LG V20 FULL REVIEW



LG launched its flagship android smartphone namely V20 in India which is exclusive to amazon which is priced at 54,990/-. It is available in Titan, Silver & Pink shades. The online links are given below so check them out to keep track of current price & availability or to pick one of them.

SPECS OVERVIEW

5.7 inch 2K IPS & 2.1 inch Display

7.6mm Slim & weighs 174gms

64GB Storage with MicroSD

16MP Rear & 5MP Front Cameras

Snapdragon 820 (Quad-Core CPU)

Adreno 530 GPU with 4GB RAM

Android 7.0 Marshmallow

IR Blaster, NFC & Gyroscope sensor


USB Type-C(OTG), Fingerprint sensor

Removable 3200 mah Battery 

Lets Dive Into The Review!






DESIGN, BUILD QUALITY & DISPLAY
The design of this phone is great. It has Corning gorilla glass 4 on front and alluminum alloy build which offers great in hand feel thanks to the material of metal used which feels premium. It is slim at 7.4mm and weighs 174gms. It has 5.7 inch Quad HD IPS LCD display of resolution 1440 x 2560 with 513ppi and secondary 2.1 inch 160 x 1040. The viewing angles and sunlight legibility of the display is great. It runs on LG 5.0 User Interface. The display supports 10 multi-touch points and the brightness of the screen is great. It is also MIL-STD-810G Certified Shock resistant.

STORAGE, MULTIMEDIA & CONNECTIVITIES
It has 64GB of internal storage which is further expandable upto 256GB. The device features dedicated multimedia apps like Walkman for songs, an Album to store all images and videos and a Movies for playing movies respectively which are very good. FM radio comes pre-installed. When it comes to multimedia experience from the device is great overall thanks to large canvas video watching is very good adding to the experience is the audio quality both from loudspeaker and from headphone jack is great. Connectivities like 2G, 3G speeds upto 42mbps download & upto 5.76mbps upload, 4G speeds upto 150mbps download & upto 50mbps upload, Wifi a/b/g/n/ac, dual-band wifi, Wifi direct, Wifi hotsopt, USB Type-C, USB OTG, GPS & GLONASS, Bluetooth 4.2 and NFC come standard, but also supports fingerprint scanner, IR Blaster and gyroscope sensor which is excellent.  

CAMERA & VIDEO RECORDING CAPABILITIES
It has a dual camera with 16MP Optically stabilized (1/2.6 inch Sensor, F/1.8 Aperture, 29mm Field Of View) & 8MP (1/3.2inch Sensor, F/2.4 Aperture, 12mm Field Of View) rear camera with Color Sprectrum Sensor, laser autofocus and LED flash which features Simultaneous image and video recording, Geo-tagging, Touch focus, Image stabilization, HDR etc and other modes as well. The camera clarity is quite Excellent overall. Daytime the images are Excellent overall and has good amount of details respectively but in the night is where the noise starts to become bit visible and to get better details at night HDR mode images with bit of steady hands helps to produce slightly better images still image quality at night is quite very good. It 4K 2160p@30fps, Full HD 1080p@60fps HDR video recording with hardware based video stabilization and stereo sound having bit-rate of 48 mbps for 4K & 18 mbps for Full HD and stores in mp4 format. The video recording clarity is quite Excellent overall. Daytime the video clarity is great and has good amount of details respectively but at night video clarity is quite very good. It also has a 5MP (F/1.9 Aperture) front camera for selfe's with 1080p video recording and clarity is quite great.
SOFTWARE, HARDWARE,PERFORMANCE & BENCHMARKS
It runs on Android(OS) 7.0 Nougat out of the box. It has a Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 (MSM8996) 64-Bit SOC (System On Chip) running an Quad-Core processor which is combination of Dual-Core processor clocked at 2.2 GHZ (Kryo) with 4 GB RAM and an Adreno 530 GPU (650MHZ Single-Core). The performance is Excellent overall which provides high graphic intensive games run great without any major issues, I was able to run asphalt 8 & Modern combact 5 and the gaming performance was very smooth didn't notice any lag or major frame drop from this you can also observe that other games like nova 3 etc to perform similarly and also when it comes to heating I found the device doesn't get that warm which is very good in my opinion. The general performance of the device was very smooth didn't notice any lag from the UI (User Interface) which is great in my opinion. The benchmark scores are quite great for this price range which is given below.
QUADRANT : 32490.
ANTUTU : 121494.
NENAMARK 2 : 58.7fps.

BATTERY LIFE
It has a Removable Li-Ion 3200 MAH Battery with power saving options and also supports Quick charge 3.0 charging support. The battery life is quite very good which is given below.
BROWSING : upto 8:30H.
VIDEO WATCHING: upto 8:30H.
TALKTIME : upto 22H(2G) / upto 20H(3G).
STANDBY TIME: upto 600H(2G) / upto 590H(3G).
SCREEN ON TIME (SOT) : upto 5:30H.
BATTERY LIFE STATS*
Heavy usage upto 13H battery life with upto 5H SOT.
Light/Medium usage upto 1.5 days battery life with upto 4H SOT. 
*Battery life is subjective depends on usage, These stats are based on my testing.
PROS
*Excellent build quality.
*Excellent display and viewing angles.
*Excellent overall performance.
*Excellent overall camera & great video recording clarity.
*4G (VOLTE), NFC, IR Blaster & USB OTG support.
*Fingerprint scanner, USB Type-C and gyroscope sensor support
*Great loudspeaker and Excellent headphone jack audio quality (with Hi-Res Audio).
*MIL-STD-810G Certified Shock resistant.
*Removable battery with quite very good battery life.

CONS
*No water resistance feature.
*Premium Pricing.

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OVERALL PRODUCT RATING° : 9/10.
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