With the foldable mobile market moving full steam ahead in 2020, the LG G8X ThinQ smartphone takes a different spin on the popular trend by offering a detachable second screen. That’s right, the device can be used as a single-screen smartphone or in dual-screen mode.
Imagine the possibilities:
– Gaming just became cooler.
– Multitasking just became easier.
– Watch a Youtube video on one screen while you text on the second screen.
– Shop and work at the same time.
You can do all this and more with the LG G8X ThinQ. Now that’s versatility!
For those shopping around for a new mobile device, we’ve got good news. Here is your chance to win one of these awesome LG G8X ThinQ smartphones.
LG G8X THINQ Specs
Multitasking
Find fun ways to do more at once. Text a friend while watching a video. Share and compare while shopping. Update your fantasy football team while researching stats. It’s the fast and seamless way to do everything you love without toggling back and forth between apps. The multitasking possibilities are endless with two screens.
Flexible Point of View
A master in engineering. With a freestop hinge, flip the screen around or lock it in place at any angle. Fold it like a laptop, use it in stand mode or do a full 360 flip and place it in tent mode for a versatile viewing experience.
Retailing at around R16 000, the LG G8X ThinQ is available everywhere smartphones are sold. Find out more about the dual-screen smartphone on the LG website.
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As a standalone smartphone, the LG G8X ThinQ is quite conventional. It features a 6.4″ OLED touchscreen, with HDR10 support and Corning Gorilla Glass 6 screen protection
Another drawback of the G8X’s screen is that it isn’t bright enough, especially under direct sunlight.
With a frame of 159.3×75.8×8.4mm, the G8X has an 83.3% screen-to-body ratio. Compared to many of its previous releases, the G8X follows similar suite.
It may not be the foldable screen as with the Samsung or Huawei variants, but it too has its advantages.
Performance is great overall, with no signs of lag, jitter or animation issues as a result of the additional resources required to power the second screen.
A master in engineering. With a freestop hinge, flip the screen around or lock it in place at any angle. Fold it like a laptop, use it in stand mode or do a full 360 flip and place it in tent mode for a versatile viewing experience
A master in engineering. With a freestop hinge, flip the screen around or lock it in place at any angle. Fold it like a laptop, use it in stand mode or do a full 360 flip and place it in tent mode for a versatile viewing experience
Users will have to turn it higher as a default, but won’t get much out of it
Text a friend while watching a video. Share and compare while shopping. Update your fantasy football team while researching stats. It’s the fast and seamless way to do everything you love without toggling back and forth between apps.
A master in engineering.
“One of the really cool features added to the G8X is in the gaming mode, which allows you to operate the second screen as a gamepad (known as the LG Game Pad)”
Fold it like a laptop, use it in stand mode or do a full 360 flip and place it in tent mode for a versatile viewing experience.
“One of the really cool features added to the G8X is in the gaming mode, which allows you to operate the second screen as a gamepad (known as the LG Game Pad)”
RETAILING AT R11 000 THE LG G8X IS HALF THE PRICE OF MOST FLAGSHIPS THESE DAYS, MAKING IT QUITE GOOD VALUE AS A MID RANGE SMARTPHONE
” Retailing at around R11,000, the LG G8X is half the price of most flagships these days, making it quite good value as a mid-range smartphone. “
As a standalone smartphone, the LG G8X ThinQ is quite conventional. It features a 6.4″ OLED touchscreen, with HDR10 support and Corning Gorilla Glass 6 screen protection.
“One of the really cool features added to the G8X is in the gaming mode, which allows you to operate the second screen as a gamepad (known as the LG Game Pad).”
“It may not be the foldable screen as with the Samsung or Huawei variants, but it too has its advantages.”
Fold it like a laptop, use it in stand mode or do a full 360 flip and place it in tent mode for a versatile viewing experience.
A master in engineering. With a freestop hinge, flip the screen around or lock it in place at any angle.
One of the really cool features added to the G8X is in the gaming mode, which allows you to operate the second screen as a gamepad (known as the LG Game Pad)
A master in engineering. With a freestop hinge, flip the screen around or lock it in place at any angle. Fold it like a laptop, use it in stand mode or do a full 360 flip and place it in tent mode for a versatile viewing experience.
