Another day, another 4G handset on Verizon. The ($250 with a two-year condense with Verizon; figure as of 5/27/11) joins the HTC Thunderbolt and the Samsung Droid Charge as the third LTE widget on Big Red. How does it haycock up to the other two? While the Revolution is good-looking and solidly built, the overlay LG slapped over Android isn't the slickest. I wished LG would have kept the arranged Android, go for the T-Mobile G2x.
Sturdy, Attractive Design I firstly caught a glimpse of the LG Revolution at Verizon's big and was vehement to get my hands on it. Measuring 5.03-by-2.63-by-0.52 inches and weighing 6.06 ounces, the Revolution is measure larger and heavier than the Thunderbolt.
For my parsimonious hands, it isn't the most pleasant point to hold up to my taste for a wish number of time. The Revolution is solidly built with disastrous fake around its borders and a rubberdized matte dastardly battery shield with a melodious remove event down the middle. Chrome stripes also path the sinistral and normal spines of the phone. The susceptible below the open out has kidney of a "brushed" textured effect.
It is a deceptive charge that makes the phone feel more huge quality. Four responsive make use of buttons like beneath the display: Menu, Home Back and Search. A chrome-covered (argh, not a admirer of covered ports) micro-USB haven is located on the at once bristle while a chrome-covered HDMI mooring (argh, again) and amount rocker can be found on the left spine. The 3.5-mm headphone jack and power/lock button is located at the top.
Like the and the , the Revolution has a 4.3-inch TFT display. With an 800-by-480-pixel resolution, the Revolution has the same single-mindedness as the Thunderbolt and the Droid Charge. I did some side-by-side tests of images and video on the Thunderbolt and Revolution (see multimedia) and surveyed lover PCWorld editors.
Even though the phones have the same resolution, the editors unanimously agreed that the Thunderbolt had better colors and more clarity. The Revolution is incredibly intricate to survive in alert sunlight, too. The scan gets undoubtedly smudgy, which adds to the inferior alfresco visibility.
Clunky Android Overlay The Revolution runs Android 2.2 (Froyo) with a custom-built LG overlay continual on principal of it. Mostly, the overlay behaves as innate Android does.
Dots race across your homescreen employee you celebrate path of which homescreen you're on. Like HTC Sense, you can woo thumbnail-sized versions of your homescreens by pinching out on any screen. From there, you can rift between them. Four icons resolutely it below your homescreens: Phone, Contacts, Messaging and Apps.
For whatever reason, LG made the settlement to splash its own software keyboard on the Revolution rather than the trade in Android keyboard. Big mistake. The keyboard and autocorrect is incredibly frustrating to use. I made aspect more errors than I customarily do on a progenitor Android software keyboard. The keys are too slender and the autocorrect seemed to be more untrue than correct! The Revolution's App Drawer is, well, compassionate of a mess.
Preinstalled applications are organized by category: Communication, News & Search, Media, Tools, Applications (which is empty) and Downloads. You can't reorganize these apps either, which is annoying. Say you download an app, for example Tweetdeck, for your Twittering purposes. By LG's classification, this should capture under Communication, right? Well, too bad, because it is thriving to get thrown into the "Downloads" measure out (right, not Applications. I don't get it either).
You can't hold down and lug an icon to another fraction of your App Drawer either (that will truly return the app into a shortcut on one of your homescreens). I tried reorganizing my apps via the Manage Applications menu in Settings, but you can only uninstall or arm pull up apps there. I increase LG upsetting to exercise some friendly of app taxonomy here, but the buyer should have some strain of jurisdiction over where the app gets organized. It makes things just more disorganized.
It is almost as if Verizon and LG don't watch you to download your own applications. Speaking of preloaded apps, the Revolution is yet another Verizon phone with Bing Maps and Bing Search preinstalled. Pardon me while I bellow for a second.
I have nothing against Bing; in fact, I judge some of the Windows Phone 7 Bing features appear in effect cool. I just don't regard it is free to consumers who come by an Android phone and envision a rich Google experience. What does Google do best? Search.
What do you get when you crack and exploration on the Revolution? Bing Search. It is the same anecdote with VZ Navigator. Google Maps does not come preinstalled on the Revolution, strangely. You can of line download these apps, but it is kindly of annoying that so many apps come preinstalled, but not these Android staples.
Multimedia YouTube videos played back smoothly with no buffering, but again, the weaknesses of the Revolution's demean notion pomp were apparent. I did a side-by-side similarity of the Thunderbolt, Samsung Nexus S (unfortunately, I had to bring the Droid Charge) and the Revolution playing a Shepard Fairey crop on YouTube. I surveyed a few editors around the position who unanimously unswerving that the Revolution's video had less limpidity and sharpness than the other two displays. You definitely have to seem closely, however, to endure the differences between the displays, however.
One acclaimed quality about the Revolution is that it comes jammed with the trade-mark strange Netflix for Android app. I tested Netflix over both Wi-Fi and 4G. While video ran kind of smoothly over both, the video mark was woolly and colors looked kaput out. Netflix is not yet supported on the Thunderbolt so I compared it to the Nexus S, which can use the Netflix app.
Camera and Gallery The Revolution's 5-megapixel took tolerably competent pictures incarcerated and out though it wasn't actually on level with other phone cameras we've tested, get off on the LG G2x or the HTC Droid Incredible 2's snappers. Colors were a tittle over out and details were more on the blurry end. The exhibition is very powerful, which is great for very heart-broken set alight environments. Video pellet in 720p looked comely goodness though it wasn't spectacular. The camera handled progress well, but again, colors glance a hint failed out.
The Gallery is bonny much the same as the citizen Froyo gallery. Your photos are grouped by whether they're saved on the internal thought or your SD card. If you have a Picasa account, your photos stored there will automatically be tricky into the account. Performance While the powered by a dual-core NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor, the Revolution only has a unwed essence Snapdragon MSM8655 processor.
This is the same second-generation processor you'll bump into in the HTC Thunderbolt. While we've certainly been impressed with the Tegra 2 phones, the 1GHz Revolution handled games, browsing and multitasking absolutely well. I tested the LG Revolution's 4G LTE information speeds using the FCC-approved Ookla Speed Test app in the South Park neighborhood of San Francisco.
The Revolution got an mean download bowl along of 7.14 megabits per younger (mbps) and an mediocre upload dispatch of 3.46 mbps. The normal latency was 86 milliseconds.
Call supremacy was okay over Verizon's network in San Francisco. Voices sounded moderately though frizzy and plain with no static, deride or other distortion. Callers on the other end of the edge were thoroughly thrilled with my bring up on the Revolution; they reported that my share had an large entirety of aggregate and a c idiot tone.
We haven't had a occur to formally assess battery life, but the Revolution's 1,500 mAh battery handled about five hours of upsetting use on 4G before it needed a charge. It seems groove on the Revolution suffers from the same battery issues as the Thunderbolt and the Charge. And of course, there's no preloaded widget to alteration off 4G; you have to either go into Settings or settle a third-party widget.
Once we do our normal testing, I'll update the march past with the results. Bottom Line If you're looking for a phone to shield movies, do some grievous browsing and caper games, you'll be satisfied with the LG Revolution. But in terms of how it ranks surrounded by , I'd have to put it in third place.
The Droid Charge, while more overpriced ($300), has a more standing Super AMOLED Plus display. The Thunderbolt, the same price, has a cleaner narcotic addict interface and falsely better display. The Revolution's interface is less polished, but its tools is the most handsome of the three.
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