Optimus LG Vu: photos and live video

The first was Samsung Galaxy notes, a bit 'bigger than a smartphone but smaller than a tablet. Even if no one had yet figured out, this product was born with a new market category, called phablet. At Mobile World Congress, as promised, LG added a new device to the segment. His name is Optimus LG Vu officially presented to the Korean press a week before the exhibition Catalan. This is a huge 5-inch smartphone, in 4:3, we show that in a first hands-on video and a photo gallery.

Optimus Vu has a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor 1.5GHz, with 1GB of RAM and operating system Android 2.3 Gingerbread (Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich was promised three months after launch). The cover of the device has a particular striated texture, which facilitates the handle and does not retain fingerprints, while the four standard buttons of Android are frontally, in the lower part of the display. The profile is very thin, almost thread-like, more like the series of smart phones that the LG Prada LG Optimus main line of smartphones.