LG G8 will be separate from 5G phone, have droplet notch and 3D-sensing camera

Pocketnow

By Jules Wang

Published Dec 28, 2018

The folding phone, an entirely different device, will be late to arrive as well. And the early part of the year will see a mid-ranger take hold.

For the enormous amount of buzz building for the Galaxy S10, we’ve heard next to nothing about the chaebol next door: LG.

The only thing that we might have been able to link up with its 2019 spring flagship, what we’ve called the LG G8, was that it could be headed to Sprint as a 5G phone.

We’re now learning from sources to ETnews that, much like the majority of the speculative Galaxy S10 models, this phone will be 4G-only. It will also feature a minimal “water droplet-style” display notch, shrinking away from the intrusion seen on the LG G7 ThinQ. For the first time in the ‘G’ series, it will also have an advanced depth-sensing camera — whether it relies on infrared or time of flight technology or if it’s on the rear or front side, we don’t know.

There’s a little dissonance in the intelligence when it comes to codenames. ETnews refers to it as “Seal” while leaks blogger Evan Blass seems to imply the name to be “Alpha.”

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— Evan Blass (@evleaks) December 27, 2018

In the meantime, LG will take on January with the Q9 — it will have a Qualcomm Snapdragon 660 chipset, 4GB of RAM, 32GB of storage, a 6.1-inch display and a 3,000mAh battery.