Design and Body
As the L Series, naturally if the design is considered in this Android smartphone. With a glossy white color on the front, the sides covered with the phone list that gives the impression of premium metallic. Metallic List also meets the top of the phone. Mobile sharp corners at the top and slightly curved at the bottom. In the front Home button is surrounded by capacitive Back and Option keys. While the front VGA camera, proximity sensor at the top.
Meanwhile, on the back cover of this phone is made of plastic serrated in order to make your grip when holding the phone to stay awake. Such as L3, metallic silver accents adorn the list 5MP camera and LED flash, while the LG logo below it is also made of the same metallic material. With a slim design and large screen size ie 4, 3 inches, but the phone still comfortable when held because the corners are fitted with your hands.
The volume buttons on the left and white like the phone body, not flashy. While there is no port for micro USB port on the bottom of the phone and the audio jack of 3.5 mm at the top. SIM card slot and micro SD behind the back cover, but do not have to unplug the battery to insert / remove the card.
IPS type screen of this phone, promising a good perspective and a more natural color reproduction. To the brightness level was quite light and can be used outdoors under a blinding sun. Surprisingly there is no auto-brightness feature that adjusts for lighting conditions around the phone. Produced its own characteristic color in yellowish-white color displays. Still largely IPS screen phone is quite satisfactory, especially its size is large enough for cell phones worth under 3 million, which is 4.3 inches.
Interface
In contrast to the L3, the phone is already using Android OS 4.0.3 Ice Cream Sandwich. Seen from the signal and battery indicators, and other accents interface that uses cyan color, and font usage Roboto. However lockscreen can not use the Face as in the Galaxy Unlock Nexus. In the Lock Screen also no shortcut to access another menu, but there are options in order to enable widgets and shortcuts on the lockscreen.
For the home page 5 homescreen uses that you can meet with the access application shortcuts and widgets. There are several settings you can choose for example to enable the animation, while the effect of sweeping movement homescreen screen, choose the wallpaper, and enable the homescreen arranged in circular order.
Drawer laterally structured applications with icons of 5 rows and 4 columns. With the option'' Show More Icons'', the composition can be changed to 6 rows and 5 columns, to fit more icons on the screen. Drawer application itself is divided into three namely Apps, Downloads and Widgets. Arrangement of icons can be changed according to your wishes.
Notification bar comes with a few shortcuts that Vibrate, WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS. The arrangement can be changed, can also be added Airplane Mode, auto rotate, brightness, and others. In addition there is a date and access to the settings. As with other ICs on the phone, if you hold down the Home button, it will list out the last application that you open and run in the background, and you can cover the spot with a sweep to the left or right.
Input Text
There are only a QWERTY keyboard from LG bawaaan for text input, in addition to Google Voice Typing in most Android devices. Its features include auto-capitalize, auto-punctuation, suggestions of words and touch feedback. 4.3-inch wide screen makes typing quite comfortable two-handed, to use one-handed typing was not a problem.
Contact
LG split contacts in this phone into 3 categories, Groups, contact list and favorites. Contacts can be synchronized with social networking accounts and Gmail. In conducting the search, edit and add contacts are all easy to do. Each contact can add photos and special ringtone.
Messaging
As with other Android phones, there are three models of Optimus L7 messaging in the SMS, Email and Instant Messaging. Easy to use SMS as well as other Android phones, there are threaded format. While you can use a Gmail email that has many features similar to desktop versions as well as other email client. While Instant Messaging is available for the Google Talk, other than that you can add an alternative such as Line, WhatsApp, Viber, YM, and so forth.
Camera
Motorola L7 has a promising camera, 5 megapixel camera with autofocus and LED flash. Quite a lot of features such as brightness, panorama mode and continuous shoot (photograph 6 in the adjacent photo, it's just downgraded to a WVGA resolution of course), autofocus, face tracking, resolution, scene modes, ISO, white balance, color effects, geotagging , shutter sound and auto review. To a focus images can be done by touching the objects on the screen. The focus itself is continuous. Overall the camera on this phone is quite easy to use, especially LG provides clues every feature of the camera. Both volume buttons can be used as a button to take pictures.
