Optimus 3D smartphone and Optimus Pad: LG preview at MWC 2011

    You can’t hide and hide from 3D - all last year it, cursed, climbed to us from TVs, and this year it even ran from smartphones. The new trend of "mobile 3D" was printed by the Koreans from LG, presenting on the MWC Android-smartphone Optimus 3D with an autostereoscopic display (for a second - almost the most impressive gadget of the exhibition) and the Optimus Pad tablet.




    In discussions of rumors about LG’s 3D smartphone, the question was often asked: “And what, will you look through glasses?” No, glasses will not be needed - the gadget’s screen is autostereoscopic. Moreover, it was made using some very cool technology: the 3D effect is manifested even if you look at the screen at an angle (although, of course, you will be “three-dimensional” of everything if you hold the gadget directly in front of you, at a distance of 30-40 centimeters from your eyes) .

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    Optimus 3D does not work in three-dimensional mode all the time, but only in some applications (for example, the gallery of 3D content) and games (I really liked the three-dimensional version of the Nova mobile shooter). The screen in 3D mode is noticeably darker, and the picture on it is more grainy, but this is in the order of things. Well, the coolest thing is that using a smartphone you can not only use 3D content (by the way, a 3D video gadget “pulls” resolutions up to 720p), but you can also create it - it has two built-in cameras. By the way, specially for Optimus 3D, a channel with 3D video was launched on YouTube.

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    The first unpleasant moment is that the eyes from the “three-dimensionality” of the new Optimus are very uncomfortable, especially when you switch from 3D to 2D (not only does the eye muscle literally relieve tension, it also breaks the eyes with a “jump” in brightness). However, LG honestly warned: do not abuse, fraught with visual impairment. And yet this smartphone is not recommended for children under five years of age.

    The second nuisance is in 3D mode, when the powerful dual-core smartphone’s filling is running at full power, the battery level is melting before our eyes (on the stand where the gadget was shown, a good half of all Optimus 3D samples were “off” - while they worked in offline mode).

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    LG enters the tablet market by working diligently with its elbows. At the Optimus Pad presentation, for example, journalists were told in plain text that all the competitors' tablets are full of crap: either they are of the wrong size, then the weight, or the screen is not with the same aspect ratio. But the Optimus Pad is the most optimal. 8.9 '' he has a screen, 630 g he weighs. Inside - NVIDIA Tegra 2 and, of course, Android 3.0 Honeycomb.

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    A very robust approach, but at the end LG apparently could not resist and for some reason inserted a stereo camera into their new tablet - well, that is, two cameras for recording 3D video and shooting 3D photos. Well, a very dubious chip, especially since you can view this content on the tablet screen only by looking at it through special glasses (at least thanks to passive, not active).

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    Prices and release dates are still a secret.

    (C) Alexey Goncharov

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