LG VELVET™ 5G | AT&T

I can't say enough good things about this phone for the price I paid. I got it At&t unlocked so I knew it would be coming opened an slightly used. I wanted a new At&t locked version of the phone but didn't wanna have to go to the store to buy it however this one worked too. So it came in a box inside another box. Packaged very well wasn't damaged during shipping which btw was blazing fast bought it Wednesday had it in my hand Friday morning when my mail went. I wish it would've came w the wired headphones but it didn't. However everything else was there. The phone itself didn't have a mark on it an still had the original stickers on n the top an bottom of the phone. Was weird however out of the box the phone was on so the battery was pretty drained when I got it so I plugged it in let it charge for awhile an put my sim in it. I got wifi calling texting an volte. Which is what I needed it for. It exceeded my expectations of this phone off the bat w the smooth yet colorful display, fast when switching through multiple apps, camera is awesome (some close up pics can get pixley) but for 200 because I had a 100 gift card it was well worth the money. It has dual speakers an are very loud n crisp. Still has the 3mm headphone jack that I love. I love lgs screens always have. It's a bummer there no longer in the cell phone industry. It updated to Android 11 no problems. I all around love this phone the only small very small thing I have a pick w an it's y I didn't give a 4 star review. The battery. However I understand if your on your phone alot it consumes battery however. I'm only maybe 3 hours total out of a day an if I'm on Facebook talking u might as well hook up a charger cause it will die fast. Now if ur not watching you tube or on Facebook talking the battery isn't that bad. I can leave 100% at 11am n at 8pm when I get home I still have about 85% or more. The fast charging isn't fast though kinda slow compared to the mia1 I have from 4 years ago it's tops off in under a hr from 0 to 100 an this one takes about 2 wireless charging the 1st night I didn't even get a 100% I thought it was the charger itself so I got another one did the samething. However it seems that the longer I use this phone the better the battery life gets an the wireless charger is now capable of charging to 100% even though it takes it almost 5 hours or more. I hope this review helped someone out in deciding to buy this phone. It feels amazing in the hand quality feel an not heavy but made sturdy. Doesn't feel cheap or platic. Tha k u lg for this wonderful device!

I wanted the nfc function in case I needed it for the future. Wireless charging is slow and I would think if you use the wrong kind of armor it might be slower or worse but it does work. My turbo charger works well with it but I go through power cables fast on the phone side usb c of course so try to use good cables or experience slower charging. 5g was not working but lo and behold this morning I noticed att 5g is working and I checked and now my prepaid $40 account has 5g now. Looks like they all do. I will edit with the armor I am using & it has integrated screen protector. Stereo sound is awesome and loud. Battery runtime is ok. Camera exceeds my needs. Bunch of garbage apps on there but I disabled/deleted as many as I could and once in a great while they come back. I have been upgraded to android 12. Using 128GB SD card might bump that up but got a 1TB crucial external SSD and it works beautifully with phone so I might just manage videos I keep on phone since I get enough storage on SSD. I just like to keep my SD card 1/2 empty in case I come across a unicorn, dragon or bigfoot that might pose for me. Poetic Spartan Series for LG... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08LK7LD8V?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share

