[LG V30 Guides, News, & Discussion] ChazzMatt:
QHD display,

Qi wireless charging,

IP68, and a

quad DAC

-- a real premium phone instead of a pretender.

LG V30 has even better hardware specs than iPhone X. OnePlus does not.

Yes. OnePlus is highly exaggerating. We call it hype. But if you calmly compare OnePlus to other flagship Android phones, OnePlus almost never wins. They are like a glorified mid-tier phone with a Snapdragon 8XX. Remember the year OnePlus shipped a phone without NFC? That's an amateur move.

All premium Android phones have had 1440p (QHD) or higher since 2014. Sony has even got full 4K on some smartphones. No major manufacturer (LG, Lenovo/Motorola, Sony, HTC, Samsung) has 1080p for their "flagship" phones. That is laughable. Only Apple (not Android, of course) resisted because they can put out dog poop, call it "Optimus Excrement" and their fans will buy it. :rolleyes: Apple was the last to go to 720p HD, the last to go to 1080p HD, and now even with the iPhone X, they are only at 1125p. (What the heck. 720p is a standard, 1080p is standard, QHD is a standard, 4k is a standard. 1125 p is nothing.) Guess QHD is too hard for their engineers to comprehend. Apple does a lot of stupid stuff sometimes but their iSheep fans won't hold their feet to the fire, and OnePlus fans are becoming just as bad. I love the LG V30, but I can quickly tell you all the ways LG made mistakes ever since the 2013 LG G3... You can't just blindly be a fanboi.

Samsung, LG, Motorola has had Qi wireless charging since 2012. LG with the 2012 LG Nexus 4. Apple resisted because they can put out dog poop... well you get the idea. But over the years, iPhone users had to resort to do-it-yourself-kits to add Qi wireless functionality to their phones. As Apple resisted, some Android OEMs started leaving out Qi wireless charging, like LG, but Samsung always had it. LG has now added it back. With Motorola, they had it in the 2014 Quarks and Moto Nexus 6, but now you have to buy a mod to enable that functionality, which is ridiculous -- but they still have it available. Apple finally relented and this year in the iPhone 8/8+ and iPhone X, Apple finally gave their users Qi wireless charging. OnePlus? Nah.

In 2017 especially, IP68 or at least IP67 dust/water resistance is the benchmark of a true premium phone. Motorola, Samsung, LG all have it as well as others. Essential tried to launch a 2017 "premium" phone without it and failed. (It also didn't have QHD or built in Qi wireless charging.) Essential is now priced lower than $500 where it belongs. What's the IP rating on any OnePlus phone? It doesn't have one.

When you compare any year's Apple iPhone hardware specs to that year's top tier Androids hardware specs, Androids almost always win. Androids got HD resolution and bigger displays YEARS before Apple. You've seen the joke pictures when a new Apple comes out with "new" features Androids have had for years... "Three years from now you'll love these features Androids already have."

Current premium flagship Androids are going to have higher resolution displays, Qi wireless charging, stuff like IP68 (Apple can only manage IP67), etc. But THIS YEAR, OnePlus LOSES to Apple iPhone X in hardware specs.

Apple does have 1125p -- which while laughably low compared to QHD is still higher than OnePlus 1080p.

Apple does have Qi wireless charging -- FINALLY. OnePlus does not.

Apple at least has IP67, which while not as good as LG and Samsung's IP68 -- both WITH headset jacks, while Apple can only manage IP67 WITHOUT a headset jack -- is still better than OnePlus 5T zero IP rating.

You can't be a premium Android phone if you can't beat even Apple in hardware specs. I feel like we should make a joke picture for OnePlus: "Three years from now you'll LOVE QHD, Qi wireless charging, IP68, quad DAC."

Sent from my official carrier unlocked LG V30+ US998