LG Velvet vs LG V60 - Unboxing and First Impressions! By Jonathan Casey

Hey, what's up everybody, my name is Jonathan. Welcome back to the channel today we're going to be looking at this a surprise package from lg. Now we both probably already know what it is: it's probably the lg velvet, but real, quick lg. How are you going to send me the velvet in a cardboard box, but I've seen the velvety boxes out there, and they look? Oh, so sweet, and I'm a big fan of velvet? Are we just we not friend enough? So let's go ahead and dive into the box all right, so we have a little book here. It says playbook 2020. , probably like a breakdown of the specs and some information on the lg velvet.

So if you don't know the lg velvet is kind of like a mid-range foam, it's not necessarily budget, but then again it's not really like a premium flagship phone. It's not a v60 replacement, and it's not a g series replacement according to lg. This is like in its own separate category, giving people the benefits of 5g and flagship like performance at a fraction of the cost. So the model they sent me is the ATT model. If you're unaware uh, the lg velvet is on sale at some U.

S. carriers, specifically at t um starting now, it will be coming to T-Mobile and Verizon later on in the summer and with Verizon you're going to get access to their 5g ultra band or wideband, and then also their low band later on this year whenever it goes, live so we'll go ahead and pop out the phone here. Well, let's just oh hell! This is why I don't do live unboxing, I'm terrible at it. So here's the phone right here it's available in multiple colors. We have aurora gray, aurora, silver, aurora, red, pink and white.

I know there's some other colors out there, but those are this colors that are specific to the US all right. So there we go, that is the lg velvet. It feels really nice. So this is the aurora silver model, and I have to say that is really, really silver go ahead and take it out of the wrapper here there. It is really silver.

Almost like chrome. I like the way it feels perfect in the hand set to the side for now and uh. You know we probably have some basic literature: yep some lg velvet literature in the box get off uh standard, USB or USB a2, USB, cable, uh, sim card ejection tool, as well as for your micro SD card slot, because this does support micro, SD cards up to two terabytes huge, and then we have our fast charger, and I think that is it. Unfortunately, the velvet does not have the same quad DAC that the v60 or the v series features as well as the g series. Lg did include some more goodies here.

So let's go ahead and take a look at those um. We have an UV sanitation station uh. Alright, I I I feel that, given the times that we're living in it'd be really cool, this also charged her phone. I wonder if it does, then we have looks like the plug for the UV sanitation station. Oh wow, that case looks awesome, so lg partnered with a design company to create unique and interesting designer style cases other than the dual screen case.

That way, it gives you a bunch of options. If you don't want to use a dual screen, you just want to use the velvets by itself. They have some really great looking cases here, so this one is like a like: a hunter, green or olive green. That looks awesome and the texture. It's fantastic.

Oh, it's a wallet, so you can put some cards back here. Some cash, that's a really nice case design skin. So that's the company that lg partnered with to create these um really nice cases and then, of course, we have the dual screen case: let's go ahead and shut this big box, get it out of here and take a look here all right. It's like a matte texture. Definitely a fan of that because the previous dual screen cases really picked up.

Fingerprints like crazy so having this matte texture is going to help with that. Now, I'm not really much of a fan of that um I mean it's not bad. Looking but I would say I don't know to me, it just looks kind of like a suitcase. That's what it reminds me of is a suitcase. Actually.

You know what let's just put the phone inside this case, real quick. It feels perfect, though now that's one thing I have to say compared to their other previous dual screen cases and other phones. This is it feels a little lighter a little more portable, definitely slimmer. I'm a fan take a look at the velvet, so we have a slide up here for our sim card, as well as our micro SD card slot, microphone, uh, the power button assistant and volume rocker, and then we have our headphone jack, which just a quick reminder that it does not have the quad DAC. Like I previously said, and then we have our USB ports, which does feature fast charging 4 plus, I think that's what it's called.

So basically, it's the newer version of quick charge, but we have our camera system. You can obviously tell that's the main sensor right there, because it's bigger- and I love how flush these other two cameras in the flash. Are it's a really nice looking phone in terms of specs we're looking at the snapdragon at 765 g, the g, meaning that it supports 5g connectivity. We have 6 gigabytes of ram 128 gigabytes of on-board storage, but that can be expanded via the micro SD card slot up to 2 terabytes, which is pretty incredible. We have a 4 300 William hour battery, so that should be plenty of juice to power.

This full HD plus display which, by the way is OLED. Then we also have lg pace support, and it also has an ip68 rating, making it dust and water resistance by the way pricing starts at 5.99. Now, of course, this is going to depend on your carrier and, of course, color options are gonna, come down to your carrier as well. So just keep that in mind. Okay, so the velvet has officially booted up.

Let's go ahead and go through the setup process. Yeah, I have to say the display is really, really nice. Who cares about quad, HD, plus or 4k displays if you have a good 1080p, full HD plus display? That's all you need in a phone come on, like you, don't need all that extra resolution now refresh rate is a different story. I do wish. This was like a 90 hertz display, that'd be pretty cool, but the text is nice and sharp.

