LG Optimus 7 E900 Mobile Phone

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Introduction

LG Optimus 7 is a Windows 7 phone, that comes with with a handy option in black color. Starting from around 370th - € (without branding, contract, shipping and depending on the provider), the E900 is now available in the market. What all things the customer gets from the same mobile for the money invested? A Windows 7 Phone-based smartphone with elegant design and effective with 1.45 GB of internal memory. Because of the Win7 Phone-typical conditions, the internal memory cannot be expanded. Even the other technical characteristics of the Optimus are not as such that the mobile phone experts literally "is starting to water in the mouth": A 5 MP camera is nothing more or less breaks than the lowest standard for this price range, and 9.7 cm measured display regarding the dimensions nor the current dimensions. One can also point the camera (scanning search) on the sky to get a current weather forecast, which makes it a nice gadget. As usual with Windows Phone 7 devices, Microsoft Zune is used as a sync tool for media files. By registering to Windows Live ID, you get access to various Microsoft services. Using the Xbox LIVE service can be also utilized on the E900 for application and games download - advantageous here. Customer may first install a free trial and then decide whether to buy the game and also Google or Facebook account can be quickly synchronized for contacts, however, no sync with Outlook is directly possible. We will verify what achievements the E900 is capable of in our test.

LG E900 Optimus 7 - powerful office and multimedia companion

About Windows 7 Phone

The overall relatively easy to understand user interface welcomes the user with a home screen constructed of tiles. The size of the tiles can not be changed by the user, but only the arrangement. A distinction must be of 2 functions: direct access to a particular function by tile, or it is hidden behind a hub of a tile - Here you will find it in a turn of subdivided parent folder (eg games-stroke). Additional memory in our case effectively to 14.5 GB of external storage devices such as micro SD card is not provided for the LG E900 mobile phone. First point - you may not have its own user interface through Windows Phone 7 basket - you should have more readily accepted by LG with mild disapproval. Finally, we developed in-house rather attractive graphical user interfaces. Feature of Windows Phone 7 is its flag-like "Home" button that you always press to come back to the main menu. It is the three buttons located below the display, center housed. Links them is the "back" button, a menu with one level comes out on top. The right button is located for the search feature, seen in a stylized motion. The key sensors based work. If you want to advance to other features, Windows Phone 7 works multidimensional. By pulling the current page to the left or right a function like the flip of a book is reached, but you can also display content from top to bottom or bottom to scroll through the top.

Processing Features

1. First optical impression / special features to support the design - Chic, minimalist design all around. A metal battery cover with plastic mats give a nice combination.

2. Housing material / surface quality - Gloss plastic, combined with a cool metal battery cover.

3. Housing dimensions - With a weight of 158 grams, the phone is quite heavy - but it is made with very solid structure. With dimensions of 125 x 59.8 x 11.5 mm, it sits well in hand.

4. Quality (sharpness/resolution) of the display - 3.8-inch color TFT display with 262,000 colors and a WVGA resolution of 480 x 800 pixels. Pleasant neutral colors, sharp display, good contrast. Very good brightness and even illumination.

5. Implementation of the folding or sliding mechanism - NA.

6. Quality of the battery compartment cover - The battery compartment cover is made up of metal, can be easily opened and closed and fits perfectly. Not perfect - SIM card inserting under the battery.

7. Quality and scope of the supplied items - USB cable, user manual, headset, charger.

8. Processing Result - The modern touch screen phone is made of matte plastic. It lies with its dimensions and the acceptable weight still sits well in hand. Colors and shapes are displayed extremely clear and sharp on the screen. The accurately fitting battery compartment cover is made up of metal, can be opened easily and scores so for the LG E900. The accessory is standard.

Back of the LG Optimus 7 E900 Mobile Phone


Battery compartment lid made up of metal


Loud-soft key


Speakers and video telephony

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Business Features

1. Supported networks - Quadband, GSM: 850/900/1800/1900 MHz; HSPA/WCDMA: 900/2100 MHz.

2. Data transmission - Bluetooth 2.1, GPRS, EDGE, HSDPA (7.2 Mbps), HSUPA (5.76 Mbit / s for fast uploads) wireless-n, aGPS. Very good conditions for fast data transmission - and one will not be disappointed in practice. Quick as lightning as the smartphone operates on the wireless-n network. If it is not integrated into the home network, data transmission in both directions HSDPA and HSUPA are pretty fast. Small disadvantage - only Bluetooth 2.1 and not 3.0, which is much faster.

3. Reception and voice quality - Even with poor network coverage, the LG Optimus 7 E900 gives relatively good reception quality. The voice playback sounds quite pleasant, almost similar to landline and is still natural.

4. Voice quality of the speaker - The playback of the voice is scratchy, unfortunately at low to medium volume - there are more free features.

5. Battery life (with normal use) - Max. 3 days - good for a smartphone in this category. The battery has a capacity of 1500 mAh and dimensioned strong.

