The first time I held and touched the blacky (so I called LG Optimus Black), I was really impressed with its body design is very fashionable. Thin, cachy, lightweight and elegant without neglecting the supporting hardware such as cameras, flash, USB ports, speakers and a few functional buttons.
Fourth Soft button located at the bottom of a 4-inch display NOVA is very useful in the navigation menu. Front camera mounted on the body beautiful front of the blacky, while main-capacity 5.1 MP camera with flash her body designs adorn the back. USB port, headphone and several functional buttons like the volume buttons, power and Gesture (later I will tell us a bit about this feature) also mounted neatly on the side of her slender body blacky.
Features:
- Quadband 850/900/1800/1900, HSDPA 900/1700/2100
- 1GHz processor (Texas Instruments OMAP3) and 512 MB RAM
- Android OS 2.2 Froyo, Gingerbread upgrade soon follow in the near future.
- GPS, WiFi 802.11 b / g / n and Bluetooth 2.1
- Thin dimensions, 122 x 64 x 9.2 mm with a weight of 109 grams.
- Capacitive IPS screen, resolution 800x480 pixels, 4 inches, with NOVA display (700 nits of brightness)
- 5 megapixel camera with autofocus and LED flash, front camera 2MP
- Video Recorder HD 720p (1280x720) 30 frames per second
- Battery 1500 mAh
- Gesture UI supported by Gyro-sensors, DLNA, Dolby Mobile
Like the fashion trend lately, LG Optimus Black have arches in the corners of the phone. For the body is generally divided into two parts, namely the glossy plastic on the screen and doff at the rear casing. There are no frills list altogether. The back does help the appearance of the phone overall, but the absence of lists around the phone make it look not too exclusive. However this phone is named Optimus Black, maybe this is the reason all the black mobile phone without a list.
The front, glossy plastic that easily dirty due to fingerprints, front camera and capacitive touch buttons flank the screen display NOVA 4 inches wide. Touch the button it changes color from white to blue when touched. There are no physical buttons on the front of this. Rear casing, designed 3 sides by two angles. In the upper left corner, 5MP camera with LED flash with the logo "with Google. " Meanwhile, underneath, the loudspeaker and the LG logo. The top of the phone, 3.5mm audio jack, micro USB port with a cover slide collection system, as well as the power button. The bottom there is only audio mic. The right side is not there anything on the left there while the volume buttons and the G-Sensor like the Optimus 2x.
NOVA Display
LG uses IPS type screen, just like the iPhone 4. The level of sensitivity no doubt with capacitive screens. For brightness, is the brightness at the maximum rate is very bright, so to use the room very bright eyes. However, for use under the blazing like the sun light, super bright screen will be very helpful. Compared side by side with Optimus 2x LG, the brightness level is quite remote. For the contrast is still less with the screen type Super Amoled. Viewpoint is still less good. But overall, NOVA is a very good display. Please see the comparison with the LG that do not use 2x Optimus NOVA Display.
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| Left: LG Optimus 2X, Right: LG Optimus Black |
Interfaces
Optimus Black LG interface is equipped with a Gesture UI. Gesture UI is activated when you hold down G on the left side of the phone. So, when you tilt the phone to the left, the screen shifts to the left. Gesture is active on the homescreen UI, browser, and Gallery.
Overall the interface is almost exactly with 2x Optimus. Homescreen which can use up to 7 screen, can add widgets, shortcuts, and folders. And of course supports Live Wallpaper.
Notification bar present in this phone, with shortcut access packet data, WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS and Profile and Music Player. Pressing the touch-Home for a while, you will be taken to Recent application. Unfortunately the black background can not be replaced. Transfer menu on the main menu quite smoothly. To make a screenshot press the touch Home and Power buttons simultaneously.
Camera
The maximum resolution is a 5MP camera phone, with a resolution of 2592x1944 pixels. As for the focus mode, it supports macros, continuous focus, face tracking and manual focus. Other features no scene modes, ISO (up to 800), white balance, color effects and shot mode. Front camera can be used taking pictures with a maximum resolution of 2MP.
The result is sharp and good camera, although the conditions a bit over-abundance of light brightness, but in the room quite bright, especially if using a LED flash that widens its light enough and very helpful for taking pictures in a room that is not too far away. Please see the photo below to see Optimus Black LG picture quality.
Video Recorder
In front of the camera mode video recording up to VGA resolution (640x480) large enough. While the back support 720p HD resolution (1280x720) with features White balance, color effects and flash.
Video recording is quite good results, continuous autofocus can be done so that it can take video at close range with a fixed focus. The resulting bitrate above 5000kbps with frames per second to reach number 25. Recording 30 seconds to produce the .3 gp file of 19MB.
Music player
The music player of this phone make songs in 4 categories, Songs, Albums, Artist and Playlist .. Album art is displayed when selecting an album as well as play songs. The music player has many kinds of equalizer effects and Dolby Mobile, but you can not manually edit the equalizer. The resulting sound loudspeaker, these standards alone, sounded quite loud but broken at high volume. By using a 3.5mm headset default output will sound better, especially if using a variety of effects that match moved at a song that you play.
Connectivity
As usual Android phone always has a fairly complete connectivity, such as mobile phones that use the network Quadband GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 and HSDPA 900 / 1700 / 2100 with speeds up to 7.2Mbps. For local connectivity, there is WiFi 802.11 b / g / n with WiFi Direct (following application), DLNA and WiFi tethering, other than that this phone has A-GPS and Bluetooth 2.1.
Flash is supported by this phone, although it seems burdensome performance of the phone when we play YouTube videos in a browser that can open up to a maximum of eight this tab. Generally fast performance and minimal lag when opening the full HTML site. The use of gesture in the browser for scrolling add fun effects to this phone. NOVA bright screen technology is also quite easy you see the web in the blazing sunlight.
Benchmarking results
- Quadrant Standart: Of the few attempts we got the number 1293, good enough compared to some phones 1GHz classmates, except a few, such as Nexus S and Desire Z.
- Linpack benchmarking: The highest result achieved was 12 931 MFLOPS in 6:48 seconds.
- Neocore: 3D Benchmarking la Neocore scored 45.2 frames per second.
Battery Life
Batteries that complement the Optimus Black is a type of Lithium Ion battery with a capacity of 1500 mAh. Good durability, can last all day if you are online constantly and play the occasional multimedia.
Conclusion
With the commencement of the era of mobile phones with dual core processors, 1GHz processor, the smartphone Android slow but sure will be shifted to the middle class. When compared with 2x Optimus possible performance very much, especially considering 2x Optimus priced 5 million dollars, then worth Optimus Black whether or not to buy depending on price, if it could be under 4 million, then the phone can be very threatening competitor, but if the price is more than that this phone will be crushed by the shadow of LG Optimus 2x. We think this cell phone performance and has good features for its class, yet thin design is very unusual and memorable not exclusive. NOVA is indeed very bright display, as well as air-5MP camera LED flash can be a weapon in the competitive mobile phone is the single-core.
Plus:
- NOVA Display, very bright even under the blazing sun
- Performance is good enough
- LED flash is very helpful
- Thin design
- Design and body less exclusive
- Not equipped with LED Flash marker specific for notification
- loudspeaker is bad
- Still wearing Froyo, although there will be upgrades to the Gingerbread in the near future