LG Wing Review

The latest attempt at a brand new smartphone

the form factor we've seen things flip

and fold and today we have a completely

a new approach from LG

I mean it's got to be the most unusual

of the bunch this thing

is swiveling it's moving it's why don't

we just get inside the box

this is the LG wing

all right so first up we have the device

it's wrapped in plastic you can see the

camera module and

actually, at this point, this is looking a

lot like

a regular smartphone kind of feels

as a slab, it works like a slab

and I think it's going to satisfy all

those users who want something

typical because the typical form factor

has some advantages

over some of the other folding stuff

that's out there it's not as bulky

when you use it as a camera you don't

have to do any kind of fancy activity

you just point and go anyways I'm going

to put this down

just for a moment because I do want to

check out the other items in the box and

as you'll notice

the box itself has a swivel component

the box is also a wing inside here we

have

oh look at that it's a swivel slash

drawer

type of setup we have the power brick

fast charger 25 watts this is going to be

capable of delivering 50

battery life in 25 minutes the battery

on this unit is a 4 000 milliamp-hour

battery

and it'll do up to 100 in 85 minutes

you have a type c to c cable and then a

little accessory box here which houses

a USB type c2 mini-jack connector for

analog audio if you want to use that

here is the phone

it will be available in two colors

the device that I have in front of me

here is going to be called

aurora gray and it's kind of a

reflective it's like a metallic

gray I'm going to just peel off these

extra stickers here

that's what the back looks like and at

this point like I said earlier

you're you feel like you're looking at a

typical sparkle if you just pulled this

out and started using it

no one would say anything but then

things get very magical as you

bang look at that with one hand

that is an addictive action you may very

well

just use this as a fidget spinner you

may very well just

sit there all day long irritating

everybody around you

because of the addictive nature of that

spring-loaded

swivel activity and swivel action

now you may be seeing me do this and say

oh you

take it easy on the brand new smartphone

there but they tested this

to how many swivels let me just 200 000

times all right so I'm not gonna hit

that in the lifespan

of the device now you may be wondering

at this point, the screen is not turned

on you're saying

okay so what's the point here well this

is a full display that's a full

OLED display this is another OLED

display

down below and what this allows you to

do is two things at once that seems to

be the challenge

that seems to be the target for

smartphone manufacturers right now

is how do we let you multitask on your

smartphone how do we let you do more

then one thing at a time so we've seen

some folding approaches that are out

there

we've even seen dual display devices

that are out there

like the surface duo for example which

closes and opens to unveil two displays

but that one kind of suffers when it

comes to

using it as a regular smartphone this

one on the other hand

LG Wing Review

it can behave like a regular smartphone

if you wanted to you don't even need to

know you have a dual display

until.