So gonna make a simple but info review for now and update when i get more into it. First thing to note when buying a 'Unlocked carrier phone'. THIS IS OPEN BOXED! Period. Not 'Brand NEW'. Carrier phones MUST be active on a carrier for a period of time before they can be UNLOCKED. So This is OPENED and activated. Then they unlock it after the period, Repackage it when it's been unlocked. But it is still got the internal carrier items from it's system and will boot from it's carrier service provider logo. This is a ATT GSM. So yes it WILL work on T-mobile network, But you'll need to put a T-mobile Sim card in and do normal phone activation. Then wait about a hour or more depending on so for it to 'log' itself. The steps normally to do this, is to TURN the phone OFF COMPLETELY. Then place your new provider SIM card inside. Turn on. Let it load. Then let it sit after logging in/opening your phone screen up for everything to internally load apps.etc. Get the phone activated, Then reset. It should now fix it's logo load up with which ever provider you going with (Tmobile if you're switching to it. or ATT will just stay same.). T-mobile and ATT are both GSM radio bands. Sprint (Non activable anymore since it's T-mobile/GSM band now.) And Version are the Velvet 5G UW Which is a different phone then this and uses CDMA radio band. Which you cannot use on this phone. 2et. LARGELY recommend you do a 2et format on the phone when you get it. Because the user does do a reset, it's not 100% fully reset. So best bet is to do a true factory reset,etc after you do a 'basic' setup that doesn't have your google,etc account active or sim yet. This'll make sure you have a truly cleared phone. Besides that. The phone came nicely package, almost new-like Thought again since this is a UNLOCKED Carrier version phone and not a truly 'unlocked' global phone. I kinda expected it to be semi-open box but not really used, Since ATT has a 45day activation requirement before the phone can even be unlocked fully from their carrier to switch to T-mobile if one were to do. But it came clean, Had all it's plugs and cables. Paperwork. etc. Turned it on and did basic setup, then reformated it again. Setup, and found a rather beans of a secret from carriers. (Though still working on if this is just ATT, or for all carriers.). Phone is dead set on stock version 900ULM-E version. Which is JUNE update of 2020. And you cannot do a 'update' Till it's setup with a carrier. So if you plan to get this without a sim card. You'll be stuck on a stock update of a year old and android 10, With no ability to update it unless you firmware flash, or sim sit it. But a cheap prepaid sim can fix that, But still pain in the neck that you have to do that to get a decent update. Other then that. Phone is nice. Works pretty well and ATT just got Android 11 on it (again requires you to be on active carrier service to get updates. Cannot update via WIFI without carrier activated sim system.). Desktop mode works pretty well, Though can't change that and most of the thems/wallpaper on the phone are pretty limited from LG (ugh.). But performance is nice (slightly better then a Motorola One Fusion. Velvet having 582gigaflops/Fusion having 384gigaflops.). For gaming. The options on their gaming launcher is also pretty nice. Custom mode to change the resolution from High/Normal/Low to FPS to high/normal/low. So you can change some games system down for better FPS, or put a limit to FPS speeds. Tethering is also nice. Dual band, Almost as great as a S20 ultra's wifi speed performance, Just slightly less in stability. But still smooth. And Tether you can do Wifi sharing, instead of just mobile data. + with android 11. You now get Ethernet tether (Ether Wifi to Ethernet or Mobile to Ethernet.). (10 doesn't have this. But still has Wifi sharing.). Screen is nice and good for a P-OLED (Aka LG's version of AMOLED). But maybe it's just my settings, But i found that on my vs a S20 Ultra's screen. This tends to have a more retained color across, then dimming colors together as a ultra does. Which i compared side by side with on Eve Echoes, and the Green color came out more on the Velvet then Ultra. With less color change on the LG. But again this could probably just be my settings on Custom mode to normal saturation and maxed sharpness. So it's not a knock to being a bad screen. Just weird from my point of view, Others it won't be a problem. Speakers are nice. Though i think their slightly a little to the loud speaker side then to the headpiece speaker, Since this is a stereo speaker system the loud/headpiece both place. But seems slightly to the right speaker seeming more louder then the left, But maybe this is mainly just me in how the balance goes. But the volume does seem alittle on the low side, Like you need more volume up to hear things more then compared to the ultra. Not meaning it's tinny or anything. Just the volume doesn't have that high of output in general. So you normally got turn things up more then normally. Back to the screen. It's got curves. Which can be a Plus to some. And a con to others. This does have slight curve shadowing effects on the screen, And you don't get much curve edge touch support. So you aren't gonna get that edge touch ability to mess around on the corners. Finger print, Voice activated locks. Now i haven't done the voice phraze unlocking. But the phone does support optical finger print unlocking. This can be a Plus and con to some. It's a plus to some that aren't liking their screen protectors to have a huge hole where the print reader is (like the ultra gets on their screen protectors because of the ultrasonic reader.). But this is also a con due to it's less guarding of your phone. Optical print readers are more of a 'camera' taking a picture of your finger. So if someone has a phone of your finger print and they tried opening your phone. They can do it due to the fact it's only a camera taking a picture to know the print. Unlike the Ultrasonic fingerprint reader on galaxy phones that use sonic waves of sound to bounce off the face of your finger, and sense all the little nooks and bits of your fingerprint to send back to the phone. This is better guarding then optical, Because it doesn't take a picture of your finger. It reads the grooves of your finger print, So if a image is posted on the print reader, This won't work because the sonic waves will sense it's a flat piece instead of the grooves on your finger. Also there is no selfie/photo unlocking with this phone. Only print/Voice unlock. Good phone. But do alittle research. Sadly this likely is the last phone to, besides the V60/G8X-G8S series. Since LG has left the game. But supposedly they'll be giving it Android 12 and Android 13 updates. So it'll have it's life to the end.

