Hi all,
I recently broke my dell streak, and looking for a new phone now...
I can't make my mind betwenn optimus 2x, atrix 4g and nexus s, thought will get your input on this.
I am ok with rooting and loading custom rom... may be not changing the screen of the mobile that's how I broke the streak
I am hoping all three phones I am looking at will have decent performance. I am looknig for a mobile with a decent video recording capablity and decent battery life. I read some of the threads here and looks like some of the members are unhappy about their camera.
What you think about LG optimus 2x camera? do u think its better than Atrix 4g ones? I guess Nexus is totally out of picture...
What would be your choice?
Thanks in advance for your help
O2X hands down.
CM7+latest kangs and you are flying!
I had the same deal, and i finally get the o2x and it rocks!!! Even in Stock is awesome!
I am with oleg1981, the 2X fly and have great developers.
Get de Atrix de o2x has inferior build quality and if it wasn't for developers constantly working hard at tweaking here and there it wudve been a really sad phone but whatever yu decide yu will enjoy it because of the great support from developers
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Hi all,
Thanks so much your input. Just wondering if you have any comments regarding tht camera quality? I read some threads where they were complaing about the quality of the camera your thoughts on that will be really helpful.
Cheers
The camera is great
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The camera is great if you are running a ROM based on the stock LG software. It's not that great when running on CM7 due to loss of frames when recording video in low light.
Jive1983 said:
Hi all,
Thanks so much your input. Just wondering if you have any comments regarding tht camera quality? I read some threads where they were complaing about the quality of the camera your thoughts on that will be really helpful.
Cheers
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Hello!
Camera is ok if you use it in good light conditions and in short distance with the flash. It isn't very good when used in dimmed/low light or twilight.
BTW: CM7 camera is ok now. As now almost everything is working well on Cyanogenmod 7 with custom kernel (even all sensors) - but only the FM radio - that is working much better with stock based custom roms.
I can't say much in comparison to the cameras of the Atrix or the Nexus S.
The camera of the Samsung Galaxy S2 is definitely much better though.
But there are test about that (concerning camera quality) available on the internet - as a German yoke says ask the nice Indian (internet with Saxon dialect tongue = "Inder nett" )
The Atrix by the way sounds very good on paper (more RAM, faster CPU) and should be a really decent phone too - but it is a little bigger - IMHO the LG O2x has the right size - didn't want a bigger phone with more than 4".
True the camera is better than it was before (brightness has improved). I still miss the full frame recording of the stock rom.
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Hi all,
Thanks very much for your replies. Its been really helpful. I am going to pick one up this weekend...
You should choose between Atrix and 2x, Nexus S is single core...the past now.
My advice is 2x.
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After watch some youtube videos, about OPTIMUS 2X, i'm a little depressed...
Optimus 2X is optimized for flash right? so, webrowsing is the best thing on this phone but...
->why can't play fluently 1080P youtube, when Galaxy SII can?
->Why load slow than galaxy S?
And, why optimus 2X can't record videos with higher bitrate? ( galaxy S II is at 30mb/s when optimus 2x stills at 20mb/s ) transfers speed?
Thanks for all and forgive my english.
Because the Galaxy S-II is a stronger phone in several keyareas.
That being said, there is lots of room in the software part of the phone for improvement from lg's more or less laggy and buggy design. I hope for a better phone later this year with the update.
However, I'm on cm7 (cyanogenmod) now, and it's a much better device now, even though it's a nightly. So, the phone have the potential to be great m.
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afsender said:
Because the Galaxy S-II is a stronger phone in several keyareas.
That being said, there is lots of room in the software part of the phone for improvement from lg's more or less laggy and buggy design. I hope for a better phone later this year with the update.
However, I'm on cm7 (cyanogenmod) now, and it's a much better device now, even though it's a nightly. So, the phone have the potential to be great m.
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You can play flash in 1080P fluently now? or maybe with the update to gingerbread?
