LG Optimus Vu is Now Available Globally


Bangalore: LG 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.

After launching in the Korean and Japan marker, LG has now announced that the larger screened Optimus Vu will make global debut starting this September in some of the selected market in Europe, Asia, Middle East-Africa and Latin America.

The Optimus Vu has a stunning 5 inch HB-IPS LCD capacitive touch screen display with 1024x768 pixels of resolution, produces 16 million colors, multi-touch and 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.