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greetings all this is deke Adams with pocketnow.com today we're going to take a closer look at the hardware on the LG spectrum from verizon so sit back relax enjoy the show so the LG spectrum has a 4.5 inch IPS HD display it's running at a 720 x 1280 resolution which you can see here is looks really fantastic and looks very very solid color wise screen wise and we'll cover one of the kind of the small caveat it's about the screen in just a minute but just from the first glance it looks really really good down here at the bottom we've got the three capacitive buttons got a menu button which also serves as a search button if you tap and hold on it you've got the home button and then you get your back button which is all everything you would expect at the top we've got a 1.3 megapixel front-facing camera and a couple of the other sensors noticeably missing up here is a notification light there's no sort of notification system on here which has been a item that I've been sorely missing especially for text messages or emails I'm used to having some sort of blinking indication now there are the ways to make your screen act as the notification but again right out of the box this has no notification capabilities so that's a little disappointing but what you say outside edge here is a beveled and the kind of a chrome effect I haven't actually dropped this yet to know to find out if it's chrome all the way through ever gets scratched that it's going to show plastic underneath it is a really plasticky device all together it's got a large bezel around the outside which compared to say the samsung here the bezel is much much thinner in comparison we'll come back to the comparisons in just a minute looking at the top of the device here we have the headphone jack and the microphone and the pain in the keister USB door here that gets in the way of the power button if you have din and it also doesn't fit very well a bit here is a little funny so when you're reaching up for the power button tendency to slide my finger over this section to try to find out where the power button really sits because it's really very very small here up in this upper corner up here moving to the bottom of the device we've got just a finger spot for you stick your finger on there and pop the back door off on this side here we have our volume indicator of volume rocker it's strangely sits right in the middle of our practically in the middle of the device rather than at the upper limits here so expecting to be able to hold the device in one hand normally and then being able to grab the volume rocker here won't happen you have to kind of bring your hand further down or push the device up further in your hand or get that to work back of the phone has the 8 megapixel with a flash there on the back and then we've got kind of a plastic cover which you can see here which has that kind of a carbon fiber look and although it doesn't have a carbon fire texture it's very slick on the back here and picks up fingerprints and makes it extremely difficult to hold on to you really have to get a good grip on the sides in order for this to stay stable down at the bottom here we've got a speaker hole and really the speaker quality for both the back speaker the rear speaker and the front speaker are kind of terrible hey shouldn't say kind of terrible they are terrible it's really hard to listen to for an extended period of time if I use bluetooth that the sound volume quality is fine and the rear speaker and the front speaker both have a noun mazing amount of volume that they can put out but the sound quality is really tinny and terrible all together so that's a bit of a disappointment there for the amount of volume that it pumps out let's go ahead and pop the back of the device hop here again as we mentioned in the unboxing we have an eighteen thirty mil a power battery we've got the preinstalled 16 gig micro SD card it also has some internal ram or rather flash for storage as I believe it has four gigs of internal flash for purposes of the device plus your than everything else is stored on the microSD card it's got a gig of ram in here as well and the micro SD card is expandable up to 32 gigs you've got your verizon LTE sim chip and it is a global capable device as far as the data is concerned underneath this battery is nothing more than the you know information like the msid etc this black back cover here is you know the little creaky and claw key and you can kind of see the fingerprints appearing there but it snaps on nice and tight and there doesn't seem to be a whole lot of creaking or cracking it's very lightweight in the hand it just feels really plasticky because of the back there's nothing there to hold on to so even setting it down you can kind of hear how plastic it sounds the other thing that I found is that this with this lifted camera placement right here when it's laying flat like this and may notice on the software view it have its tendency to wobble back and forth compared to other devices on the market like the samsung galaxy s2 from sprint really no noticeable thickness difference here the screen resolution is higher on this device than it is on the samsung and it's a little taller as far as devices are concerned compared to say the AT&T HTC Vivid again there's the HTC Vivid is just a tiny bit thicker it's noticeably heavier than the LG spectrum and size-wise again the LG spectrum is it just a tiny bit longer here at the top the camera does a decent job of both video and photos but not anything that's really spectacular especially compared to what we were seeing coming right out of the HTC Vivid from AT&T and our last review that said in low light situations there is some loss of detail and it doesn't hold on to focus very low in fact it doesn't have a it doesn't seem to focus on with using the flash if it's in a darkly lit situation or as having troubles getting the the focus setup normally a phone will this style or a camera of this style will use the flash to help figure out where the focus point is and it doesn't do that even if even if the flash is forced on it doesn't help you know use a flash focus our flash assisted focus for photos I found that the overall the quality is again pretty decent but if you start looking here it's it doesn't have any anti-shake capabilities at all and then the other thing that I've noticed that well I really like the high resolution display when you really start looking at some of the reference images that I've got four color checking you can see right here on this JPEG image this cloud is not supposed to look that way it's not supposed to have those kind of clear light blue on the outside and then a really dark obvious difference in the interior and I can show you the difference here on the galaxy s2 and you can see there's while that darkness is there it's not as pronounced and obvious as it is over here and really color wise the color differences there's a little more contrast on the Samsung which is not unexpected and the color differentiation this is the Samsung does suffer from a little bit of a blue tint whereas this device does seem to have a little more of a yellow tinting as you can see kind of here in this this green area here it's a little more yellow than the Greens that I'm got here on the Samsung device I you can get the normal 3g speeds which are expected here but more importantly point out some of the 4G speeds that I was getting up in the Portland metro area we got 24 333 here down and 12 778 up and then down here at the bottom it's you know like a 1351 there sorry 13 5 14 down and 5 7 11 up so really excellent data speeds up and down not quite as good as a TNT's service as far as LG is concerned but AT&T service is not as widespread as verizon's is as well so really excellent data speeds here if only it made the device faster overall and unfortunately does not that wraps is a closer look at the hardware on the LG spectrum 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