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TechRadar Verdict

The LG V40 puts photography start with five cameras on a single Android phone, and that gives yous varying shot perspectives, whether y'all're taking a wide group selfie or rear-facing telephoto masterpiece. You'll love seeing the camera modes and various tricks play out on the beautiful six.4-inch OLED screen, though competing handsets take cleaner pictures, have longer battery life and, in many cases, are cheaper.

Pros

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Five cameras for new perspectives
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Fun all the same and video camera modes
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Light, yet reassuringly solid design

Cons

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Photographic camera isn't ever the best
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More than expensive than information technology should be
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Weaker-than-necessary battery

Update: We've updated the LG V40 camera section to include new findings well-nigh the telephoto lens, which causes zoomed-in photos to exhibit blurriness, a possible flaw. Be sure to read our experience on Folio 2.

The LG V40 ThinQ is the starting time phone to clasp an outrageous five cameras into a single device to give yous more than shooting options – even if you think you already accept enough photograph choices. This as well happens to be the perfect metaphor for LG's ambitions in a smartphone market place dominated by Apple, Samsung, Huawei and a few others. It's another pick whether you think you need one or not.

Luckily, the LG V40 has a few camera tricks to continue it from beingness an also-ran Android telephone, different this year'south unsurprising, risk-averse LG G7 ThinQ. It captures larger pixels and combines a regular, telephoto, and a super-wide-bending photographic camera in a rear three-camera array. There's also a normal and wide-angle camera pair on the forepart for selfies and group selfies, respectively.

You're getting v different perspectives from the LG V40 cameras, and several unique modes. Triple Shot simultaneously snaps pictures from all three rear cameras, so you don't accept to worry about which lens is best for a item shot. Cine Shot allows you to create half-dozen-second cinemagraphs to partially animate still photos. And Cine Video, outset seen on the LG V30, is back to make it easier to fluidly zoom in anywhere, non just the dead heart of the camera screen.

The LG V40 has a lot of cameras, and enough of ways to put them to proficient utilise, even if we aren't going to crown it the best photographic camera phone of all time. It does prioritize faces nicely compared to its competition, merely too ofttimes it blows out backgrounds, even with HDR fashion enabled. Nosotros tested it against the Samsung Galaxy Note 9, iPhone XS Max, and Google Pixel two XL.

Playback, and all multimedia, expect great on LG'south expansive, colour-rich six.4-inch OLED screen with HDR10 compatibility. Y'all won't mind the pocket-size notch cut out at the top, and yous can black-out the display 'ears' flanking the notch if you're actually against this trendy design quirk. Information technology's too amid the fastest Android phones nosotros've tested thanks to the Snapdragon 845 chipset and 6GB of RAM, and information technology's one of the few that has a headphone jack, a powerful speaker, and a microSD card slot.

The LG V40 is noticeably lighter than its large-screen smartphone competition, and nevertheless it doesn't feel cheap in the hand. It's the weight of a sizable plastic phone, with all the benefits (and risks, in terms of potential dings and scratches) of a premium, all-glass design. There'due south some nice smoothen here, even if the black version we tested is inescapably a fingerprint magnet.

Unfortunately, LG has also gone lighter in the battery department and heavier on the price than we were hoping. Yous're going to barely become all-day battery life from this handset, and yet you'll pay nearly as much for it as for an iPhone XS or Samsung Galaxy S9 Plus; for a trivial more than money you tin become a bigger bombardment in an only slightly heavier telephone, which seems similar a fair trade-off.

The LG V40 camera is a lot of fun to play with cheers to its telephoto and super-wide-angle cameras, but meliorate image quality can be had from other smartphones. Like the LG G7 ThinQ, the LG V40 volition exist a more than interesting proffer once it gets discounted than it is at launch. Keen camera tricks just get you so far.

Release date and price

The official LG V40 release date is Thursday, October 18, while pre-orders started on Oct 3 in the United states. This schedule may differ in other regions, and depend on your local carrier. But wherever you are, LG risks having its thunder stolen past the imminent Google Pixel 3 and Google Pixel 3 XL launch on Oct 9.

The V40 is more expensive than it should exist, really, costing anywhere from $900 to $980 in the US. The T-Mobile version costs a centre-of-the-route $920, while Verizon has it for $980. Nosotros're waiting on the confirmed Britain price, and to see how much it costs in other regions.

In the Usa, we can already tell you lot that it costs more than the similarly sized Samsung Milky way S9 Plus ($840), but less than the iPhone XS ($1,000) and iPhone XS Max ($1,100).

Design and display

The LG V40 design takes cues from the iPhone XS Max and the Galaxy S9 Plus, nigh every bit if this was a 'What if Apple tree and Samsung merged' concept video.

It has a virtually all-screen 6.four-inch OLED screen on the front with that small notch cut-out at the top, making its face look like the iPhone X and every Android clone since. The notch is easy to ignore, with enough room to fit the two forepart-facing cameras and a smaller earpiece speaker. In that location is slightly more than bezel around the sides and mentum than on an iPhone, but you'll only run across the difference in a side-past-side comparison.

The subtly curved glass of the LG V40'south front and dorsum meet at a metal frame, echoing the Samsung Galaxy Note 9 look, albeit without the curved screen, which remains flat and doesn't follow the subtle front drinking glass curve to slip over the sides.

Distinguishing features include the triple-lens camera on the back, the ii pocket-size cameras on the forepart, and the fact that all of this weighs just 168g. It's noticeably lighter than the Samsung Galaxy Notation 9 (201g) and the iPhone XS Max (208g).

The LG V40 is your flagship smartphone on a diet, and that'southward an admirable feature, although its lack of heft is conspicuously a factor in its mediocre bombardment functioning later on in the review. LG's pattern team somehow keeps winning out over the specs department when it comes to the 'size and weight vs battery life' argument.

LG V40 colors include Aurora Black and Moroccan Bluish in the West, though there are boosted colors similar red and greyness bachelor in other countries. The Aurora Black version nosotros tested is shiny equally a mirror – and equally fond of your fingerprints. You'll muddied this telephone up in just a few seconds without an LG V40 case.

The ability button returns to the right side of the telephone – a switch from the LG V30 and other V series phones before it, which had the rear fingerprint sensor button pulling double duty as a power push button and a course of authentication. Now the rear sensor is just a pad for unlocking the phone, and the new clicky side power button is dedicated to sleep/wake.

Besides new to the V serial is the defended Google Banana button, matching what we saw on the LG G7. This summons Google's AI voice banana, which is smarter Samsung'south terrible Bixby AI. But you're still leap to accidentally hit the button, mistaking information technology for the volume-downwards key that sits right higher up it. The Google Pixel 2 and HTC phones have the right thought, with the less problematic squeeze-the-lower-body mechanic for calling up Google Assistant in a pinch.

The LG V40 has just one speaker, but we institute it gets enough loud thanks to its Boombox Speaker concept. We saw this with the G7, too – inside, the entire back of the phone is dedicated to a resonance chamber. You'll also detect a 32-chip Howdy-Fi Quad DAC and DTS:10 3D Surround Sound, continuing the 5 series tradition of offering some of the all-time audio on a phone when you lot're using information technology with headphones.