Multiple smartphone manufacturers will be launching their flagship phones in October. Without confirming on the exact launch date, Xiaomi has revealed that the highly anticipated Mi MIX 3 is arriving in October. At the recently held IFA 2018 tech, Huawei confirmed that it will be launching the Mate 20 and Mate 20 Pro on Oct. 16. The Google Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL are scheduled to get official on Oct. 9. LG too will be debuting the LG V40 ThinQ in the same month as the company has revealed that the smartphone will be announced on Oct. 4.
LG has released a short video clip to reveal the LG V40 ThinQ launch date. The unveil event will be held at LG Science Park in Seoul, South Korea. The 10-second video showcases the camera capabilities of the smartphone. Even though the video does not directly confirm it, recent rumors have revealed that the LG V40 ThinQ will be equipped triple camera system on its rear panel. Rumors have it that one of the sensors of the triple camera setup could be a super-wide angle lens.
Just ahead of the official unveiling, the LG V40 ThinQ has received approval from national Radio Research (NRR) in South Korea and Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in the U.S. Recent reports have revealed that the V40 ThinQ will be arriving with Snapdragon 845 chipset and 6 GB of RAM. It could be the first LG phone to ship with Android 9 Pie and it may feature a dedicated hardware button for accessing Google Assistant.
The V40 ThinQ is expected to sport a notched P-OLED screen of 6.3 inches that may carry support for Quad HD+ resolution of 3120 x 1440 pixels. For enriched audio experience it will come equipped with Stereo BoomBox, Quad DAC and DTS:X Surround Sound. Apart from the triple rear cameras, the notch of the phone is expected to house dual selfie cameras. It is speculated to draw power from a 3,300mAh battery.
