Hands on With LG's Optimus 4X HD
by Anand Lal Shimpi on February 26, 2012 9:33 AM EST- Posted in
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We just spent some time with LG's Optimus 4X HD, one of the first NVIDIA Tegra 3 based smartphones. The device features a 4.7-inch IPS 1280 x 720 display and an NVIDIA Tegra 3 (AP33) SoC that can run at up to 1.5GHz. The 4X HD runs Ice Cream Sandwich, presently at version 4.0.3. LG's own skin runs on top of the OS, which is the case with the rest of LG's Android devices as well.
LG still has a lot of software tuning to do on the phone so any performance data we'd share would be premature at this point. LG and NVIDIA have customized the ICS CPU utilization visualization to include support for Tegra 3's battery saver (aka companion) core. When the battery saver core is active, there's only a single CPU utilization indicator present and it turns red instead of the default green:
When the other cores are enabled you get four individual CPU usage readings instead.
Expect to see some more information on Tegra 3 enabled smartphones this week while we're at MWC.
Gallery: Hands on With LG's Optimus 4X HD
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SydneyBlue120d - Sunday, February 26, 2012 - link
Is it running the 2.6 version or Nvidia finally moved to 3.x kernel? Thanksahar - Sunday, February 26, 2012 - link
Take a look for yourself:http://www.anandtech.com/Gallery/Album/1762#15
SydneyBlue120d - Monday, February 27, 2012 - link
Thanks, for the hint!I woder when, if ever, Nvidia will go to 3.x branch.
Another reason to prefere the Qualcomm Snapdragon S4!
kebab77 - Sunday, February 26, 2012 - link
Wow, they really do need to work on tuning the OS/kernel, don't they!!?Can get 125k on a Samsung Galaxy S2 using Chrome for Android: http://www.bestsmartphone.com/2011/10/11/browserma...
... I believe the Chrome browser will support quad-cores nicely, does the stock ICS browser?
raijinshou - Tuesday, February 28, 2012 - link
After LG Optimus 2X bug which causing random freezing (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=9... LG simply can't be trusted.Better off with others.