LG Optimus VU Unveiled

By Samuel Smith

LG may have given up on tablet pcs, yet not on the Optimus Vu - it's almost between a mobile phone as well as a tablet pc, a mixture of style components that we like to refer to as "phoneblets". The Samsung Note was one of several first, although that won't require it can get the market place all for itself. The LG Optimus VU sets the big screen which has a useful stylus pen to accentuate tasks along the lines of taking notes, something that may be a project on a common thumb-operated mobile phone.

The devoted Notebook software permits you to build involved, multiple-page records with graphics along with text, or if you can just hit the QuickMemo key, which pictures a screenshot as well as enables you to scribble onto it - you can monitor shot a site, a portion of an email, a document, an image, and merely regarding everything else.

This makes the LG Optimus VU a convenient device for putting down pointers as well as letting you convey with others - it's less of a challenge to show you what you need when you're able to make a screenshot and even sketch your idea over it. As soon as you are completed, mailing the snapshot by way of email, Dropbox, a social network or even one more funnel is only a tap away.

The phoneblet certainly has a lot going for it, however it's not all sun light and therefore roses - it's possible to try and even copy our records on where it results and then where it misses.

Main Abilities

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

Most Important Cons

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

Having a rich app package, the Optimus Vu comes with serious business qualifications. It offers the Polaris Office record editor and an app which may speed up back-ups (using an option to encrypt them).

You likewise add an NFC app, with which you'll be able to very easily share your contact details, website, memos, booking details and much more. You can actually present it directly with the other NFC-enabled gadget or write the information to NFC tags that you possibly can offer to people.

The intensive on the web connectivity choices continue - you acquire fast data internet connections over LTE, Wi-Fi b/g/n, Bluetooth 3.0 and Wi-Fi Direct, plus there is the exciting stuff like DLNA as well as a T-DMB TV tuner (ok, that's a Korea-only feature).

We're not counting on the LG Optimus Vu being very portable, yet we will be getting the screen beneath a microscope (even literally) to figure out when it is truly worth the compromise. We'll furthermore search at the rest of the hardware and also rummage from the retail box - all that is definitely coming up. Or, go into the current BlackBerry apps.

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