Thanks for the reply
Just tried playin some 1080p flash trailer and its fluent on webview and fullscreen,its just the stock rom that sucks. With a custom one this thing finaly deserve its name OMG SO FAST
still cant play 1080p flash youtube in browser fluently in cm7
Yeah im on fr17
So, the Optimus 2X is better than SGSII in Flash finally?
i whant the phone for gaming, music, web browsing and youtube, basically.
Thanks for all the answers
Once again, the Galaxy S-II is in fact a faster phone, so that's worth looking into the. The Tegra2 might be better at doing multimedia content such as video and flash, but I doubt it. My knowledge is quite limited.
One thing's for sure - while both phones, the Optimus 2x and S-II, support flash content, it's not the same as they are good at it. Flash is some heavy lifting, and definetly not a technology well suited for phones at the current level of development.
Watching 1080p video content on CM7 on Optimus 2x is still laggy, but I'm guessing that will be fixed in the final release.
one thing i will NEVER understand is why the hell do people insist on watching 1080p videos on THEIR PHONE...
i do believe you guys understand that 1080p is 1920x1080 pixels, wheras your phone screen is 480x800, so why the hell you want those full hd vids on such a small screen ? (not concerning those who do this through hdmi) enlighten me
The HDMI-out jack is there for a reason.
Hey XDA. Right now, i have a LG O2X, just turning a year old. My dad just orderd an arc s for a small price. He really doesnt care what phone it is, he just wants to go read the news on the fly.
So, should i choose the Arc? Btw, my mom has a pair of livesound headphones laying around.
So:
Arc S:
Better screen?
Fully working ics
Sleek
Good headphones
but:
Slower
not so much for gaming.
viewing angles?
LG:
Fast with custom rom ( using temasek kang):
Good screen?
but:
thick, heavy
not much support from nvidia.
What would you choose?
I listen to music for about 1.5-2 hours per day while surfing the web on 3G. I play occasionally.
Also postet on the Arc part of XDA.
I'll chose arc just because of OTG-USB without rooting and design and weight and music too(speaker's quite loud and clear with Xloud on)
For all rest things I'll choose 2x especially due to front cam, uniform body(so that it doesn't falls off my hands while held for taking picx/vidz) , camera is better, video bitrate is better thus better quality, screen size doesn't matters when resolution is same and most imp. Is that i hate hardware buttons on phone
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Hmm, i posted on the Arc Forums, that i will let my father make the choice. Makes my choice a lot more easy
Btw, i like it that you say you would never buy SE
Balano said:
Hmm, i posted on the Arc Forums, that i will let my father make the choice. Makes my choice a lot more easy
Btw, i like it that you say you would never buy SE
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Ya, they don't allow to flash or backup boot images, answer to the threads inSE forums, but never implement those, service center is too bad and what the heck- these fones comes with a locked bootloader :-O
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well my wife got SE Arc S and have Lg Optimus 2x and i did play quiet a lot with both phones, and to be honest like for me there is no way to change Lg O2X for SE Arc S, simply LG is way better than SE special now when i install v20q(i compare only stock rom), SE is good for read news on internet, or facebok, but i don`t use my phone for that my wife does .
hey all samsung galaxy s owners... i recently have an option for exchange of my motorola defy to samsung galaxy s
should i accept this offer? i mean motorola defy is rugged and has flash processor is almost same i can overclock it to 1000mhz even 1.2.. plays 720p has ics but not hw acceleration ..
the pros of galaxy s are
bigger screen
slightly bigger battery
super amoled
cons
no flash
please help me and suggest me whether i should accept this offer or stick to my motorola defy
Of course accept it!
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is ics fully working .. and i have heard that it needs lag fix .. sorry but i have heard just rumors..
does the camera overrides the quality i mean is it good best or ok ?
thanks for the response
ICS is fully working sinces ages . Official CM9 nightlies .
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thanx and please tell me something about camera how is it? does it lag sometime and needs lag fix?
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thanx and please tell me something about camera how is it? does it lag sometime and needs lag fix?
