LG Optimus L5 E610

Today we’ll be reviewing the LG Optimus L5 E610. LG has slowly built a reputation for itself as being one of the best providers of strong phones. Unfortunately, the LG Optimus L5 E610 is not one of those powerful phones. This phone is quite weak, actually. On the bright side, however, it’s probably way cheaper than the more powerful devices in the Optimus series. Without dilly dallying too much with long intros, let us commence this little review.

SUMMARY

As promised before, I would introduce a new part called summary in which I’ll try to resume in as few words as possible what the device is good at and what it is bad at. The LG Optimus L5 E610 isn’t the sharpest blade in the armory, no matter how you choose to put it. One of the best points of this phone is the fact that it has the latest version of the Android OS on it and that it also has a very powerful battery. The biggest downfall of the LG Optimus L5 E610 is the fact that it’s hardware is very weak. In today’s market, seeing a Single-Core among the Dual-Core and Quad-Core phones is a rare sight indeed. It isn’t a good thing to have, but at least they started to die out. Needless to say, when I’m referring to Dual-Cores and Quad-Cores, those phones have multiple cores in processors and graphics card as well. This one can’t hope to keep up with the new games, apps or such as it stands. However, it’s best advantage is that it is cheap, and people can experience the Android OS, and the latest version at that, without paying a monstrous price. That being said, let us move on now to the review per say and see exactly WHAT this phone has.

GENERAL

We’ll start off by taking a brief look at the general aspects of the LG Optimus L5 E610. Here you can find out a bit of info about the supported networks and the announcement and release dates. The LG Optimus L5 E610 supports both 2G and 3G networks. Those networks are as following : GSM 850, GSM 900, GSM 1800 and GSM 1900 ( the 2G ones ) and HSDPA 900 and HSDPA 2100 ( the 3G ones ). The LG Optimus L5 E610 was announced in February 2012 and oddly enough is not yet available. More so, the LG Optimus L5 E610 is set to come out somewhere around Q3 of 2012. That’s about it for the general stuff about the LG Optimus L5 E610, so let’s move on now.

BODY

Next up we’ll be taking a brief look at the aspect of the LG Optimus L5 E610. Here you can find out a bit about the size and weight of the device as well as see whether or not the LG Optimus L5 E610 has any particularities related to its aspect. The LG Optimus L5 E610 is around 118.3 x 66.5 x 9.9 mm big. This phone also weighs somewhere around 125 grams. As you can see, the LG Optimus L5 E610 isn’t quite that big. The only particularity the LG Optimus L5 E610 has is the fact that it has Touch-Sensitive Controls instead of frontal buttons. That’s all I can say about the aspect of the device, so let’s move on now.

DISPLAY

Next up we’ll be taking a look at the display of the LG Optimus L5 E610. Here you can find out a bit about the type of screen of the device, the screen size, the screen’s resolution and pixel density as well as see whether or not the LG Optimus L5 E610’s screen has any protection and any particularities that might make it stand out from a crowd. The screen of the LG Optimus L5 E610 is a Capacitive Touchscreen ( I wish I could tale you what type of screen exactly, however, it isn’t specified ). The screen has 16 million colors and is around 4.0 inches big. The resolution housed by said screen is around 320 x 480 pixel. The pixel density of this display isn’t a whole lot, merely 144 ppi. This phone also has Multitouch on it, however, it isn’t the advanced sorts of multitouch that can support more than two simultaneous fingers on it. Unfortunately, the LG Optimus L5 E610 has no screen protection, so you’ll have to be extra careful with it, and no features that might set it apart from the rest of the phones. That about covers the display, so let us move on now to the next part.

SOUND

Next up we’ll be taking a look at the audio output capabilities of the LG Optimus L5 E610. Here we’ll try to see whether or not the LG Optimus L5 E610 has any sound enhancement installed on it whatsoever, be it software-based or otherwise, since most people already know about the Alert Types ( anything works ) the Loudspeakers and 3.5 mm jack. Unfortunately, the LG Optimus L5 E610 has no sound enhancements whatsoever, no software ones and no hardware ones either. That’s all there is to the audio part, since there’s nothing left to write about. Let us move on now.

