- Hey, it's time with the verge and this is the LG Wing.

So first off, this is a pre-production unit.

It's not a final product.

We will have a full review coming later,

but it does give a really good idea

of what it's like to actually use this thing.

And yeah, I know looking at the pictures,

it looks weird and wild, but it's actually really nice.

The hardware here is super polished.

LG has done a great job

and just flipping it open and closed is incredibly nice.

It's also way thinner and lighter than you would expect

from something with two screens

and a weird flipping hinge like this.

In terms of size and weight, it's actually roughly

the size of a Galaxy S20 Ultra.

Now it's obviously not small.

It's still an Android phone with a 6.8-inch display,

but it's not unreasonably large,

which is something that we've seen from plenty

of other foldable or dual-screen devices.

LG hasn't just taken two phones and glued it together here.

They've actually put some real thought into this,

and there's also this device

that's just really nice to hold in your hand.

I also cannot emphasize enough how fun it is

to do this little flip out thing.

It makes like this,

this like swooping noise when you slide it up,

this super satisfying snap when you close it.

And it is just incredibly like satisfying

from a tactile level to hold in use.

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Now, one thing the wing doesn't do

is look like a regular smartphone.

At least not once you've done this.

And there's a really good reason for that.

That's because the wing is the first phone

in LGs, new Explorer project series of smartphones,

which is meant to, you know,

explore new ideas, new ways of building a phone

beyond just, you know, a glass slab with a screen on it.

This is his first attempt and it's pretty neat.

LG has also already started teasing what comes next.

It has an idea for an expendable one,

which might come out at some point,

but focusing back on the wing,

it's a really neat idea.

Is it gonna work?

Are people gonna buy it?

I have no idea, but holding it in my hand right now

and watching a YouTube video while reading an article

underneath or having Google maps up while easily being able

to control music in a car or take a call.

That's pretty cool.

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How does it actually work in practice?

Well, if you're holding it like this,

it works like a regular Android phone,

literally identical to any other major Android phone

you'd ever used and hold,

it runs Android, works like Android,

but when you do this

all sorts of weird things happen.

So it launches into this weird macOS 10

cover flow style scrolling doc

that you can launch your favorite apps from.

The bottom screen still works mostly

like a regular Android home screen.

You can actually pair apps together

to launch at the same time.

There's a lot of options.

Now there's two ways that you can actually run apps on this.

The first is extended apps,

which really is just a couple LG apps, media apps,

and the camera right now.

But the way that works is that whatever you're running

works on both displays.

So if you're watching a YouTube video,

the entire top display shows the video

and the play pause controls volume and brightness

on that bottom screen.

If you're using the camera, the whole top screen

is a viewfinder and the bottom screen

is your camera controls

or if using LG's built a note-taking app.

You can actually flip it around,

use the top screen as the view for your notes

and the entire giant bottom screen as a widescreen keyboard,

which is actually really great.

There's also this super wacky thing

where you can actually use the top screen as a screen

and the bottom screen as a trackpad

complete with an actual mouse pointer.

It is bizarre, but also kind of cool.

Now, the other way that you'll use apps,

which realistically is the way you'll probably use it

a lot more is by running them side by side,

because less the developer's gone out of their way

to specifically optimize your app for this.

You're probably not going to get that extended screen

kind of experience.

But running app side by side

is also really interesting

because you can run two apps at once.

But LG isn't just letting you run apps side-by-side

like you would on, you know,

it's dual-screen Android devices that it's done,

or, you know, a foldable where you're running it

on two screens

Because LG also thought a lot about how you hold it.

So you're not just running a big widescreen app on top,

and then a small little square screen on the side,

you can turn the phone sideways, run a regular Android app,

and its regular portrait orientation.

And then have like a little friend over here

or you can flip it upside down, completely,

you know, play a game on the bottom screen

and then have, you know, your Twitch chat

or whatever on top.

There's a lot of different, interesting use cases

LGs thought up here,

but just playing around with it and exploring

is half the fun holding it right now.

Now, LG isn't only using this weird form factor

for extending apps or running things side by side.

There's also a super interesting gimbal mode

that they have built-in.

Now, the way it works is, you know, like a gimbal,

but there's actually a second dedicated ultra-wide sensor

that's rotated 90 degrees so that it can shoot in this,

you know, landscape orientation.

And it lets you use it like a gimbal.

You can use a digital joystick on the bottom screen

to pan around.

There's a dedicated Hexa Motion Sensors,

which LG says should help prevent interference

from other parts of the phone and it looks interesting.

We're gonna have to put it through a lot more test

to see if it actually works.

Especially once we have final hardware in our hand,

but it's a creative idea.

The other interesting camera thing is that

there is a popup selfie camera

because LG apparently decided that

there weren't quite enough moving parts in this phone yet

so it threw a couple more in.

That gets to one of my biggest concerns about the Wing,

which is durability.

Now I've only had this thing for a couple of hours

and it feels fine.

And LG promises that you know, it will last,

but there's a lot going on here.

And it's really easy for me to imagine, you know,

getting the wrong piece of dust or dirt

or something caught between these

and everything just grinding in a way that I don't want.

So we'll have to wait and see, honestly,

it might be fine, it might not.

But right now you can't really tell.

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Looking past the screens,

which again are easily the most interesting part

of this phone with the 6.8 OLED

and the 3.9 OLED and the twisting and the cool stuff.

The rest of the wing is actually a pretty

average Android phone.

It's got a Snapdragon 765G processor

with an integrated Qualcomm X52 Modem,

which means that it will support 5G.

LG says that it will be out on AT&T Verizon and T-Mobile,

although we still don't have any idea of price