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what's going on Android lovers this is clayton youngberg with android authority calm today we've got an in-depth review of the LG intuition for verizon this is a brand-new phone it's a 4G LTE capable device it's a five inch device so that categorizes this is a phablet and it has a lot of impressive specs as well some cool intuitive software features we're just going to go ahead and go over the software hardware build quality everything about this phone that makes it special so let's go ahead and check out the body as you can see right here on top we already have some nice lighting accents that are on the power switch we also have some protection for a micro USB slot we can simply slide that open and shut and then we have our dedicated screenshot key which is also intuitive with the software quick memo we also have our eight millimeter headphone jack nothing on the left side on our bottom all we have is the small microphone on the right side we've got a volume rocker up and down each a dedicated button with a nice space in between and then we also have our SIM slot right here we have a non-removable battery but it is still fairly large in size gives you a lot of talk time especially a lot of standby time we've got an eight megapixel camera in the rear with LED flash and we have a 1.3 megapixel camera in the front as well as all our different light sensors a small speaker here then also on the front we have our dedicated capacitive touch keys right here we've got the back the home the recent apps button and then we also have our menu button as you can see we're on our lock screen right here we can kind of just press anywhere we would like and swipe to open it up we also have our quick shortcuts down here for phone messaging gmail camera and notebook which of course are customizable we have access to a notification bar in the lock screen as well and we have our Wi-Fi notification all of our usual stuff that's packed in ice cream sandwich anzhela can customize the home screen LG has the optimist skin running over android 404 and we have a lot of cool intuitive widgets and software that's packed into this device so we'll go ahead and go open our app tray you see we have five across nice screen space takes advantage of the five inch display now this is a 5 inch display but this is the LCD TFT with a resolution of 768 by 1024 so it has a strange screen resolution but we are getting a good PPI we have about 250 PPI give or take we also have a 1.5 gigahertz dual-core Snapdragon s3 processor now the s3 is not the newest from Snapdragon it's dwarfed by the s4 and s4 pro of course but it still does provide a lot of you know nice speed nice fluid video game play all sorts of stuff and it does really power the display now sometimes we have some lag when it comes to leaving the app tray and going to the home screen or leaving a specific app and going to the home screen but other otherwise does work really well we can pull down our status bar here we have all our different toggles for the quick memo we have the different toggles for silent mode Bluetooth NFC of course this is an NFC capable device and we've got our brightness toggle as well and also edit these toggles choose their order and which toggles do appear we have our Wi-Fi which is the dedicated button right here for most of the Wi-Fi and then we can access our settings now all of the menus are themed with the Optimus UI but we do get our Wi-Fi Bluetooth data usage for ice cream sandwich and then our options under the more tab and scroll down we have sound options display options under the display options we can choose the auto rotate screen screen brightness we can even choose our font type our font size and then we can correct the aspect ratio for a lot of our apps and stuff we can choose the duration of the front key lights as well we also have gesture support much similar to the galaxy s3 we can choose an icon and kind of moved across the screen just by tilting the device and whatnot apps management power saver which is really cool as a lot of cool features baked in there of course we have our verizon bloatware the backup assistant and stuff like that hopefully this gets a root method soon so you can remove the bloatware we also have a developer options for Android Ice Cream Sandwich and if we go under the about phone and under the software information we see we are running the for dot 0 dot for trying to get our Easter egg and we do have our Easter egg which looks really nice a lot of apps do look nice with the 5 inch display but a lot or you can see the lag right here so there it is guys the s3 processor lagging huh anyways it does usually work really nicely as you can see now it's going and we can use of our we can make use of our roberti and pen which is pretty intuitive but of course as a lot of people know there's nowhere to keep it on the phone but like i mentioned in our galaxy s3 comparison a lot of cases should be coming out that you can have an area to put the stylus and also some cases might have some extended batteries for this bad boy well anyways the pen works pretty nicely we can swipe left and right use any of our intuitive apps such as the quick memo we can go ahead and demo out our quick memo dedicated button simply press the button it takes a screenshot now in the screenshot we can edit to whatever we have captured so we can make a note to our friends you know choose our different pen tools our pen sizes choose our judgement eraser tools choose where to save it we can even share the image so we would circle that we can save damage to either our notebook app or the gallery now if we save it into the gallery we can access it from going to the gallery and likewise if we save it to the notebook we can quickly go into the notebook and access those so here's the notebook this is lg's it own proprietary app we can choose a new note choose all of our different parchment styles paper colors and then our bindings will go back and we have a similar app called tasks we have all of our different tasks that we can do and assign and then complete so this device does have a lot of cool productivity apps built right in and then it also has a lot of the verizon bloatware but we do have our alarm clock it's got audible it's got email of course all of our google apps such as Gmail Google+ also got some weather apps video is video player VZ navigator youtube we have our downloadable widgets excuse me we have our downloads tab and our widgets now the download shows you everything you personally have downloaded widgets as well a lot of cool custom LG widgets available music players and whatnot and then of course we can choose and uh well we downloads and then choose which apps show up in the actual downloads pages in which in the apps pages are sorting options and stuff like that which leads me into the theming options you can do with this now you can simply grab an icon and you can change the way it appears you can change its actual photo icon and then we can choose the theme whether it be optimist biz light or sketch we can access that from the settings as well we go here into the display options actually yes that is the display options and then we can choose our no it's not so LG does provide us with thieving options and stuff like that we can also choose certain apps and not only use them as the app but we can actually create a widget out of them if we grab and we can expand well obviously messaging is not one of the ones we can do that but a lot of cool apps are like that grab a app and we can simply just drag it into the size of a widget now this phone does run pretty fast it runs quickly this s 3 processor doesn't um you know really slow the thing down but you can see that we're using most of our Ram at all times even if we clear the ram the ram has been optimized we're still using a lot of RAM this does have one gigabyte of RAM which is on par with most of the phones these days but it's not anything incredible like the two gigabytes of RAM in the galaxy s3 also available on verizon make sure to watch our smackdown between this and the galaxy s3 because that is one of the other hotter phones on verizon and if you've got any questions about the LG intuition go ahead and drop us a line you can always interact with us on Facebook Google+ Twitter and of course YouTube and our website that's basically the LG intuition for verizon if you're looking for a phablet device and you're on Verizon and you don't want to hold out for the note to you can still have the power of the galaxy or the Snapdragon s3 process so if you're looking for a tablet you can still have the power of the Snapdragon s3 processor one gigabyte of RAM and then a nice big five inch screen we're going to see jellybean coming to this device in the near future hopefully already got ice cream sandwich big beautiful display blazing fast processor I was scored the upper three thousands on the quadrant test so it does keep up with the galaxy s3 nice sound nice build quality to it does have the you know not really rounded edges but we don't want to get sued by that one infamous company huh anyways yep that was our review guys so if you've got any questions feel free to ask this is clayton youngberg with android authority calm