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Hardware design
With 139.6 mm length and width of 90.4 mm, the LG Optimus Vu is clearly large sized smartphone. Compared to the Samsung Galaxy Note and Samsung Galaxy Note II, this phone has a body that is thinner (8.7 mm compared to 9.7 mm of the Note) and lighter (168g compared to 178g of the Note). Yet, holding one hand to use is difficult, even for basic functions like call.
Large size of the machine is not convenient to the pockets. Those who wear pants or jeans hug certainly will not be fit LG Optimus Vu, even with trousers or jeans, the wider will put the machine into the bag feel critical, uncomfortable to sit. However, larger screen size brings many other benefits, especially to surf the web, play games or read e-books.
Formally, the LG Optimus Vu borrowed the design of the LG Prada 3.0 square designs, fake metal rim around the edges and boron plastic back shell with leather surface. The body of the Optimus Vu is designed monolithic, rigid and create a sense of certainty, although the camera body using plastic material.
In addition to leather, genuine buyers LG Optimus Vu is also bundled stylus pen Rubberdium similar to S Pen of the Samsung Galaxy Note and Samsung Galaxy Note II but used less functionality. Rubberdium Pen is designed to work well with the Quick Memo application notes (activated via keyboard shortcuts on top of the camera) and Notebook applications. You can use the pen to write, or draw on the screen to interact with the screen like using your finger except four touch buttons below the screen.
Screen
LG Optimus Vu is equipped with HD-IPS screen 5-inch 768 x 1024 resolution pixels with 256 ppi pixel density. Although the resolution is not as impressive as the LG Optimus 4X HD, but the screen of this phone has high brightness and natural color display. The application icon on the screen looks very clear and vivid image display. Because it uses standard sRGB pixel arrangement should monitor standards of Optimus Vu display accurate and white colors not like phenomenon blue reclining like screen using PenTile pixel arrangement of the Galaxy Note.
A noticeable advantage on the phone screen is high brightness, 650 nit according to the manufacturer’s specifications, so display movies and games is impressive. When used in indoor room brightness, the machine just set the screen brightness automatically is bright enough to read the messages, surf the Web and play games comfortably. On the outside, the screen is also quite easy to see, will not wash out as bright as the LG Optimus L7.
Android 4.0 Optimus UI 3.0 interface and
The user interface of the phone is the Optimus UI 3.0 version newest like the LG Optimus 4X HD. This is the user interface with simple design with 7 home screen and the bottom of each home screen are shortcuts to the 5 app calls, phonebook, notebook, message and application store. Users can customize the shortcuts applications appropriate usage habits.
In the application menu, the user can customize the size of large icons (5 icons per row and a total of 5 rows) or the size of small icons (6 icons per row and a total of 6 rows) . Optimus UI 3.0 also allows changing Theme (topic) with 4 preset themes to avoid boredom. Overall, the user interface LG Vu equip quite intuitive and easy to use, users can customize a number of functions to suit everyday use habits.
Besides the usual applications of Android smartphones like Youtube, Gmail, Maps …, LG also integrates its own application store LG SmartWorld provides users with the applications, ringtones and wallpapers are selected.
Multimedia entertainment
Large screen high brightness and color display standards are two important factors for multimedia experiences such as watching movies and exciting games. During the testing process, we found the Optimus Vu display Full HD movies smoothly and sharp.
Not only the strength of the image, the Optimus Vu is integrated Dolby Mobile audio technology enhances the sound quality when listening to music, watching movies via speaker and headphones. External computer speakers for high volume, clear and not being shy when increasing the volume up high. Optimus Vu also comes with in-ear headset, but the sound quality coming from the headset comes only inadequate. If you want to enjoy music better, surely you will have to spend extra money to buy a good quality headset.
Camera
Optimus Vu is equipped with 8 megapixel camera, LED flash and BSI sensor to support low-light shooting conditions, face detection feature, photography save the coordinates and avoid vibration. This smartphone’s main camera supports 1080p Full HD recording at 30fps.
In addition to the basic custom camera like ISO, exposure, flash and shooting mode, Optimus Vu also be equipped with unique features photographic ordered Cheese Shutter voice. You just say “Cheese” is the machine will automatically take pictures without pressing the shutter button on the screen. This feature is useful in situations shake photographed avoid when touching the screen. In the actual test, we had to try to pronounce the word “Cheese” truly understand calibration and this feature is allowed only low noise environment.
The machine is not equipped with hard button photography, however you can still take pictures by pressing one of two hard keys increase and decrease the volume. If you hold down the shutter button on a touch screen image, Optimus Vu will take pictures continuously but does not feature the best photos selected as the HTC One X. The time between photo shoot continuously for a long and sharp speed start slow.
Operating performance
LG Optimus Vu is equipped with a quad-core processor Nvidia Tegra 3 (4 core and 1 power-saving core) 1.5 GHz speed, ULP GeForce graphics core and 1 GB RAM. Optimus Vu processor on the same type of processor used on smartphones HTC One X international version. By equipping the machine configuration strongly smooth handling common tasks such as surfing the Web, open applications and move popular among home screens.
When tested on a benchmarking software, the Optimus Vu smartphone has also proved to be powerful configuration. Specifically, the machine reached 4959 points in the overall performance test software Quadrant, equivalent to the HTC One X. With performance test Vellamo web surfing, Optimus Vu reach 1110 points, slightly lower than the opponent Samsung Galaxy Note (1147 points).
We found 2080 mAh capacity battery of machines achieving expected results. Experiment with Full HD movie viewing screen placed in conditions of 50% brightness, turn off all connections (3G, Wi-Fi and GPS) and headphone jack located at the highest volume levels, machine can use 6, 5 hours.
Thus, if you use the machine at a moderate level, this device can be used 1.5 to 2 days to be recharged, an impressive result for a smartphone like Optimus Vu big screen.
Conclude
Optimus Vu is a smartphone large-sized display screen sharp and bright, the ratio of 4: 3 is suitable for web surfing and e-book readers, agile handling configuration and battery with a good use of time. Machines can also use the stylus to replace most of the fingers in the work but no pen slots and less app supports like Galaxy Note stylus as well as the Galaxy Note II.