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Dual-lens camera, OLED display, a DAC – it’s hard not to get excited about the LG V30

Rather than flood the world with information about a new handset, LG has been slowly feeding information about its next flagship the V30.

We already know it will sport an OLED display, that it will have a great camera with a f/1.6 aperture and dual, wide-angle lenses cameras.

Today at IFA 2017 in Berlin the South Korean firm revealed the V30 in full and it looks to build off of the successes of the G6. That is to say, features you know you need and not those that LG thinks you might need.

For one, LG has decided to finally put Qualcomm’s latest Snapdragon 835 platform into a handset along with 4GB of low power DDR4. To deal with heat the V30 has a heat pipe and cooling pad.

The handset will boast IP68 water and dust resistance so you could drop the V30 in water up to 1.5m deep and it would just fine.

The dual rear-camera set up houses one 16MP standard angle lens with f/1.6 aperture and a second 13MP wide angle lens with a smaller f/1.9 aperture.

The front camera is a much smaller 5MP wide angle affair.

Whether you’re shooting video or snapping photos the V30’s display supports HDR10 so we suspect that images will really jump off of the screen at you, which is good considering the V30 supports Daydream.

Aside from that you’ll find the usual list of premium-tier smartphone features including Quick Charge 3.0, QHD+ display, 802.11ac Wifi support, and Bluetooth 5.0.

Perhaps the feature I’m most excited about is the built in Hi-Fi Quad DAC designed by B&O. That should please the audiophiles but we’ll reserve judgement until we get a test unit.

The handset will launch in South Korea on 21st September with a South Africa release following thereafter. We’re currently trying to get a local release date and price and we will update this story when we do.

 

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