LG OPTIMUS L7 II REVIEW

LG launched lower mid-range android smartphone namely LG Optimus L7 II in India which is priced @ 14,990/-(single sim) & 15,990/-(dual sim). It is available is Black and White shades.

DESIGN, BUILD QUALITY & DISPLAY
The design is rectangular and is good. It has a scratch resistant glass on front and a plastic matte finish on the back making it quite durable. It is slim at 9.7mm and weighs 118gms. It has a 4.3 inch 16M IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen of 480X800 (WVGA) resolution with 217ppi. The viewing angles and sunlight legibility is good.

STORAGE, MULTIMEDIA & CONNECTIVITIES
The device comes with a 4GB internal storage and is further expandable upto 32GB. The device features dedicated multimedia apps which are quite good. It also has Dolby mobile sound enhancement. On-board connectvities such as 2G, 3G, WIFI, Bluetooth 3.0, NFC, GPS and USB are standard.

CAMERA AND VIDEO RECORDING CAPABILITIES
It has a 8 MP Rear camera with autofocus & LED flash which features Geo-tagging, touch focus etc. The camera clarity is descent. It does FWVGA@30fps video recording and stores in MP4 format. The video recording clarity is descent. It has a VGA Front camera.

SOFTWARE, HARDWARE, PERFORMANCE & BENCHMARKS
It runs on Android (OS) 4.1.2 jelly bean out of the box. It has a Qualcomm Snapdragon S2 (MSM8225) processor running a dual core at 1 GHZ with 768 MB RAM and an Adreno 203 GPU. The performance is descent which provides very good number of graphic intensive games and multitasking run well enough and there is a bit of lag occasionally.
QUADRANT : 2750.
ANTUTU : 6232.
NENAMARK 2 : 33 fps.

BATTERY LIFE PERFORMANCE
It has a removable Li-Ion 2460 MAH battery. The battery life is very good which is given below.
BROWSING : upto 6:40H.
VIDEO WATCHING: upto 6:40H.
TALKTIME : upto 12:30H(2G) / upto 10:30H(3G).
STANDBY TIME: upto 750H(2G) / upto 750H(3G).

PROS
*Good display and viewing angles.
*Descent camera & video recording clarity.
*Descent performance.
*Good build quality.

CONS
*Only FWVGA video recording for an 8MP.
*No dedicated camera key.
*Loudspeaker volume could have been better.

OVERALL PRODUCT RATING : 7.9/10.
°overall product rating refers to all the aspects including the price, performance, overall quality, features, etc., based on individual product.

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