{"id":24296,"date":"2019-01-24T14:54:24","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T12:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.radioislam.org.za\/wordpress\/2019\/01\/24\/lg-launches-v40-thinq-smartphone-with-5-cameras-in-sa\/"},"modified":"2019-01-24T14:54:24","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T12:54:24","slug":"lg-launches-v40-thinq-smartphone-with-5-cameras-in-sa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/lg-launches-v40-thinq-smartphone-with-5-cameras-in-sa\/","title":{"rendered":"LG Launches V40 ThinQ Smartphone with 5 Cameras in SA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Faizel Patel, Radio Islam News &#8211; 24-01-2019<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>(<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FaizelPatel143\" rel=\"alternate\">Twitter: @FaizelPatel143<\/a>)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">LG Electronics has launched its new flagship smartphone in South Africa that boasts not only one, two, three or four, but five cameras.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At a function at the Four Seasons Hotel on Wednesday, LG\u2019s new V40 ThinQ certainly set the bench mark for other manufacturers in a premium device that\u2019s sure to make waves. <\/p>\n<p>The LGV40 features a 6.4-inch OLED (1,440 x 3,120) edge to edge screen with a notch, 6GB of RAM and 128GB internal storage expandable with a micro SD card and is powered by a 3,300mAh battery.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The internals includes a Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 processor and ships with Android 8.1 Oreo.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">However it\u2019s the camera\u2019s that has got everyone talking and garnered a lot of attention.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The LGV40 ThinQ has three rear cameras, a 16MP f\/1.9 wide-angle + 12MP f\/1.5 standard + 12MP f\/2.4 telephoto while the front camera is 8MP f\/1.9 standard + 5MP f\/2.2 wide.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">LG Managing Director Chi Yoon Kim says the LGV40 ThinQ is the ultimate content creator.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWith five built in camera\u2019s the LG V40 ThinQ is the ultimate content creator for South African consumers, delivering innovation at an ultra-affordable price point.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The device will initially be exclusive to Vodacom from the 7th of February and will be priced from R12,499 cash or R599 per month on a Smart XS+ package.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Vodacom will bring in the single-SIM variant of the device in Moroccan Blue with a matt finish, and will bundle it with the LG K9 on a Flexi 60 post-paid package.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">LG says for an additional R199, customers can bolt the LG Hybrid smart watch W7 which has been developed in partnership with Soprod SA of Switzerland on the V40 ThinQ contract.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">LG first unveiled the V40 ThinQ in October 2018, and released it in the United States later that month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Faizel Patel, Radio Islam News &#8211; 24-01-2019 (Twitter: @FaizelPatel143) \u00a0 LG Electronics has launched its new flagship smartphone in South Africa that boasts not only one, two, three or four, but five cameras.\u00a0\u00a0 At a function at the Four Seasons Hotel on Wednesday, LG\u2019s new V40 ThinQ certainly set the bench mark for other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-reviews"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pc0QIf-6jS","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-25 13:02:50","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}