Back in May LG unveiled a trio of Q7 smartphones as
a more affordable alternative of the G7 ThinQ. Today the company announced with
a press release the unveiling of LG Q8 (2018) as the cheaper solution of the
V35 ThinQ. The new Q8 (not to be confused with last year’s Q8) has a huge 6.2”
FullVision display and comes bundled with a built-in stylus.
The chipset of the Q8 (2018) is the 14 nm Snapdragon
450 that arrives with octa-core CPU at 1.8 GHz. Memory is 4/64 GB, but there is
microSD for up to 2 TB storage (realistically it can't go higher than 512 GB).
LG keeps including a tremendous wide-angle lens in
its flagship devices, but sadly, this phone has a single regular sensor on the
back - 16 MP with PDAF, coupled with an LED flash. At least the 5 MP selfie
camera comes with a Super Wide Angle of 100 degrees so you can include all your
friends in the selfies.
Connectivity includes USB-C, Bluetooth, and all the
modern Wi-Fi 802.11 standards. There is 3.5 mm audio jack on board if you want
to listen to FM Radio, while LG has equipped the Q8 (2018) with DTS:X 3D
Surround Sound and Hi-Fi Quad DAC for all the audiophiles out there. The phone
is also IP68 and MIL-STD 810G compliant.
The LG Q8 (2018) is 160.1 x 77.7 x 8.4 mm in size
and has a QC 3.0-compatible battery with 3,300 mAh capacity. LG Director of the
mobile division Ahn Byung-deok said the phone “will become a new choice for
domestic mid-sized smartphones”. We have to wait and see how the phone, offered
in Aurora Black and Moroccan Blue, will perform on the market with its price
tag of KRW 539,000 which is around US$ 480 or € 415.
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