Love the phone, hated the fact as an AT&T phone it isn't fully compatible with T-Mobile...elEven though they are unlocked I Had network connection issues, if you try the DIY to switch method it tells you it's not compatible with the network. Took it to a T-mobile store and they got it connected but afterward I had times it showed 5G status but couldn't call or text spent lots of time trouble shooting by text with customer service who reset the network had me reset my phone and finally got connected only to have it happen again and again. Finally enough was enough and we returned them. Make sure your network is compatible...I wound up buying them through T-Mobile ...it cost more but they work

So this phone is actually a great model! I purchased for my mother cause her old phone is well. Outdated. Anyway, I’ll get to the issue So this seller claims the phone is unlocked and can be used by any carrier etc. plan was to use with metro PCs.. I tried and couldn’t activate through metro PCs. I tried and couldn’t activate through t-mobile. I tried and couldn’t activate through Verizon. I tried and couldn’t activate with visible. So why does seller claim this phone is unlocked and work with other carriers besides att? My assumption is cause that’s usually what you can do with any phone. However!! LG manufacturer specifically sold this model as carrier locked. Period. There’s no way to swap carrier in the US. And international bands don’t work on IS network bands. Don’t buy this if you live in the Stayes. And to help all phone buyers that read this. Do your research before buying. Att told me that I can’t use this phone because the cellular bands are not the same as US. It’s such a nice phone with many amazing features for a decent price. Great midrange phone. But so much carrier problems behind this model.

If you're looking for a budget Android phone that has wireless charging or NFC, this is it. My provider is Red Pocket, but it's running on the AT&T network (GSMA), which is why I purchased this phone. Pros: - Nice Display - Speed and memory is plenty for most users - Thin and not too heavy - Wireless charging works beautifully Cons: - VERY SLIPPERY, it's like it's been coated with butter. If you're like most people and get a case, it's not an issue though - FINGERPRINT READER: Horrible, just horrible. Took many attempts to teach-in, and recognition is not working well. It's really bad. - End Of Life product: Since LG exited the smartphone business, don't expect too many Android updates USING ON RED POCKET GSMA: I simply moved my SIM from my old Motorola into the Velvet, configured the APN settings (as per Red Pocket website), saved the APN and rebooted the phone. Took maybe 5 to 10 minutes and I was all ready to go. If your local cell tower supports it, you'll get 5G. GETTING ANDROID UPDATES: If you are NOT an actual AT&T customer (for example if you're on Red Pocket), you will be unable to get android updates through the usual update mechanism (the phone ships with Android 10 and when you try to update, it tells you that you're already on the latest version). There is no way to update yourself, but if you go to the AT&T website and chat, just tell them that you have an AT&T Velvet 5G phone but you're not an AT&T customer but want the software update. They will ask for your phone's IMEI, and within 24 hours you will be able to update. They were very nice about it and I'm now on Android 11 (the most current as of April 2022) HOTSPOT: Out of the box (with Red Pocket as provider), the hotspot feature does not work. Red Pocket support hasn't been great, unfortunately, in fixing it. I will update once it's working.

I bought this phone because I wanted one last piece of LG and what a phone it is. The screen is great, audio from this is great, battery life is good, build quality is amazing, camera is really good even sometimes takes better shots than my Note 20 Ultra! I really don't have any gripes with this phone. Definitely worth $300. Also the performance is solid. Totally recommend to anyone at this price point.

Update- May 2022, Found the back button after doing my original review :p. Really this update is to inform any interested parties that ATT did an update on this phone about 8 months ago. The update disabled wifi calling and wifi texting, which killed the phone for me. I have been without a phone for many months, thank you ATT. I really liked this phone alot and as usual, ATT dissapoints. It is 2021 and this phone does not have a back button? No, not a button on the back, but a way to go back to previous pages. Imagine reading a news article in your email, the article has several pages. There is no way to go back to the 1st page, only close it all down and bring up the 1st page again.

Dudaba antes de comprarlo, llevo 1 año de uso y sigue impecable, el modelo es un poco viejo, pero no le pide nada a los modelos más modernos, la cámara no es la mejor, pero es muy resistente a los golpes, al polvo y al agua, lo tengo de uso rudo y nunca me ha fallado. Cuando hace mucho calor, el celular se calienta y lo apago para evitar cualquier problema. Es un celular con buen procesador, una pantalla LED excelente, el diseño es fenomenal, 102 GB libres para almacenamiento interno, está liberado para todas las compañías celulares a excepción de Bite. El sistema operativo como visualizador de camara, administrador de operaciones es muy eficiente. A todos mis conocidos se los he recomendado, un verdadera joya!

Muy malo...se calienta, falla todo el rato y no coge cobertura. Hay que reiniciar continuamente. No tiene ni cuarto meses

It's ok

The phone don't get network at certain places, not worth buying this phone. Not even a month is passed and I am facing such issues.

Owned a G30+ for close to 3 years and decided to get LG phone again. Delivery took about 10 days from us to aus. I like everything about this phone.