As some of you may have seen, LG launched their own "phablet" on Verizon. What you may have also seen, is that it's a very awkwardly designed brick. This thing rivals the specs of the original Galaxy Note with a 5" IPS-LCD 768 x 1024 resolution display, a 1.5ghz dual-core processor, and even a stylus called the Rubberdium. Although, for some reason there is no port for the stylus on the device, so you'll have to carry it separately. Not that many people will be buying this...
The real difference between this monster, and the Note is that this has a 4.3 aspect ratio. That means this thing is basically a big square in your hand. Couple that with the mediocre 2080mAh battery, and this becomes one of those Why did you make this? kind of devices.
Since the Intuition is so wide, it means that 90% of the time you'll have to use both hands to do anything with it. If that is the, case I might as well jut buy a tablet.
Don't even get me started on LG's remedial, childish UI. I would even prefer Touch-Wiz to this.
This is an especially bad marketing move as well, since the Note 2 is on the way with a quad-core processor, LTE(dependent upon carrier), a 3100mAh battery, and it's coming to all 4 major US carriers. LG is already hurting in the US mobile phone market, and this isn't the phone to bring their sales up.
All this to say that their are much better phones, and even phablets that you can buy.
Tell me how you guys feel. Would you buy a devices that you can barely hold? Or am I just being too knit-picky?
I've always had a disdain for LG because their UI and overall construction of the devices make it look like a toy...or as you put, childish. They haven't made a decent looking phone since the G2X and even that phone was a huge failure.
ReplyDeleteIndeed. I feel like LG, if anything, is deterring people from Android.
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