SpecEagle review · LG

LG V40 ThinQ review: First mainstream phone with five cameras.

Item: LG V40 ThinQ
Rating: 64
Author: SpecEagle Editorial

SpecEagle Editorial·Oct 2018·$949

Overall

64/100

Class rank

#4 of 8

Tier

Flagship

Buy?

Look elsewhere

The verdict, up front

Five-cam pioneer — but the audience never came.

V40 ThinQ packed a triple rear plus dual selfie at a time most rivals had two cameras. LG’s decline outpaced the innovation.

01Display

76/100

76/100 trails the 78-point cohort average for flagship phones of 2018.

TypepOLED, 60 Hz

Size6.4 inches

Resolution3,120 × 1,440 px

02Camera

74/100

74/100 — right at the average for flagship phones of 2018.

Main12 MP, f/1.5, OIS

Telephoto12 MP, f/2.4, 2×

Ultrawide16 MP, f/1.9

Selfiedual 8+5 MP

03Performance

72/100

72/100 trails the 76-point cohort average for flagship phones of 2018.

ChipsetSnapdragon 845

RAM6 GB

Storage64 / 128 GB + microSD

04Battery

64/100

64/100 trails the 69-point cohort average for flagship phones of 2018.

Capacity3,300 mAh

Wireless10 W

05Build

78/100

78/100 — right at the average for flagship phones of 2018.

06Value

58/100

58/100 — right at the average for flagship phones of 2018.

What works

First triple-cam at this price.
Dual selfie cams.
Quad DAC + headphone jack.
IP68.

What doesn't

LG abandoned soon after.
Small battery.
Update support ended.
No 5G.

Cross-shop it against

Galaxy Note 10+

$1099 · score 90/100

How this review is built: every section score, spec row and comparison on this page comes from SpecEagle's tracked catalogue — scores weight measured specs against the 8-phone cohort of flagship devices released around the same time. We don't publish invented lab anecdotes. Spot an error? .