Legendry Lg V20 , I still have two so selling one . Among other things it has Sabre Quad Dac so perfect as a dedicated music player or to be used as A DAP , Removable Battery , 2k video output, headphone jack , Sd card slot upto 256Gb , Dual Sim, dual screen , Ir sensor so can be used as a universal Remote as well , metal build and so On.
Basically the Last proper Android phone phone with every feature possible until they started removing features rather than adding.
Caveat being, the screen of V20 ( all of em ) had burn in issues more or less and in this one sometimes it gets a bit yellowish ( not able to exactly pinpoint when it happens when it doesn’t ) sometimes especially on prolonged use ( as shown in last pic ) and ofc battery life could be meh but for everything else especially music it’s probably my fav phone ever.
Well for starters no current Android have IR sensors , all good brands have removed sd card support , jack , Removable battery and so on and so forth you get the gist .
Did they remove SD card support? I was not aware. Anyway, sometime ago they came up with one BS concept of hybrid SIM and finally got rid of it. I think this will also come back after seeing the consumer’s reaction.
In the era where companies started removing headphone jack to sell their wireless stuff, LG kept adding amazing DACs while keeping the headphone jack.
I truly loved my LG G6. I was very very heartbroken and sad when LG pulled out of the smartphone business. I lost the love for new smartphones, everything looks the same to me now (Except Flip/Fold but those are out of reach for most customers). Wish there was an LG G5/G6/G8/V20 or Wing with updated processor, camera and screen. I guess the demand was low but these were great phones for their time.
Love that this thread has turned into Lg Phones LoveFest . Eveng Lg g8x with dual screen was fun alongwith wing before they closed down . I loved the initial stuff that Lg made and even htc with sliding keyboards , qwerty androids and stuff, I still keep my xperia plays as my treasure but unfortunately decided to let go of V20
Used to daily drive this back in the day. Great build, practical and great screen, nice customer oriented features (like the HP jack, SD card slot, metal build, removable battery) excellent audio quality and was able to drive higher impedance HPs without too much of a hassle. The next upgrade from this in audio quality is in the higher end DAPs. Even if someone gets it just as a media player (which should be its primary use case now- I don’t think it can be a daily driver today), it is VFM.
I would call it temporary ghosting and not a permanent burn in. I’m guessing this must be because of the poor thermal management LG had implemented on their range of phones at that time. It goes away on its own once the screen is off and it has tome to cool down a bit. However, there is also a pretty comprehensive solution that had been posted on gsmarena which I had followed and met with good results:
Haven’t these phones gotten slow over the years with all the updates? Are they still actually usable? Or is it because you have a custom OS that you can still use them?
Updates from LG were as rare as a reduction in income tax rates. IIRC, LG had updated only till Android 8.0 or something for the V20. Even though the update was alright, these would not be daily drivable now. Even back then, I remembered my Redmi Note 3 feeling snappier on Lineage OS than this flagship on a SD820. Best to just strip out all the google stuff and use them as media players.
Aah.. If only they could be rooted..
Verizon had sealed them so good that they couldn’t be rooted.. But as with lg phones, they have great hardware hence I never disposed them.. Been years since I put a Sim in either of those..
Got a sprint slider Samsung galaxy as well
