Currently, Chinese companies like Xiaomi, Lenovo and Leico are tight on this ‘budget’ category and they have a strict rivalry with Samsung. Today, launching a product in this segment is not only full of danger but has become the biggest need to present something special in addition to specifications and features according to expectations.
LG’s goal is its new X screen smartphone Because of this, there is a hold on this market. This smartphone has a second ‘ticker style’ display. Earlier, such a screen was LG’s premium smartphone last year V10 It was first seen in.
Design and texture
The 1.7 inch secondary color LCD display (80×520 pixels resolution) remains on all the time even when the phone is off. Therefore, you can see the notification without turning on the main display. The notifications look the same as the notifications appear in the shed. The first alert coming from an email or WhatsApp is seen as a full message, but after that only the second alert coming from the same app will show only the picture of the app icon and sender. Apart from this, you can choose to show time, date and battery level or any custom message permanently.
The display of the phone is very interactive, so swipe on the left makes a quick tool where four togle switches like sound profiles, Wi-Fi, flashlight and SOS are available. After this, the music player can be controlled by swipe again on the left side.
When the main display is turned on, the second screen becomes more functional and it shows you a shortcut and contact for the recently used four recent apps, calendar alerts, your favorite app.
We felt very useful in the second screen given in the phone because it is much better than a notification LED. We feel that it would have been better if this display was bigger according to the length of the main display.
Talk about the texture, LG has done a great job with the design of this phone and it takes a premium phone because of the glass rear. The side of the phone is made of Fox-Mattle but gives a metal-like look. According to the phone with a plastic body, the phone’s finish is good and weighs only 120 grams. The phone is also quite thin and its thickness is just 7.1 mm.
The 4.93-inch primary display strengthens LG’s in-cell touch technology, although only HD resolution is. It does not see any negative effect at the first time, but if you look closely, the text looks a bit blurred. Talking about brightness, the color reproduction is good and the phone can also be read easily in sunlight.
The button placement is fine and the buttons run quite well. A hybrid dual SIM tray has been given on the right side, which means two nano SIM or a single SIM and a microSD card (up to 128 GB) can be used simultaneously. The bottom is a single speaker grill besides the headphone shock and micro USB port. The camera module on the rear is slightly embossed but it is a good thing not to scratch during use.
The fingerprint sensor is not a feature in this phone. It is disappointing that this feature with additional security in the X screen is not given. Now coming to the market Extremely affordable smartphone This feature is also being given in. With this phone you will get a data cable, power adapter and a headset.
Specification and feature
Now things start changing slightly. LG’s 10 LTE ,Review) Like the LG X screen has a little old Snapdragon 410 quad-core processor, which is far old than the processor of smartphone available in the market at this price today. Apart from this, this phone has 2 GB RAM, 16 GB storage. The phone has Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.1, GPS and FM radio. This smartphone does not support USB OTG.
The chronic chipset affects benchmark data. In the benchmark test, we did not get much good figures from this smartphone. But the good thing is that in this phone, Android Lollipop has been given Android Marshmallow. The stock interface has been changed with LG UI 5.0 and is very useful and easy to use.
The phone has a single layer layout as a default but you can switch to the traditional app drawer according to your need. SOS mode is a handi feature and works well. Once the emergency contact setup, after pressing the power button five times, the contact with your current location goes to SMS immediately.
Talk about the pre-installed app, the phone’s app, file manager, trouqueler and LG’s own app and theme store LG Smartworld already comes to install. The order of the navigation button can be customized while an app or picture can be easily captured and edited by capture+.
Performance
Despite the old processor, Android Marshmallow runs well in the phone. There are some problems in the phone when many webpages are opened simultaneously in many browsing or chrome through the app store in the phone. Apart from this, loading the app is also not very fast. The X screen has an LG logo at the back where the phone feels quite hot. We noted that the phone gets hot while taking some pictures and downloading the app.
The second screen in the phone proves to be very useful at times, but the LCD display wash out in direct sunlight, which makes it difficult to read. When the main screen is closed, the second screen becomes Dim. When the main screen is on, the second screen remains on with full brightness. An OLED panel could be far better for the second screen.
The phone does not slip as if we expected to hold in hand. It is convenient in catching the metal body available in the market. The phone plays full HD video well and the music player has a special feature that makes the song automatically search that you are listening now. However, the audio quality from the speaker is extremely average. The mono speaker is quite fast for alert but it does not affect the media files. Only calls can be made from the coming headsets.
The LG screen has a 13 -megapixel primary camera but you will not get a PDAF feature here, so the focus speed is not very good. The sensor takes one or two seconds to focus during the shoot. Photos are good in daylight. The detailing and color of the photos are good. The pictures taken in the indoor are slightly scattered which worsens in low light.
Landscape photos are quite useless in low light, but close-up shots are good when using flash. The 8 -megapixel front camera can be used for selfies from palm and voice gesture but even in daylight, pictures are not very clear.
The camera app is also very simple and there is also a lack of basic features like HDR. The camera has a panorama mode and pressing the shutter button for a long time activates the burst mode which works well. The quality of the video recorded in daylight is good but do not expect too much from the video in low light.
During the video loop test, the 2300 mAh battery given in the phone got a battery life of up to 12 hours 13 hours. At the same time, during general use, we were able to easily run the phone for more than a day. The phone does not have fast charging technology, but within half an hour the phone is charged up to 19 percent, which is not bad.
Our decision
After spending some time with LG X screen, we feel that other smartphone makers should also adopt this concept. Getting the necessary information from another screen is a really pleasant experience and there is a lot of time left by switching quickly between the app and feature. If the phone had given an OLED panel instead of the LCD panel, the experience could have been more spectacular.
But, it is not that this phone should be purchased only because of the second screen. The X screen is left behind in rivalry due to many other features. It seems that in terms of specification and feature of the budget smartphone, LG has been stuck at one time and these phones seem to come in 2015 instead of 2016.
This smartphone cannot be called a complete package at a price of Rs 12,990. Despite good designs, battery life and second screen, this phone does not have a capacity of capacity according to Android Marshmallow. Fingerprint sensor and USB OTG support are also not available in the phone. The overall camera performance of the phone is fine.