So the panel on the left got a lot, a lot of love while the display on the right is supposedly bad. Check out Ars Technica flat out calling LG V30's OLED screen "bad" in the title.
They make excuses for Google by defending the Pixel 2 XL with that exact same logic ("The display isn't as great as the Note 8 but it's still pretty good and not a dealbreaker."). Reviewers out there acting like the average joe would watch a video or go on Instagram with the V30 and declare "well this phone is unusable for me because the screen is bad" when that's simply not the case. If we were to grade these displays like a professor, the iPhone X/Galaxy Note 8's display is like a 97 out of 100, while the LG V30 is like a 91. I mean, this is so beyond nitpicking here. These are problems only if you are actively looking for them. The blue tint is not that big a deal (my Galaxy Note 8 has a blue tint if I look at the phone off-axis too), and the supposedly muddied-grays are only noticeable in a dark room with brightness set to 0% and viewing an all-white screen. While I agree LG's OLED display isn't as great as Samsung's OLED screen (which is used on the iPhone X), the problem has been overblown. Some reviews have pointed out that the V30 has a sub-par OLED panel (brought to attention because Google's Pixel 2 XL uses the same screen). Instagram Stories gets chopped and shrunken down on the iPhone X. They're both great looking phones, but if you read mainstream reviews, you'd only hear one phone get all the praise while the other gets thrown under the bus. I mean look at the two devices side by side, can you honestly say Apple's phone is significantly more impressive looking? No. The V30 doesn't have a camera bump it's lighter and thinner than the iPhone X and if you factor in the X's notch, the V30 actually has a higher screen-to-body ratio. Here's the thing, I think one can make a great case that the LG V30 looks better and is just as futuristic-looking. Most tech outlets raved about the iPhone X's looks, calling it stunning and gorgeous.
More on Forbes: Camera Shootout: iPhone X Vs. It’s definitely not big enough to justify the jarringly different tone from mainstream tech outlets (gushing for Apple phones, snark and cynicism for LG phones) and not worth the extra $250 that Apple charges if all things are considered. The iPhone X may be a more polished device overall, with a better display and slightly better camera, but the gap between them is not big at all. I have both the LG V30 and the iPhone X on me right now and I've used both for weeks. Example: Business Insider blamed the V30 for bloatware when that's the fault of the American carrier and Wired poked fun at the V30's supposedly non-nonsensical naming, as if Apple jumping from 8 to X, Samsung going from Note 5 to Note 7, or OnePlus adding a "T" after the 5 in their latest phone make more sense?). (Many of these reviews are unfairly snarky, scrutinizing LG for things they'd give Apple/Samsung leeway for. It's gotten mostly so-so reviews despite being a very good phone. This doesn't mean the iPhone X is not a great phone - it's just really not deserving of getting 100x more coverage and buzz from media than other phones when it has:Ĭonversely, the LG V30 is underrated. Huawei's P9 offered that almost six months before Apple did with the iPhone 7 Plus, but almost all mention of "portrait" bokeh photography is lumped with a reference to the iPhone. This is a trend that LG did before everybody with the LG G6, but you'd be hard pressed to know that if you don't follow smartphone news closely, because mainstream outlets will mostly just refer to 18:9 phones "like the Galaxy S8/Note 8." The same goes for using dual-cameras to produce bokeh shots. For example, right now the trend of smartphones is a near bezel-less, all-screen front with no buttons and an 18:9 display aspect ratio. And whether it's due to Apple/Samsung's marketing prowess or influence, I notice that mainstream media tend to default to those two devices as go-to references. But mostly, tech media review devices in a vacuum: they get an iPhone, they test the iPhone, they like the iPhone, they tell readers to buy the iPhone, that's it.
Considering how crowded the smartphone market is and how many great handsets are out, one would think evaluating what's overrated/underrated would be useful - or at least make for good debate.
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