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what's up everyone this is todd haselton with technobuffalo calm today we're checking out the new LG Lucid it was just announced officially by Verizon Wireless this week it's an eighty dollar smartphone it'll be available in stores on March 29th let's dive in real quick and look at it here's the Box really small compared to others but not that big of a deal here's the phone itself nice finish on the back kind of reminds me of the older Samsung devices with the red here some of these two have blue I'm thinking all the way back a couple years ago the 5 megapixel camera capable of recording 1080p video and you also have a single LED flash and support for 4G LTE networks quick look at that phone we'll go over that more in a bit you got LTE also you have in the box regular microUSB charging cord start guide you can figure out how to use the phone and of course the charger alright let's power up the phone alright let's take off a ugly little sticker kind of ruining the phone really nice design you can see it's got this sort of curved metal accent there looks like the power button let's find out nope doesn't appear to be anything at all but an accent that little metal thing micro USB charging port nothing on the bottom nothing on this side up here's the power button will power it up you've got the four buttons on the bottom there for menu home return and search and of course at 3.5 millimeter headphone jack on the top of the vice alright we're all booted up this is running android 2.3 gingerbread I haven't heard word yet on Ice Cream Sandwich I don't know if they're going to add it you'd hope so given today but that you know most phones are getting announced with ice cream sandwich so it's kind of weird that this just came out without it but that's fine gingerbread here it's got a 1.2 gigahertz dual-core processor seems to be pretty quick so far but I don't really have anything installed on it let's see what they've added so I guess we can pinch to collapse all the categories that's kind of unique here go through I'm sure if I dig it owner I guess we could turn it off just go right to the list so we can see what's installed backup assistant guided tours not too much though we're here my verizon netflix always like that plans for zombies obviously probably just a demo and a couple of other applications they're not too much not too bad of course you've got LG's layout that they include on most of their phones it's pretty simple it's not as in-depth as you'd find in cents or even really TouchWiz from Samsung not a huge fan usually of this kind of colored logo stuff but that's fine I kind of like ice cream sandwich in the bear but order I gingerbread in that case also let's check out the camera real quick the loop kind of seems to be a little slow it's not really keeping up with the viewfinder trying to take a picture of this good touch autofocus see how that came out not too bad looks all right all right let's i'm going to quickly install a speed test and we'll go through over what we can find with Verizon's 4G LTE network here in New York City here you can see we have a pretty good signal so we'll see what that society we've got speed test installed let's get going usually I see about 11 megabits per second or so in whoo New York City that's insane that's 25 megabits per second well we're actually left we're looking at kilobits per second so and 19 that's insane throw this in megabits per second let's do that again that's going to Washington DC wow I've actually never seen speeds that fast before 36.3 megabits per second and 18 megabits per second up that's incredible that's about three times the speed of my home internet connection here Time Warner pretty slow so wow there you go that's a quick look we'll give you the results there 33 36 26 megabits per second down and 18 18 and 19 megabits per second up that's incredibly fast $80 all right now the loose it also has a video editing app I record a quick video of a nerf gun here it's sort of a company thing we all have them for protection it's called video producer so here I filmed a quick video of the nerf gun you can do so well here I'll show you the original video and then I'll show you what you can do with it so go to so here's the quick clip I just shot just going over the nerf gun there so then I opened up video producer took that video and you can add so you can add music to it and save it this adds showcase feature so showcases like it's a template we can have this show real one converts it real quick we hit yes you can hit play I'll take that original movie add music and effects so the volume is pretty good there but it seemed a little slow so then when you're done you can save it we save it to 720p quality you can see a little bit of how fast the processor renders here again it's a 1.2 year it's dual core processor to be rendering about percentages second or so just a bit faster than that so it doesn't seem like you can do a whole lot but you know it looks like a little fun feature for anybody that wants to kind of spice up their home videos I'd much rather put it on my computer personally and edit it there but ok so it finished rendering took about another minute or so sit play here's our video so pretty cool wasn't wasn't it all Jerry that time I guess that's because it was fully rendered definitely a neat freak feature you get with the LG Lucid ok so quick recap you got a 4 inch screen it's pretty sharp here I like it so far got the 5 megapixel camera on the back you've got the glossy finish that obviously attracts fingerprints like crazy volume controls here on the Left microUSB charging where else can we go over here gingerbread in the while i was actually editing this video i did find out it will be upgraded to ice cream sandwich is unclear one eighty dollars with a new two-year contract and incredible data speeds as we've seen so not a bad value proposition for anybody in the market for a new smartphone LTE not looking to spend too much money this is todd Hazleton with TechnoBuffalo calm