LG G8 ThinQ pricing uncovered and pre-orders start from 15th March in South Korea

At the Mobile World Congress, LG announced its flagship cameraphone LG G8 ThinQ but didn’t reveal the phone’s pricing and availability details. Now, the manufacturer has unveiled that the product will be in the world for pre-orders in South Korea from 15th March.

As for the pricing, the LG G8 ThinQ will cost KRW 897,600 in South Korea, what roughly converts to $795. The cameraphone will be available for pre-orders in the country between March 15-20 and it will go on sale starting March 22.

The manufacturer has said that the device will be provided with a panel replacement facility for one year and will come provided with a free case. The G8 ThinQ notably arrives as a successor to the LG G7 ThinQ that was released last year.

Coming to the phone’s specs, the cameraphone options a 6.1-inch OLED notched panel that carries support for Quad HD+ resolution of 1440 x 3120 pixels. Under the hood, the gadget is fueled by Qualcomm’s Sd 855 chipset, coupled with 8GB of RAM.

In the image sensor department, it ships with a triple digital camera setup on its rear that is a 12-megapixel main digital camera, a 12-megapixel telephoto lens, and a 16-megapixel ultra wide-angle lens. On the front side, the smartphone arrives equipped with an 8-megapixel front-facing snapper and a 3D ToF (Time of Flight) sensor.

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The phone Furthermore carries support for Hand ID that can read the thickness and characteristics of a user’s veins for unlocking. It runs Android 9 Pie running system out of the box with the company’s own custom interface on top. The smartphone is powered by a 3,500mAh battery.

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