El LG Q8 has been officially unveiled. The new smartphone is almost a high-end smartphone, but the truth is that it is actually like a 2016 high-end. Although it has a dual camera And Quad HD display. It comes with a price of $600.
LG Q8, official technical characteristics
This year the LG G6 was launched as a high-end smartphone. The LG Q6 has been launched as a mid-range smartphone. And the LG V30 is going to be launched as a flagship. However, now the LG Q8, a smartphone that is almost high-end, but that has a cheaper launch price than that of a flagship, since it is launched for about 600 euros.
The mobile has the Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 processor, this being the high-end processor launched in 2016. It is a 64-bit and quad-core processor. It is of high level, but as we say, it was launched in 2016. In fact, the LG G6 already has an improved version of it, the Qualcomm Snapdragon 821. Even so, the mobile has 4 GB of RAM, so we can consider it almost a high-end smartphone, since the LG G6 and it seems that also the LG V30, have 4 GB of RAM.
Furthermore, the LG Q8 arrives with a 5,2-inch main display with Quad HD resolution of 2.560 x 1.440 pixels. It is not a large format screen, but it is not a compact smartphone either. It is also not a screen without bezels as in the case of the LG G6 or the LG Q6.
However, it has a second OLED display, in which the time and notifications will appear so that it is not necessary to turn on the main screen and thus save battery. The LG V10 and LG V20 also had a second OLED screen, but the LG V30 would already be a more standard smartphone, with a single screen without bezels.
This LG Q8 it also has a dual camera. The main chamber is standard, 16 megapixels, and the secondary camera is a super wide angle for landscape photography. In this case, the smartphone does not have a portrait camera, as is the case with the iPhone 7 Plus, the LG G6, and probably the LG V30. The smartphone also has a 5 megapixel front camera.
LG Q8 Price
Finally, the LG Q8 comes with Android 7.0 Nougat as the operating system version, with 3.000 mAh of battery, and with 32 GB of internal memory. The mobile is launched with a price of about 600 euros, and should be on sale in Europe right now.