MEMORY

Next up we’ll be taking a brief look at the memory of the LG Optimus L5 E610. Here you can find out a bit about the internal storage space and ways of expanding said storage space as well as info about the RAM of the LG Optimus L5 E610. The LG Optimus L5 E610 has 4 GB of internal storage space, however, out of those 4 only 2.5 GB are user-available. The RAM of the LG Optimus L5 E610 is around 512 MB, which used to be pretty half-decent up until the date the bar was raised up to 2 GB, instead of the old 1 GB. Should the storage space not be sufficient for you, know that the LG Optimus L5 E610 has a Micro SD card slot that can use any Micro SD card of up to 32 GB. That’s about all there is to know about the memory of the LG Optimus L5 E610, so let’s move on now.

DATA CONNECTION

Next up we’ll be taking a look at the connectivity of the LG Optimus L5 E610. Here you can find out a bit about the GPRS and EDGE of the device, the Speed and WLAN as well as the Bluetooth, USB and other ( if any ) connections. The LG Optimus L5 E610 has both GPRS and EDGE, however, it is unknown what Class they are or what speed they can reach since it isn’t specified. The Speed of the LG Optimus L5 E610 is as following : HSDPA 7.2 MB/s and HSUPA. The WLAN of the LG Optimus L5 E610 is as following : Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n with Wi-Fi hotspot. The Bluetooth of this phone is a v3.0 one with A2DP. This phone also has NFC and its USB port is a Micro USB v2.0 one. That’s about it for the connectivity, so let’s move on now.

CAMERA

Next up we’ll be taking a look at the camera of the LG Optimus L5 E610. Here you can find out a bit about the main and secondary cameras and see their features and capabilities. The main camera of the LG Optimus L5 E610 is a 5 MP snapper which can photograph at resolutions of around 2560 x 1920 pixels. The features of this camera are as following : autofocus, LED flash, geo-tagging and touch focus. This phone can record in VGA quality at around 30 frames per second. This phone also has a secondary frontal camera, however, no news is available about that one. Since there’s no more to be said here, let us move on now to the next part of the review.

BATTERY LIFE

Next up we’ll be taking a look at the battery life of the LG Optimus L5 E610, since that is usually quite a problem in Android devices. Here you can find info about the battery type and see how long said battery can function. The battery of the LG Optimus L5 E610 is a Standard Li-Ion 1500 mAh battery. This battery can work for approximately 900 hours of stand-by in both 2G and 3G and up to 10 hours talk-time in 2G and 9 hours and 20 minutes in 3G. That’s about all there is to know about the battery, so let’s move on now to the next part.

HARDWARE

Next up we’ll be taking a quick look at the hardware of the LG Optimus L5 E610. Here you can find out a bit of information about the three main hardware components : processor, motherboard and graphics card. Unfortunately, the LG Optimus L5 E610 only has one of the three, and that is the processor – a Single-Core 800 MHz. That being said, there’s nothing left to talk about on this part so let’s move on to the next.

SOFTWARE

Next up we’ll be taking a brief look at the OS of the LG Optimus L5 E610. Here you can find out a thing or two about the software version of the device and see whether or not it requires any update. The LG Optimus L5 E610 has Android OS v4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, as I said before, and since this is the final version for the moment for the Android OS there is no need for an update. That being said, let us move on now to the final part of the review.

FEATURES

Last but not least, we’ll take a look at the features and capabilities of the device. The sensors of the LG Optimus L5 E610 are as following : Accelerometer, Proximity and Compass. The messaging on this phone is done via : SMS ( with Threaded View ), MMS, E-Mail, Push Mail and IM. The browser of this phone uses HTML but has no integrated support for Adobe Flash, fact which could prove somewhat problematic. The LG Optimus L5 E610 has a Stereo FM Radio, a GPS with A-GPS support and Java via Java MIDP emulation. This phone is available in two colors : Black and White.

Here is a brief list of what the LG Optimus L5 E610 can do :

• SNS integration
• MP4/DivX/Xvid/H.264/H.263 player
• MP3/WAV/eAAC+ player
• Document viewer
• Organizer
• Google Search, Maps, Gmail
• YouTube, Google Talk
• Voice memo/dial
• Predictive text input

This concludes our little review of the LG Optimus L5 E610. If you feel that anything is lacking from this review feel free to leave your suggestions in the comment section below for things which should be added and I will be sure to take them into consideration when writing my future projects. In the meantime, I sincerely hope you had as much fun reading my little review as I had writing it.