LG did not do itself any favors by ready till October to launch its V30 smartphone within the US, after first asserting it again in August. However it’s telling that, within the intervening weeks, I have not been in a position to go a day with out somebody on my Twitter feed asking me for an ETA on my LG V30 Evaluation. It is a smartphone that is received individuals stoked.

A part of that’s the pure demand for an underdog different to Samsung’s Galaxy Observe eight, or curiosity about how a lot of the V30’s DNA made it into the LG-made Google Pixel 2 XL. However evaluating the V30 to both of these rivals misses the purpose. The V30 is not simply LG’s higher-end mannequin for the autumn; it is one of many solely three smartphones in current reminiscence designed particularly for taking pictures near-professional-quality cellular video. (The opposite two have been its speedy predecessors, the LG V10 and V20.)

The V30 packs updates to the styling and specs of its forerunners, whereas tossing in additional cinematography options like in-camera coloration grading and help for the Cine-Log format. It additionally brings its personal model of the super-wide-angle dual-camera system that stored the LG G6 in my pocket for a lot of this yr, and features a 32-bit Hello-Fi DAC and three.5mm headphone jack for the audiophiles within the viewers. However with a worth level beginning at $800 and a selfie digicam that falls far behind the standard of the first shooter, will the LG V30 be capable of reside as much as the hype created by its lengthy highway to launch? Try MrMobile’s LG V30 evaluation to search out out, after which hit up Alex Dobie’s LG V30 evaluation for the total take, as solely Android Central can inform it.