Engadget Reviews the Dual Core LG Optimus 2X

With the release of the LG Optimus 2X, we finally have our first dual-core Android handset on the market. While LG has graced us with some great mid-range handsets, this is their first entry into the high-end Android market. Since this is a fairly important hardware release, the good folks at Engadget have written up a fairly lengthy and comprehensive review of the phone, and for the most part liked what they saw.

For positives, they liked the solid build quality of the phone, which had a durable and simplistic styling to it that belied the power of the hardware beneath. The performance of the Tegra 2 chip — with its two CPU cores and eight GPU cores — was very impressive, boasting great gaming, 1080p video playback and multitasking performance, in which didn’t even break a sweat.
They also liked the eight megapixel camera, which took very detailed pictures, and thought the sound quality was very good. The LG Optimus 2X also boasted good battery life given the power of the hardware, thanks to the Tegra 2’s efficient power usage especially when in idle. Given that it had battery life that was on par, and even in some cases better than, many single core CPU phones on the market today, this is a pretty good achievement.
In the middling department, they thought that the camera, while excellent, washed out colors a bit, making their pictures of London look more dreary than London actually appeared. They also thought the screen, while very nice, wasn’t anything overtly special. They didn’t seem too impressed with the capacitive buttons either, but that seems a matter of personal taste than anything else.
In the negatives department, they seemed really let down by LG’s implementation of Android, which was pretty laggy even on this dual-core monster, in which they compared the performance to an “18-month old HTC Hero”. They were also shocked at how much system resources the software used, around 300MB of the internal 512MB of memory, leaving little left for installing apps. Worse yet, some apps like the music app can’t be shut down due to its integration into Android’s slide down menu. The best thing they could say about it is that “it doesn’t crash too often”, which is really damning praise.
Overall, they thought the LG Optimus 2X is a great piece of hardware brought down by laggy and buggy software that hampers it from achieving its full potential. It’s hoped that with software updates and custom ROM’s, it will achieve that potential, but right now it’s a great foundation and benchmark phone, giving us a glimpse at the future of our Android handsets.

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