South Korean technological giant LG has joined the summer party with a few days to spare as it unveiled LG V10 in an event in New York.
It’s the first phone in the company’s new “V” line of phones, which bumps up a few key specs while ditching plastic for more premium materials.
The new V10 isn’t terribly different from LG’s flagship G4 on the inside. It has the same (removable) 3,000 mAh battery, the same Snapdragon 808 processor, and the same 16-megapixel rear camera. (There is an extra gigabyte of RAM, however).
The device has slight change in design from LG G4. The phone’s also built out of higher-grade materials, with LG opting for stainless steel and silicone over plastic.
There’s the main, 5.7-inch QHD display, and just above that is a much smaller “always on” screen that can do a number of things.
When the main screen is off, the second screen can display the weather, time and date, and battery level. When the main screen is on, the second screen can be used to for quick-launching apps, accessing favorite contacts, or serve up notifications.
All in all, it sounds like it works a lot like the Edge screen found on Samsung’s Galaxy S6 and Note Edge devices.
Next to that second screen is not one, but two front-facing cameras. Both are of the 5-megapixel variety, but one has a fairly wide field of view of 120 degrees while the other is a bit more narrow, measuring just 80 degrees. The different fields of view mean that the two cameras can’t be used to create 3D images, but LG does say that the V10 has software that can combine images taken concurrently by the two lenses.
The V10 will be available in five colors — black, white, beige, and two different blues — and will come in one storage variant (64GB).