6. Storage contacts - Photo, name: first name, last name, company, Second first name, nickname, title, suffix, phone: phone number, number type: mobile, private, private 2, work, work 2, company, pager, fax (Home), Fax (work) ; Email Address: Email Address Type: Business, Other, Private, ringtone, Other: Address, Website, birthday, notes, anniversary, partner information, child information, office location, location.

7. Profile - Ring: on / off, vibration: on / off, play sound for, ringtone, new SMS, new voice mail messages, new e-mail: appointment reminders, press, lock and unlock, all other notifications.

8. Calendar settings - Agenda, Month, New date: subject, location, When: (date / time), time: 0 minutes, 30 minutes, 1 hour, 90 minutes, 2 hours, all-day Custom: All day, beginning (date / time), end (date / time); more information: Reminder: none, 1 minute, 5 minutes, 10 minutes, 15 minutes, 30 minutes, 1 hour, 18 hours, 1 day, 1 week, repeat: once, daily, every Mon-Fri Every Thursday, 11 every month, every 11th November; Status: Free, Tentative, Busy, Away, Participants: Required / Add: search (contacts) Optional / Add: search (contacts); private, comments.

9. Notes feature - It is easy to write notes (no code limit) in portrait or landscape mode. These are also optional as indicated by tile on the homepage.

10. Built-in voice recorder (Dictaphone) - NA.

11. E-mail functionality - Connection Type: POP3, SMTP and IMAP4. Setting the email account is done without any problem. The downloading of the settings takes practically no time and retrieving emails and attachments are done very quickly. If the attachments is slightly larger, a short download time is required.

12. Internet functionality - The loading of web pages takes very little time to complete. Almost like it does on the PC before you. Even if the site is already quite complicated, it is shown by the LG E-900 very clearly. With the two-finger zoom function it is very easy to read.

13. PC synchronization - To load the LG E900 for the synchronization of media files (music, pictures, videos) to use, you must like all, download the Windows Phone 7 ZUNE software. Here you can choose between 32 and 64 bit version (for Windows 7, Vista and XP), depending on which operating system you have. Zune is already installed, the E900 is immediately identified, also ZUNE will also look for updates for your smartphone. Unfortunately, no sync with Outlook is possible. Users wishing to have a Google or Facebook account can pull the data that it contains very speedily on his cell phone.

14. Other features - Scan Search, Xbox LIVE Marketplace, maps, Office: Office explore, discover One Note, calculator, alarm clock.

15. Business Result - The Windows Phone 7 is well equipped for business applications - with one drawback: that is no direct sync between PC and E900 is possible, without the help of the software. This disadvantage can be charged but not on LG, but Microsoft. Data transfers of all types work very quickly and reliably. The LG E900 comes with a high-capacity 1500 mAh battery that has many opponents because of its performance. Quickly an e-mail account is set up, and on the sharp display, after a very short load of time web pages are displayed properly. Only in very few Internet sites, there were display and loading problems.

Headset (3.5mm jack) and on / off - lock button

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Multimedia Features

1. Camera Equipment - 5 MP, flash: on, off, automatic, camera settings: Intelligent Recording: Smart Scene, Portrait, Landscape, Night, Lights, Off; Beauty Photo: on / off, Panorama (landscape panorama from up to 5 frames - nice feature) , Scan Search (Augmented Reality-functions), Resolution: standard 4:3 3MP (2048x1536), 4:3 Standard 1 MP (1280x960), 16:9 wide 3.6 MP (2560x1440), 16:9 widescreen (2MP 1920x1080), 16:9 wide-1 MP (1280x720), Brightness: Best, High, Medium, Low, Low, White Balance: Auto, Daylight, Sunny, Fluorescent, Cloudy, Color Effects: Off, Sepia, Mono, Negative, Solarize; quality : super fine, fine, normal, stabilizer: /; from a post-processing options: MMS, / To play on, as background uploading using SMS: Delete Drive to upload SkyDrive sending, to favorites.

2. Camera quality - In daylight and normal lighting conditions the 5 MP camera of the LG gives positive results. Colors and shapes are perfect and hardly to be compromised. Unfortunately, the photographed objects work but sometimes a little fuzzy. Especially moving subjects from the E900 does not deliver decent results, although fortunately the camera is very responsive to pressing the shutter button. Some results appear in closed spaces with respect to color and contrast markedly attenuated. In the darkness, the camera can score well, because lightning is present, which has sufficient power.

3. Video Camera Equipment - Recording: HD 720 with 24fps, max. 1280x720 pixels ; Supported video formats: H.264, H.263, MPEG4, Divx, Intelligent Video Settings: Video Resolution: 4:3 standard VGA (640x480), 4:3 standard QVGA (320x240), 19:9 widescreen HD 720p ( 1280x720), Brightness: Best, High, Medium, Low, Low, White Balance: Auto, Daylight, Sunny, Fluorescent, Cloudy, Color Effects: Off, Sepia, Mono, Negative, Solarize; quality: Super Fine, Fine, Normal, restore default ; video light on / off, post-processing options: fast forward, rewind, pause, delete, stop.

