LG Optimus Black P970 Launched in India for Rs. 19,900
Only a couple of days back we saw the Optimus Black being up for pre-orders at a really affordable price.
Great specs at a superb price
The Optimus Black P970 runs on Android 2.2 aka FroYo (which can be upgraded to Gingerbread), and is powered by a 1 GHz Cortex A8 processor. LG has also loaded the device with Optimus UI 2.0 and their Gesture UI 2.0. The smartphone has LG’s new display technology called the NOVA display which is encased in Gorilla Glass. Here’s a detailed list of specs that the Optimus Black boasts of:
- 4-inch IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen at 800 x 480 pixels resolution
- 3G, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, DLNA, Wi-Fi Direct, Wi-Fi hotspot
- GPS with A-GPS support
- EDGE/GPRS
- Bluetooth 2.1 with A2DP, EDR
- 5 megapixel camera with autofocus and LED flash
- 2 megapixel front-facing camera
- 2GB internal storage with 512MB RAM
- Memory expandable to 32 GB via microSD slot
- Stereo FM Radio with RDS
- 3.5 mm audio jack
The Optimus Black’s camera also has features like geo-tagging with face and smile detection, as well. It can also record 720p videos at 30 fps. The Optimus Black supports a pretty wide range of media formats with MP3, WAV and WMA for audio and XviD, DivX, H.264, H.263 and MP4 for video. The smartphone has SNS integration and comes pre-loaded with the regular bunch of Google’s apps like YouTube, Picasa Google Talk, and more.
More from News AnalysisWith these specifications and features, we kind of wonder whether it will rank better than the Optimus 2X, which has a few differences like a Dual-core set up and more memory. The Optimus Black is available for Rs. 19,900 at all mobile phone retail stores, but we suggest you wait for our full-fledged review on this smartphone so stay tuned.
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