LG Velvet Review: Style vs Substance? By Pocketnow

Lg is finally changing things up and that's a perfect thing for the most part: where will you land in this new stylish brand that finally breaks away from the V's and the g's of the world? Well, this is Pocket, and I'm Joshua for Gareth. What's going on everybody, this is my review of the LG velvet. Now, like many of you, my excitement over the lg velvet was due to its skin deep Beauty. It's not to say that LG have made bad looking phones over the last few years. It's just that they've all felt so familiar with each passing product. Now, with a totally new name and a new look, there's some excitement about the new branding.

The velvet is a fashion-forward device complete with a slew of different colors mine is the aurora green, but I have seen that illusion. Sunset popping up for some of our other friends. Green is my jam, but I do feel a little of envy for that gradient version. Lg's commitment to a flashier design continues with the camera module. Thank goodness we don't have another big rectangle or big camera humph.

It's just nice to see a company try something different LG calls this the raindrop camera design and, aside from the main sensor, it literally doesn't stick out much at all in a lot of ways. The first glance of the LG velvet is striking because it's subtler than many of the other phones we've seen in 20/20 keeping hold of the LG velvet, isn't too difficult. However, as a few choices led to an ergonomic handling experience, this six point, eight inches, P, OLED, Full, HD plus display- is a little narrow and a little tall, making it easier to grip, though a curve on the screen might not appeal to everyone. There is also a curve on the back, resulting in a really thin device. That, to me, is a pretty radical change from the G and V line thickness, but there is just enough space for LG to include a couple of specific features.

There is a headphone jack and a convenient shortcut key that gives easy access to Google assistant. You can even hold it down and talk to the assistant, walkie-talkie style. Now, coming back to the screen, the one thing LG hasn't really been able to shake. Is this notch? Ultimately, it's not a big deal, but it's worth mentioning because in some apps it does still cut into the content. Also, for whatever reason it's still not able to do face on lock, you'll have to rely on the fingerprint reader for your biometrics, but overall the viewing experience is high-quality, an indicative of what LG has done in years past.

This might not be a high refresh rate or high resolution display, but it's vibrant and enjoyable for all forms of media so clearly from the outside LG wanted to turn heads and keep the eyes on their new device. The choices in color form and handling all achieve that, but a high style goes beyond just the singular device, as my unboxing of LG's special package showed now, if I can get a little metaphor a bit, there are a few design details. I want to share because I think it's. The crux of the lg velvet charm see from the phone to the dual screen to the other accessories that all came from Korea messing around with every little gave me a taste of a different smartphone culture. Lg is no stranger to accessorizing, like many of their recent releases, the in valve it came with a few friends.

First off there are a couple of cases that are overtly fashionable, including this red and black case that has a handle, strap on the back. It's not the kind of case you'd often see in the States and having been to Asia. Often I know that this kind of style is way more common there, and it's a shame that we don't have more products like that in the West that are this fashionable unless you go seeking out the accessories for yourself. Most smartphone experiences are largely utilitarian, but there's plenty of extra use cases for the extra tools on the lg velvet, like the included Wacom Bamboo pen. That's right, the velvet has full stylus support and the software provides a lot of options buttons on the pen can help.

You write on a quick screenshot, bring you to cue memo to write up a note or even get you to a coloring app if you just want to pass the time with a little of Zen, the more I peel back the layers of the lg velvet, the more obvious that is that LG is prioritizing functional style, which is exactly what this version of the LG dual screen is think back to my earlier remarks that up until now, most LG and honestly, most smartphone experiences in North America are largely utilitarian. Lg's dual Street has always fit this description with its gray, color and honestly thick profile, but now there's a white version that is sleeker, thinner, more appealing to the eye and has a sense of style that finally makes this special case, one that I would keep on the phone. More often, all the functions are the same. A second full HD plus panel complete what the same exact notch gives you room to multitask get distracted, maybe get a little creative by using the case like a stand and do some unique gaming with the LG game pad. It's easy to say that none of what we're looking at is new, but the look is new.

It actually matters. I, don't use this word, often in my reviews, but so far, you're. Seeing how important aesthetic is to the LG velvet now bear in mind again that everything I just showed you are still coming straight from Korea. This is how general smartphone culture is in Asia, easy on the eyes, fashion-forward high on style and all about that first impression now getting underneath that all LG have put together a spec list that we haven't seen that much yet in 2020, let's start with the snapdragon 765 g, the 5 g enabled middle tier processor. That still brings some great performance.

