LG Optimus 3D Specs, Release Date and Reviews

On an Android segment trusté by the Samsung Galaxy S2 or HTC sense LG has to stand out by offering the first 3D smartphone. Please read, marketing or good idea? Response elements in the LG Optimus 3D test. End of 2011, for the first time in France, it will sell more than conventional mobile phones. With a speed of equipment that continues to climb, the market for Smartphones are excellent health shows and attracts the greed of the builders.

Logical result, the segment is stormed by numerous references. It’s harder to make a choice when the standardization of smartphones equipped with close hardware solutions and delivering more or less the same.

If builders themselves despite excellent sales of the Galaxy S, Galaxy S2 or iPhone 4, in the street this standardization looks.
To try to stand out from the competition, the LG Optimus 3D argument a, 3D.

Problem, on the latter, the cliches such as “there is no content” return permanently. The Korean manufacturer tries to find the parade by the launch of a design-ecosystem and the possibility of designing their own contained with a sensor HD and 3D. Sufficient to overwhelm the Galaxy S2?

If the last flagship of LG is characterized by the 3D design, it remains a disarmingly agreed. Ugly, not necessarily more very original, that the drawing of the Optimus is right in the line of current smartphones, banal and functional step. Cached micro HDMI and micro USB on the segment, the socket at the top and a plastic where the only aesthetic madness seems to be the brushed-metal facade.

Finishes his level, appreciate Matt plastics that the traces of the finger and all issues to avoid a feeling of fullness. With its 4.3-inch LCD screen, LG Optimus 3D (11, 9 mm thickness for 168 g) is logically quite cumbersome and is even more impressive than the two competitors the Galaxy S2 (8.49 mm for 116 g) and HTC sense (11.3 mm for 148 g).

In fact, it seemed the acquisition of the 3D Optimus Androphones less comfortable with the large screen Samsung or HTC.

Equipment and interface

Well known for providing the plates of the iPhone 4 or the iPad 2, LG has logical Optimus of IPS 4.3 inch screen autostereosopique. The same techno than the Nintendo 3DS, but a WVGA resolution of 800 x 400 pixels to display there where the portable console of Japanese satisfied with 3.5 inches and 800 x 240 pixels. The quality of the restitution of the appointment and Colorimetry is more neutral than a AMOLED.

Configuration is classic for this range terminal, Texas Instrument OMAP CPU internal dual-4430 core running at 1 GHZ (core ARM Cortex A9), 512 MB RAM and 8 GB of storage. Issue graphics chipset, there is a Power VR SGX 540 which is already on the Galaxy S2 is proven. Performance is up to the specs, LG Optimus 3D Gets a good 2376 points on the benchmark tool Quadrant, it is more than the HTC sense that refers to 2015, but far behind the Galaxy S 2 in which an enviable 3627. In fact, the Optimus seemed considerably less reactive than the flagship of Samsung in the treatment of heavy tasks such as decoding of videos (native compatibility MP4/DivX/XviD/h.264/h.263/WMV), or 3D, nothing fatal games said.

Great disappointment about the autonomy on the other side. With its battery 1500 mAh against 1,250 for the thrill and 1650 for the s2 reached Optimus 3D Galaxy not the day of use.

To support Android 2.2.2 (update 2.3 scheduled for the end of the year, it calls October), the wrapper found home. If HTC and her feeling remains the reference in terms of interface, LG offers some good ergonomic ideas with intuitive management of Widgets and the unification of such social networks social tools. Opportunities also found in the competitors …

In the current competition is the added value of the 3D Optimus its suitability for 3D. Must admit that once found the correct distance and good angle of vision, the plate makes a 3D relief striking effect. Autostereoscopic techno and 3D are still gaps due to weakening, often better displayed than the blowout depth effects and an adjustment period necessary to fool the brain, but on the whole this highlight view has convinced us.
The thorny issue of content. Don’t rely on a rich catalog of movies, 2 or 3 titles fighting game. The Blu-Ray 3D come at the drop of the account and expected yet enjoyable film. In all cases, treatment in order to take advantage on the 3D Optimus looks complicated.

An attempt to solve the equation, LG makes several tracks. First, create the content with the 3D camera. The videos are captured in 720 p (1080p 2D) 30 second images via two 5-megapixel sensors. If the torch/Flash not accessible in 3D there are a few settings with the depth of relief or white balance. Menus are rich in classic 2D-mode and have a few filters and extra modes. Please note that the 3D images are captured in 3 megapixels.

The quality of the pictures and videos 2D seemed worse than the Galaxy and sensation. The next face to face with this touch to learn more at this point. For 3D, plate IPS and dual sensor pair work him perfectly, with no 3D TV at hand, we were able to verify that the quality on a large screen.
The 3D Optimus is also suitable for converting 2D image or video in 3D. In pixélisant the shots, the result is only moderately satisfied.

Following the capture of 3D, LG offers a menu accessible via a touch on the segment that all available content aggregates 3D. Not much further to the tooth, but the initiative is commendable.
It is especially necessary that take 3D sauce. The lack of content is available at this time, the first brake on the adoption. This menu 3D offers direct access to YouTube 3D share your creations and view those of other 3D Gallery where a dozen videos and games/apps.

At this point, the French publisher Gameloft believers present themselves on all mobile terminals offers 3 full games native (Nova, asphalt 6, Let’s Golf 2) and a catalogue which is expected to reach 17 titles. For the games, don’t forget the accelerometer, you can count on the touch screen to keep a good angle of 3D vision.

As for catching or view it is also possible to the extrusion depth. A method of precaution, because on the 3DS, a 20-minute game in 3D fast skull disease and nausea. If the 3D space still exists, the ecosystem, no shortage of booths to buy specific content and must pass through the Android market or space 3D games to get the 3D apps to download.

The update of gingerbread (Android 2.3) also need to expand the 3D catalog, LG has recently announced that its Optimus will be able to convert 2D in 3D applications, as is already the case for photographs or videos. This element would be decisive in the commercial success of the LG Optimus 3D, even though the quality of conversion the appointment.

Apart from a few original design and a more limited than the direct competition for autonomy, this 3D Optimus made us good impression.
More expensive than the Galaxy S2 and sensation, with the game offers of compensation and grant operator, LG Optimus 3D is still on the same position than the last. His surcout is essentially screen and 3D sensor because at the level of the specific characteristics, these three Smartphones boxent in the same category and close performance and use.

If you do 3D, the Galaxy S 2 remains the default value on Android. If instead you are looking for fantasy, 3D is enough différenciante and ten games are or will be available. The ability to quickly convert 2D to 3D apps also a certain potential.