REVIEW LG Optimus L7 P705

After being previewed at Mobile World Congress in February last, LG is now ready to market L7 has also equipped with the latest OS Ice Cream Sandwich. Carrying a stylish design, LG L7 dikisaran off the price of 3 million. Comes in 2 colors, white and black, ready to lure consumers L7 homeland with a typical interface as well as equipping the camera is quite capable. So as to whether the actual performance of the L7? Please refer to the following reviews:

DESIGN

Dimensions: (WxDxH): 125.5 x 67 x 8.8 mm; Weight: 122 g
As the bearer of Series L, L7 takes the form of a square with silver metallic bezel around the body. Coarse-textured plastic coating on the back makes it very comfortable when held. In general, the angle of the upper body of L7 is much sharper angle than the lower body that tends to dull.

Despite carrying the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, L7 still has a few buttons below the screen. Under the screens, L7 is equipped with a physical home button is flanked by two touch sensitive keys, back and menu.

On the upper side of L7 are 3.5 mm audio port is coupled with the power / lock. Adjust the amount of volume you can do by pressing buttons on the left side of L7. While the charger to the hole, you can find it on the bottom. While in the back, there are only hole camera with flash light fittings.


HARDWARE

Qualcomm MSM7227A Snapdragon1 GHz Cortex-A5; GPU: Adreno 200; 512MB RAM, 4GB of storage (2.67 GB User Available), Up to 32 GB MicroSD Card
In order to run the latest OS, Motorola L7 complete with a 1GHz processor, which is supported by 512MB of RAM and GPU Adreno 200. Unfortunately, the price of 3 million, LG have not included the 1.4 GHz processor speed as owned by Galaxy W for example.

While for storage space, L7 comes with 4GB of internal memory which has a built-availability of the use of 2.67 GB. Of course you can still insert a microSD card slot up to 32GB capacity of memory it has.


NTERFACE AND OS

Ice Cream Sandwich Android 4.0.3, 4.3 "480 x 800 pixels, IPS LCD16 JutaWarna (~ 217 ppi) Gorilla Glass.
Gorilla Carrying Glas coated touch screen with 4.3-inch diagonal, L7 presenting interface consisting of 5 pieces homescreen page by page or swipe the displacement effect of varying effect. You can select the 7 pieces of different effects such as carousel, accordion, panorama, Jenga, etc. contained in the menu on the home screen settings.

Go to the menu page, you'll be treated with a variety of horizontal grid format icons are presented with background wallpaper that you used on the homescreen. A row of icons embedded menu is divided into three categories, applications, downloads and widgets.


CAMERA AND VIDEO

Camera: 5 MP, 2592 x 1944 pixels, Secondary: VGA, 16:9; Video: VGA @ 30fps, geotagging
In the photography sector, L7 look stylish with a 5 megapixel resolution camera equipped with flash and autofocus features. You can also take a picture with panorama mode or continuous shot.

A series of additional settings such as ISO, white balance, timer, picture size and scene modes have also pinned by LG. To take a picture, you can use the virtual shutter button or the volume keys that double as a physical shutter button and volume control.

To the size of the camera with a high enough resolution 5 megapixel camera, the resulting image has less detail and the noise is quite high when used to take pictures indoors.

As for the recording of moving images, L7 was only able to take pictures with a resolution of VGA-class high-speed frame 30.


MULTIMEDIA

Audioplayer: AAC, FLAC, M4A, MP3, OGG, WAV, WMA; video player: 3GP, Divx, FLV, M4V, MKV, MP4; FM Radio; AudioRecorder, Radio FM.
In the entertainment sector, L7 can use to listen to music in various popular formats that are classified according to categories of song, album, artist and folders. Too bad that you can adjust the sound effects fit the song playing, you must first plug in the included headset.

While for the video player, L7 can play VGA-resolution video in a variety of popular formats. Unfortunately, once again you have to be disappointed here because they can not watch the video HD720p with L7.


INTERNET AND CONNECTIVITY

GSM 850/900/1800 / 1900HSDPA 900 / 21007.2 Mbps; Wi-Fi 802.11 b / g / n, Wi-Fi hotspots, Bluetooth v3.0 A2DP, Wi-Fi Direct, DLNA, and the MicroUSB
By using its default browser, you can open 4 pages at once. Meanwhile, to support flash player, you have to do the installation yourself from the Play Store.

While for purposes of data transfer, you can use bluetooth or data cable. Once you connect the data cable to your PC, you will be prompted to select the type of connection you want, whether as a storage media, PC software or just recharge the battery.

You can also use the DLNA connection is supported by LG Smartshare to watch video on wireless HD TV via the support.


FEATURE

Play Google, Google Search, Youtube, Gmail, LG Smart World.
In addition to already crammed with Android native applications such as Play Store, Google search, YouTube, Google Maps and Gmail, L7 also is equipped with a magnetic compass sensor.

To manage documents, LG has membekalkan Polaris full version of Office. Besides being able to open, users can also create and edit new documents. Uniquely, you can also draw using touch access and store pictures that you paint in pdf format. LG also pinned LG Smart World that contains the application that is provided specifically for cell phones from LG.


excess
• Jumbo Screen with Gorilla Glass
• Newest OS
• DLNA connection with LG Smartshare
• Polaris Office Full Version

shortage
• The Portrait Less Good
• Display Settings Without Autobrightness
• Record the extent that results VGA
• Video playback VGA Only

conclusion

LG Optimus L7 emergence will certainly heat up the competition in the realm of the Android mobile middle class. In order to compete with the Galaxy W, LG has been prepared with new ammunition L7 which has been armed with jumbo screens coated scratch-resistant glass Gorilla Glass. LG did not forget to inject the latest OS, Android 4.0 in order to stay one step ahead of the Galaxy W made ​​by Samsung. Meanwhile, from the hardware side, L7 seems to have to recognize the benefits of Galaxy W which has been equipped with 1.4 GHz processor.



