LG V60 ThinQ 5G
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- Germanium
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- 15 Apr 2020
joe nodden, 25 Mar 2020Ugh my other reply is to be approved by a moderator which w... moreIn actual fact Samsungs hybrid zoom is nothing more than a crop of the 64MP sensor set to 64MP to get to same quality of main sensor. LG does exact same thing but is not hiding what they are doing behind a marketing name & is only claiming 2x lossless zoom compared to using the main sensor at 16MP.
That makes Samsungs zoom a digital crop just like LG's zoom function.
I don't know if Samsung allows direct access to the 64MP sensor but LG does in fact allow direct access to it, it's just not by default, you have to choose it whenever you open the camera viewfinder, even if you don't actually leave the camera app.
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- 15 Apr 2020
I forgot to mention that my settings for the G cam app got rid of the pinkish blown out photos.
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- 15 Apr 2020
Did some more testing of the cameras on the V60. Auto in bright sunny days is not good even with HDR locked on all the time. I took several photos of the same scene & all were so blown out that much detail was lost. 16MP images only took a little over 2MB to save, there was so much loss of detail.
On the other hand turning on the 64MP option produced images that were bordering on under exposed & had no option for HDR turned out fantastic with massively improved detail even if a little on the dark side compared to real life, the effect is fantastic photos worthy of postcard production & would look great enlarged to 8 by 11 size without showing much in the way of digital defects.
Pictures taken in lower light situations look ok on auto on 16MP setting but one is still better served to install the G cam APK. The G cam app produces pictures with better dynamic range. I used HDR+enhanced with advanced setting set to combine 12 images. I also set the JPEG quality to100% from 95% for the G cam app. The stock setting still produces blown out images with some odd pink color in blown out area on the G cam app but the G cam app does produce more detailed images which on average are twice as large in file size than the stock LG camera app.
Unfortunately there is no 64MP option in the G cam app but the stock LG camera app does great there all by itself even without the option for HDR. File sizes are huge but truly representative to how large they should be to adequately capture detail for that many MP. I'm talking 20 to 30 megabytes as opposed to 2 to 6 megabytes for stock LG camera app or 10 to 12 megabytes for the G cam app at my current settings at 16 MP. The 2 megabyte file sizes were for the stock LG camera app on auto in bright sunshine which caused severely blown out image even with HDR locked on.
In lower light you would be hard pressed to do better than stock LG camera app however in most situations the the G cam app with my settings will do slightly better than stock camera at default 16MP setting in all situations except if you use the 64MP option on the stock app as the detail is almost always better there even if only slightly compared to G cam app.
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- 15 Apr 2020
Aadrian, 14 Apr 2020Some reviews are out on YouTube and somegadgetguy on YouTub... moreYep, the only youtubers i still follow are JuanBagnell and Joshua Vergara. These 2 are the only ones not biased by Samsung and Apple and they are the only ones honestly judging LG phones. They do a wonderful work.
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- 14 Apr 2020
thePulsar16, 29 Mar 2020But it lacks of a telephoto sensor. It's like Xiaomi's Mi 1... moreThat's silly, many flagship phones don't have telephoto cameras. That only became a thing around 2016, so what were all the high end phones considered then? Non flagships because they lacked a telephoto camera? There are many flagship phones without a telephoto camera; iPhone 11, LG G8, Samsung Galaxy S10e, and so on... as a matter of fact Samsung advertises the S20 and S20+ as capable of 3x optical zoom, but that is totally misleading.
Thr Galaxy S20 and S20+ do not, in fact, even offer an actual optical zoom. The phones only have optical zoom of about 1.06x—non-existent for all intents and purposes. Instead, the telephoto cameras of the phones use a 64 MP sensor with a wide-angle lens and crops into the image to offer Samsung's "3x hybrid optical zoom"! OnePlus also advertised 2x and 3x lossless zoomfor the OnePlus 6 and OnePlus 7 Pro, while the phones only truly had about 1.6x and 2.2x optical zoom respectively!
