Say what you will about the upcoming LG Wing smartphone, but you have to admit that it's completely different from any other Android phone on the market right now.
While LG offers plenty of traditional smartphones, the company is showing a willingness to take risks with the Wing.
LG announced the new phone on LG.com, and it looks like a fascinating device that justifies its abnormal form factor with some interesting features.
LG Wing Features and Specifications
Obviously, what makes the Wing stand out (and gives the phone its name), is the form factor of the device. It features both a Basic Mode and Swivel Mode. In Basic Mode, the Wing looks like any other smartphone with a large 6.8 inches, 1080p screen. In Swivel Mode, though, the phone really looks to shine, as the front screen turns horizontal, revealing a 3.9-inch second screen underneath.
The second screen can be used to extend a single app across both or to run two different apps at the same time.
LG cites several ways to use the Wing's new design. First, it mentions watching a live stream on one screen while interacting with a chat room on the other. Specifically, LG partnered with YouTube and Tubi on the preinstalled NAVER Whale browser, to play the video on the Main Screen while the Second Screen displays comments or a search bar.
The other big thing offered by the LG Wing is a gimbal feature. The phone features three cameras on the back---a 64MP wide lens, a 12MP ultra-wide shooter, and a 13MP wide lens. Those lenses are used for the company's Gimbal Motion Camera, which turns the second screen into a handy grip. This allows users to get a better handle on the phone to create more stable videos.
Along with the grip, the gimbal features a joystick for controlling the camera angle, a lock to reduce shakes and blurring, a follow mode for moving videos, a pan follow mode for horizontal movement with minimal up and down shake, and a first-person view mode.
Outside of the cool features offered by the Wing's design, LG packed some powerful specs into the Wing. It features the Snapdragon 765G processor, 8GB RAM, 256GB of storage, a 4,000 mAh battery, and Android 10 (LG didn't announce anything regarding the device receiving the newly-released Android 11).
LG Wing Price and Availability
It doesn't look like LG is going to sell the Wing unlocked for the time being. Instead, the company announced that it would release the phone through Verizon first with other carriers to follow in the US.
Additionally, the company announced that the phone would launch in South Korea first in October. North America and Europe will have to wait a little longer, though the company didn't provide an exact timeframe.
Of course, the big detail with a phone that's so different is the price, and LG didn't reveal that key bit of information yet. We'll have to wait and see how much this interesting phone will set us back.