LG Announces VELVET Phone: Korea Only For Now

LG had been teasing the “Velvet” for a number of weeks now, trickle-feeding details about the corporate’s new premium stage smartphone. Today, the corporate formally launches the gadget in Korea, totally revealing the specs of the gadget in addition to its pricing.

The LG Velvet isn’t a “true flagship” because it positions itself only one tier under that, that includes a Snapdragon 765 SoC in addition to a lesser digital camera configuration. Where it does stand out is within the design – while some may criticise as “standard”, it’s most likely LG’s best-looking cellphone in years. All while sustaining an inexpensive price ticket of round 670 USD.

Internally, the cellphone is powered by the Snapdragon 765 SoC, which is Qualcomm’s second-highest tier chip this yr. Supporting two Cortex-A76 cores, one at 2.3GHz and one at 2.2GHz alongside 6 Cortex-A55 cores at 1.8GHz, it ought to carry out adequately, though it’s nonetheless fairly behind the flagship Snapdragon 865 telephones on the market.

LG configures the Velvet with 8GB of DRAM in addition to 128GB of UFS 2.1 as base storage configurations, and there’s a microSD slot for expansions.

Dimension-wise, though it shares the identical display diagonal because the LG V60 at 6.8”, the Velvet is a fairly smaller cellphone because the display curves to the edges and has very slim side-bezels, leading to a 74.1mm physique width – across the identical form-factor as an S20+.

It’s an POLED show with 2460 x 1080 decision in a 20.5:9 facet ratio, LG right here is missing any particular options reminiscent of excessive refresh charges.

As teased a number of weeks in the past, it’s a fairly in a different way trying LG gadget because it sports activities a brand new industrial design that leaves behind a few of LG’s extra “practical” approaches of earlier generations. Yes it’s nonetheless very a lot a glass sandwich and positively not something revolutionary, however I nonetheless assume it seems fairly good when it comes to its execution.

The Velvet maintains an inexpensive weight and thickness at 180g and seven.9mm – nonetheless capable of host a 4300mAh battery in its physique.

The digital camera setup was the one huge unanswered query when it comes to specs of the cellphone, however at the moment’s announcement appears fairly disappointing on this regard. The cellphone has a 48MP important digital camera alongside a measly 8MP ultra-wide-angle and a 5MP depth sensor module. This actually is kind of under the trade commonplace at this gadget stage – I simply hope that the 48MP module is a good one as I don’t have a lot expectations of that UWA.

Other selling-points of the Velvet is the truth that it nonetheless encompasses a 3.5mm headphone jack which these days is a rarity in new telephones.

LG introduced the Velvet solely in Korea for now at a worth of ₩899,800 which corresponds to $670 pre-taxes. It’s a sexy cellphone, however I really feel like it is going to be a make-or-break matter with reference to its digital camera skills. The…