LG is teasing a dual screen phone ahead of its
appearance at IFA – a followup of the LG V50 ThinQ and its second screen
accessory. The LG G8 ThinQ might get a successor of its own and it will look
like this. The LG G8X moves from a dual to a single selfie camera, which means a
narrower teardrop notch. There’s a regular earpiece near the lone selfie
camera, so the G8X will not use the Crystal Sound OLED speaker tech.
The screen grows a tenth of an inch to 6.2”, so it
will offer even more screen real estate. The phone grew along with it,
measuring 159.3 x 75.8 x 8.5mm. That wider notch housed a 3D sensor for Face ID so the X phone will
have to rely only on a fingerprint reader. However, there’s no reader on the
back, which means the LG G8X will be the company’s first to feature an
in-display fingerprint reader (the G8 already switched to an OLED screen, all
previous models used LCD).
The bottom of the phone houses a 3.5mm headphone
jack, a USB-C port and a loudspeaker grille. We expect a few snide remarks
about keeping the jack while a certain competitor didn't. The rear camera setup isn’t clear
yet, but LG’s classic recipe is wide + ultra wide. Also, it remains to be seen
if the G8X will have a triple camera version like the G8 did.
LG’s IFA event is on September 6 so expect to see
the G8X and V60 in a little under a month.
