14 DAY TRIAL // After the rumored Nokia 10 with five cameras on the back, it's LG's turn to take center stage with the V40 ThinQ, its future flagship device, a smartphone rumored to have five cameras, two front-facing ones and a three-camera setup on the back.
The rumors started with the media invitations sent by LG Electronics to their October 3 event in New York where they will unveil the V40 ThinQ smartphone, letters which have the “Take 5. Come and see what’s next” phrase as a tagline.
LG Electronics also published a post on the company's blog where a short video teases a secondary unveil event on October 4 in South Korea at the LG Science Park.
If the LG V40 ThinQ is released with a five-camera setup, it might not be the only such device on the market seeing that Nokia might one-up them by launching a new smartphone, possibly their new Nokia 10, with a five-camera configuration on the back.
V40 ThinQ should be LG's newest star after the not so impressive V35 ThinQ
The V40 ThinQ is also rumored to come with Qualcomm's latest Snapdragon 845 system on a chip (SoC), as well as a 6.3-inch display featuring the well-known notch made famous by Apple's iPhone X.
Unlike many of its competitors, the V40 ThinQ is also supposed to come with a 3.5 mm headphone jack which might make it stand out of the crows seeing that most smartphone manufacturers have given up on the port in the last few years.
As a bonus, the new LG V40 ThinQ is also expected to feature the Hi-Fi Quad DAC which LG has added into its devices since the V20 for improvements to the signal-to-noise ratio, as well as increased SoC power efficiency.
Seeing that both the V30 and V35 ThinQ smartphones launched by LG in August 2017 and May 2018 had P-OLED displays, the new V40 ThinQ will most probably also have the same quality panel or an improved version.