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review Cross X Andromeda A7

design

Dimensions: 12.5 x 6.7 x 1.2 cm; full touchscreen; plastic material; 3.5 mm audio port; mic hole; the power / lock, volume rocker, microUSB port; (around phones from the top); 4 haptic buttons below the screen (menu , home, back and search)
It is nothing new when China adopted the design of mobile phones have been branded a widely recognized, as did the w & g gadgets found on this A7 Andromeda.

This phone seems to adopt the design of Lumia 900 made ​​by Nokia, but not completely. Area with metal accents that cover the main camera lens is placed slightly to the left, not the middle as well as on Lumia.
Back cover of this phone can also be opened to access the battery, SIM and microSD card slot, while not so in Lumia.

Display

IPS capacitive touch screen panel, LCD WVGA 480x800 pixels, 4.3 inches (~ 217 ppi pixel density), multi-touch
The screen became one of the hallmarks Andromeda A7, where the phone has become one of China's mobile phone with the screen width. And that becomes an important point for users of course a relatively friendly price tag.

This phone uses IPS panel LCD screen, it's just that you should not expect the phone screen will display the quality of the iPhone's equivalent of the retina display 4 which also uses the LG panel display manufacturers.

Although relatively cheap for an Android phone with big screen, this phone uses capacitive technology that will only respond to the touch of a finger or special stylus to static electricity. In addition to support multi-touch you can enlarge (zoom) the image on the display screen with just a pinch gesture (pinch).


Operating System and UI

Android OS, v2.3.6 (gingerbread), Switch Style
Starting from your lockscreen will be directly served the time, date and day plus other important notifications such as missed calls or incoming messages.

Display home has 5 panel side by side with three virtual buttons on the side of the dock area of ​​the screen, each is a telephone, and messaging application drawer.

Interestingly you can create a folder to bring together some of the icons of your application to be more well-organized and easy when searched. Android-style display You can change this default style by pressing the menu button and then click Switch Style.


Personalize with Video Wallpaper

You are already familiar with the Android operating system would be familiar with the features of Live wallpapers, which you can use wallpaper featuring animatif or effects that allow you to interact with the touch.
A7 take one step more advanced features than just Live Wallpaper, Video Wallpaper phone call.
As the name implies, the user can select the video files stored in the phone to be used as wallpaper. Users can even specify a particular part to be screened.

Telephone features

Dual GSM SIM, Call Recorder
Dual SIM mobile phone is identical with the local or Chinese products, but in fact some of the branded vendors such as Samsung and LG already adopted this technology in its products and Optimus Galaxy Y Duos Dual-SIM, and even other vendors such as Sony and was followed by Xperia HTC Dual Tipo, Desire V and VC. This phone also supports it technologically.

The interesting thing on the features of mobile telephony is not just the Dual SIM capability, but you also can record your phone conversations. w & g gadget was confused at first tried it because the phone does not provide information on where the records are stored. But with a little exploration w & g gadget find recordings that are stored on the folder "PhoneRecord" on the memory card. To access this folder, users can use the application File Explore ES provided by default.


camera

5 MP, autofocus, LED flash, geo-tagging, face detection, a secondary camera: 1.3MP; VGA video recording @ 30fps
For the size of a smartphone for sejutaan, 5MP resolution brought Andromeda A7 quite tempting especially this camera comes with a number of interesting settings.

A7 has a choice of 4 focus modes, 15 scene modes, eight color effects, six capture modes, choice of burst mode, focus meterface detection and some other interesting options.

Barely there, the phone also mdilengkapi front camera for video call, unfortunately produced disappointing picture quality.


results Camera

Compared to mobile phones in its class, the catch A7 is quite satisfactory. This phone is able to produce images with natural color and contrast quality and sharpness is quite good. Unfortunately, when transferred to the front of the camera, the resulting image is very bad. Used in the room with the room lighting is displayed appears much darker than its natural state.


FM Transmitter

As with any other Android, the mobile phone is of course equipped with a standard entertainment features like music player and video by default. Also available as an alternative FM Radio playlist you start to feel boring.

But there is another interesting feature of this phone is, the FM Transmitter. This feature allows the phone to emit radio waves at a frequency determined. A7 can even help provide options that are not used by the wave radio station.

Afterwards you can listen to music played on the A7 in the Andromeda device that features FM Radio, for example, your car audio device.

Not only the music, the voice of the playable video or telephone conversations using a mobile phone is also broadcast live on radio waves which have been previously determined.


excess

• Android gingerbread
• Widescreen
• Dual SIM
• 5 MP Camera
• FM Transmitter
• Telephone Recorder
• Relatively Cheap Price

shortage

• Slow Performance

conclusion
Talking about performance, the Chinese Android phone is still difficult to compete with branded products. Moreover, for push prices to remain low, the vendor would have to sacrifice some things.

Strength of China's mobile phone instead on some additional features that sounded trivial and rarely adopted by branded mobile phone products, but bringing the benefits of, or at least can add style to users. For the A7, this phone brings a number of features such as Video Wallpaper, recording phone conversations and FM transmitter w & g which is very interesting gadget

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