LG Velvet trailer confirms design and Snapdragon 765G chip
LG has further unveiled its upcoming Velvet smartphone with a YouTube trailer. It confirms that the phone will run theQualcomm Snapdragon 765G chipsetrather than the top of the line 865 found in the recentLG V60,OnePlus 8 Proand some versions of the Galaxy S20 series.
The use of a slightly lower-powered (but still 5G-ready) processor hopefully means that theVelvetwill be a capable phone with a more attractive price point. The Snapdragon 865 is so expensive for OEMs to buy from Qualcomm that it has driven up the price of 2020’s flagship phones.
The trailer, below, also shows the phone’s front with a tear drop notch and its rear in green, red, black, and white. The red version appears to have a gradient finish.
The video reaffirms the newly curved edge design and ‘raindrop’ camera array thatLG has already announced. The video flits between Korean and English, with the Korean pointing out the raindrop camera and the ‘aurora white’ colour and ‘velvet touch design’.
It looks like the Velvet will have a Google Assistant button on the left edge with volume and power on the right, much like LG’s latest devices.
The date on the phone’s screen at the end of the video is Sunday 19 April, and there is no word on an actual release date for the phone. But if LG is pumping out information like this, it can’t be too far off.
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Author: Henry Burrell, Contributor
Previously Tech Advisor’s Phones Editor, Henry covers and reviews every smartphone worth knowing about. He spends a lot of time moving between different handsets and shouting at WhatsApp to support multiple devices at once.