what it looks like when you're in that

swivel mode

and as you can see there's they

thought about it they put a little

design

on the backside for when you're holding

it like that now they have about a

billion ways in which

they think you're going to use it

including content creation

because you can hold it kind of

like a gimbal as you compose video

this has a huge grip on me I mean I could

just be here all-day

just pointing and shooting as a phone

as you look around here you'll notice

Do you have a USB type-c

connector on this side you have a

speaker module over there

on the side of the device here you have

a power switch volume rocker

a large sim tray let me see why that is

a large sim tray

yes it is because it supports micro

sd so nano sim plus micro sd expandable

storage

the other important piece

to mention and I'm sure you were

probably wondering

how do you deal with the front-facing

the camera when this thing swivels around

like this well you see the earpiece

remains exposed

but actually, the camera unit is going to

be up here and it's a motorized style

look I'm just getting addicted over here

with the swiveling and all the rest of

it so let's boot it up

you can see it's a pretty

aggressive

uh edge on the side here the display

almost waterfalls over each of those two

edges

you have a very slender forehead and

chin

but no notch no cut out you're not even

making room for the front-facing camera

because as mentioned it's up here

and it's a motorized style so if I go

ahead and launch the camera app

and switch to the front-facing camera

it's gonna pop up like this and we've

seen these in the past

motorized cameras sometimes they just

strictly serve the purpose of

avoiding having a notch or a cutout the

Another reason that this has extra

functionality here

is because inside of video mode of

course you can just have a typical

selfie video by the way I'm just going

to remove the protection right there

I can do a typical selfie like this but

also when i

swivel into gimbal mode you see all my

camera controls

they pop up over here so once again i

can do the things that I mentioned

as far as having a nice grip for

composing my video but also I have a

dual

recording functionality which will lift

up that camera and it will allow me to

record

my reaction to whatever's happening

behind on the other camera unit

so as you can see right here it's well

for the moment it's looking at the table

I'll put an object there so

you get a better idea and then this one

is facing forward

but I also have this option to be in the

corner over here picture in picture mode

so it gives you a couple of different kinds

of cool ways to utilize this extra

screen real estate

while maintaining all your controls down

here and not having them cloud up the

display so whether it's

dual recording or gimbal mode like this

your composition screen is completely

free from obstructions and it's only for

the video that you're shooting

moving your controls down here now this

gimbal mode has a ton of

functionality

boom left to right

down up there's built-in follow mode

where you can lock it on a subject

and the whole thing is going to work as

well to smooth out

your video composition when I go back to

typical camera mode and into the video here

well now they want to tell me about a

bunch of other features they have like

ASMR

recording which will amplify sound i

don't know why should we try that out

maybe

voice bokeh take a video that reduces

ambient noise and focuses on the voice

but what I'm more interested in at the

the moment is the ability to go

above fhd up to 4k or

even beyond that to 4k 60. so you can

see all these options

become available within here this is a

sample recording

of 4k 60 we have the trusty plant

that we will be inspecting here we can

also

zoom in to the 2x within the video

the recording also you're hearing my voice

through the microphone on the device

so you have a ton of different options

in here as you saw referenced including

even in ASMR mode, I don't know should i

try that ASMR

the recording is supposedly happening right

now what do I do i

with these noises and I whisper unbox

therapy

ASMR session

plastic crinkling

is this what you came here for

what you came here for yes well that

works it

ups the sensitivity on the microphone

for the ASMR mode whether you like it or

not so

up to 4k 60, there's a no shake in here

as well but if you want the ultimate

kind of smooth video you will flip into

this mode into the swivel mode

and there's a lot here where they had to

reimagine why would you want something

like this

why where could this be useful and

gimbal mode is one of those places dual

the recording is the other one which

would I kind of want to test

out right now so

I'm rolling and as you can see I can see

my background this is my hand right here

but here's my reaction

it's kind of innovative you know in 2020

anyway

you can figure out a way to use it but

you can see look at that you got both

video clips rolling

bang I can flip it so I have

you know my camera up here and the event

over there I could do it quickly

so

there are several different cameras on

the back of the main camera the

1x camera is a 12 megapixel but

they claim it has bigger pixels

which should be better for low light

conditions

LG Wing Review

and then you've also got the 2x for your

zoom so let's snap a few

one that's your zoom mode here is your

ultra-wide

and here is your one x

and this just gives you an idea for the

versatility

different things you can do with the

the camera is now the selfie camera

is kind of interesting because

it is high resolution a megapixel camera

so

let's see what it can do on your typical

beard hair test here we go pop up

motorized

in three two one

bang so there you go you got

32 megapixels to work with should be

sufficient for your

variety of selfies check out the mode

that I'm in

we've got both our displays open this is

the fancy mode

this is what you would be excited about

and now they have set up

