Introduction:
It been series of years since LG has been silent but they have been putting things in other for us with the new concept of smartphones in the past few years. We've witnessed them embark on a new strategic path by coming up with new and unusual products to reverse this trend. It began with second screens for their phones.
Meanwhile, the latest product to come out of LG's innovation lab is more than an extra attachment. The LG Wing 5G is slated to start a brand new Explorer series, which will take LG's knack for breathing life into novel smartphone concepts to new heights.
The LG Wing is nothing short of bold, fresh, and experimental in nature. It's the very definition of trying new things and going beyond absolute practicality. The concept of the Wing feels exciting and stimulating to bitter reviewers like ourselves who are used to seeing one and the same phone form factor over and over again.
Good:
- Smooth software Experience
- Crystal dual-screen experiences for apps
- Unique swivel mechanism
- Gimbal camera is useful
Bad:
- Very bulky
- Changing Screen orientation can present problems
- So-so battery life
- No good performance for price
- Let take a quick look at the LG Wing
- Specifications
- Price and availability
- Design and performance
- Battery Durability
LG Wing Full Specifications:
Body: 169.5x74.5x10.9mm, 260g; IP54 splash proof, Water-repellent coating, MIL-STD-810G compliant (does not guarantee ruggedness or use in extreme conditions); Colors: Aurora Gray, Illusion Sky.
Display: 6.80" Rotating P-OLED, 1080x2460px resolution, 20.5:9 aspect ratio, 395ppi; Secondary display: G-OLED, 1080 x 1240 pixels, 3.9 inches.
Chipset: Qualcomm SDM765 Snapdragon 765G (7 nm): Octa-core (1x2.4 GHz Kryo 475 Prime & 1x2.2 GHz Kryo 475 Gold & 6x1.8 GHz Kryo 475 Silver); Adreno 620.
Memory: 128GB 8GB RAM, 256GB 8GB RAM; UFS; microSDXC (uses shared SIM slot).
OS/Software: Android 10.
Rear camera: Wide (main): 64 MP, f/1.8, 25mm, 1/1.72", 0.8µm, PDAF, OIS; Ultra wide angle 1: 13 MP, f/1.9, 117°, 1.0µm; Ultra wide angle 2: 12 MP, f/2.2, 120°, 1.4µm; LED flash, panorama, HDR.
Front camera: Motorized pop-up 32 MP, f/1.9, 26mm, 1/2.8", 0.8µm; HDR.
Video capture: Rear camera: 4K@30/60fps, 1080p@30/60fps, gyro-EIS; Front camera: 1080p@30fps.
Battery: 4000mAh; Fast charging, Wireless charging, Quick Charge 4.0+.
Misc: Fingerprint (under display, optical), accelerometer, gyro, proximity, compass; NFC.
It's a concept almost too unbelievable to exist. The LG Wing is a dual-screen phone, but you wouldn't know it by looking at it straight away. That's because the second panel is hiding behind the primary one, and is only revealed when the the big one on top is swiveled out of the way.
It's jarring in pictures, even more jarring in real life, and while a neat party trick, it's not really the most elegant approach to dual-screens we've ever laid eyes on. The T-shaped result ultimately resembles two candy bar handsets glued together.
This phone can deliver some clever and useful software experiences by virtue of its weird design and gimbal-equipped camera. Unfortunately, our LG Wing review finds that the phone's high price and relatively poor performance, photo quality and battery life keep it from ascending to our list of the best phones.
The LG Wing: Price and availability:
The LG Wing costs $999, and is available at Verizon right now. The device will land at AT&T on Nov. 6 and T-Mobile at a date to be determined. Those on AT&T can get the Wing for up to $700 off with an eligible trade-in, so long as they opt for an unlimited plan.
Just one configuration of the Wing, with 8GB of RAM and a generous 256GB of storage; you can also expand available space by up to another 2TB with the use of a microSD card.
The LG Wing Design:
A 6.7 inches tall, more than four-tenths of an inch thick and tipping the scales at a smidge under 10 ounces, the LG Wing is a seriously massive phone. Even the super-sized Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra is 2 ounces lighter and a tenth of an inch thinner. Those may sound like negligible numbers, but they make a massive difference in hand.
Nothing much to talk about the Wing's design aside from the dual-screen aspect, but it's a handsome enough device, with an elegant matte aluminum frame and mirrored glass back, touched off with a triple-lens rear camera housing that almost looks lifted wholesale from Samsung's latest Notes.
Inevitably, however, you forget about all of that the very first time you flick the Wing's primary 6.8-inch (OLED) display over to the left, revealing a 3.9-inch panel underneath. The top panel slides away with a light touch in one swift, smooth motion that slows down as it terminates and soft closes, in tandem with a simulated click from the software. Closing the display requires the use of two hands, though opening it can be done with the effortless swipe of a thumb.
LG claims that the Wing is built to withstand 200,000 swivels, which the company estimates should last you five years. The whole mechanism feels very sturdy; during the pre-production preview phase, I noticed the slightest degree of vertical flexing when I gently try to lift that top display up and down, but LG seems to have stamped that out in the final product and the result is solid.
If you spin the top screen to the side, you're greeted with a dual-screen home interface. On the 6.8-inch panel, you'll find what LG calls Swivel Home, which displays large app shortcuts in a horizontal fashion. On the other screen, you'll find your more conventional Android home screen interface. Interestingly, Android navigation bar gestures are accessible from both panels, as is the app drawer.
Two major points worth outlining: LG is one of the lone phone makers committed to the 3.5-millimeter headphone jack, though you unfortunately won't find one in the Wing — there simply wasn't enough room, which is understandable when you consider LG had no choice but to stash the front-facing selfie camera inside a motorized pop-out mechanism. Additionally, with so many moving parts, the Wing is not certified water resistant in any capacity; slightly disappointing, albeit hardly surprising.
LG Wing Battery life:
Backing the LG Wing's two screens is a 4,000-mAh battery, which matches the size of the power pack in Verizon's version of the LG's other new phone, the Velvet.
The Wing, on the other hand, has an extra display and the addition of millimeter-wave radios for 5G on Verizon's network, which bite into power. Thus, in the very same battery test using the Wing, we only saw an average of 8 hours and 11 minutes with just one screen lit; with both screens on, that dropped to an average of 7:03.
Thankfully, the Wing does at least charge quickly, hitting 57 percent from empty in 30 minutes with its included charger. It also supports wireless charging, which is very impressive, given everything this device has going on beneath the glass and metal.
Conclusion:
Yet, the Wing really does encourage you to use it in ways you normally might not think to use your phone — a familiar trend among this year's most ambitious handsets, like the exciting-though-flawed Microsoft Surface Duo.
The Wing's problem is that it makes big sacrifices with regard to performance, image quality and longevity on a charge in its dual-screen aspirations. The extra display real estate does lend itself well to multitasking, but in exchange for that, you're paying $1,000 for a device only half as powerful as its adversaries, that captures steady video but dreary stills.
Even though I doubt the Wing will end up a booming critical or commercial success, it's refreshing to see a company of LG's stature in the industry experiment with ideas like this. The Wing is the first product borne out of the company's Explorer initiative, an in-house incubator to create mobile devices that reject the status quo of soulless slabs.
LG has done something unique in the tech industry the LG Wing is a new concept that will pave way for them in the future. If i should complement then I'm giving LG five star for this wonderful piss of machine the difference is clear.
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