LG Optimus Vu Made Official

February 19, 2012 in Commentary, News

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Mobile World Congress hasn’t even come yet and LG has already announced one of their upcoming phones, the LG Optimus Vu. 聽Apparently LG couldn’t sit on the phone for any longer and had to spill the beans. 聽The strangely square phone’s specs have also been made official. 聽The LG Optimus Vu will pack a 1.5ghz dual core processor, 2080mAh battery, 8mp camera, LTE, and a 5″ 1024×768 IPS screen with 4:3 aspect ratio. 聽The Optimus Vu will ship running Android 2.3 Gingerbread though LG promises it will be upgraded to Ice Cream Sandwich within 3 months…sure LG we’ve heard you say that before *looks over at pissed off G2X customers*. 聽One thing that stands out about this phone is its oddball 4:3 ratio. 聽Though it’s a device with an HD screen, LG went with a resolution that isn’t really made for HD, a 4:3 square-like resolution. 聽So while other phones with HD displays are displaying HD content in widesreen 16:9 aspect ratio like it’s supposed to, LG is forcing it to fit on a 4:3 aspect ratio. 聽Think of it this way, it’s like trying to put a HD picture in your old tube TV. 聽That just doesn’t look right.

So let’s tally up the score:

It’s made by LG – Not a good thing. 聽LG is notorious for extremely poor support on their devices.

It has an oddball 4:3 aspect ratio – Though it has a new school HD resolution, it has an old school aspect resolution. 聽I’m sorry but I haven’t exactly been clamoring for a square phone with old school aspect ratio.

It ships with Gingerbread – Though many phones are shipping with Gingerbread, I just don’t trust LG for timely upgrades. 聽When the G2X came out they said they’d update it “in a couple weeks”. 聽That phone shipped in April and the first round of updates didn’t start until Summer, then they stopped (due to it bricking many devices) and didn’t re-release the update until December. 聽That’s a far cry from “a couple weeks”. 聽I wouldn’t be suprised if the “3 months” LG claims they will update the Optimus Vu in turns into 6-9 months. 聽I think you’ll be saying Happy New Year before you’ll be saying “I got my ICS upgrade”.

 

Source: 聽Engadget

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