app pairs as you can see down on the

bottom here

you may want to launch youtube at the

top

and have chrome going at the bottom over

here

you could have your messaging app you

could be reading whatever you want and

then up here at the top

you're just doing the youtube thing and

maybe you want to

search something up you see what happens

the keyboard replaces it

replaces what you were looking at you go

ahead and search up lu later to watch

to catch up there's been many new

episodes

this unlocks your multimedia controls

down on the bottom screen so you never

you don't have to reach up and touch

the main display from here I can switch

to the next video

I can pause the video play the video

I can go back or forward in the video

quickly with these buttons, I can

control my brightness which

is now maxed out and I can control my

volume right here

which is kind of nice you never have to

disrupt the actual video that's going on

and I guess I can zoom in as well max it

out and then let's

test the volume too teenage LG gram is

the lightest

17-inch laptop in the world this thing

Do you want to slap it under the arm

well you feel like you're carrying a

13-inch this is a three-pound laptop

17-inch

that's why they call it the ground yeah

that's why they call it the grip all

right okay so

if I'm watching a video up here I still

have the opportunity to do whatever i

want down below

any application I might bring up a

little calculator

real quick because you got to get the 10

plus 10 in

it's a funny little full-screen square

phone down at the bottom essentially if

I click this

the little indicator on the right-hand side

then I will bring up whatever is

relevant to the top display on the

bottom display just by clicking like

that but there are other ways in which

LG imagines you using this for example

if I just

spin this around like this look at this

how it flips around

I mean it's wild now you're

reconsidering so

maybe you're in the car and you have the

mount on this

the portion at which point you may have your

nav

on the portrait section and getting your

notifications or your multimedia

controls

over on the right-hand side maybe you're

inside of youtube music

and you have your multimedia controls

and you want to pick

between your favorite playlist or

something again no

disruption to the main task over here

which is your navigation

so you've also got this gallery mode

over here you could be watching a video

up to top something you recorded recently

and then searching for the next one

that you want to look at down here

inside of the gallery now

this is kind of just a starting point

you could imagine

many apps becoming improved

by having a dual display setup or at

least

offering slightly more functionality

because you have this extra real estate

so LG has a few ideas of how you're

going to use this at the moment

but it has the potential to expand oh

check this out by the way so if you have

it flipped the other way

and you have your secondary smaller

display up top

this whole thing can become a giant

keyboard

so for example I'm about to boot into a

video game

and what I might want to do is actually

bring up some tips and tricks or

something I gotta read the Wikipedia

for the game while I'm playing it now of

course this is completely up to you what

you put up top you could be watching

a game streamer showing you a

walkthrough of a particular game

or maybe it's not even game related

maybe it's like some of those other dual

functionalities where you just have your

messaging up here

you're just typing every so often

responding to a message every so often

and then jumping back to your game

whoa that's cool so I have the game up

and running now and I hit the game tools

button which brings up

game-specific things in the top screen

that

you might need quick access to oh and

this game is even optimized

where it's showing

more of the game up top so if you're a

game developer, you might be able to take

advantage of the top section as well

oh so the top becomes an

the in-game map now I don't expect all games

to be optimized for this but this should

just get your imagination going as to

how this

could be useful or could aid in various

game titles

as far as the specifications go the LG

the wing is featuring the Qualcomm

snapdragon 765

g processor the main screen is a 6.8

inch

20.5 by 9 fhd plus

OLED the little screen what they call

the second screen is

3.9 inches it's also an OLED display

with an aspect ratio of 1.15 by 1 so not

exactly a square

it's got 8 gigs of ram and 128 of

storage though

256 gigs of storage will be available in

certain markets

those cameras on the back it's one ultra

high resolution

64 megapixel followed by a 13 megapixel

ultra-wide and a 12 megapixel

ultra-wide big pixel it's f 2.2 with a

120-degree field of view

the front camera the selfie camera

that's a 32 megapixel

a pop-up with the motor on it also f19 the

battery's 4000 milliamp hours of course

it's running Android 10.

it's got a 25-watt fast charge and

it's available in those two colors

aurora gray or illusion sky which is a

lighter variant it's kind of a bluish

white

look listen it's unusual it's an

interesting thing it's a development in

smartphones you've got to say it's

noteworthy at least

the best thing about this one is it lets

it still be

a regular smartphone if you need it or

want it to be

is going to behave like a regular

smartphone no surprises

this one aims to be a smartphone first

with a little bonus when you want it the

the main thing for me let me tell you

am I just get inspired when I see these

new takes I'm a technology fan

I've been doing this for a while I've

seen a lot of safe

moves and safe moves are they're okay

that's uh acceptable for the vast

majority of

customers that are out there but then

there's this different group of people

that wants to have that moment again of

kind of reimagining these things or

putting something in your pocket that

is just going to be a bit different and

for that group these types of devices

exist.