The LG V30 has me more excited than the new iPhone
Call it a symptom of my tech journalist bubble, but somewhere over the past couple of years, I’ve lost the ability to be truly excited about new iPhones. Apple has contributed to this feeling, having kept its design changes incremental or, in the case of the headphone jack, haughtily unfriendly to the user. Apple’s partners have also helped things along by leaking almost everything about each new device, including the latest one to come this September.
Android phones, in the meantime, have been going through a renaissance of ever more sophisticated design and improving camera performance. Witness the Galaxy S8 with its multiaxial symmetry, or the OnePlus 5 with its iPhone-esque refinement, or the HTC U11 in its iridescent Solar Red garb,...