“With the addition of the second screen, the LG G8X is required to bring with it a host of new features and software updates to be seen as useful and necessary to justify its existence.”
“Performance is great overall, with no signs of lag, jitter or animation issues as a result of the additional resources required to power the second screen.”
Find fun ways to do more at once. Text a friend while watching a video.
It features a 6.4″ OLED touchscreen, with HDR10 support and Corning Gorilla Glass 6 screen protection.
A master in engineering. With a freestop hinge, flip the screen around or lock it in place at any angle. Fold it like a laptop, use it in stand mode or do a full 360 flip and place it in tent mode for a versatile viewing experience.
OK I need this in my life.
“Find fun ways to do more at once. Text a friend while watching a video. Share and compare while shopping. Update your fantasy football team while researching stats. It’s the fast and seamless way to do everything you love without toggling back and forth between apps.”
Find fun ways to do more at once. Text a friend while watching a video. Share and compare while shopping. Update your fantasy football team while researching stats. It’s the fast and seamless way to do everything you love without toggling back and forth between apps.
“You can do all this and more with the LG G8X ThinQ. Now that’s versatility!”
“One of the really cool features added to the G8X is in the gaming mode, which allows you to operate the second screen as a gamepad (known as the LG Game Pad)”
“Unlike many premium smartphones, the LG G8X ThinQ doesn’t have the same edge-to-edge display, leaving quite a bit of room for the bezel”
Overall, battery life is average to good, without being great.
Overall, battery life is average to good, without being great.
Retailing at around R16 000, the LG G8X ThinQ is available everywhere smartphones are sold.
There are also some nifty options built into the software, which allow you to open specific apps on the second screen whenever the case is opened, to make things easier for you. One of the really cool features added to the G8X is in the gaming mode, which allows you to operate the second screen as a gamepad (known as the LG Game Pad).
A master in engineering
The dual-screen device adds quite a host of new features, which ultimately changes the manner in which users interact with their smartphone. Other accompanying features
“The dual-screen device adds quite a host of new features, which ultimately changes the manner in which users interact with their smartphone”
“LG has included a 360-degree Freestop Hinge to the case, allowing users to flip the device all the way around to have both main screens on the outside”
“The biggest and most obvious feature of any dual-screen smartphone is the ability to continue working on one screen, while using the second to stream a video, watch a live news feed or the likes without interupting your progress. This, more than anything, is really where the G8X shines”
Performance is great overall, with no signs of lag, jitter or animation issues as a result of the additional resources required to power the second screen.
Performance is great overall, with no signs of lag, jitter or animation issues as a result of the additional resources required to power the second screen.
The dual-screen device adds quite a host of new features, which ultimately changes the manner in which users interact with their smartphone. Other accompanying features don’t deliver the same results but it’s still quite good overall.
The dual-screen device adds quite a host of new features, which ultimately changes the manner in which users interact with their smartphone. Other accompanying features don’t deliver the same results but it’s still quite good overall.
“Watch a Youtube video on one screen while you text on the second screen.”
“A master in engineering. With a freestop hinge, flip the screen around or lock it in place at any angle. Fold it like a laptop, use it in stand mode or do a full 360 flip and place it in tent mode for a versatile viewing experience.”
– Satff Writer
“A master in engineering. With a freestop hinge, flip the screen around or lock it in place at any angle. Fold it like a laptop, use it in stand mode or do a full 360 flip and place it in tent mode for a versatile viewing experience”
– Satff Writer
“A master in engineering. With a freestop hinge, flip the screen around or lock it in place at any angle. Fold it like a laptop, use it in stand mode or do a full 360 flip and place it in tent mode for a versatile viewing experience”
– Satff Writer
“A master in engineering. With a freestop hinge, flip the screen around or lock it in place at any angle.”
– Satff Writer
T1he front-facing, or selfie, camera has a 32MP sensor. However, using binning technology (Quad Bayer) to absorb more light for low-light photos, it actually works out to around 8MP resolution. The results aren’t great here, doing just enough to be useful.