Gadgetory

hey guys spread a minimun front pocket now calm Samsung invented the phablet category with the Galaxy Note the Galaxy Note was laughed at in the beginning people didn't think that the world would want such a large phone / mini tablet but the sales numbers have told the truth and people really like this form factor and so far no OEMs except for LG have come up with a phablet on their own no Motorola phablet no HTC phablet but LG has come out with the Optimus view it's actually been out for a while in Europe but it's finally hitting the US as the LG intuition and Verizon Wireless like the idea of competing with AT&T on the note and Samsa and t-mobile on the note I should say by coming out with their own version of a phablet this is a totally different phablet experience though it's got a four by three aspect ratio a different processor it's got LG's software totally different and in this video we're gonna unbox the LG intuition and talk about some first impressions let's get to it and I've just been really eager to see this device firsthand I haven't yet so let's talk about specs while we're unboxing it it's got a Snapdragon s4 dual-core processor you're running it for 1.5 gigahertz the same chip that you find in the US version of the galaxy s3 and many other phones it's got a gigabyte of RAM it's got a four by three aspect ratio display instead of the sixteen by nine ish of the note 2 and the note 1 kind of has a weird in between sixteen by nine and four by three and it's on Verizon so it's got 4G LTE let's take a look at what we have in the box whoa this thing is huge oh my goodness this thing looks like a large square oh my goodness next to the Galaxy Note makes the Galaxy Note look very much rectangular this thing is monstrous is this really a phone this is a joke no I'm just kidding this is actually extremely big but it's actually very thin which is kind of nice so we're gonna take a look at that give some first impressions let's see what LG does because parently there are some cool some cool accessories in here like NFC tags that's always fun start here and there should be a stylus in here this is not the s-pen this is called well it's got some really strange name but I want to take this out and compare this pen to the pen that you get on the Galaxy Note I'm wondering if the slides into the device it's got a rubberized tip which is totally different than what you get with the Galaxy Note you get a plastic tip on the Galaxy Note and of course the note 2 has a thicker thicker tip and a thicker body here so kind of the nicer look to the LG pen it's got a nice little chrome accent down here so we'll look at that later we've got chargers in there let's get this stuff out of the way let's take off these plastic covers there are a lot of them okay I just removed the looks like a micro sd this thing is so big I don't I don't know if this is going to fit into a pocket well maybe it should it's not to be honest it's not that much wider than the note we're gonna compare them in a sec but you know out of the box this thing is just a tank so let's see compared to the note yeah it is a good three to four millimeters wider than the note it's definitely thinner than the note which is which is nice it's got to be but we've got a 1024 by 768 resolution screen so it should be super clear super crisp let's boot this on for the first time we've got even more plastic all around what is this oh that's really nice a nice action on that USB door I don't really see that nowadays we're gonna press and hold the power button here and turn this on and nothing has happened maybe that's not even the power button let's look around the device oh maybe the power buttons over here that would make sense okay so Turk just vibrated it's got a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack here microphone plastic galore and here we've got oh this is interesting the button on the right is the three dots from an Ice Cream Sandwich to kind of show that it's the Menu button we've got multitask home and back okay we've got 4G LTE let's get a little bit closer here and see what we've got I don't see a silo for the stylus which would be super annoying having to carry around the stylus although I have a feeling that LG didn't integrate the s-pen as well as Samsung has so anyway next this is running Ice Cream Sandwich by the way activate your phone alright we will put a sim card in here and get back to you in a second and we're back and activated and I got a little bit of time to look extra hard for the stylus silo for this guy and there is no stylus silo I can't believe it you're really supposed to carry this around what this is basically is a capacitive stylus in fact if we take out the notes I bet it works just fine on there no oh yes it does see let's go back to the home screen let's see it it does kind of work but kind of doesn't work that's kind of strange okay so let's get through here by the way I got really close to the screen on the lg intuition here it's a great screen again 1024 by 768 resolution kind of crazy if you think about it that's the same resolution as the iPad 2 and a lot of monitors out there to be honest or to skip this so great screen extremely wide form factor I mean hopefully this has a way to easily type with two hands with a split keyboard because you know the note it the note one was was tough enough with sort of one-handed usability it was actually impossible although they allowed you to put the keyboard over to the side this guy okay I had to struggle there not to drop it I doubt that it's going to be possible to use this with one hand I really do it's just it's just so incredibly wide now LG says that the advantages of such a wide wide screen this way is that it's great for reading books it's great for web blah blah blah maybe maybe not what you're in what you're going to see if you watch YouTube video of course is a huge amount of black bars ok backup assistant plus we don't care about that no please please no do not do this ok what better I don't I'm just gonna uncheck everything all right let's get back let's get to the home screens so that we can experiment a little bit and check out web web browsing performance if you want to see how the s4 works it in this particular device because it works great in the galaxy s3 and a lot of other devices out there that have the have the Snapdragon s4 chip in there ok so not now done it's set up finally here we are almost overlap two icons to create a folder yes I know that okay so here we are this is the LG interface here and it's definitely nice and smooth we've got of course the pinch out feature and wow look how many icons you get on the bottom it's one of the cool parts about having such a a widescreen I suppose is that you can fit so many icons on the screen probably more surface area definitely more surface area than you get on the note let's look closely up at the screen to play you can see it's very crisp very clear I can tell you that has very nice colors on this display and let's go into the web browser we're not going to go over Wi-Fi right now are to keep it over 4G LTE although it's asking do not use Wi-Fi remind me later just your guide okay pull up the toolbar to see the button okay we'll get to that later I just want to give you a first impression here really quick so let's go to pocket now calm I'm using the stylus but I don't really need to know why I look at this keyboard holy moly it's wide it is wide and uncomfortable I feel like I'm typing on a nexus 7 I've got to say it's so it's a big keyboard alright so here we go loading pocketnow.com let's move around on the page once it's loaded see if we get any checker boards or any blank spots no pretty good definitely not the jelly bean smoothness that we've come to expect recently let's zoom in see how long it takes to clear up a lot of white space there so we're learning another page right now gonna move around on the page we've got this little gray bar on the bottom which I'm curious about which is kind of a way that LG has hidden away some device functions kind of a cool idea actually to keep it out of sight and out of mind web browsing on this guy seems kind of cool actually because you get so much of the page and this is a really nice screen again it's definitely not as fast as some of the other web browsers we've seen but this is a very interesting experience let's go back to the home screen and see some of the included apps hopefully Verizon hasn't added too much bloatware so we're gonna go into the app drawer here little stutter in the animation if you just saw that there I really like how they did the apps right here it's very clean very very light looks just like the stock Ice Cream Sandwich launcher which is always great to see I've got a column for downloaded column for widgets constantly having to think which is interesting in terms of apps we've got audible we've got guided tour Verizon apps Verizon hotspot that's important to have my mobile pryzen setup wizard smart there's a lot of LG and verizon stuff on this so anyway first impressions of the LG and tuition is that it is huge and that might good thing that might not be a good thing I'm actually gonna use this as my daily driver for a period of time to really get a feel for how this device is in day to day use I hope it fits into my pocket it'll fit into my pocket I checked and we're gonna really compare this to the Galaxy Note and see if LG has made a phablet competitor as good as the note if you like this video please give us a thumbs up and let us know what you think about LG's attempt at a phablet and thanks for watching that's it for now