LG Optimus One P500
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- Neo
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- 09 Jan 2011
albin, 09 Jan 2011@neo
i got an optimus yesterday, but i cant connect throug... moreHi User,
Apps not working comment:
To download and install APPS,make sure you have valid WIFI or 3G|GPRS available and activated,and make sure you check tehe follow in option
Menu-->settings-->applications-->Unknow sources(checked)
Else you cannot install and use app APPS available in market
Neo
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- Roman
- ut4
- 09 Jan 2011
i bought optimus one yesterday...
Nice phone!!! Nice touch!! nice display!!!
pls tell me abt the battery backup as per your use..
pls i need it..
Thnaks...
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- Jay
- 7qF
- 09 Jan 2011
Mukul, 09 Jan 2011Hi every one I am on a tight budget but no regrets as Optim... moreI also use the creative ep 630 in ear white colored......sound is good but I can't say that which one is better...
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- Hemanth
- vGM
- 09 Jan 2011
Hi folks. My name is Hemanth and I am from bangalore. I have been using this phone since one week. This is really a great phone in this budget.
Here is my detail review
Design:
The design is good but not as attractive as Samsung galaxy 3 as samsung mobiles
are stylish, glossy and glittery. But Optimus one looks like a real smart phone
similar to HTC where as samsung galaxy 3 looks like an everyday java phone.
Optimus one is adequately heavy and felt good in hand.
UI:
The UI is good but not so great as samsung touch wiz UI. The UI is not customized
more but just a little. But this doesn't matter much. The music player UI is the
default android's player.Google might have done it a little colourful. Every where
in the UI you just see the white text on a black baground. A descent color background
with nice fonts could be more attractive and youthful. I noticed a big problem in the
UI design. The main menu is in a single page where we need to scroll up and down to
start the applications.As we tend to install more and more apps it is little difficult
to navigate the main menu as we have to scroll more up and down to access the icons.
Samsungs UI is little intelligent in this regard. The main menus are accommodated in
multiple pages where we scroll the pages left and right which is easy to acess the apps.
It is LGs responsibility to tweak the the UI to become more convinient
Performance:
Opitmus one is extremely good in giving good performance. It is really fast, no lagging
or hanging problems. reads the data of SD card very fast.I am using 8GB card with no probs.
Really smooth in the navigation every where. But, as some of the android applications,
automatic updates and services running in the background they consume more memory space and
battery power. It is little painful to kill these background services every time to free
the memory space.The problem is that most of the applications will not have a EXIT option.
It seems that we just minimizes the application but not exiting.It is so fun and amazing
experience while playing games in this mobile.Gaming is simply superb. No lag or hanging
problems at all.
Battery Life:
The battery will last for one day on a heavy usage and 1.5 days on a light usage. There is
nothing to blame on LG. It is the android OS which always runs some apps and services in
the backgound that is consuming the battery unnecessarily.Android must do something about
this in 2.3 gingerbread.It is recommended to switch off the bluetooth,GPS,Wifi and GPRS/EDGE.
Display:
The display is bright, but the 256K color display made the display colors appear a little
more saturated.Lg would have given 16M color display.It is so enjoyable to watch videos in
3.2 inch display screen.The red color is appearing extra dark in images and videos.
Camera:
We have to comprimize with the image quality.The 3M pixel camera is just about the size of
the image but not the quality of the image. There are more options and settings to try out
with the camera.The images are good only in day light.Dont expect the quality images in low
light.This is the big downside of this phone
Music:
The music output from the speaker is adequatly loud.The headset is crappy.Need to try out
with some other headset. There is more noise in the headset with full volume.It completely
lags the bass.
Wireless connectivity:
This is very big advantage for this phone. Data transfer through bluetooth and wifi is
extremely good. The GPS navigation is awesome.The GPS navigation is working perfect.
Internet access is working wonders. The browser is so smooth and loading the web pages fast.
Capable of playing embedded videos in the web(not in the web page itself, the video player
will get opened and streams the video).
Goodies:
The Ndrive, google maps, Navigation which works with GPS are very very good. It is very much
enjoyable to play with google goggles. It scans the images(popular) and tells you what is it.
I always play with google goggles. The android market applicatrion is brilliantly made and easy
to organise the applications installed.Moving the install applications to SD card is a great
advantage.The document reader is slow and needs lot of improvement.The pinch to zoom option works
well. The voice to text input is very brilliant and is working appropriate.
The physical buttons below the screen is good instead of touch sensitive buttons in galaxy 3.
The absence of a dedicated camera button is annoying.No flash and secondary camera.Not so
convinient to install themes.Couldn't apply the image as wallpaper completely without cropping.
Live wallpapers are good but consumes extra power. There are lot of useful applications in
android market.
Conclusion:
LG Optimus one is a very good phone and worth of buying with in this price range.Lets wait
for gingerbread and see whats new.Google should concentrate more in making the UI more
attractive and colorful like in samsung.Checkout the music player of bada in Samsung wave 2.
The Options and UI of music player is unbeatable by any.Samsung rocks in UI in bada of wave 2.
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- Prateek Gupta
- vIc
- 09 Jan 2011
mani, 09 Jan 2011this is really agood phone in the price range. i want put m... moreHi,
You can download the software 'calibre' to your computer and then convert the ebooks to the .epub format using that software. Then you can transfer the ebooks to your optimus.