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No. It's perfect on every ics rom
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Ics is almost perfect for galaxy s
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the camera is actually really good, but as you said no flash so pictures look horrible taken in low light. you might also miss the rugged body of defy compared to galaxy s cheap plastic feel. but software wise i think galaxy s is probably much better than defy
Camera is great in normal light. For me super slow in poor light and no flash. In good light photos are awesome and taken instantly in low light photos poor and i often miss the phot as people have moved on before the photo is take (significant delay between pressing the button and actual photo being taken.) Other than that the phone is great.
Take the Galaxy! I had Motorola and sold it to buy my Galaxy S and I'm very happy with it!
My friend has the Defy and when I compare it with my Galaxy S, my Galaxy S is lot smoother, has better battery life and it even has amazing ROMs. I'd say, go get your Galaxy S today!
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If you got to ask man. Galaxy S is definitely the better of the two.
Hello guys, this is me
As we've many threads about minus signs of 2x. I've created this about what are good things about LG Optimus 2X?
What features of Optimus 2x you guys like?
As per my views these are the things I like about 2x:
+Adorable IPS LCD display
+Very good quality LG Music player shipped with hw(libs) equalizer
+Powerful vivid HW accelarated LG video player
+8M pixel camera with high quality
+Powerfull GPU to play each and every HD games
+HDMI functionality
+Very good aligned LG keyboard iPhone like
+Perfect LCD Size not too big and not too small
+Impressive look although not being slim like S2
+Powerfull HW to handle more upcoming 2-3 OS without compromize
Now your turn.
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Hello guys, this is me
As we've many threads about minus signs of 2x. I've created this about what are good things about LG Optimus 2X?
What features of Optimus 2x you guys like?
As per my views these are the things I like about 2x:
+Adorable IPS LCD display
+Very good quality LG Music player shipped with
+Powerful vivid HW accelarated LG video player
+8M pixel camera with high quality
+Powerfull GPU to play each and every HD games
+HDMI functionality
+Very good aligned LG keyboard iPhone like
+Perfect LCD Size not too big and now too small
+Impressive look although not being slim like S2
+Powerfull HW to handle more upcoming 2-3 OS without compromize
Now your turn.
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+1
plus i also love the fact that this phone is almost impossible to brick
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+1
plus i also love the fact that this phone is almost impossible to brick
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Yeah we've seen not even a single incidence of TRUE brick case here. So we can call it best R & D device aswell
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plus the fact that it costed almost half of what the contenders costed even tho it offered the same and in some cases better performance
Affordable piece of great hardware ... I am really very happy with it, although big parts of this is based on the work of developers here on XDA.
As former Motorola user let's add one thing: NO LOCKED BOOTLOADER!!
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also 2 speakers
No sorry, just mono. The second is microphone
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ohhh, really?
At the time I bought mine it cost about half the price of similar performing phones.
I like that.
Also, some excellent mod roms (Temasek, Django, Gueste) so the crappy LG software implementation doesn't matter (although the latest official roms might be OK (?) but they were NOT when I bought the phone, lol).
And some excellent kernels too.
I liked the hardware.
The solid feel of the phone, not to mention the IPS screen which I found much better than the SGS2's AMOLED display at the time of buying (about a year ago). Price was good too.
It's size is also a winner in my books, I wouldn't really want to go any bigger height wise.. so I'm not sure what my next upgrade is going to be considering the trend in modern android phones is BIGGER IS BETTER
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I liked the hardware.
The solid feel of the phone, not to mention the IPS screen which I found much better than the SGS2's AMOLED display at the time of buying (about a year ago). Price was good too.
It's size is also a winner in my books, I wouldn't really want to go any bigger height wise.. so I'm not sure what my next upgrade is going to be considering the trend in modern android phones is BIGGER IS BETTER
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well to some extent of that i agree, but i mean come on, whos gonna go around with a galaxy note in his pocket for example XD
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well to some extent of that i agree, but i mean come on, whos gonna go around with a galaxy note in his pocket for example XD
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I know people who do that. Irritating, but not as irritating as people owning a smartphone and an EXTRA Galaxy Note. I wonder.
