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Some features try to take advantage of the secondary screen. With the G8X in landscape mode, you can turn any of the screens into custom keyboard or joystick, which you can design yourself. It's hard to draw the conclusions of such a short demo, but the keyboard was a bit too big to be used with two inches, but too small for a freehand shot. I'm sure that with time, you'll get used to it, but I'll probably never write long emails with it.
Web browsing with the custom Chromium browser from Whale, LG and Navver, which makes full use of both screens, makes a lot more sense. Open Google in one half, and you can click on individual links that are displayed on the other. You can do the same thing with Amazon, sparing you the unworthiness of scrolling to find your place when you click, and then close, an individual product listing.
There are many other examples, like seeing a Google map from one side and Google Street View from the other. You can browse the web from one side while YouTube is open to the other, which avoids having to pay for YouTube Music. And you can browse the gallery on one screen and view previews on the other.
However, you can not watch video or navigate both screens because it does not look very good. LG had a version of Chrome that rendered the rendering on both screens and the line between the two screens was so thick that it was hard to read. The company would much prefer that you use the secondary screen to accompany the first, rather than its missing half.
Soundwise, the G8X has the same 32-bit quad-bit DAC as in its predecessor, and a 3.5mm headphone jack, rejoice. LG said the handset had a "perfectly balanced" stereo sound, with a 1.2-watt driver at both the top and bottom of the device – although it was not something we were able to test during our briefing.
The Dual-Screen does not have its own battery and relies entirely on the G8X for power and processing. LG claims that the 4000 mAh battery will last 1.4 days with a display and 1.15 days with two displays, although it depends on the use.
The path that leads to a truly useful dual-screen phone is littered with a few not-so-beautiful corpses. Compared to expensive and risky collapsible phones, I would not be surprised if LG was not a little worried about building a phone with a second integrated display, and if stuck in this case as a half measured. But given the relative (relatively) issues here, a little daring could have made a big difference. You could forgive a line in the center for reliability and a price that are not bananas.
Instead, the G8X ThinQ looks and behaves like two phones stuck together in the middle. This is certainly a useful idea, with many practical use cases, such as detailed instructions on Google Maps, or messaging and browsing at the same time. But LG has not been able to explain, or justify, why this compromise is the right one for the practice.
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