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LG Optimus G Review

Sprint (LS970)     See other variants reviews Score: 66 / 100

LG Optimus G is a powerful cellphone released back in the year 2012, featuring a 4.7 inches multi-touch screen, a high speed Quad-Core CPU clocking at 1.5 gigahertz, and 2 cameras, a 13 MP back camera and a 1.3 MP front-facing camera. Great! That's it? No, it's only the shortest summary on earth.

The LG Optimus G is offerred in two colors, black and white. This device doesn't feel very lightweight for a cellphone of this size, with a weight of 5.11 ounces. The LG Optimus G is only 5.19" long and 2.71 inches wide, but it's able to fit a a 4.7 inches screen. The LG Optimus G is thin and comfortable, being just 0.33" thick.

This phone ships with an extremely powerful Quad-Core processing unit running at 1.5 GHz, included in the Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro APQ8064 system chip with a big 2 GB of RAM. Handling graphic rendering, it also counts with a 400 MHz Adreno 320 GPU. A great advantage of this device is its 32 GB astonishing internal memory and although it doesn't include an SD card slot, it it is more than enough to store hundreds of applications without worrying about filling it.

This phone has two cameras, a 13 megapixels back camera and a 1.3 mega-pixels front camera. It is also able to shoot Full HD 1920x1080 videos. This cellphone also has a lot of amazing characteristics like auto-focus, flash, fast burst mode, smile detection shooting, face detection shooting and geo tagging.

LG equipped this cellphone with a gorgeous 4.7-inches screen, and a 1280 x 768 resolution, making everything look absolutely perfect. Its screen uses IPS LCD capacitive technology, and allows multi-touch gestures.

The LG Optimus G provides Wi-Fi capability (and it can be provided to other devices around, acting as a mobile hotspot), 4G LTE fast internet connection and fast 3G internet connection, supported by HSPA, UMTS, EV-DO A and EDGE technologies. The LG Optimus G works with a Micro SIM card to use GSM services and it can connect using both GSM and CDMA carriers.

The LG Optimus G also comes with a couple of nice features like NFC (to trigger actions, transfer data or make payments by holding your cellphone close to another NFC device or tag), Bluetooth (4.0) and GPS, and lots of sensors like Light Sensor, Proximity Sensor, Accelerometer and Compass.

This device uses a 2100 mAh big Li-Polymer non-replaceable battery, which isn't very promising for a device like this. An issue to evaluate is that this phone's battery is not replaceable so you won't be able to replace it when it starts to have trouble holding its charge, though with so much capacity you will probably replace this cellphone before it becomes a real problem.

This cellphone costs $ 195, not very cheap for comparing with similar phones. It doesn't matter whether you want this device to take plenty of pictures, want a phone to mostly use social networks and internet browsing, will use it as a work cellphone or want it for gaming, you will definitely love this phone.



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Specifications

Device Type:Phone
Brand:LG
Operating System (OS):Android 4.1.2, 4.0.4
Variant:Sprint
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Also Known As:LG G
Product code:LS970
Dimensions:5.19 x 2.71 x 0.33 inchesMetric13.18 x 6.88 x 0.84 cmImperial
Weight:5.11 ouncesMetric144.87 gImperial
Colors:Black and White
Release date:2012-10-03
Price:$ 195.00

Display

Screen Type:IPS LCD (16M colors)
Size:4.7 inchesMetric11.9 cmImperial
Resolution:768 x 1280 pixels
Pixel density:318 pixels per inchMetric125.2 pixels per cmImperial
Touch screen:Capacitive, Multi-touch

Hardware

Chipset:Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro APQ8064
Processor:Krait (Quad-Core 1500 MHz)
RAM Memory:2 GB (500 MHz)
Graphics Processor:Adreno 320 (400 MHz)
Internal Memory:32 GB
SD Card Slot:No SD card slot

Battery

Battery type:Li-Polymer
Removable:No
Capacity:2100 mAh
Talk Time:13 hours

Camera

Back camera:13 megapixels
    Flash:Yes
Front camera:1.3 megapixels
Max video resolution:1920 x 1080 (Full HD)
Camera features:Auto-Focus, Face Detection Shooting, Fast Burst Mode, Geo Tagging and Smile Detection Shooting

Networks

Wi-Fi:Yes
    Mobile Hotspot:Yes
SIM Card Type:Micro SIM
LTE (4G) Bands:1900 (band 2)
UMTS Bands:850, 1900
GSM Bands:850, 900, 1800, 1900
CDMA Bands:800, 1900
Technologies:LTE (4G), HSPA, UMTS, EV-DO A, EDGE, GPRS, GSM and CDMA

Other Features

Bluetooth:Version 4.0
GPS:Yes
NFC (Near Field Communication):Yes
Sensors:Accelerometer, Compass, Light Sensor and Proximity Sensor