LG G8 Series

Processor: Qualcomm Snapdragon SD 855
Graphics Adapter: Qualcomm Adreno 640
Display: 6.10 inch, 6.20 inch, 6.40 inch
Weight: 0.167kg, 0.181kg, 0.192kg
Price: 769, 949 euro
price: 76%, performance: 91%, features: 88%, display: 86%, mobility: 83%, workmanship: 79%, ergonomy: 89%, emissions: 95%

 

LG G8 ThinQ

The G series may have been LG’s answer to the Samsung Galaxy S series for a long time. However, its sales figures over the past few years have been far lower than that of the S series. The G8, however, aims to change that. The ThinQ term was added to the G and V series to indicate its AI capabilities and its performance. This time around, the G8 has some pretty interesting features, such as its “Hand ID”, a feature that can be used to unlock the phone without even touching it. LG claims that the G8 ThinQ reads the blood in the palm’s veins to unlock the phone. Palm gestures can also be used to control music playback, answer calls, mute alarms and even perform some movements in the UI. All this can be done without touching the display. Some might say that these features are more of a gimmick rather than a useful function for the phone. After all, it has been tested before in other phones such as the Samsung Galaxy S4. It did not make much sense then and it probably does not make much sense now, either. 

In terms of the actual phone hiding underneath this feature, all is rather good. For a start, its 8.4mm thickness fits the flagship status when compared to the other flagships. The G8 ThinQ comes with an all-glass design for the front and back of the phone. On the front, there is a 6.1-inch OLED display with a resolution of 1440 x 3120 pixels, giving it a pixel density of 564 ppi. It supports HDR10 and Dolby Vision. This display is currently one of the best displays out there, in the same range as the Galaxy S10 and OnePlus 7. It has a rather large notch to fit the front sensors. The chin, however, is quite small, giving the phone an all-display look (83.5% screen-to-body ratio).

The phone is shipped with LG UX 8.0 built on Android 9.0 (Pie). For its performance, it sports a Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 octa-core processor, like most flagships today. This is coupled with 6 GB of RAM and 128 GB for internal memory, which can be expanded by up to 1 TB by using a micro SD card. This phone, then, is capable of handling all heavy applications and playing some serious graphics-intensive games. In the imaging department, it comes with a triple camera setup, a 12MP standard lens with OIS, a 16MP ultra wide lens, and a 12MP telephoto lens with OIS. It is capable of capturing videos in 4K resolution, and the video quality is amazing, though still beaten by the iPhone Xs. On the front is a dual camera setup for selfies, with one 8MP camera and a Time Of Light 3D camera. 

The loudspeaker offers quite good sound quality, and the hole-less top speaker functions by transferring vibration through the glass. Quite an interesting approach, and it sounds like a normal speaker. Other features include Bluetooth 5.0, NFC and FM radio. The phone comes with a 3500mAh battery that supports 21W quick charge 3.0 via the USB 3.1 Type-C port. The LG G8 ThinQ is shipped in four colors, namely gray, black, blue, and red. With a selling price quite similar to the Samsung Galaxy S10, it is hard to recommend the G8 ThinQ over other flagships. Overall, it is a great phone, but its main problem is that it does not shine in any particular way.

Hands-on article by Jagadisa Rajarathnam

Specifications

Notebook: LG G8 ThinQ
Processor: Qualcomm Snapdragon SD 855
Graphics Adapter: Qualcomm Adreno 640
Display: 6.10 inch, 19.5:9, 3120 x 1440 pixels
Weight: 0.167kg
Links: LG homepage

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Average Score: 74.1% - average

 

