LG Nitro HD Unboxing

Max Woolf · Top Commenter · Carnegie Mellon University · 566 subscribers
"The Nitro HD is like a box of chocolates, you don’t know what you’re going to get. "

Well, that's why we're reading this review, duh. :P
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· Sunday at 2:14pm

Hariharan Balakrishnan · Top Commenter · Bangalore, India
Good one :D
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· Sunday at 8:16pm

Jan S. Mahler · Top Commenter
One thing that threw me off about this phone is the fact that there are only 3 soft buttons: home, back and menu/search. I'm used to pressing the search button as needed, but this takes a little rethinking and relearning as you now have to hold the menu button down longer in order to bring up a search.

Anyhow, it's too bad you don't have any benchmark scores as not all versions of Android are the same nor are all ARM based processors and it would have been interesting to see if LG has made any improvements or optimizations.

After playing with the device for a while today, I have a different experience than you as I didn't witness the omnipresent lag that you did. It didn't feel as snappy as the SGS2 does, but it certainly didn't seem to have lag all over the place from what I witnessed.
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· Yesterday at 12:48am

Rodney Sparks · Antelope, California
I'm seriously considering giving my iPhone 4S to my wife and picking up an Android phone with her upgrade. The Skyrocket was my first pick, until I saw this bad boy. I'm willing to put up with a few defects in order to keep that awesome screen resolution. I have good close-up vision, so the high resolution of the iPhone 4S is a huge plus for me, as I don't have to zoom when viewing web pages. Looks like this will be the case for the Nitro as well.

A few comments:
1) I read in a few places that this phone has 1GB of RAM, not 768 MB as Akira has stated.
2) This is the first review I've read that had anything negative to say about the "snappiness" of the OS. I wonder what the deal is with that.

I'm hoping this phone turns out to be a winner! I don't want to give up any pixels when I give up my iPhone. ;-)
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· Sunday at 4:22pm

Andrew Slatin
Just picked one up today, and have no problem with lag. If anything, it's negligible. You should buy this phone single handedly on the screen. It's gorgeous. My only concern is the battery life needed to power this monster of a screen. Hopefully this review is right about the battery.
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· Sunday at 4:53pm
Rodney Sparks · Antelope, California
Is the camera app comparable to that of the Samsung Galaxy S II? Being an iPhone user, I don't know which of these apps are standard Android and which are part of carrier/OEM overlays. Here's the GSII camera app: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bo8VelPZxkg What's your impression of the creakiness/flexibility of the chassis?

I can live with the USB port on the top... I'm not much of a gamer, so much of what I do is in portrait orientation.

Also, one thing I don't like to give up in my iPhone 4S is the HDR mode in the camera app. Is there anything comparable in the stock LG camera app, or is this a third-party-only function? Thanks!
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· Sunday at 5:47pm
Rodney Sparks · Antelope, California
Also, Andrew Slatin , what's *your* impression of the speaker?

I'm planning on waiting for all of the benchmarks to come out before I take the plunge, but it doesn't sound like there'll be an issue. I'll likely pick one up on Friday of this week.
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· Sunday at 6:03pm

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Akira Kanezaki
I know what the problem is. It's probably the same issue as on my HTC Sensation. Not enough RAM. 768MB on a 720p device? That's the core of the lag issue, I bet. I also agree that the cover for the charging port is terrible. And video footage I have seen of device, it looks like the buttons go out way too quickly. I had high hopes. Looks like I'm going Verizon after all.
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· Sunday at 3:16pm

Phanos Sofroniou · Works at P&S APPS
AT&T always gets the lame phones this phone is so ugly and not worth and I hate LG android skin! Its atrocious! Please At&t get the galaxy nexus! I am tired of tired of waiting, For a great Android device! This phone doesn't have enough ram or storage too. So many downsides..
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· Sunday at 11:59pm

David Nguyen · Top Commenter
So that's why I didn't think it was a big improvement over Gingerbread! I naturally assumed it had Ice Cream preinstalled because it's one of the first androids that uses the 3 front sensor design (application switcher, home, back).
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· Sunday at 4:21pm

Gabriel Bowen · Quinnipiac
I like everything in this design except for the back. I wish it was more smooth. I'm not a fan of the diagonal lines. But other than that, it looks great.
http://gbstechnews.com/
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· Sunday at 2:25pm

Rodney Sparks · Antelope, California
Funny, that's one of the most appealing things to me! That said, I prefer the lighter texture of the Galaxy S II 4.3" (not the Skyrocket).
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· Sunday at 5:58pm
Rodney Sparks · Antelope, California
I went and saw it today. It doesn't actually have diagonal lines... it just looks like it. It has rows of vertical and horizontal ridges that form the illusion of diagonal lines. The texture actually isn't very tall at all. Looks better in person.
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· 11 hours ago

Clever Duenas · Sales rep at AT&T Santa Ana
I was playing with this phone today and it rung up at 140+taxes it was about 200 $ not 250 $ this phone is beast the HD video playback was amazing.
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· Yesterday at 12:30am

Haruhi Suzumya · Queen at The White House
ohhhhhhh greeeeeeeeeeat
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· 45 minutes ago