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- Prateek Gupta
- vIc
- 09 Jan 2011
mani, 09 Jan 2011Iam not able to connect my phone to pc thro LG PC suite 4,i... moreHi,
First of all go to settings->SD card and phone storage->uncheck 'Mass storage only' option. Now connect the phone to the PC via USB. A green android bot will appear which will notify you that the USB is connected. Now you have 2 options:
1)Select 'Turn on USB storage' on the phone. The green bot will now turn orange.(Alternatively, you can open the notification bar and press upon 'Select to copy files to/from your computer') Now you can access your memory card through your computer. To disconnect press 'Turn off USB storage' on the phone
2)To connect via PC suite: When the green bot appears, don't select 'turn on usb storage'. Just open PCsuite and select 'connect phone'. Now you will be able to sunchronize your phone with the PC and also be able to update your phone.
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- Prateek Gupta
- vIc
- 09 Jan 2011
knight, 09 Jan 2011friend as i was browsing through the specs of this phone i ... moreHi,
A 'youtube' application comes preloaded in the optimus one through which you can view youtube videos.
For streaming videos online, you can use the 'skyfire' browser. You can find it at the android market.
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- Prateek Gupta
- vIc
- 09 Jan 2011
albin, 09 Jan 2011@neo
i got an optimus yesterday, but i cant connect throug... moreHi,
Wi-fi settings: Go to settings->wireless & networks->check the Wi-Fi option,then goto Wi-Fi settings. The available wi-fi networks will be displayed there. Select the network you want to connect to. Make sure that the 'wi-fi' and 'network notification' box are always checked so that you will immediately be made aware of any available wi-fi network in the notification bar. The notification bar also has a wi-fi toggle button which is the first button from left.
GPRS settings:settings->wireless & networks->mobile networks->check the 'data enabled' box->access point names->select the gprs network (for example mobile office in airtel. Make sure that gprs settings are active on your phone. Confirm this from the service provider)Gprs toggle button is the 4th from left in the notification bar.
Note:If you are connected to a wi-fi network and accidently switch on the gprs(data enable),wi-fi will be preferred.Check the gprs or data enable mode only when you cannot connect to a wi-fi network(i.e. it is locked or out of coverage area)
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- Anonymous
- v$C
- 09 Jan 2011
Rajat, 09 Jan 2011Hi Friends, I heard yesterday in Tech Guru program that ... moreit was clearly written that the price is ex -showroom..may b the taxes were left out
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- Anonymous
- upH
- 09 Jan 2011
[deleted post]Get optimus one. Don't get nokia, samsung. If you can wait, then nokia c6-01 is a good buy. Else get optimus one p500. Great android. M getting it too with a laptop for my studies in march.
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- knight
- s82
- 09 Jan 2011
Anonymous, 08 Jan 2011hiii!!!! gud morin to evry1 out there i m using this smar... morefriend as i was browsing through the specs of this phone i didn't find any sign of flash lite or flash player which is required to stream through videos online without downloading it. That is the reason i have a querry, please tell me that can u watch youtube videos online on the mobile, if yes then how. Please tell me i m waiting. Thanks
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- Rajat
- ut9
- 09 Jan 2011
Thanks guys for your prompt response and helping each other using this forum. Good News: I just got to know from ebay seller, who sold 83 phones in a week at Rs. 11500 that he will be listing again at Rs. 11800 starting from this Wednesday, 12th Jan 2011. This time it’s going to be Rs. 300 extra because lot many people complaining LG about this rate difference at compared to normal market. If someone got to know this phone availability lesser than 11.8k then please post the details. As always, highly appreciate your support.
Thanks,
Rajat
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- katjimz
- sF{
- 09 Jan 2011
I bought this year this new year, So far not bad. iNTERNET browser very fast.
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- Anonymous
- 7qC
- 09 Jan 2011
Rajat, 09 Jan 2011Hi Friends, I heard yesterday in Tech Guru program that ... morebuddy even i was lookin for the same ...the ebay one(11500)is no longer available ..they r selling it at their shop (sp road) for 12300..thats d info i got..pls post if u come to knw any place whr dey r sellin below 12000..thnx
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- Rishi
- 2S$
- 09 Jan 2011
Good Phone with good features in this price tag,
Though camera is on lower side but we have to compromise with it.
Battery backup is Avg.instead of 1500 maH LG should have provided atleast 1800-2000 Mah.for 3.2" screen.
others manufacturers are giving.
Neck to neck good phones.
No problem while using it.
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- albin
- Kht
- 09 Jan 2011
Neo, 09 Jan 2011Hi All Optimus Users,
It's Neo ,was on work busy with sc... more@neo
i got an optimus yesterday, but i cant connect throug any of the installed application to inernet.. my browser is working fine.. its lyk i got an android fon but cant use any of its features. please help me!!
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- Pitch
- wHr
- 09 Jan 2011
Mukul, 09 Jan 2011Hi every one I am on a tight budget but no regrets as Optim... moreWell Im using one and so far so good the music player is nice. The bass is not that powerful as the nokia or sony ericsson phones but the sound quality is good. You can download a WINAMP app from the android market and use it as your music player. The downside about this phone is that it doesnt have a sound spectrum adjuster or presets like in a nokia phone which, here in optimus one, makes you stick in the music quality the phone has.
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- vinayak
- vGX
- 09 Jan 2011
Hi All,
Use Go Launcher..Its very nice and you can customize in a lot of ways..
Ex:
1. Long press on icon of home screen gives you the options like,
a) Replace.
b) Rename.
c) Delete.
d) Uninstall.
2. You can scroll Dock and add other shortcuts.
Etc..
I love It..
-vinayak
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- Rahul
- PED
- 09 Jan 2011
Before buying this phone I had a very bad impression about LG but after buying this phone my opinion changed.
This is a great buy and you won't regret after buying it.