[LG V20 Questions & Answers] emdroidle:
I'm waiting to get mine in hand, but I've got a few small gripes with the V20 versus the V10. None of these is major enough to skip the V20, but they are gripes.

This I definitely agree with. Having seen some of the torture tests, I'm pretty sure bending a V20 would have been a lot more difficult if it still had some steel in there. Looks like an awful lot of the rigidity of the V20 comes from the aluminum back, which won't protect the fragile electronics nearly as well.

Alas when Android put in support for hardware IR, they skipped out on standardizing support for IR receivers. As such IR receiver APIs differ from manufacturer to manufacturer. I'm glad LG includes an IR receiver on all of the G* and V* devices, but they've decided to only allow access via a custom API (the same approach was taken by Samsung with S4 and S5, but later devices lacked an IR receiver). The first problem with this is it appears LG's API isn't really that good at recognizing the key portion of the IR signal. I've had minimal luck getting a V10 to copy a remote. The second problem is LG's API is strictly designed for emulating remote controls, but there are other uses for IR beside emulating remote controls. Some older devices can transfer data via "IrDA", but that cannot be done with LG's API. Here I must give credit to HTC who were the only ones to allow Android applications to directly access the IR device if they had the CONSUMER_IR permission.

I agree with [MENTION=7833569]flblue[/MENTION] here, I strongly prefer having headphone and USB port on the top! Having them on the bottom pretty well forces you to put them in a pocket/pouch top down.

I wish the V20 had a hot-swap SIM. SIMs are designed with this function in mind, yet so few phones allow you to take advantage of the functionality. This is of greater interest to people who are doing international travel, but in such circumstances this is distinctly nice to have. Perhaps this is simply a general issue with nano-SIMs, but I've noticed SIMs are kind of difficult to remove from a V10 and V20, they're really well in there and difficult to grip. Also on this point, I find the SD card hot swapping a bit tricky; it isn't that difficult, but seems more difficult than it should be.

I agree with others that a stylus would be a nice feature for LG's V* series. Sometimes you want precision pointing. Alas I fear Samsung would start a patent war even though styluses have been around a long time.

I find LG's wanting to charge extra for a wireless charging back annoying. They're including the hardware on the phones, why do they want to charge extra (oh, profits, ugh).

One point I like the V20 (and V10) for, having separate slots for dual-SIMs and SD card. The "shared" slot of the G5 (and certain other manufacturers) is like cutting off your right arm to become ambidextrous; this is a garbage thing to do.

To the folks writing they like notifications LEDs, it looks like various manufacturers are trying to remove them. They're completely absent on all low-end devices. Needing root to reenable them on some devices is kind of pointing at they're disappearing... I'll rate myself as neutral on them, they've got their moments, but I can't say I miss them.

---------- Post added at 29-12-2016 ---------- Previous post was at 28-12-2016 ----------

Gah! Missed an obvious one I'd noted: The location of the NFC antenna. Most phones have their NFC antenna and wireless charging coil in the center of the back. Yet I almost find the V10's placement in the lower back to be superior. Meanwhile the V20's placement of the NFC antennas around the camera to be hazardous. I like to keep as much as possible away from the camera so as to protect it, having to place it near NFC points is a distinct disadvantage IMNSHO.