LG devices often get overshadowed by its bigger rivals, but its new V30 insists you pay attention to it. It's an elegant, well-built device with powerful performance and some of the best audio quality we've ever heard out of a smartphone.

Excellent; water-resistant design; Strong performance; Flexible; powerful video features; It sounds fantastic

Screen appears gritty at low brightness; Low-light camera performance could be better; Middling battery life

The LG V30 has everything an Android fan could wish for (apart from stock Android)

Good low light shooting and wide angle feature; Great audio quality for listening and recording; Beautiful; yet durable design

Still some camera imperfections; Slightly bloated software experience; Could be slimmer

The camera has become the defining facet of high-end smartphones, perhaps more than any other feature. New handsets are compared first on the basis of their photography skills. Breakthroughs like dual lenses and the ever-popular Portrait Mode have done an admirable job of condensing the capabilities...

Slim; light design; Delightful wide-angle camera; Immersive display; Excellent audio from the Quad DAC; Headphone jack

Mono bottom-firing speaker; LG software learning curve; Poor battery life

A strong competitor for 2017's best Android phone.

OLED screen; Highly creative video mode; Wide-angle camera; Superb audio; Great battery life

Lacking video and photo editing features; Screen edges very sensitive; No unlocked version yet

With the LG V30, the Koreans have made quite an effort, producing the smartphone that many had already wished for during MWC. It brings all the missing features, which were lacking in the LG G6 to become an absolutely high-end product: a current top SoC, a quad-DAC audio-chip, and wireless charging.

If you've been holding out for a smartphone that doesn't put the squeeze on useful features, but does the opposite, filling it to the brim with utilities, you might have thought you'd be waiting an eternity. But actually, the LG V30+ is that very phone.

Streamlined design; Crammed with features; Interesting camera improvements

Doesn't launch with Android Oreo; Display viewing angles shift colour; No portrait mode on the camera

On paper, the V30 has the features to make any movie or music fan salivate - but it only fully delivers in one of those areas. An uprated DAC makes the difference to audio, giving it an edge over its Android rivals.However, the OLED screen doesn't cope as well with HDR video as its rivals.

Lovely sound; Adaptable dual-lens camera; Premium design; Skinny screen bezel

HDR video quality not up to snuff; Camera doesn't rival the competition

The V30 is LG's latest flagship device and it offers a whole load of features that wouldn't find anywhere else. It's a great phone, but one that appears to have lost some of its lustre as a result of the delayed release.

Loads of features; Stunning audio; The nicest looking LG phone yet

Screen isn't great; Stuck on Android 7; LG's software is still ugly

I Bought the V30 2 weeks ago and for the moment I'm very happy. I was afraid because in all the reviews they were complaining about the view angles of the display. In this 2 weeks I didn't feel any blue colour in the display or any other issue.

It's not quite clear when this happened. Nor is it clear whether or not this was some kind deliberate marketing move on part of LG or whether it was an early observation by the tech press that found its momentum as an informal tag-line for the device. Regardless, label is nothing if not apt.

Great camera app; Featureset covers all the bases

Kinda average camera; Nougat