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what's up guys david here from humble calm and this video we're doing a review on the sprint LG Viper 4G LTE and like I do with all my reviews I'm we're doing a quick harder tour and then getting right into the review so on the front of device you have a four inch going to a jingly IPS display that's 800 by 480 in resolution on the top right you have a VGA front-facing camera got your earpiece and normal sensors on the bottom you have four capacitive touch buttons for a home menu back and search I succeed they don't stay on for that long but hopefully that gives you an idea what it looks like on the right side you have absolutely nothing on the left you have your volume rocker for volume up and down and your micro USB charging port right here on the top of the device you have your 3.5 mm headset jack secondary mic and power button on the back you have your five megapixel camera capable of 1080p video capture and your LED flash got your LG logo right here and at the very bottom you have your speaker grille and at the bottom of the device itself you have nothing but a little slot where you can put in your fingernail to pop off the back so I'll go ahead and do that on the inside of device you have a 1.2 gigahertz Snapdragon s3 dual-core processor with one gigabyte of RAM you have four gigabytes of internal storage expandable by this micro use or microSD slot which comes with a four gig where you can expand it up to 32 of course the battery in here is 1700 milliamps of course you have NFC so you can see you know you have this on the back cover and again it's a 4G LTE phone but that pretty much wraps up the hardware tour I'll go ahead and get right into the review itself talking about what I like and also what I dislike about the phone I'll start off with what I dislike so that way I can end this review on a positive note which I do on most my reviews alright so one of the first things I have to say I disliked about the LG Viper is a screen on this guy not necessarily the screen size at 4 inches or the screen type which is an IPS display but the screen resolution at 800 by 480 being a 4G LTE phone I just kind of expected something along lines of like qHD because you know with faster data speeds you want to be able to take advantage of that with the higher quality YouTube videos and web browsing but it's not that big of an issue because like I said it is an IPS display and if I could give you a close-up you can see the quality is actually pretty good on here the IPS display does a good job at color reproduction and you know it just kind of makes up for the lower resolution so it's a minor issue for me but sometimes a bigger issue and I think it'll be a bigger issue for most of you guys at least everyone I've shown you know has mentioned something about it and that's the thickness of the device I almost happen inch-thick 0.46 inches to be exact it's a pretty thick bone I mean compared to the Samsung Galaxy Nexus which is also available on Sprint you can tell the thickness you know it's a lot more on the LG than it is on the Samsung and this is a bigger device so you'd expect this to be thicker but this guy isn't in also this guy is heavier too it's five ounces or 142 grams so it's a heavier you know thicker foam when really you know with just a 4-inch screen you expect to be lighter and thinner but anyway that's another issue that I have and the last issue or the last problem that I have with the LG Viper is the battery life battery life seems to be you know pretty bad I mean it runs out you know but the end of the day I'm pretty much either charged it throughout the day and that's not even when I'm connected to 4G LTE I don't know if it's trying to catch on to a 4G LTE network or what's going on but you know from compared to my Galaxy Nexus my iPhone 4s my Samsung Galaxy Note you know this one doesn't last as long with this seventeen hundred million battery but the good news is that's pretty much all I dislike about the LG Vibram you get past the thickness and the weight and things like that you know it's not all that bad of device so what that says go ahead and talk about some of the things that I actually like what the LG Viper compared to other mid-range handsets out there all right so let's talk about what I like about the phone and the first thing that I like what the Viper is a soft right here now I'm not talking about the fact that you know it's running Android 2.3 point 7 obviously I'd much rather seen I just couldn't stand which loaded on this guy and LG did say they're gonna be releasing I shouldn't stand much for this guy sooner or later of course we don't have a timetable but what I'm talking about as far as the software it goes is the fact that it's pretty much stock Android there's no custom UI by LG you know taking up extra system resources and I feel like you know having this stock experience on here not only you know do I prefer it but you know it's personal preference but also if you like it you know attributes to the phone performing a little bit faster than it would otherwise because you know there's nothing running in the background as far as the UI goes and it's just pretty quick I mean everything I opened up is pretty fast obviously some of these apps are open up in the background see if I can open up one that I haven't opened up a little do uh does this do YouTube so tap YouTube and I mean you can see it is pretty quick even then obviously it's not just a software that makes it fast it's the snapdragon s3 dual-core processor underneath the hood that makes the fast as well and that's go ahead and run a quadrant benchmark test so we could see exactly how fast this guy performs compared to the other devices out there so I'll go and run the benchmark and as soon as the benchmark is done I'll unpause the video because I don't want to bore you with it going through its steps so anyway I'll go ahead and pause the video and come right back as soon as it's done alright so the benchmark test is done I'm going to hit yes and let's see if we give the score so the device scored a 3067 so definitely a good benchmark score similar to what you get on the Galaxy s2 on you know of t-mobile or ATT where they're using the Snapdragon s4 processor so definitely you know pretty good considering this is only a mid-range phone you know I'd $100 that's definitely a good value as for our speed goes some of the other things that I like about the device or the fact that it has NFC and comes pre-loaded with Google Wallet same thing is you know the next success and obviously the benefit of it is not only being able to use it but I also feel like it kind of feature proofs your phone because NFC obviously is a technology that's gonna get more more popular as time goes on and the fact that this guy has it you know is gonna make you feel or your phone feel outdated and also speaking of you know not feeling outdated the fact that has 4G LTE you're gonna be able to run on Sprint's fastest internet connection as soon as they roll it out in your area obviously in my area in Irvine California they still haven't rolled it out so I'm still in 3G on this guy but anyways you know say in a year down the line they actually roll it out you'll be able to have you know both NFC you'll have 4G LTE and like I said you'll have the stock Android experience hopefully they keep the stock Android when they update it to Android 4.0 but you know that's my review pretty much you know the pros and cons about the cons are the screens resolution isn't like you know the thickness of devices you know a lot larger a lot more than you you'd want and also the battery life isn't necessarily the best but the pros of the device are the fact that you know it's a stock Android experience or closest to it you have a you know fast performance on here you have 4G LTE and you have NFC but anyway that's my review if you found it helpful please hit the like button right here and subscribe and don't 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