Thursday, August 9, 2012

The 3D LG Android Phone Reviewed

So far in 2012, we have seen that other than HTC and Samsung, the second tier Android giants have started to show some resistance in the market.

Earlier this year, LG announced a few Android phones in MWC 2012 at Barcelona. The LG Optimus 3D Max was one of the LG phones released in MWC 2012. As the name suggests, the LG Optimus 3D Max is the next version of the first 3D phone i.e. LG Optimus 3D.

Inside is the LG Optimus Pad is a 1 GHz Dual Core Nvidia Tegra 2 CPU – a powerful system-on-a-chip designed for smartphones and tablet computers. The Nvidia Tegra 2 chip supports high definition dual stream video, hence its suitability for 3D devices like the LG Optimus Pad.

3D viewing on the LG Optimus Pad 1280 x 768 WXGA screen (higher than the IPAD 2) will require glasses unlike the LG Optimus 3D phone. The user generated 3D content produced by the LG Optimus Pad can be viewed on a 3D TV or YouTube 3D,in a similar way that the 3D phone, due to be released in the UK late May,allows people to easily upload their 3D content to YouTube 3D.

The 3D LG Optimus Pad also features dynamic stereo speakers for"mobile theatre experiences".

3D gaming is sure to become a major part of its offering as, due to the close relationship LG have with Nvidia, the Nvidia Tegra Zone app will sure to be prominent.

We downloaded Angry Birds Space from the 3D gaming and executed it with 5 web applications and Music player running in the background already. We noticed a bit of heat after a certain period of time which didn’t increased further. There was no lag in the game. It was running smooth and nice.

Features and Performance of Optimus 3D Max:

The LG Optimus 3D Max is powered dual core Cortex-A9 processor clocked at 1.2 GHz which resides on TI OMAP 4430. 1 GB RAM also comes along with dual core processor. We sat down testing its resistance. We removed all the apps which came along with the Android phone. We downloaded AnTuTu and ran it. The result we got was good. The final score we got was 5584 which surpassed Samsung Galaxy S II but not by much. Multi-tasking wasn’t painful at all. Unlike its predecessor the Optimus 3D Max ran smoothly and was up to the mark always. But 2D graphics were on the lower side.


The Optimus 3D Max comes bundled with Android v2.3 which was pretty disappointing for us. We have noticed in the past, LG devices tastes the updates after every device in the market is equipped with it. The User Interface of the phone is nice and simple. The 3D glitch is appreciable but still we have seen some excellent Interfaces over the past year and LG needs to work on this.

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