hey everybody, it's chris welch with the vergeand this is lg v20. it's the company's latest smartphone and itis the first smartphone you can buy that comes with android 7.0 nougat out of the box. so if you don't have nexus, or you're impatient,you can buy this phone and get all of google's latest features built right in.
Android emoji update, you've got all of nougat's built in features- you can run two apps at once with split screen, just like that. have a browser and youtube open... and lg still has their second screen up top,where you can have shortcuts to apps, you'll
see your notifications up there, stuff likethat. it's handy, it's not essential, it's kindagimmicky, but its cool to have if you actually want to use it. so lg is gonna really market this phone toaudiophiles. its got a hi-fi microphone system built inso you can take it to a concert, rock concert, and it'll record that and not clip or haveany kind of distortions. so if you wanna save your memories of a concert,it's good for shooting videos, making recordings and things like that. and there are four dacs built in, so if you'rea headphone listener, if you plug in you headphones
you're gonna get better sounding audio fromthis phone then just about any other phone you can buy. so the v20 looks a lot more like the g5 thanit does the v10 from last year. its got a smooth metal back. this is metal, and the top and bottom areactually polycarbonate -- so those are plastic. its got two cameras on back, one's wide angle,one's regular. and you can actually pull the back cover off,so you can swap out the battery. so if you're at 0 - dead battery - you canjust put in a brand new one and be right back to 100%.
it's one of the best things about lg's phonesand they've kinda seen it forward here which is really cool. the v20 is a fast, powerful phone. its got all the fast specs you'd want. its got a snapdragon 820 processor, 4 gigsof ram, 64 gigs of storage, plus microsd, so it'll do any task you throw at it withoutany difficulty once so ever.
we're not sure on pricing, that's going tobe up to the carriers to decide but it should be out sometime this month, fairly soon. and so that's our first look at the lg v20,for more check out theverge.com or our other
first look videos here on youtube.
