LG G8X ThinQ Dual Screen: Best Folding Phone Alternative? By Slashdot

The LGG 8x10 queue is a very average flagship phone with a very long name. But when you add this dual screen accessory that LG is bundling with the device. It becomes a phone to seriously consider, especially at a price of only $700, which is anywhere from one to three hundred dollars less than the flagships from Samsung and Apple. The g8x is an updated version of the LG G 8 that was released earlier this year featuring a bigger. Although lower resolution, Andy P display a larger battery, improved cameras and more storage in a nearly identical built, you get a glass and metal build with camera sensors that don't protrude from the rear of the phone, which is nice and very rare to see nowadays, but, unlike the g8, the g8 exit integrates the fingerprint scanner underneath the display, and there is also now a smaller teardrop notch. It also supports this dual screen accessory.

It's a wallet style flip case that adds a secondary OLED display, that's identical to the display found in the g8 X. It's literally the same. Furthermore, it even includes the teardrop notch cutout, even though there's no camera sensor in this case the case features a USB-C port that plugs into the bottom of the g8 X, which makes the USB-C port inaccessible when using the case. So what LG has done? Is it included this Pogo pin adapter to magnetically charge your phone? It could be annoying to have to always carry this adapter around with you, but the magnetic attachment it makes charging super-easy the table just like naturally attaches to the bottom of the phone and starts charging, and if you don't want to use a cable at all, you don't have to there's wireless charging available that works via the case. If that's what you prefer now, the case definitely does add some girth, but it's really not too excessively thick to fit in your pocket or throw in a bag.

You really should feel right at home if you frequently use a wallet style case with the dual screen attachment closed you'll, see a small low res monochrome, OLED display that displays some notification. Icons like the time and battery percentage. When you open up the case, the display will power on, and you can unlock the phone with your fingerprint, which works fairly well. But it's not the best unlock method. I wish.

There was some kind of face unlock method available here, but there isn't there's not even that insecure face, unlock method found in older versions of Android. It's kind of weird that there's just no face unlock at all in this phone. But what you can do here is multitasked like a boss, you can open up an app on one display and then open another app on the other, and then, if you do a three finger swipe, you can move that app to the other display really easily and quickly, there's a little toolbar on the side of the screen. That gives some options like swapping screens putting the main screen to sleep and turning off the dual screen attachment altogether. You can expand chrome across both screens to create one big expanded display, but there is a big gap between the two displays that kind of ruins the experience, so chances are you'll, probably just be using the other screen for multitasking multitasking is great, though you can watch a YouTube video, while browsing Twitter or you can watch Netflix or Disney Plus, while browsing the web.

The possibilities are endless. What's also neat is the 360-degree hinge which folds back to let you use the main display, or you can open it up halfway to prop it up on a table to watch content, or you could even use it to stand up the phone while you take photos, so let's say you want to take a group photo, but you don't have a tripod. You can use this case as a makeshift tripod to hold up your phone. Well. Last but not least, we also have LG's game pad app.

That turns one of the displays into a virtual controller that takes up the entirety of one screen. It only works with selected apps, but it's still a really neat use of this accessory and I. Think if you're a mobile gamer, this could actually be really handy now. I know what you're thinking battery life has got to be poor right. Well, it's actually not too bad battery life.

In my limited usage hasn't taken too much of a beating, I haven't really spent. You know enough time to seriously test the battery life, but upon first impressions, it's better than expected, I think the lower resolution and the larger 4000 William hour battery helped it last longer than the LGG 8. So if you think you would use a phone with a dual screen wallet case like this, maybe you're using a wallet case on your current phone, then I think you'll actually really enjoy this phone. It's device. That is not cheap, but it's also not too overpriced the g8x.

It bridges the gap between a traditional single screen smartphone and the next-gen foldable that were just now starting to see come to the market. If you're interested in something like the galaxy fold, the Huawei Mate X or the new motor razor, but don't want to shell out thousands of dollars for one, the $700 g8x with the dual screen accessory, might be a pretty good option to kind of hold you over until the foldable of the future come down in price. With that said, I'm BO HD from phone comm I'm really curious to hear your thoughts on this phone, and it's included accessory I'll, see you guys right back here in the next one, see ya.

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