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LG G8s ThinQ

LG has made an announcement on the next upcoming line-up of its proud G series with one of the most touted smartphone models to date – the LG G8s ThinQ. It is the companion model to the original LG G8 ThinQ smartphone device but the G8s gears up on improved specifications and features, thus undeniably rendering the G8s the premium version of the series. The LG G8s ThinQ features a unique triple rear camera setup, which has undoubtedly begged a lot of questions from its target audience. What comes immediately into attention is the unique camera setup arrangement on the rear side of the phone. The landscape alignment of the rear camera introduces a whole new take on how the pictures are supposed to be taken. With a unique ensemble of a 12-megapixel primary sensor, a 12-megapixel telephoto lens, and a 13-megapixel ultra-wide angle lens, users need not to fret about the quality of the pictures production other than staging for a perfect snapshot. Aside from a distinctive take on rear camera module, the LG G8s ThinQ also comes equipped with a 8-megapixel front-facing camera designed to take selfies. The front side of the LG G8s ThinQ is a rather controversial topic of discussion in the tech-savvy community. The G8s presents itself with a 6.2 inches OLED front display that supports Full HD+ resolution of 1.080 x 2.248 pixels. This specification is considered rather impressive for a device of its size. The display notch not only houses the aforementioned 8-megapixel front-facing camera, but also a 3D ToF (Time of Flight) sensor in tandem with the Hand ID security feature. The enabling of hand gestures to be detected has paved way for Air Motion technology. With the implementation of the Air Motion feature in the LG G8s ThinQ, users can now simply wave a hand or pinch the air in front of the front camera setup in order to make phone calls. This is a quality-of-life convenience that would most certainly appeal to certain demographic. However, the notched frontal design leaves very little to be desired among the global audience all around the world. Not only the representation of the LG G8s ThinQ depicted itself as generally mundane-looking, its relatively boring and dull aesthetic design is not doing any of its outstanding features any justice. The LG G8s ThinQ would only appear to look rather insignificant when displayed on a shelf space filled with other competing smartphones. The G8s ThinQ’s overall appearance is not captivating at all, and it is not exactly an attraction point worth mentioning. The LG G8s ThinQ is brimming with unending possibilities if a few more steps for extra mile were taken, but alas, it is nonetheless another wasted potential drifting about in the competitive scene of the smartphone industry. Hands-on article by Jagadisa Rajarathnam

Specifications

Notebook: LG G8s ThinQ
Processor: Qualcomm Snapdragon SD 855
Graphics Adapter: Qualcomm Adreno 640
Display: 6.20 inch, 18.7:9, 2248 x 1080 pixels
Weight: 0.181kg
Price: 769 euro
Links: LG homepage

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Average Score: 78.44% - good

 

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LG G8X ThinQ

Specifications

Notebook: LG G8X ThinQ
Processor: Qualcomm Snapdragon SD 855
Graphics Adapter: Qualcomm Adreno 640
Display: 6.40 inch, 19.5:9, 2340 x 1080 pixels
Weight: 0.192kg
Price: 949 euro
Links: LG homepage

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Average Score: 79.5% - good

 

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LG:

LG Electronics Inc. is a subsidiary of LG Group. It is a South Korean company and was founded as Goldstar Co, Ltd, in 1958. The group offers products in the fields of information technology, consumer electronics and mobile communications, and home appliances. LG Electronics is the world's third largest home appliance manufacturer. As a notebook manufacturer, LG only became known to a wider audience in the German-speaking market in 2005. After a few years, LG largely withdrew from the laptop sector. The product range includes OLED, LED/LCD and plasma TVs, home theater systems, Blu-ray players as well as audio and video players. 

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Non demanding games should be playable with these graphics cards.

Qualcomm Adreno 640: Graphics chip for smartphones and tablets that is intergrated within the Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 SoC. Qualcomm claims that it is 20% faster than the Adreno 630 in the Snapdragon 845 SoC and offers 50% more compute units (ALUs).

» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.

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Qualcomm Snapdragon:

SD 855: High-end SoC for smartphones that was introduced in late 2018 and manufactured in 7 nm at TSMC. Integrates one “Prime Core” based on a modified ARM Cortex-A76 architecture clocked at up to 2.84 GHz. Three more performance cores are also based on the A76 but clock up to 2.42 GHz. Furthermore, four energy saving cores are integrated that are based on the ARM Cortex-A55 architecture and clock at up to 1.8 GHz. In addition to the processor cores, the SoC integrates a X24 LTE modem (up to 2 Gigbit download), a new Wi-Fi modem (Wi-Fi 6 ready, 60 GHz mmWave), Hexagon 690 DSP with new Tensor cores for AI processing, a Spectra 380 ISP with an integrated computer vision engine and an integrated LPDDR4x memory controller.

» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.

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» To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.

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78.46%: This rating is not earth-shattering. This rating must actually be seen as average, since there are about as many devices with worse ratings as better ones. A purchase recommendation can only be seen with a lot of goodwill, unless it is about websites that generally rate strictly.

» Further information can be found in our Notebook Purchase Guide.

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