The LG V30 is an Android

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manufactured by

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as part of the

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. Unveiled on 31 August 2017 as the successor to the LG V20, the V30 forgoes the V20's secondary display for a "floating bar" which has nearly the same functions as the second display. It still features quad DACs for improved audio.

History

The phone was teased on 3 August 2017 in a press release from LG showing the bottom half of the FullVision display. On 7 August press invitations were sent out featuring the words "Lights. Camera. Action." Video teasers were later released, advertising the phone's display, audio and camera capabilities.

Specifications

Hardware

The V30 has a Gorilla Glass 5 front and rear plate sandwiching an aluminum body and a 6.0-inch

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FullVision Display, with a 2:1 aspect ratio (marketed as 18:9), manufactured by

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. Its processor is a

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835 SoC with an Adreno 540 GPU, coupled with 4 GB RAM. The V30 has 64 GB of internal storage, while the V30+ has 128 GB, which is expandable via

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card. This is also the first LG smartphone to feature an OLED display. The LG V30 uses a dual-lens camera setup with a 16-

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main sensor with a 71° field of view, and a 13-megapixel wide angle sensor with a 120° field of view. However, the main camera also features a f/1.6

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, the lowest in a smartphone at the time of release, and a 10-bit HDR sensor. The 10-bit HDR image sensor is capable of capturing nearly 1,070,000,000 different colors, which is about 211% more colors than an 8-bit image sensor. The main sensor has

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, which corrects for the motion blur caused by shakey hands in photos and videos, but there is no OIS on the wide angle lens. The V30 supports up to 1 Gbps download speed on 4G. The H932 model of the V30, for

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, is the first smartphone to support 4G's LTE Band 71, with a frequency of 600 MHz.

Software

The V30 ships with Android 7.1.2 "Nougat" (upgradeable to 9.0 but without Treble support) with LG's custom skin, LG UX 6.0+. It comes with Android's

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feature.

Reception

The V30 has received praise for having one of the most mature dual-camera systems available and for its audio quality, retaining the headphone jack as other premium smartphones stopped providing it, and including multiple audio sensors for input and a 32-bit Quad-DAC (Digital Analog Converter) for output. The phone has been criticized for excessive

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on carrier-branded devices. The V30's screen quality has been criticized for its relative lack of color saturation and flaws, as with the Google Pixel 2 XL — which features a display also made by LG.

References

Further information

Android Central — LG V30 gets torn down, shows impressive camera hardwareAndroid Police — LG V30 enter the JerryRigEverything torture chamber, emerges mostly unscathed
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