Overall and Final Verdict

When I first got the LG V10 I was having a hard time figuring out why LG needed a different model than the G4/5. The V10 wasn’t really substantially larger like the Note phones are compares to the S’s. So what sets the V10 apart from LGs most popular phones? Actually the v10 is a little more focused on being a premium phone. This left them room to add in a few features that bean counters might not want to include in their bread and butter phones. This is how they were able to slip in a second smaller screen up along the top edge of the phone. I was a little hesitant to say that the second screen was worth it, but I love that most of my notifications went up to that screen when using the phone keeping the full screen for my games and browsing. The second screen also gave us quick access to things like your flashlight without ever having to unlock the phone. Then of course you can add a signature to show who’s phone it is. Really the only downside to the second screen was a noticeable light bleed around it when in the dark.  

The “premium” focus really helped with the cameras. The rear facing camera was one of it not the best that I have tested and on top of that on the software side of things they give you full manual control as well. For the front facing camera you actually get two matching cameras with two different lenses, giving you an optional wide angle lens that I really liked. The 32 bit DAC that they slipped in wasn’t perfect, I did feel like they cranked up the bass to much in their “optimizations” but it is great to see LG give the V10 higher quality audio for audiophiles on the go. It was the new finger print sensor on the power button that I put to use the most though. This made the center mounted power and volume controls much more usable for me and helped me secure my information without having to fight with passcodes.

All of that sounds great but when I got into our benchmark suite I was very surprised to find that in basically all of the individual benchmarks the V10 didn’t perform as well as expected. The Snapdragon 808 with its low clock speed hexacore configuration struggled in single and multi-core tests and even in game benchmarks were on par with phones we tested a few years back. A few of the overall benchmarks like PCMark did show a different story and that story did better reflect my real world testing as I never noticed any slowdowns. But it is still a big concern when a more premium phone like the V10 is struggling to keep up with phones from a few years ago.

So where does that leave us? Well the LG V10 is still a great phone. I would still recommend it but I can’t give it the top honors that I wanted to give it prior to our benchmark suite. The real world experience with it was top notch though and I think most people will be happy with it. Someone who is looking for the best possible performance might want to look at other options though.

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garfi3ld replied the topic: #37905 28 Apr 2016 19:18
Today I check out the V10 from LG

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