LG Optimus Vu Preview

LG may have quit on tablet pcs, but not over the Optimus Vu - it's midway in between a smart phone plus a tablet pc, a mixture of style elements that we love to to call "phoneblets". The Samsung Note was one of the many very first, however that doesn't mean it will surely have the market place all for itself. The LG Optimus VU pairs the big screen using a practical stylus to enhance assignments such as taking notes, some thing that may be a chore on a common thumb-controlled mobile phone.

The focused Notebook application permits you to create detailed, multiple-page paperwork with graphics and text, or else you can just hit the QuickMemo key, which pictures a monitor shot and even lets you scribble in it - you can monitor shot a internet site, a part of an email, a record, an image, and easily regarding everything else.

This helps make the LG Optimus VU a invaluable device for getting down reminders or even aiding you to converse with other individuals - it's a lot quicker to share what you need when you can take a screen shot and make your ideas over it. At the time you are done, transmitting the photograph via email, Dropbox, a social networking and also a further channel is simply a tap away.

The phoneblet totally sure offers quite a bit taking it, however it's not all sun rays and roses - you'll be able to go on together with copy our records on where it scores and where it misses.

Important Capabilities

Dual-band CDMA, 1x EV-DO, HSDPA and LTE connectivity
5" 16M-color capacitive HD-IPS LCD touchscreen of XGA resolution (768 x 1024 pixels)
LG Rubberdium stylus and QuickMemo button

Android OS v2.3 Gingerbread
Dual-core 1.5GHz ARM Scorpion processor, 1GB of RAM, Adreno 220 GPU, Qualcomm MSM8660 Snapdragon chipset
32GB of inbuilt storage
8 MP autofocus camera, face detection and geotagging
1080p @ 30fps video recording
Front facing 1.3MP camera, video calling
Wi-Fi b/g/n and DLNA, Wi-Fi Direct, Wi-Fi hotspot
NFC connectivity
GPS with A-GPS
microUSB port (charging)
Stereo Bluetooth v3.0
MHL TV-out
Polaris Office document editor
Smart dialing, voice dialing
Accelerometer and proximity sensor
DivX/XviD video support

Standard 3.5 mm audio jack
Dolby Mobile and SRS sound enhancement
Stereo FM radio with RDS
T-DMB TV tuner

Key Negative Aspects

microSIM cards only
Runs older Android 2.3 Gingerbread
Wide form factor needs getting used to
4:3 aspect ratio not a good fit for video watching
No microSD card slot

Using a powerful application bundle, the Optimus Vu includes solid business references. It boasts the Polaris Office document editor also as an app that will automate back-ups (using an approach to encrypt them).

Therefore, you have an NFC app, with which you may simply talk about your contact details, web site, memos, scheduling information and facts and more. You may share it immediately with the other NFC-equipped device or possibly publish the details to NFC tags that you'll be able to offer to individuals.

The intensive connection options go on - you have fast data internet connections over LTE, Wi-Fi b/g/n, Bluetooth 3.0 and Wi-Fi Direct, plus there is the exciting things like DLNA plus a T-DMB TV tuner (ok, that's a Korea-only feature).

We are really not counting on the LG Optimus Vu being very pocketable, but we'll be having the screen within a microscope (even literally) to find out if it is worthy of the tradeoff. We'll furthermore seem at the rest of the hardware and rummage in the retail box - all that is coming. Or, go into the current BlackBerry apps.