LG Optimus Vu Launched in India for 34,500

Bangalore: LG has introduced its first large sized, pen-friendly Android smartphone ‘Optimus Vu’ earlier this year at Mobile World Congress 2012 in Barcelona. The company claims that the Optimus Vu is going to give Samsung Galaxy Note a good company and competition.

The smartphone was first targeted the Korean and Japan market and later in September got launched to global market. Now the company has launched the big screen smartphone - Optimus Vu in India with a price tag of 34,500. LG India website has listed this handset but has not provided any exact date of reaching stores.

For those who don’t know, LG Optimus Vu has a stunning 5 inch HB-IPS LCD capacitive touch screen display with 1024 x 768 pixels of resolution, produces 16 million colors, multi-touch and has 4:3 ratio aspects.

It is powered by Dual-core Qualcomm MSM8660 Snapdragon Scorpion processor at a clock speed of 1.5 GHz, 1 GB of RAM, Adreno 220 graphic processor unit and runs on Android 2.3 Gingerbread operating system (upgradable to Android 4.0 ICS).

It also has 8 mega pixel camera at the back with autofocus and LED flash and also has 1.3 mega pixel front facing camera. The camera can capture image up to 3264 x 2448 pixels and features geo-tagging, face detection, image stabilization. The camera is capable of recording videos at 1080 pixels at 30 frames per seconds.

It also comes with 32 GB internal storage, unfortunately no SD card slot for expanding memory and for connectivity it comes with 3G, 4G LTE (not in India), Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, DLAN, HDMI, NFC, GPS with A-GPS support and micro USB 2.0 for charging and data transfer.