4. Video Quality - Under normal lighting conditions video camera that records up to 720p, create useful video clips. The change from inside to outside and in different lighting conditions is possible, and is also done quickly. If we make faster movements, minimal pixel haze is visible. In the dark and light video, results are achieved better, but we recommend that you go pretty close to the subject to recognize colors and shapes.

5. Facilities of the built-in Music Player - Compatible formats: MP3, WMA, AAC, AAC +, eAAC +, WAV, Midi, forward, rewind, pause, stop, repeat, favorites, random loop.

6. Sound quality of music player - The speaker of the mobile phone is positioned on the front. The extremely favorable positioning, the titles are very well presented. An equalizer is not integrated, but is not necessarily required. The included headphone offers a decent, harmonious and very spatial sound.

7. Radio yes / no, sound quality radio - The radio can be used only in conjunction with the Headet. Station name are displayed, but can not be saved. Frequencies can be stored. All in all, the scope is extremely out sparse, but again easy to use. The selectivity of each channel depends on the orientation of the antenna (Headsets).

8. Memory Storage Capacity - 14.5 GB internal memory effectively, not expandable.

9. Multimedia Result - The camera, which is easy to use, has easy-to-find additional settings. The quality of the results are good for the 5 MP camera in daylight. Since a flash is integrated, useful results are obtained in darkness. The built-in music player is easy to use. Once you have synced the LG Optimus 7 E900 on the PC, with the help of Zune software - music, video and pictures are easily transferred. LG is also equipped with built in radio. This can be used with the Headet in liaison and has a very sparse features. The LG E900 is equipped with 14 GB of internal memory and is not expandable. We hope that future phones with Windows Phone 7 can be expanded with micro SD card.

5 MP camera with flash


The headset is comfortable and sounds neat

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Handling / Menus

1. One-hand operation for key functions possible - Yes, partially.

2. Call execute (with menu "contacts") - Running a call and finding contacts runs smoothly.

3. Adding / Creating / editing contacts - Contacts can be edited, created or added easily. The handling is quite simple.

4. Readability of the display - On the day and at night, users can easily read the display. In direct sunlight or exposure to light, the users face limitations, as compared with other most mobile phones, taking into account. Because of the relatively high brightness and contrast of the display here, the restrictions do not fall from far too great.

5. Response of the touch screen - The reaction of the touch screen runs smoothly, quickly and precisely.

6. Handling the navigation elements to prospect the menus - NA.

7. Clarity of the menu - Menu icons are represented in the form of tiles, which can be color matched. After a short time you find your way around quickly.

8. Scope of the menus - The menu range is equipped with enough points, gratifying is the menu structure that no longer has endless depths. Even users who are not familiar with Windows Phone, rather quickly get used to it.

9. The design of the menus - Modern design with easy to read symbols. The tiles are partially animated beautiful.

10. Opportunity for the assignment of shortcut keys - Menu items are displayed as a tile on the home screen. Simply the most frequently used functions to draw the home screen and arrange according to personal requirements can be done with ease - and you have that personalized home screen.

11. Message handling - Insert pictures, videos or favorites, smileys, append: Recorded, favorite, camera, reception confirmation: on / off, and SMS service center; messages such as SMS / MMS or e-mails are on the LG E-900 in portrait or Landscape formulated very quickly. However, there is no possibility of how to choose other mobile phones, the writing language, or spelling, word suggestions or the like to use.

12. Settings of photo and video - The additional settings of the 5 MP camera are easy to find and easy to adjust.

13. Operation of Music Player - The media player can only be used if Zune was loaded on the PC. Only then a synchronization of music is done with no more obstacles.

14. Reading from memory cards - The LG E900 is not expandable with memory cards.

15. Result - The users of LG E900 take only some short period of familiarization to operate the phone. Quickly launching a call, simply adding contacts and the class display speak for the LG E900. Camera functions are also simple to use. Media Player functions can only be used if you load ZUNE software. The simple message writing, whether in landscape or portrait mode, are further plus points for the seventh Optimus phone.

Back, Home, and search "key"

Overall Conclusion

The LG E900 is one of the low priced Windows Phone 7 devices - and the buyer must make no concessions over more expensive models. The battery is sized properly, the E900 Optimus 7 also acts fast and reliable. The possibilities for data transmission are also more than adequate for power users. The synchronization of different media (images, music, videos) can be organized on the PC by installing Zune software which is very easy to download from the Microsoft site. The inability to sync with Outlook is a disadvantage of LG E900. The display of the screen is bright and sharp. The camera results are neat, but it dose not sets any new standards, which would be completely normal because of the technical specification of the camera. Sound from the speaker is good and the provided headset also sounds neat.

LG Optimus 7 E900 scores with excellent facilities