Strictly speaking about gaming, I was still able to get some high settings enabled in Call of Duty mobile. So this is still the high performance, chipset 6 gigabytes of RAM and 128 gigabytes of expandable storage round out the performance stats I haven't experienced any hiccups with my device, and it's clear to me that this overall configuration is perfect for daily usage and maybe the occasional heavy use day. Yes, LG touts a 3d audio speaker experience, which actually doesn't sound that bad, but I wanted to focus on this headphone jack, while LG is finding new areas of brand identity and marque features, it's the quad DAC that got put on the chopping block now. This might make a little of sense, because audio files will have to go to LG's flagships to enjoy high fidelity audio. But ultimately it's still nice that there's a headphone jack on here at all.

But one thing I do like is that L deck and APDEX HD are supported, so the general users who are into wireless audio will still get high quality, music and media. A quick word on the software. Ok I know that it's a point of contention for some, including myself, but LG's UI has come a long way and really my only problem with it is skin-deep I'd like some new icon designs, some updated animations and just an overall tightening of the interface. The feature set is still high, but most of the options are tucked away neatly in their own page and then a forty-three hundred million power battery is also pretty middle-of-the-road, but it does a decent job of getting the LG velvet to a full day of use. That is, if you're not going too crazy with the dual screen case.

Obviously powering two screens at once will significantly reduce total screen on time, but my main problem is well I, already misplaced, the little magnetic connector for charging the phone and the case together, but thankfully wireless charging still worth even when the dual-screen case is on, which brings us finally to the cameras and, unfortunately, I think this is where LG has departed from their previous releases. The most you need only look at the camera menu to see that a lot of different options you might expect are missing in particular manual video. Now speaking, strictly about the specs, the main sensor is a 48 megapixel shooter, backed by an 8 megapixel ultra-wide and a 5 megapixel depth sensor. The front-facing camera is a 16 megapixel shooter, capable of 4k video recording. Despite having a really narrow field of view, so yeah it could be a little wider can't really fit too many other people in this 4k video, but at the very least I, can use the dual screen case, and it's just sturdy enough, so that I can get the camera a little farther away by holding the lid feature inclusions like ASMR, recording and 3d stickers paint a specific picture.

The cameras are here from when the casual user needs to either capture some quick memories or just have a little of fun, but when taking the cameras at their base, quality we're just not seeing anywhere near the quality that we've come to expect from even LG themselves. The main energy was put into the selfie shooter and the main sensor, which does make some sense for the main cameras. Zooming is obviously not going to be ideal, and then the wide-angle camera doesn't put out very high resolution results either it's as if the ultra-wide was just put there in case. You need it, but you should never rely on it. After all, you can't even record 4k with it.

Many of the main features are saved for the main sensor. You could get some decent results in bright conditions like with most phones, but that quickly falls apart in lower light situations and LG's of night view mode. Just doesn't really help as much as it should. It's easy to say that we have high hopes for the velvet to be an all-around great time and in designing the cameras the way they did we'd hope the quality matched the beauty. But this is not a creator's phone like many of the G and V line smartphones were positioned instead, this is a design forward.

Device meant to look memorable not to capture memories. So it's clear how LG is positioning the velvet. It's one of the best-looking phones, a casual everyday user can have. It has capabilities that aren't necessarily new, but now they are way more accessible because LG put their design hats on and made them way more. The problem is corners had to be cut for the sake of making this phone something casual users.

Could afford and by upping the feature set, they had to skimp out someone now. One important thing that I feel like I learned during this review is that maybe we've been thinking of the snapdragon 765 G incorrectly this whole time, it's just under flagship level performance, making an upper middle tier spec and as a 5 G enabled chipset. It might be incorrect to think that the 765 G means that the price would go down that much, which is the hard part. We don't know if this phone is going to be available in more places outside its main markets like in Korea, but even if it was, the phone still comes in at the equivalent of 750 US dollars that doesn't sound like an affordable mid-range phone and that's because it isn't for all that the LG velvet provides down to not only the aesthetic but also its use cases with the bamboo pin and also the dual screen. This is actually a really useful phone.

The problem is the one part of that might be important to some of you is what LG cut down the most it's the easiest phone to photograph, but it's not easy to photograph with, and if that matters to you, maybe the LG Velvets beauty truly is only skin deep, and so there you have it my review on the LG velvet. Yes, there are some disappointing parts of the phone, but I think overall, LG have done a great job of reminding us that they're, pretty great at design to the aesthetic is high, even if the camera, Koreans kind of isn't, but I want to know. If that's really important to you get into the comment, sections down below think about all the features that this phone at its price and at its easy accessibility are able to provide if the camera is not one of them at least everything else is pretty great. Once again, let me know how you feel about that in the comments also drop some likes on this video at the very least, and if you're new here make sure you hit that subscribe button to keep up with everything. Pocket now is doing we pretty much put out videos every single day and from there I'm going to go ahead and call it on this one.

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