LG WING Aurora Gray Android 10.0 Smartphone

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The idea is you can comfortably hold the camera in your hand and pan around using controls on the secondary display. This doesn’t make the experience worse, it’s just something to consider, especially since the central section – the shaft of the inverted ‘T’– tends to weigh the phone down. The LG Wing 5G has a very particular way of harnessing its extra screen, and it's not terribly intuitive.

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LG claims it’s put the hinge through enough testing to estimate it will last through 200,000 swivels, and we theorize every last one will feel cool to do. The OG Fold lacks any kind of water or splash resistance and has a pretty claustrophobic outer display. Like much of the LG Wing overall, the software gimbal mode seems like a good idea that hasn't yet matured into a complete thought. The second ultrawide camera is only used for Gimbal Mode and paired with a ‘hexa motion sensor’ to stabilize the shot. When it isn't busy being a keyboard for the app on the big screen, it operates like a genuinely independent second application window below your primary one.In that same upside-down configuration, LG's keyboard even allows you to swipe outwards for a more ergonomic, split keyboard arrangement. We haven’t yet found out how to add to this list, and the only way we found to use a different app on the main screen is to set up dual-app combo shortcuts, which you can do in Settings > Display > Swivel Home > Multi-Screen Shortcut (phew). It’s the sort of mechanism we saw on some of the many experimental phone designs that came out in the 2000s. The big screen then defaults to a carousel of apps designed for the dual-screen experience, although you can run pretty much any app on either screen. In the extremely high-test but popular open-world adventure game Genshin Impact, occasional stutters somewhat marred the gameplay experience.

LG Wing review: An imperfect dual-screen experience LG Wing review: An imperfect dual-screen experience

Thankfully, a recent update has made juggling apps between the two displays a little easier — similar to LG's Dual Screen accessory, you can transfer apps between the two panels with a three-fingered swipe. This tends to happen on high-megapixel phones that don't have some sort of focus assist light, and it can be frustrating. A neat Dual Recording video mode lets you capture videos with the front and rear cameras at the same time—great for YouTubers.The concept is decidedly neat and useful, but until we have all the pieces, we’re going to avoid recommendations and just share how we feel about this phone. The promise of using two screens at once also falls a little flat when you realize that third-party apps likely won't take advantage of the new design.