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As recent as 2017, LG’s OLEDs suffered issues with blue tinting when viewed from an angle – but the LG V40 ThinQ’s panel is pretty good. Off-axis viewing is still marginally inferior to top Samsung panels, but whites look clean, sharpness is impeccable, and you’re presented with a choice of colour modes. If anything, there’s too much choice. High-end devices tend to offer somewhere between two and five presets, each with a different colour profile. The LG V40 ThinQ has seven, including a customisable “Expert” mode.
Colour calibration isn’t quite up to that of the Galaxy Note 9 or iPhone XS Max, with one too many modes looking oversaturated. However, this screen is vibrant and punchy, plus contrast is perfect. The LG V40 ThinQ supports HDR, and there’s a mode that enhances standard content too. Netflix HDR support is already locked down as well, and there’s a handy always-on display mode that lets you use the LG V40 ThinQ as a desk clock.
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As in the G7 ThinQ, LG has some fun with the notch. Rather than simply offering the standard notched view or one where the indent is hidden in a black bar, Second Screen lets you fill it with gradients. Whether the four extra options will look any good depends on the colours of your homescreen background, but it’s an inoffensive extra that, like the Quad DAC, makes the V40 ThinQ stand out. LG V40 ThinQ – Software The LG V40 ThinQ currently runs Android 8.1.0 and the custom LG interface. A 9.0 update may be coming, so you’ll have to wait for the “app timer” features this next version brings. These let you limit time spent in particular apps – handy if your relationship with Instagram, Twitter, Facebook or YouTube is a bit too close.
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I’m also not a huge fan of the LG interface. The days of outright bad custom Android UIs from the major manufacturers are long gone, but LG’s route of progress has diverted from Android’s own. You have to reinstate the apps menu, for example, and the app drawer is paginated rather than a vertical scroll. Overall, the visual style is a little less coherent than that of the Pixel, Samsung or Huawei devices. There’s plenty of room for disagreement here, though. For example, I’m a fan of Huawei’s interface at this point; but many aren’t. The level of customisation on offer is decent.
There are numerous parts you can tweak including the icon style, which can be used to bring back some visual consistency, how many app icons fit on-screen and the screen transition animation. Themes allow you to give the phone a quick facelift, and there’s a sfeed-style additional homescreen called Smart Bulletin. However, it’s populated by LG services. For most of us it’s just useful as a way to check up on upcoming calendar appointments; its visual design isn’t hugely appealing.
The LG V40 ThinQ’s performance is great, as you’d hope for a phone at the price. A Snapdragon 845 and 6GB of RAM power the device. Qualcomm is expected to announce the follow-up CPU in December, but the 845 is the most powerful phone chipset from the company at the time of release. It’s an octa-core CPU with four Kryo 385 “gold” cores and four “silver” ones.
This is the traditional arrangement of four power cores, and four everyday ones tuned for better battery efficiency. The phone scores 8939 in Geekbench 4, and performance in high-end games is more-or-less identical to Snapdragon rivals such as the Pixel 3 XL and Sony Xperia XZ3. It actually outdoes the Huawei Mate 20 Pro for gaming, since the Adreno 630 GPU is more powerful than the Mali-G76 MP10 included in Huawei phones. Apple’s iPhone XS Max is still the king of mobile gaming, but the LG V40 ThinQ is right up there with the top Android models.
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