From PC World: LG is starting to think different about phone releases. If you were hoping for a new LG flagship phone at Mobile World Congress, you got your wish. Well, sort of. Instead of the G7, LG has launched the V30S ThinQ, which freshens the V30 with smarts, not specs.
The V30S has the same display, chip, battery, and camera as the V30, but bumps the RAM to 6GB and the storage to 128GB. It also comes in two new colors, Platinum Gray and Moroccan Blue. But those minor changes do not a new model make. To justify the name, LG has given the V30 some new smarts thanks to an infusion of AI.
The V30 is already a great phone, and the new AI features only enhance one of its best features: the camera. It remains to be seen whether an algorithm can make that much of a difference between the V30 and V30S, but assuming the new phone doesn't cost much more than the original, it’s definitely the model to wait for if you were planning to buy one.
While last year’s premium G6 and V30 phones are still waiting for their Oreo upgrades, LG is shipping the V30S with the latest version of Android out of the box. But the upgraded UI isn’t all that’s new about the V30S: LG has pumped it full of AI as well.
It starts with the camera, which was already one of the V30’s best features. When you launch it, you’ll now see LG’s AI Cam at work, as it analyzes the scene and identifies what’s in the frame. Once it figures out what you’re looking at (via small labels placed all over the viewfinder), it will recommend the appropriate shooting mode based on color, lighting, and saturation levels.
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