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The LG V50. Sure it looks boring here, but... [credit: LG ]
Mobile World Congress looks to be all about funky form factors this year, and following the Samsung Galaxy Fold and the Huawei Mate X, LG is sort-of tossing its hat into the foldable smartphone ring. LG's newest flagship, the (deep breath) "LG V50 ThinQ 5G," is not a foldable smartphone, but it does have an optional case with a whole second screen on it. With two near-identical phone displays next to each other, you can get a lot of the split screen functionality of a foldable smartphone. There are even some interesting new use-cases LG has dreamed up.
On the surface, the LG V50 is mostly a bog-standard 2019 smartphone. You're getting a 6.4-inch, 3120×1440 notched display, a Snapdragon 855 SoC, 6GB of RAM, 128GB of storage, three rear cameras, two front cameras, and a 4000mAh battery. There's a MicroSD card, an increasingly-rare headphone jack, and a USB-C port. The one thing that makes it stand out from the pack is that this is a 5G phone, with mmWave capability brought to you by the Snapdragon X50 modem. Note that this is not necessarily a good thing, given that this is first-generation 5G hardware that greatly complicates smartphone design.
Form the phone Voltron
You can take your middle-of-the-pack LG phone and strap on the "LG DualScreen" accessory, and suddenly this phone becomes interesting. The DualScreen is basically a folio case, but on the inside, instead of a soft screen cover there is an entire second OLED display. The case adds a 6.2-inch 2160×1080 display to the V50's built-in 6.4-inch, 3120×1440 display, and a stiff hinge in the middle means you can have two screens side-by-side.
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