LG V60 ThinQ 5G
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- Anonymous
- 9a4
- 21 Apr 2020
RishiGuru, 20 Apr 2020I am a music lover too and love music. My job requires lot ... moreWell said bro. That's why I can't go for anything other than LG. That $150 you paid for V30 is totally worth it, even if you're going to use it as a DAP only.
By the way, LGs are really cheap in eBay.
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- Anonymous
- vry
- 21 Apr 2020
Not for sale in, of all places, South Korea.
They get the budget LG Velvet instead. Good grief.
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- biggy
- n{t
- 21 Apr 2020
RishiGuru, 20 Apr 2020I am a music lover too and love music. My job requires lot ... moreYeah but now we are 2020 my friend nobody use this old 3,5 mm audiojack im hope that all marks gonna take off this shit and put better bluetoot ;)
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- IDc
- 21 Apr 2020
joe nodden, 20 Apr 2020Lol no UFS 3.0 storage. Let alone 3.1. be aware everyone. Xiaomi employee alert
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- pTi
- 21 Apr 2020
joe nodden, 20 Apr 2020Lol no UFS 3.0 storage. Let alone 3.1. It has ufs 3.0 and is enough nowadays.
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- fCZ
- 20 Apr 2020
LilSweetLin, 28 Mar 2020I have an S10+ that I got last June. I like it overall, but... moreI am a music lover too and love music. My job requires lot of travelling so I pick smartphones with good music playback capabilities & great audio quality over 3.5 mm audio jack.
It all started in 2014, when I bought a Vivo X5Max in India. Stellar audio quality courtesy the holy trinity of ESS Sabre ES9018 + ESS Sabre ES9601 + Texas Instruments OPA1612 op-amp combination in a phone. Audio was heaven on earth back then on this phone. Still is. I listen to this phone even today, it has the level of resolution & detail which was unheard back then. However it lacked the juice to power proper sized cans, hence best options were to stick to good earphones. And may I add X5Max holds the record of the thinnest smartphone in the world at just 5.1 mm and still Vivo was able to add a headphone jack with audiophile grade quality. I laugh when jerks speaks that removal of audio jacks was necessary to slim down the phone.
The next phone I had was Lenovo Vibe X3. This phone was selling like hot cakes in our country in 2016. A proper flagship of a phone with great audio capabilities.The Vibe X3 simply put to me was the best phone Lenovo (aka Motorola) ever created in its respective time-frame. It also provided me what X5Max desperately lacked, the ability to drive big over the ear headphones. From headphone drive perspective this was definitely a huge upgrade for a smartphone. X3 had two dedicated audio paths. The "Turbo Hi-Fi" is for purists using ESS Sabre 9018C2M and triple OPA1612 audio amplifier configuration. The sound quality was sublime with good amount of drive capability. You can properly drive high impedance over-the-ear headphone like Sennheiser HD598 with Vibe X3. The "Standard Hi-Fi" on the other hand used Wolfson WM8281 audio codec, which was leagues ahead of then Qualcomm audio solutions. And X3 also had the best stereo front firing speaker I have ever heard on any phone. Period. I am a keeper so I still own my Vibe X3.
The LG V30 next grabbed my attention. I always knew V series was great for audio so had a V30+ for last two years. I am so impressed with this phone I recently bought another one for my wife. I got the new one a month back at a bargain price of $150 brand new. Simply put the ESS Sabre ES9218P (Quad DAC) is the best audio implementation I have ever heard on a smartphone. Using a good quality audio jack male-female adapter I am able to fool the DAC in high-gain mode. With 2 Vrms at disposal, I am able to drive almost all over the ear high impedance headphone of upto 300 ohms with ease. The LG G8X is next on my list.
The last phone I want to talk about is my Vivo NEX (NEX S in China). Very few people know about this phone. I own one as it is readily available in India with full Google certification in place. Not only it is high end flagship device with SD845 & 8 gigs of ram but as you have guessed very good quality audio too. The NEX is the only other phone that can truly rival the LG's Quad DAC with a sound signature that is drastically different compared to LGs. The NEX comes with Cirrus Logic CS43199 DAC paired with three Analog Devices SSM6322 headphone amplifiers and the sound quality is just magnificent.
Every DAC manufacturer have its own sound signature, hence playing back the same song on LG V30+ & Vivo NEX provides very different experiences with same headphones. Where as with V30+ the sound signature is detailed with incredible instrument separation and a vertically narrow sound-stage, the NEX with Cirrus Logic DACs on the other hand produces warm, textured sound with super wide sound-stage in the horizontal plain. Vocals just shine on NEX. If you hear Norah Jones on a NEX, it feels like you are in her live concert, but if you hear the same song on V30+ and it will pick every nuances of her breath while she is singing the song and reveal every micro-detail of the song. I love my NEX too.
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- Oliver
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- 20 Apr 2020
I would go ahead and buy it, if it would not be a colossus of a phone. Make it below 160mm high, 72mm wide and less than 170gr, I`ll be the first to buy.
I love that it`s sturdy and certified with a military grade standard, quite unique attribute in the current market. This phone wont break by swiping it off from your bedside table.
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- Reggie
- tDU
- 20 Apr 2020
The best flagship to date with the most complete specs such as microSD, 3.5mm jack, Quad DAC, 64MP with OIS, and big battery 5000mAh. Good job!
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- Mobileman
- 6uK
- 20 Apr 2020
Great but where is audio test data?
I dont see any,just few word,why?
Tx anyway,looks ok phone.
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- Anonymous
- 0p}
- 19 Apr 2020
It does not have dual pixel AF, needs to be corrected
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- vjq
- 19 Apr 2020
Dometalican, 18 Apr 2020UFS 3.0 is just fine in this day in age
There is suppose... moreactually....their scanner is ok and quite responsive.
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- Anonymous
- 0w6
- 19 Apr 2020
Awesome battery life!!
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- Anon.
- tAx
- 18 Apr 2020
Anonymous, 16 Apr 2020no ufs 3.1, no 256 gb , poor finger print scannerDude you've got to be kidding.
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- Dometalican
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- 18 Apr 2020
Anonymous, 16 Apr 2020no ufs 3.1, no 256 gb , poor finger print scannerUFS 3.0 is just fine in this day in age
There is supposedly a 256GB version in the works.
How the heck do you know their fingerprint scanner is bad? Until you have the phone, you don't know.
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- Anonymous
- k2v
- 17 Apr 2020
Lower res screen then last year??
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- Anonymous
- XPA
- 16 Apr 2020
no ufs 3.1, no 256 gb , poor finger print scanner
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- Germanium
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- 16 Apr 2020
Germanium, 15 Apr 2020I forgot to mention that my settings for the G cam app got ... moreCorrection it is still there but rarely shows up, that is the pink hue on overexposed areas. Does so in fewer instances than before.
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- usmannaeem
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- 15 Apr 2020
I really hope with the new design LG has teased. The punchhole, & notch concept goes away & if we can see wider screen ratio on the LG v70.