Video recording
Video recording is a weak point L7, because this phone can only record video up to VGA resolution (640x480 pixels), even though the phone was able to record a class of at least 1280x720 pixels HD video (720p). Its features include brightness, resolution, white balance, color effects, geotagging, audio recording and auto review. You can record video at a nearby object (macro) with continuous autofocus, but the response was slow in focusing the lens to the object, unlike the camera fast enough.
Although the resolution is only VGA video recording, but to still smooth and not broken because the framerate of 30 frames per second. While only the 1600-1660kbps bitratenya only.
Photo and Video Gallery
In the gallery are fairly standard, you can see pictures and video by Albums (folder), where an image and an image capture time. The photos you can share via bluetooth, Gmail, G +, and others. Meanwhile, for the editing features you can do the cropping, rotating images, and add simple effects.
Video Player
LG Optimus L7 has a dedicated video player with DivX certification. The file. Avi and. Mp4 maximum 480p resolution (854x480 pixels) can be rotated smoothly following subtitle file format. Srt attached to them. However, HD video, 720p can not play at all (the resolution is not supported). It is already quite a maximum of 480p because the screen resolution of only 800x480 pixels, but for those of you who already have a collection of 720p video would have to convert it first to 480p resolution.
Music Players
The music player is divided into 5 categories, Songs, Albums, Artists, Playlists and Folders. Can you make ringtone song, put your own playlist you created and distributed via Bluetooth, Gmail and MMS. Sound output from the loudspeaker is quite loud and full of the usual treble, and a little hoarse at the highest volume. At the time of playing music you can choose to activate the music player controller in the notification bar. In addition there are features of sleep timer and some audio effects like clear treble, deep bass, bright stage, Dynamics and Pure Bypass. By default, other than making a new playlist you can also use automatic playlists such as Most Played, Recently Played and Recently Added, and Favourites. You can see the lyrics when playing song.
FM Radio
To play you must plug the headset radio in advance which functions as the radio antenna. There is a scanning facility in this phone's FM Radio.
Connectivity
This phone uses GSM networks with HSDPA internet capabilities up. Then the local connectivity is a-GPS, Bluetooth 3.0, WiFi (802.11 b / g / n) with WiFi tethering capability and DLNA. To connect to a PC, Optimus L7 using a micro USB cable.
Web Browser
Identical to the LG Optimus L3, L7 default browser on can only open a maximum of 4 pieces tab only. In opening the site with a lot of content such as full TeknoUp pretty fast and smooth performance, although certainly not as smooth dual-core Android device. Settings-settings such as: Find, Share, Bookmark, an option to always open the desktop site, save for offline reading and setting the screen brightness level. Also of course there are standard features of the cache, cookies, form data and others.
Third-Party Applications
Angry Birds Space
War games between birds and pigs which takes place in outer space runs very smoothly on the LG Optimus L7.
Temple Run
Chase game with a baboon with a 3D format is pretty well played on the LG Optimus L7, but it sometimes happens frameskip and the lag is quite disturbing.
MX Video Player
By using this application, format. Mkv 720p resolution to be read, using software decoding, fast mode, but not so smooth, feels less shingga frameratenya broken video, but audio and video remain synchronized so well that practically still enjoyable.
Benchmark Results
Quadrant Standard: 2082 points
Antutu: 2862 points
Neocore 3D: 57.4 frames per second
NenaMark2: 19.1 frames per second
Multitouch Tester: A maximum of 9 touch
Battery Life
With a battery of 1700 mAh, LG Optimus L7 durability is pretty good. With internet condition using WiFi, screen brightness level of 50 percent, the use of heavy use for the purposes of review, a new backlit off after 10 minutes, the phone can last about 18-24 hours.
Conclusion
With the price of Rp. 2999.000, LG Optimus L7 ciamik clear design offers an elegant and tasteful like the LG Prada, but you could say that about the features and performance of L7 must submit with its competitors in the same price range, such as Sony Ericsson Xperia Play (U.S. $ 2.9 million), Samsung Galaxy W (Rp 2.7 million), HTC One V (Rp 2.9 million) and the old master himself LG, Optimus Black (U.S. $ 2.9 million). Even so, the design of L7 is relatively better than its competitors, the larger the screen, and other advantages L7 already using OS Ice Cream Sandwich (except the HTC One V is also ICS).
Excess
Sleek and elegant design
4.3-inch IPS display with Gorilla Glass
Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich
There NFC
Shortage
Video recording up to VGA resolution only
Performance decreases drastically if there are some applications in the background
