This year marks a generational improvement to phone camera tech. Larger sensors, more pixel dense arrays, a focus on higher quality video.
The V60 takes advantage of this new trend, and it’s right on the pulse. Images are more photographic. Video is more cinematic. Low light performance is incredible.
Yet for all the improvements we see on this main camera, this is still a “cost cutting” year for LG. Some of the peripheral camera tech hasn’t kept up as well…
It’s always nice to take a look back at where we’ve come. The original iPhone SE was one of the most important phone launches in Apple’s history. The new iPhone SE follows in a similar philosophy. How’d we get here, and what might it mean for future competition?
I’ve been tracking phone performance for a couple years now. Sharing my early testing and impressions, let’s compare some numbers! Welcome to the first episode of By the Benchmarks!
How do these phones compare against last year’s OnePlus? Benchmarks don’t tell the whole story, but they’re a good place to start!
iPhone SE benchmarked! Apple makes the boldest claims about performance! Now there’s a premium chipset in an inexpensive iPhone. We’ve seen NUMEROUS tech articles:
“APPLE SELLS A PHONE FOR $400 WITH A MORE POWERFUL PROCESSOR THAN THE MOST EXPENSIVE ANDROIDS!”
Do those articles hold water? Let’s RENDER SOME VIDEO!
What makes for a better portrait photo? Google’s incredible camera software? LG’s brute force hardware? Which camera cuts around hair better? Which company delivers the more eye-pleasing background blur? Let’s FIGHT!
GET IT DONE! The V60 is THE productivity phone of 2020! Don’t use it like a NOOB! Get your bang for buck like a PRO! The REAL DEAL! Pro tips for the LG Dual Screen!
It’s worth checking in periodically. As my channel evolves and shifts over time, it seems some folks might miss what the goal is here.
To begin, I believe disclosing explicit bias is critical to fair reviewing. No human reviewer is a truly objective machine. There is no such thing as objectivity. Full stop.
I believe a review needs context. If we’re not sure where a reviewer is coming from, then we lack a critical perspective to understand why a reviewer might grade certain aspects of a phone the way they do.
I laid my cards on the table a couple years back, and I’m happy that basically everything I talked about in my “BIAS” video still pretty much holds true today.
Now you know where I’m coming from, and what I value.
Since then however, this conversation has grown more concerning. The issues I talk about at the tail end of that video seem to be getting worse, not better. Over 2019, a major focus for my channel has been to point out media literacy issues which I believe contribute to some disturbing trends in consumer electronics.
Today we find ourselves in a serious and unique situation. Gadgets and electronics are being stressed like never before. How someone spends their gadget money has never been more important.
I naturally have a bit of a contrarian streak, and I enjoy stirring the pot for fun debates. The goal of my channel has never been, and will never be, to trash popular devices simply because they are popular. I’m not praising “less popular” phones just to throw a thumb in the eye of the “cool kids”.
LG’s next big thing is REALLY big. I’ve used terms like “monster” before, but the V60 is a beast.
With a handful of small compromises, this phone is shaping up to be the top option for productivity and multi-asking, while offering amazing features for content creation and gaming.
