just to show you how well it does. I just can put my finger there. Oh, well. I didn't do it quite there, so again, a little longer, but not bad. Getting in there.

You can see where this immersive display this the fact that's got the little teardrop notch. There makes it really a tall looking device uh, which kind of feels odd in the hand that it's such a tall, long thing um, and it's such a skinny thing and this is the way that the curves to each other, it almost is like an almost like a knife edge when it comes in there. So that's to me is kind of a little this disconcerting it. It feels slippery, or it feels like you'll want to put a case on it, but you do that, and you're going to lose the kind of sexy appeal it has. So I guess you're going to want to get some sort of fancy pop socket thing like I have with these guys here or whatever um, because again, this is really kind of geared to that Instagram, blogger, type, style, fashion, police kind of person, so anyways we're in it um.

I kind of liked how it's still very much like an uh pixel nexus kind of than having the Google you know assistant on the side, but then it's still in its default form. Doesn't let you have an app tree. You would think that we should let you have an app tray at this point, but they don't, then you can get it, but they give this thing where it's all the apps all in one. So I'm not a big fan of that now, speaking of all the apps, they give you interesting that again, depending on whom this is targeted, for they actually give you a bunch of games, dungeon, hunter and modern, combat fight sniper, fury that really who we're looking forward to um, but this does have a game mode that it wants you to play around with too so. The other apps that it comes up with um I do like is that it got rid of its calendar app for a Google calendar, but then it's kept its own contacts, app, which is kind of odd and awkward.

Why not use the Google contacts app? I don't know why it's got a thank-you app for its internet of things. It's a quick memo. It's health, um! You know it's phone call all these little management, software things it's smart world, it's uh, have thing, um, oops, yeah so and then 2b, I'm not sure what to be. I think it's a service provider app out there, video thingy but anyways. Yes, you're gonna play around with it and get your own things on it.

It doesn't have too much in there that it's not cluttered with its own apps and it's a nice blend in between of some google true android, some um of its own. We bring down. We can see again VAX very much the same 3d, sound engine. That's got there um. It's got a live caption feature now, just like the pixels uh, the file sharing a focus mode which is like your digital well-being um.

So it wasn't a lot in here and special features that you might not find any other phone out there. Simply that stands out, they're, always on display. What I did like is that for the display it does have the option to turn on the extra brightness, so you can really crank up the brightness on this to like super bright. If you wanted to um just that's the way lg does it now, despite this being a pretty good-looking display, it isn't quad HD display, which is kind of a letdown for me, but I'll live with it, the fact it has QI and IP rating. It still keeps it fun.

So the fancy feature you're going to want out of this thing is basically the camera. Everything else is going to get apps for and do whatever, but what it comes in and where it really shines is the fact that it has a perfect camera. I haven't had a lg phone disappoint me, yet the one query thing about it is the fact that um the resolution- now it says it's 48 megapixels, but the way it does it have something called pixel, bending with a 12 megapixel camera um. So normally it'll take 12 megapixel camera uh. You know if you're doing it one it'll zoom in at two, and then it does a binning thing where it tries to bend uh those to get a zoom, it's not great but whatever.

If you leave it at 48 megapixels, you kind of uh start losing out, and then it switches out to the um wide angle. That's the other camera back there I'll talk about those in a second um, but outside that I mean the features are really well. I mean it has this little thing here which identifies what it's seeing, and then it uses that to try to determine what pictures should it take uh? What settings should it use? We have all sorts of fancy styles to take this. You know when you take the picture, you can do whatever you want. I don't know Instagram people, don't you just do that in the app, but I guess you can do before you get in the app.

I guess right. Uh turn that off um back to there. I liked how we could actually do this, you tap, and then you can scroll. You know what kind of zoom level you'd want to play on that was kind of neat. You can also go around and play with the more feature, and actually this is a kind of neat feature.

Furthermore, you can actually take and say well this I really want to bring that manual camera down. So I'll put it right there, because I want to be able to add, go to manual camera more often um portrait I'll put them there or no. I like portrait, let's put it back uh, let's put manual camera back up here, let's put night view, so you can play around with these settings. I like that. So let me customize what ones I tend to quickly go to because often times you forget that those other ones are there, and you never use them and some really fun things to play with you can download one's like that 360 panorama and the cine shot you can play, so you download that from their smart world app um, so that was pretty oops.

Let's go back into it. The big feature, though you're going to get out of this, is the camera's video. This is the microphone it has now on it. It now has these two new features. You can something called voice: both uh, you probably can't see so well, but voice bouquet allows you to film, and it filters out the outside sound, so you're just really trying to get the sound just in the person it's focusing on um.

They used to call it zoom mic as well. Then you also have ASMR recording, which you can do that in the HD audio recording one as well, if you needed to play with that, I don't know not. For me, the other thing was kind of neat was that you can play around with the portrait mode now, because it has this extra camera sensor here, that's just for depth! It allows you to play around with some of these things. Like a cartoon background, oops uh, you know sketching background. You can play all these different cool things that if I did this in the reverse, selfie camera, so there's me I don't have a lot of the same options that I had with the other mode, because I don't have the depth sensor here.

I have it here, and I get a lot more to play around with, but not on the other one, so I guess taking pictures of other people. This is where it's going to be useful. Okay, so that is pretty much it. I mean the camera shots itself that it took. I really liked.

Let me pull up. Oh, I'll show you that draw chat thing in a second, so you know it did perfect job. It does a live photo, so it gets a little jitter removed, look thing but like that, took some pretty good shots. I have to admit that was pretty nice uh nice little bike ride. I was out on my wife calls out on the money shot that was a nice one.

There, like, I, really have not been disappointed ever with lg cameras, they've been perfect for what I've been able to use them for, and I've really enjoyed what they can do yeah so like I said it is 48 megapixel, but remember that if you want any of those cool features, it brings it down to 12. , it's all right so now to get 40 to has to bin those pixels to get. You know, four of them together to get that um outside that like this is a really nice kind of like the not a lot of uh lens aberration, based on the wide angle which you sometimes tend can get like. Those are pretty straight, and I like that one, that's really cool, there's another wide angle, one as well, so I really like the camera on it. I wish it had quad HD display it does have QI charging, it does have uh IP rating.

It just feels a little flimsy in my hand, because it's such a small thing, and I've noticed that when I play video games, that it tends to be a little, it's not superfast. I'm not going to complain about its speed on it, but because I'm holding like this and trying to play it, I'm often swiping accidentally to the home screen or something like that. You know um, so I found it a little awkward to hold and play and use with than I have with other devices and putting a case on it, which I think just kind of ruined the just this appeal of it for 750. This is a great device. I just would have to get over how it feels in my hand, but maybe that's what you're looking for something that makes more of a fashion statement than it does um anything else, but this is a great buy.

I think for anybody. That's looking! Okay I'll, have the review up on the website. If you guys have any questions you were to reach me thanks much, everybody talks soon.

Source : Ryan Moore