The whites look perfect, not getting a ton of color shift, but we'll have to look at that more. Oh, we got a little here, but for the most part yeah, you definitely have some color shift here. It turns to like a yellow warmer color. I figured while this is loading, and you know updating and doing what it needs to do. Let's go ahead and look to the manual, and I'll give you a quick overview of what you can expect from the velvet in terms of features and other specs that I might have missed so in terms of cameras, we're looking at an all right, so we got service on the velvet got a telemarketer's already calling me and I accidentally picked up the phone, because why not so in terms of cameras, we're looking at a 48, megapixel, f 1.8 main sensor on the back, then we have an 8 megapixel wide angle. Then we have a 5 megapixel depth, sensing camera and then on the front we have a 16, megapixel, f, 1.9, um camera with an field of view of 73 degrees. Obviously the phone is done, booting up and updating and going through what it needs to go through.

So we can test out that fingerprint scanner there we go all right and one more time. Yeah, fingerprint scanner is working, really, really good. So yeah I'm going to go ahead and run out, get a few sample images. Get some video clips. Compare the cameras on the velvet versus the v60, and then we'll do a short little comparison on which one, I think is better, because, ultimately, you could probably pick up a v60 with the dual screen case used or refurbished, depending on where you're looking for a similar price as the velvet which that might deter some people away from the velvet.

But at the same time I want you guys to know what you're getting into and what is the better value for you. So I spent the day with these two phones and physically, the lg, v60 and velvets are very different devices. I mean you can look at them and tell this right off the bat. The v60 is larger and heavier than the velvet. It's also boxier, with the flat style screen versus having rounded edges.

Both of these devices feature 6.8 inch, full HD, plus OLED displays, and they both look great. However, the velvet seems to be much easier to read outdoors, especially when using the camera app. The v60 is very dim, even when the screen is at max brightness velvet has fewer color modes, but still offers the most pleasing options. In my opinion, including the natural mode which is enabled by default, velvet also offers an option for going above the max brightness, which is off by default. So I highly recommend that you turn it on.

Obviously, I haven't had enough time with the velvet to talk about performance against the v60, but if you're interested in a few synthetic benchmarks there, you go just remember that benchmarks, don't tell the full story and take these numbers with the grain of salt when it comes to real world performance. The biggest advantage of the v60 snapdragon 865 comes down to camera performance and features which I'll talk about shortly. Both phones have the same amount of ram, which is six gigabytes, and both phones have pretty beefy batteries with the v60 taking the win here, because it sports a 5 000 William hour battery versus the velvet's 4 300 million dollar battery. However, thanks to each of these phones, utilizing 1080p displays they both will give you plenty of juice to get you through a full day and then some the biggest difference between these two phones comes down to camera features and performance. The v60 has the ability to shoot 8k, video at 24ish frames per second and 4k video up to 60 frames per second.

Of course. This is due to the snapdragon 865, so I'm pretty certain that the velvet just doesn't have the hardware capabilities to push 8k and 4k60. The v60 also has a manual video mode which possibly could be ported over to velvet later, but this is just pure speculation. Oh, and both the v60 and velvet have super steady video and both look perfect, but I think that the velvet might be a tiny bit better on the still side of things. The v60 has a larger 64 megapixel sensor, with much bigger microns, giving it better low-light capabilities I'll, be doing more testing and posting more.

Regarding this, since I really wasn't able to get enough samples to give you a proper review of low light performance, thanks to the larger 64 megapixel sensor of the v60 you'll capture, more detail, even when choosing the compressed option which outputs, a 16 megapixel image versus a 12 megapixel found on the velvet. That said, both cameras perform fantastic and velvet surprised the heck out of me by producing better looking images than the v60 on several occasions. Portrait mode with the rear cameras works, fantastic and just off my short time with velvet. I'm really impressed that said. Front-Facing portrait mode on the v60 just doesn't like me, and obviously refuses to acknowledge that my wife might want me in a photo.

Velvet also had this issue, but after readjusting my angle, it finally captured both of us, and it worked like a charm. Another option I noticed on the v60: that's not on velvet is action shot, which is great for freezing action. Also, focus tracking is not available on velvet, which is another feature that I would love to see be brought over from the v60 to the velvet outside the design difference. A few specs and camera features the v60 and the velvet are nearly identical. It's kind of funny, because the velvet is like a stripped down version of the v60 in a lot of ways.

However, often my first impressions, it's almost like the things that they stripped away created a better experience. I don't know I mean it very well- could be a honeymoon phase. I'll save my final thoughts and comments for my upcoming in-depth comparisons, as well as my full review. Let me know what other velvet videos you're interested in, and I'll see if I can slide them into my schedule. Also, what are your thoughts on this new series from lg? I think mine would be a lot more positive if they had sent me the uh velvet box, but whatever I'm going to move on to suede before I go, I just realized that you can actually charge your phone while it's inside the sanitation station just plug in your charging cable in the back and then run it into the little opening here on the front and then boom.

Remember cleanliness is next to godliness, so keep your stuff germ free people. If you enjoyed this video, consider giving it a thumbs up subscribe for more videos. Just like this, and I'm gonna talk to you velveteen bunnies in the next. You.

Source : Jonathan Casey