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hey guys this is Austin if you're really

into smart phones you've probably heard

of the LGV series of phones however this

year they're doing something a little

different this is a pre-production model

of the LGV 30 pre-production is a key

word here as LG sent out an early

version of the V 30 to take a look at so

some things will definitely change most

notably a lot of the software stuff but

it should give us a good look at what

the phone will be like once it actually

hits shells put the V 30 side by side

with the g6 as well as the s8 it's

actually a pretty big jump in design so

Notley doesn't have smaller bezels than

the g6 but it also a little bit more

curved both on the edges as well as on

the sides of the display very much

similar to what samsung is doing with

the s8 the V 30 is rocking a 6-inch 28

80 by 1440p OLED display the Samsung is

kind of been on top of the smartphone

screen game for a couple years but the V

30 is right there which makes sense

LG's been making OLED TVs for a few

years so it's only natural for that tech

to trickle down to the V 30 well the

speaker isn't exactly amazing it's just

a single one on the bottom of the device

the screen really does look nice so the

only issue here is that because this is

a smart phone at 2017 with essentially

no bezels it's actually a slightly

awkward looking 18 by 9 aspect ratio for

most content this is no problem but when

it comes to video that means you

actually have some small black bars on

either side of the video the design

looks really nice and also very similar

to the Galaxy Note 8 that is certainly

not a bad thing so this guy is rocking

an all glass and metal bill with Gorilla

Glass 5 on front and back what it

doesn't have is a stupidly placed

fingerprint sensors right here in the

middle and it doubles the power button

good job LG it also has IP 68 water

resistance which means that should be

able to survive in a meter and a half of

water for up to 30 minutes just like the

Galaxy S II the iPhone 7 it's a fairly

standard spec on smartphones these days

but something that you really should

expect when you're paying this much for

a phone not only does it have a USB C

port as well as the speaker on the

bottom but importantly it also has a

headphone jack on top spec wise it's

exactly what you would expect out of a

20-17 flagship so it's rocking a

snapdragon 835 processor 4 gigabytes of

RAM either 64 or 128 gigs of storage and

that is backed up with a micro SD card

slot the only thing that's a little bit

of an unknown right now is the battery

life so to be fair it has

pretty decently sized 3300 milliamp hour

battery right in there with stuff like

the Galaxy Note 8 as well as the s8 plus

however because this is pre-production

it's hard to say too much about that

just yet never someone who has a lot

more perspective on the v30 is Wes our

resident cinematographer and colorist

which sounds super cool so you've been

playing with the V 30 but you actually

have experience with the earlier V

Series phones yeah I've actually been on

on that gravy train since the v10 what

initially kind of drew me to the V

series is it Stefan a little more

utilitarian yeah and and for me as

someone that like when I'm out on the

field like honest said I like the idea I

just carry a second battery that's no up

didn't I go have you listened to the

headphone jack yet dude legitimately

really impressive so because come down

you had to turn on the DAC we were

testing it straight we did not do that

yeah so there's actually a hi-fi quad

DAC option that enables what if you

disable what happens it just becomes a

little quieter a little flatter I don't

know that that's why I can't go away

from having a headphone jack for me I

just really love music and having that

sort of quality just like in my pocket

like even if I'm in an airport or

something just putting in my earbuds and

pumping something like that it's it's

just cool as far as the cameras go LG

was one of the first to embrace dual

cameras and the V 30 is no exception so

in addition to a 16 megapixel standard

shooter it also has a 13 megapixel

wide-angle camera so for example this is

what a standard shot looks like and then

we switch over to the wide-angle camera

you can see there is a massive

difference and specifically with the

wide-angle on earlier phones like the g5

and the V 20 it was not quite as

high-quality as the main and you could

actually see a pretty big difference in

quality but here this actually looks

pretty good and honestly while a lot of

dual camera setups are going to be more

focused on having like a second

telephoto lens having something that's

this wide actually is kind of nice does

give you a very different perspective so

this is what the standard video looks

like on the main camera but if I jump

out to the wide angle you can see that

we're getting a lot more in this shot in

fact I can get uncomfortably close to

Ken here and it still actually doesn't

look crazy but we get back into the

normal shot it looks really goofy

something else interesting about the V

30 camera is that the main shooter has a

pretty large 1.6 aperture and for

comparison a lot of other smart phones

have 1.7 or 1.8 or even 1.9

what this means is is that it actually

is going to be able to collect more

light which is especially useful in low

light situations so one of the things

with the v20 that is a pretty major

upgrade are the cameras you know I

played on let them a little bit but

coming from the b20 what do you think um

just from my initial impressions they're

they're both better in a bunch of

different ways so with this one unlike

the iPhone which has like a telephoto

right and the standard this one has

basically standard view and a white

angle which I found to be incredibly

useful just because you find yourself in

so many neat situations where you're

like I'm in the middle of some cool

woods I just want to take a picture of

this so the raw capture is 10-bit which

actually the b20 was 10 bit as well um

but let's go a lot better than most

smartphones though if they even have Ron

first place just from just from my

initial tests I think the V 30 rivals of

the SI when you're shooting raw here it

it's gonna take a little more monkeying

with but the range that you get versus

what I'm seeing you get on the s8 I

would say if you are confident going to

Photoshop going to Lightroom going into

DaVinci Resolve yeah if you're if you're

that dedicated then I I think the V 30

outshines a little bit one of the big

features of the V 30 is the improved

video performance it actually adds a lot

of really cool sort of more high-end

features to it

yeah which kind of the most interesting

one to me is it just shoots log okay so

is log for you guys who are not giant

camera nerds essentially a more flat

picture profile that is sort of meant to

be able to kind of allow you in

post-production to kind of get the most

out of the image this is really just

refining and making the cameras as good

as possible now that they kind of have

the the form factor and the idea down

they know who they wanted before and

they know kind of the idea that they

people like the wide-angle and then they

like the more of the standard with so

this is really just an improvement on

everything well this is pre-production

so some things could change between now

and release it is pretty clear to me

that the V 30 is absolutely up there

with other big flag ships so what do you

guys think about the LGB 30 let me know

in the comments below and I will catch

you in the next one