Under your theory it could be argued that the Google Pixel 4 isn't a flagship because it also lacks a Ultra-wide-angle lens, while just about every other major phone maker does.
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- 14 Apr 2020
[deleted post]not to mention that they were the first to introduce wide angle for cameras, another feature that was copied from them by all the others....
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- 14 Apr 2020
FeederEater, 13 Apr 2020Sadly its always like that with LG phones. I am not sure wh... moreSome reviews are out on YouTube and somegadgetguy on YouTube spent a lot of time with the V60 on his channel. I wouldn't have known that the V60 supports a wacom stylus if it weren't because I watchted a video of him.
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- 13 Apr 2020
regs, 13 Apr 2020Flagships of Apple, Samsung, Huawei and Xiaomi."much better things" = "Apple, Samsung, Huawei and Xiaomi" ...cool...so basically in your oppinion, all other manufacturers have been able to sqeeze in their devices those better things mentioned by you....what's the name of that company? As of today "the massive" is awarded to Xiaomi with 18.03 cm
Apple = not even if they were given for free (check the scams in apple stores);
Samsung = i've owned some
Huawei = awesome devices, especially cameras
Xiaomi = the apple of China
LG = owned a few
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- 13 Apr 2020
siminum, 13 Apr 2020could please name them...and please don't consider refresh ... moreFlagships of Apple, Samsung, Huawei and Xiaomi.
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- 13 Apr 2020
siminum, 13 Apr 2020is there a reason why this device has not been reviewed yet... moreSadly its always like that with LG phones. I am not sure why tho, but i have been on GSMarena for many years now and LG reviews were always very late. I just came here to check if preview is out coz i am curious about the battery life :/
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- 13 Apr 2020
regs, 13 Apr 2020Not a player. This is MASSIVE. 17 cm tall. Competitors were... morecould please name them...and please don't consider refresh rate as being "much better"...we can't even make the difference between 60/90/120 Hz; it is just fluidity of the display moving from one page to the other...and 90% of the population don't even care.
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- 13 Apr 2020
siminum, 13 Apr 2020is there a reason why this device has not been reviewed yet... moreNot a player. This is MASSIVE. 17 cm tall. Competitors were able to fit much better things into much smaller designs.
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- 13 Apr 2020
is there a reason why this device has not been reviewed yet? other devices have already been reviewed and those appeared after V60..
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- 12 Apr 2020
LG Selfie camera 4K 60FPS no 30FPS, i wait on review, battery life is Best smartphone ever!
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- 11 Apr 2020
Gsmarena can you display the main camera resolution figure and aspect ratio?
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- 10 Apr 2020
PAGOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, 03 Mar 2020Yeah... you are 100% right... Megapixels dont mean nothingMegapixels do matter but only if optics & software is up to par. The selfie camera on the LG V60 is quite good & appears to have autofocus unlike most selfie cameras. This is the first phone I've seen with autofocus on the selfie cam. These are almost always fixed focus.
The V30 took better pictures even than V40 in good lighting with better detail especially if you used G cam mod to take pictures. It was clear in that case that megapixels counted. V40 though took better low light photos than V30 due to larger pixel in sensor. The V30 has a 16MP sensor compared to the V40's 12MP sensor which has larger pixels.
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- 08 Apr 2020
Anonymous, 08 Apr 2020Wondering if V60 will be available outside the US??Ive heard its available in Canada too
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- 08 Apr 2020
Wondering if V60 will be available outside the US??
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- 06 Apr 2020
Bahemoth, 06 Apr 2020You try to install fm radio with mid range phones on your mobileI have not. I only have the LG V60. How would you do that? I heard the LGV60 has a fm chip built in.
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- 06 Apr 2020
Rr, 04 Apr 2020I recently bought the LG V60, having at&t as the carrie... moreYou try to install fm radio with mid range phones on your mobile