*** The Official LG Star Thread****

Wow, that was a big announcement, nVidia/TI/Qualcomm (and Apple) competing with intel for the desktop space. Things have just got interesting....

I'll have the tegra 2 in the Motorola thanks :p Here's anandtechs take 2 report on the architecture.
 
R B Customs said:
Anyone have any more news on this?

http://www.t3.com/news/lg-optimus-2x-hits-uk-in-march-for-£30-65-per-month?=52725

availible to pre-order on vodafone but I can;t see that anywhere... then again I'm useless at digging up info on phones (hence the bump)
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It doesn't say its available to pre-order on Vodafone, it says it is available to pre-order at a possible competitor and Vodafone have come out with their contract prices for it. It is badly written though so I can see where you got that from.

I would urge people to hang fire until the various tech blogs/sites have got their hands on one properly as it is LG and they don't have a good track record with phones, even good companies can balls up a great looking phone (like Sony with the X10)!
 
Robboftw said:
It doesn't say its available to pre-order on Vodafone, it says it is available to pre-order at a possible competitor and Vodafone have come out with their contract prices for it. It is badly written though so I can see where you got that from.

I would urge people to hang fire until the various tech blogs/sites have got their hands on one properly as it is LG and they don't have a good track record with phones, even good companies can balls up a great looking phone (like Sony with the X10)!
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ah yea, you're right there...badly (or cleverly) written.

I was all set to buy a DHD back in november until I caught a whiff of the nexus S, which I waited patiently for, until I found out it was not all it's cracked up to be, which is when the star / x2 caught my eye.

I'm still using an N95 8GB, which I've had since release! so although waiting just that little bit longer is not much of a problem I'm starting to get itchy feet, as i've been in the 'just wait another week' mentality for ages now.
 
Geffen said:
Out of interest what is wrong with LG phones? Also does anyone know what other new phones are coming out around the same time?
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In the past they have been generally poor on many fronts, just overall mostly.

That said, their new Windows 7 Optimus phone has been extremely impressive so maybe they have got their act together recently!
 
A few EU review units have started popping up... :)

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Looks great to me... just make sure you select 1080p and view in full screen :) (looks rubbish @ 360p)

gsmarena had a good N8 comparison (which was taken down) Arart from the usual poor mobile dynamic range it almost matched the N8 for detail. I think 720p mode runs at 60fps too?
 
sarge78 said:
Looks great to me... just make sure you select 1080p and view in full screen :) (looks rubbish @ 360p)

gsmarena had a good N8 comparison (which was taken down) Arart from the usual poor mobile dynamic range it almost matched the N8 for detail. I think 720p mode runs at 60fps too?
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maybe it was the upload looked noisy to me in background would also be nice to see a good image stabiliser on it when taking video as the current crop move about far too much.
 
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Bit rate seems to be the problem with those sample videos for the X2 @1080, just downloaded one and its only 6142 kbps, the I4 ones i have when i had one was 10680, and similar with the galaxy S at that time, lets just hope its those samples and it does higher bit rate as they won't look that good.

sarge78 said:
Here's same clip/location with a Nexus S...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dou7lse0gfU

How crappy does that look compared to the X2 @ 1080p :D
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Not really as the Nexus S atm doesn't record in 720p so it will look crap but if its anything like the Galaxy S it will shoot some sweet videos.
 
Looks like the LG has 3 modes, super fine:11800kbps, fine:8600kbps and normal:6240kbps, all at roughly 28-30fps. Not bad for the first 1080p phone and viewing them over a HDMI will be a huge plus as well.

(All the .3gp files can be downloaded at Anandtech btw)
 
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