LG Velvet review: LG's design reboot — "raindrop" cameras, optional dual screen.
LG's elegant near-final act.
LG Velvet rebooted LG's design language with a "raindrop" camera and curved P-OLED, keeping the Quad DAC, jack and IP68 — one of the last LG phones before the brand exited.
01Display
80/10080/100 puts it above the 75-point average for mid phones of 2020.
02Camera
64/10064/100 is one of the weaker camera results among mid phones of 2020 — 6 points under the average. Check the rows below before buying for this.
03Performance
64/10064/100 — right at the average for mid phones of 2020.
04Battery
72/10072/100 — right at the average for mid phones of 2020.
05Build
76/10076/100 puts it above the 72-point average for mid phones of 2020.
06Value
62/10062/100 is one of the weaker value results among mid phones of 2020 — 13 points under the average. Check the rows below before buying for this.
- Elegant "raindrop" design.
- IP68 + wireless + jack + Quad DAC.
- Optional Dual Screen accessory.
- Curved P-OLED.
- SD765G is mid, not flagship.
- 60 Hz only.
- Mono speaker.
- One of LG's last phones.
How this review is built: every section score, spec row and comparison on this page comes from SpecEagle's tracked catalogue — scores weight measured specs against the 22-phone cohort of mid devices released around the same time. We don't publish invented lab anecdotes. Spot an error? .