Weekly Recap: LG V30 In-House and White Essential Phone Available for Purchase

At long last, our retail unit of the LG V30 arrived in the DL offices, so we started the process or reviewing it. We can’t say when exactly we’ll have it up, but it won’t take forever, we promise. In the meantime, we posted up an unboxing, tips and tricks, and be on the lookout next week for some more fun stuff!

Other than the V30 action, Essential finally got around to making the White option available for purchase(!), the launcher found on the Pixel 2 leaked and is available for download on a number of Android devices, and we learned Samsung may start to ship Bixby 2.0 out to supported devices next week. Oh, the joy.

Here are the stories you don’t want to miss from this week.

• Video: LG V30 unboxing.
• Video: LG V30 first 10 things to do.
• Video: LG V30 20+ tips and tricks.
• Essential Phone in White now available for purchase.
• Free movies: Make sure to grab your free movies from Google!
• Google’s Wallpapers app updated with new goodies.
• Google updates trade-in policy to reflect important changes.
• Download: Test out the Pixel 2’s launcher for yourself.
• Razer: We’ll see Razer’s mystery smartphone on November 1.
• Bixby 2.0 may start rolling out next week.
• Answers to Volume 49 of the DL Q&A Sessions are now up!
• Shopping with Google Assistant? Don’t mind if I do.
• NO-reo: No Oreo update for NVIDIA SHIELD Tablet, SHIELD Tablet K1.
• Price of Google’s Type-C to 3.5mm dongle dropped to $9 from $20.
• Report: Galaxy Note 9 may have fingerprint reader embedded in display.

Have a great weekend!