LG Optimus Vu: A Step Towards Challenging Samsung's Supremacy

Although, Samsung is now the leading mobile company in today’s scenario, with its different flagships such as Samsung Galaxy Note II with improved form factor with a stellar hardware upgrade in respect to its previous version “Note”, the rivals are already nipping at the company’s heel. We are to look here at two new quad-core phablets and see if they are any near to compete with the Note II

LG Optimus Vu

Whenever we think of  Phablets, a large screen comes in our mind, but the LG’s flagship ‘Vu’ is just humongous. This is mainly due to its squarer 4:3 screen. The diagonal measurement of phone screens is 5 inches; so this proportion is always going to make for a wider display while compared to other 5-inch devices that use the widescreen 16:9 aspect ratio.

    

PROS

The Phablet’s big screen gives the user a delightful experience while reading or browsing your favourite websites. Even in the direct sun, the Phablet gives no hindrance. Photos, games and movies are rendered withrich colour complexion and optimum saruration. With this, the 4:3 aspect ratio causes not that good experience with the widescreen videos. Still, the Optimus Vu provides great overall performance, playing full HD videos smoothly, easy and unhindered support of high definition games, and, with these, seemless multitasking. The camera is capable of good clicks. And the video recording is mind blowing- with a powerful microphone that captures clear audio with less ambient disturbances

CONS

The phone is just too wide, so, cumbersome to hold during the phone calls. There's a shortcut button on the top of the Phablet that lets us access Notes, the app where we can pen notes quickly with the associated stylus. But, the dilemma is, the phone does not have a slot to carry the stylus. And the last, the Vu doesn't delivergood battery backup, lasting less than 10 hours in the day.

The Phablet has the price of abour Rs. 29,000 in India.