LG L90 REVIEW

LG launched its upper midrange android smartphone namely L90 (Dual Sim) in India which is priced @ 17,499/-. It is available is Black, White & Purple shades.

DESIGN, BUILD QUALITY & DISPLAY

The design of this phone is above descent. It has corning glass 2 on front and a plastic back. It is slim at 9.7mm and weighs 125gms. It has 4.7 inch QHD IPS LCD display of resolution 540 x 960 with 234 ppi. The viewing angles are pretty good and sunlight legibility of the display is just slightly above descent. It runs on Optimus 3.0 User Interface. The display supports 8 multi-touch points and the brightness of the screen is very good.

STORAGE, MULTIMEDIA & CONNECTIVITYS

It has 8GB of internal storage which is further expandable upto 64GB. The device features dedicated multimedia apps like music for songs, a gallery to store all images and videos and a video player for playing movies respectively which are pretty good. FM radio comes pre-installed. Conductivities like 2G, 3G speeds upto 21.1mbps download & upto 5.76mbps upload, Wifi b/g/n, Wifi direct, Wifi hotsopt, USB OTG as well as Bluetooth 4.0 LE (Low Energy) and also has IR Blaster but lacks NFC.

CAMERA & VIDEO RECORDING CAPABILITIES

It has a 8MP rear camera with autofocus and Led flash which features Simultaneous image and video recording, Geo-tagging, Touch focus, Image stabilization, HDR etc. The camera clarity is pretty good overall. Daytime the images are pretty good and has good amount of details respectively but in the night is where the noise starts to become bit visible visible and to get better details at night HDR mode images with bit of steady hands helps to produce slightly better images still image quality at night is acceptable and could have been better. It does FULL HD1080p@30fps HDR video recording with video stabilization and stereo sound having bit-rate of 17mbps and stores in mp4 format. The video recording clarity is pretty good overall. Daytime the video clarity is pretty good and has good amount of details respectively but at night video clarity is acceptable could have been bit better. It also has a VGA front camera for selfe's with 480p video recording and clarity is just descent could have been better.

SOFTWARE, HARDWARE, PERFORMANCE & BENCHMARKS

It runs Android (OS) 4.4.2 kitkat out of the box . It has a Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 (MSM8226) processor running a quad core 1.2 GHZ (Cortex-A7) with 1GB RAM and Adreno 305 (450MHZ Single core) GPU. The performance is great which provides number of graphic intensive games and multitasking run very well and there is no lag at all.

QUADRANT : 8290.

ANTUTU : 17150.

NENAMARK 2: 59.2fps.

BATTERY LIFE PERFORMANCE

It has a Non - removable Li-Ion 2540 mah battery. The battery life is Excellent which is given below.

BROWSING : upto 9H.

VIDEO WATCHING: upto 9H.

TALKTIME : upto 21H(2G) / upto 18H(3G).

STANDBY TIME: upto 450H(2G) / upto 430H(3G).

PROS

*Good build quality.
*Pretty Good Display.

*Great Performance.

*Pretty good camera and video recording clarity.
*IR blaster.
*Knock on code (unique unlock feature).

*Good loudspeaker.
*Excellent battery life.

CONS
*Lacks premium feel as far competition is concerned.

*QHD display is still pretty good but could have had HD display for the price and the competition.
*VGA front camera could have been better.
*No NFC & USB OTG support.
*No auto brightness sensor.
*No dedicated camera key.

OVERALL PRODUCT RATING° : 8.4/10.

°overall product rating refers to all the aspects including the price, performance, overall quality, features, etc., based on individual product.