LG W30 hands-on review

Battery life

With a 4000mAh battery and a rather underpower chipset, it's no wonder that the LG W30 managed to get good battery life out of a single charge. We had no issues getting through an entire day on this phone with 5-6 hours of screen time.

Battery options

Unfortunately, there's no fast charging support on this phone and with only a 10W charger supplied in the packaging it's best to do all your charging overnight.

Conclusion

With the LG W-series and the W30 in particular, LG seems to be trying to get a footing into the competitive budget mid-range Android smartphone segment. And while the W30 does bring some interesting things to the table, such as the clean, stock build of Android, an ultra-wide-angle camera and a large battery, it's really let down by one thing: performance.

At the end of the day, it really didn't matter to us how the phone performed in other areas when the UI responsiveness and the resulting user experience was so bad. To think something so important would be so low on LG's list of priorities with this device is truly baffling. None of the extra features matter if the most basic aspect of the device is inadequate.

It's for that reason, we simply cannot recommend this device to anyone. LG needs to take this as a learning experience and come back again with a better offering at the same time if it intends to be relevant in this segment. The company has the expertise to do it and decisions like going with stock Android are a step in the right direction but it just needs to be less tightfisted regarding how much hardware it is offering for the price and make compromises in the right areas.