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Sörnäinen said:
I know people who do that. Irritating, but not as irritating as people owning a smartphone and an EXTRA Galaxy Note. I wonder.
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looooooool. if i had a note i think id sell it right away and buy a 4x or a one-x XD
What I like:
The speed of the phone, all possibilities of kernels and roms meaning that we have first class devs working on it hard to share the best of them selves and of course the design are amazing compared to other devices
Now, what i don't like are the memory, even my defy MB525 has better ram memory and the fact LG are to slow releasing stock ics
All and all I love this phone, I also bought a new one after breaking the glass after a massive fall
Mostly thanks to Spica and Carburanos work in addition to hei125, owain, Flix, and all the rest i don't remember while while writing and driving my car
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What i like about my LG Optimus 2x is the built quality.Had at least 3 to 4 falls & slips from hand,still my O2x is functional and bear only a scratch on bottom.Loved the IPS display.Picture and vids look so true to eye.Was bit disappointed with it's single mono speaker as was in an illusion that O2x had stereo speakers.
Audio quality was so low but thanks to O2x Developers and xda this problem is thing of past.HDMI was another feature which attracted me as now i could share all my precious moments with friends and family.When bought LG Optimus 2x it was the only Dual Core smartphone in the market and later on other smart phones featured
the same but still far more expensive than O2x.LG support for O2x from FROYO 2.2 to Gingerbread 2.3.4 was sh***y but the developer community whether CyanogenMod or XDA community had made this device a success for us.
Would like to thank spica,carburano,SuperSkill,flix,temasek,Stefan Gündhör,Topogigi,paulobrien,erestor6,Hell_97 and all those developers who had made O2x not only suitable for daily use but revolutionized it much further.Cheers to all of them.This developers community also made me like my O2x verrrrrry much.So luck to have them all developing for our O2x which has been abandoned by LG.
HDMI
What I most like is the HDMI output. It´s REALLY usefull when you don't have a media player, on a friend's house or at your own place.
Almost everyday I watch movies via MXPlayer or Netflix.
Ps.: Now I'm waiting for a ICS Custom ROM with Video Decoding/Encoding working to get it even better.
previously i had HTC hd2...really rocking phone...with android....stilll now it rules in single core..coming to dual core for more performance.....LG 2x......really awesome with almost all feature.....made to work by XDA developers..............thanks all...!!!.............is thr any way to include WIFI direct in LG 2x.......i tink tats missing in our droid....
The xda community developing
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It was a very cheap phone compare to the galaxy s2
and the build quality is amazing. We have also the best devs
BEST part is that it is cheaper(for the kinda hardware it has)
Hello,
I guess everybody who owns a 4X will encounter problems with the camera app.
When recording video the 4X will try to focus again and again and finally the movie is crap! When taking pictures it is even worse, most the pictures are out of focus!
I have tried some camera apps but none of them correct the out of focus problem.
Manny apps like camera 360 don't even work...
Does anybody have a solution for this problem?
I am very surpised that LG's flagship has a problem like this!
It's like LG never tried the camera app...
I am dissapointed about this issue but still i prefer the 4X over the ONE X or the S3
Having a TEGRA3 phone with 80Gb memory is a nice thing, movies, music, games as much as you want. This phone works really smooth and the TEGRA3 enhanced games are the best you can buy on the android market.
Battery last longer then the one X and it feels lighter, slimmer and has more class then the one x, but i guess that is personal opinion. Before i owned a HTC Desire HD and i can only say that even with this camera issue the 4X is my number 1 phone for the moment. So if you are looking for a TEGRA 3 GamePhone this is the one to buy !
Can XDA remove the "not to buy thread" this does not belong here !!!
Greetings to all android users out there...
PS What will happen to Android when flash support ends !?
It's been commented in another post..
The app lgcamera seems to work fine..
BTW, I agree with you, it's an amazing phone
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Yup, this app seems to fix the autofocus issue.