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MOBILE PHONE
LG OPTIMUS L7 (P700)
Really smart midlevel phone
�The first impression that the Optimus L7 creates in one’s
mind is its high visual appeal. The device is superbly designed
and certainly meant to be a thing among the fashion conscious.
It is pretty sleek with its thickness being a mere 0.38
inches. Its screen size is fairly big further enhancing its visual
appeal. With its sharp corners, tapering edges and plastic
backing there is not much that can be said against its design.
Its size is appropriate enough to fit in a pocket and it is easily
usable with a single hand. In terms of its visual attractiveness
one shall of course involuntarily bring to mind the comparison
with LG’s Prada.
One of the major bonuses that this phone contains is that
it runs on Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. It is Google’s latest
version of Android in the market. Along with the OS comes
a host of pre-installed handy apps such as Maps and Navigation,
Gmail, Search, Plus etc. There are other useful apps
that can be used for performing a variety of useful functions
such as keeping track of
the stocks, troubleshooting the phone by remotely accessing
it, providing information about news and weather etc.
The Optimus L7 is equipped with NFC which is appreciable
considering its price tag. The NFC allows the phone to
wirelessly connect and transfer or receive data from any
other phone that also employs the NFC. It employs the
feature Android Beam which can be used to exchange
phone contacts and other data. Indeed the NFC makes
the phone look quite good in the connectivity department.
For in addition the phone supports Wi-Fi and DLNA, Wi-
Fi hotspot, GPS and A-GPS. It is also 3G equippedv.
In terms of memory, the device has no qualms having 4GB
of inbuilt storage with 2.7 GB being usable by the user.
Also, the memory is expandable to 32GB externally.
The screen displays are clear, sharp and quite crisp. The
text and the icons look fairly neat. As already mentioned
the screen size is an impressive 4.3 inches and
has a decent resolution of about 480x800 pixels.
The Optimus L7 has a decent 5 megapixel
camera at its back with a small front facing
VGA camera included for conducting video calls.
It supports geo-tagging and face recognition.
In terms of video recording it manages a 30
fps VGA, the drawback being the absence
of HD recording in the phone.
Other features including voice calling, accelerometer
and proximity user make the phone
a pleasure to use. The phone plays HD videos flawlessly
and has the Dolby Mobile sound technology. Multimedia
department is thus well looked after for.
Overall the LG L7 manages to provide and perform
quite well considering its inexpensiveness and the fact
that it is intended to be a midlevel smartphone.
TECH4 Price: $259 TECH MEN � October 2012
4MEN � October 2012