We’ve already been fairly shocked by the truth that so far LG nonetheless hasn’t talked a lot a few successor to the G8. Last 12 months, LG had defined that going ahead with 5G smartphones, the brand new V collection would turn out to be the brand new flagship gadgets of the corporate, and the G collection could be relegated to 4G fashions. It appears that now a 12 months later, that plan has been barely altered and LG is planning to drop the G collection naming altogether in favour of a brand new route – each in advertising and marketing in addition to product design.
Last weekend, LG teased its new “Velvet” smartphone design in an YouTube video on its Korean channel. It’s not a launch per-se, nevertheless it’s just about an entire unveil of the telephone’s design in addition to a disclosure that it’s being powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 765 SoC platform.
The telephone’s design is its most placing facet, because it’s an entire design language overhaul for LG and a contemporary breath of air which we haven’t seen from the corporate in a number of years now.
The design isn’t one thing we haven’t seen earlier than from different distributors; nevertheless, LG’s execution right here simply appears like a extra refined execution – a stark distinction to LG’s design language on what’s seemingly a really cumbersome and industrial V60 collection.
Particularly LG’s aesthetics on the cameras on the Velvet are fairly distinctive because it homes a triple digital camera setup in a method that departs from the same old digital camera housing group and enormous bumps seen from different gadgets immediately. The foremost sensor seemingly continues to be of a bigger measurement and requiring extra z-depth and thus a digital camera protrusion, nevertheless the 2 different sensors are flush towards the again glass of the telephone – just like what we noticed on the G8.
The Velvet nonetheless retains the three.5mm headphone jack – which now makes LG basically on of the final distributors to even sport the characteristic anymore.
If LG is ready to present the Velvet with an excellent high quality display screen, an excellent digital camera expertise and value the telephone at an inexpensive stage – it appears like quiet the placing machine that I’m certain would have quite a lot of success. We’re anticipating a full machine launch within the subsequent few weeks.
