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LG Optimus L9 - A Cheap Middle Class Android Phone (Part 2)

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Performance and battery life

The 1GHz dual-core TI OMAP 4430 of L9 is pretty outdated; it’s the same processor used on Droid RAZR and Droid Bionic, and of course it’s not as fast as the dual-core Snapdragon S4 processor found on the newer phones. However, the screen transition is pretty fast, and the phone doesn’t take too long to switch between the opening apps. Webpage zoom in/out feels mainly smooth, though we realize it’s slightly slower with the image rendering. However, the camera app is a little slow to launch. Cool boot takes more than 22 seconds, which is pretty fast to us.

The benchmark scores are what we expect – L9 compares well against TI OMAP phones, but seems to be weak when comparing to the same technical-spec phones using the latest processor of Qualcomm. Its Quadrant score is higher than Galaxy Nexus, but L9 doesn’t run as well as it in other tests. In general, performance seems to be useful for the cheap-priced situation of L9.

LG Optimus L9

·         Quadrant: 3,214

·         Vellamo: 1,147

·         AnTuTu: 5,691

·         SunSpider 0.9.1 (ms): 2,245

·         GLBenchmark Egypt Offscreen (fps): 15

·         CF-Bench: 5,203

LG Optimus L9

LG Optimus L9

Samsung Galaxy Nexus (HSPA+)

·         Quadrant: 2,032

·         Vellamo: 1,159

·         AnTuTu: 6,087

·         SunSpider 0.9.1 (ms): 1,985

·         GLBenchmark Egypt Offscreen (fps): 28

·         CF-Bench: 6,191

Samsung Galaxy Nexus (HSPA+)

Samsung Galaxy Nexus (HSPA+)

Pantech Flex

·         Quadrant: 5,132

·         Vellamo: 1,804

·         AnTuTu: 6,959

·         SunSpider 0.9.1 (ms): 2,117

·         GLBenchmark Egypt Offscreen (fps)      : 13

·         CF-Bench: 9,412

                                

Pantech Flex

Pantech Flex

(SunSpider: the lower the score, the better it is)

The inner 2,150mAh battery of L9 delivers a pretty short life. In the standard battery test, L9 only last a little more than 5 hours, which is poor reading compared to most phones we’ve tested recently (8 will be easier to accept). However, with the light use (for example, shooting, using Maps and browsing web, with set up push notifications), L9 still remains 50% capacity after 8 hours.

The inner 2,150mAh battery of L9 delivers a pretty short life

The inner 2,150mAh battery of L9 delivers a pretty short life

At least in San Francisco, where we perform our test, we have some pretty stable signal. Call quality is good – callers can hear us speak clearly, loudly and vice versa. However, sometimes we face the hissing sound, and the voice quality is more digitized than we want. It’s interesting to see that L9 supports the WiFi calling capability of T-Mobile. When we turn this feature on, calling quality is slightly improved – maybe a little – but not enough for the callers to realize. However, it’s a good option you should have if you want to save the monthly calling minutes. The built-in speaker sounds a little small, but we can increase the volume pretty high. HSPA+ network of T-Mobile in San Francisco have a huge change from place to place. On the south and east of the city, we have about 1.5Mbps download and 1.1Mbps upload. At the mall and other center areas of the city, we have average downloading speed of 14Mbps while the uploading speed swings around 4Mbps.

Software

Despite preferring Jelly Bean, we don’t actually care about Ice Cream Sandwich on a cheap-priced phone like this, as most of other LG phones, L9 has a skin overlay which is called UI 3.0, pretty light toward Android. For example, the lock screen allows you to swipe in any direction to unlock the screen. It also combines fast access to 4 customizable apps – we especially like the camera shortcut – and other clock design. We admit for considering that UI 3.0 is a little flat, and boring, but it’s not very unpleasant.

The influence of T-Mobile on L9 immediately become clear right when you start up the phone – you will see the scarlet wallpaper and the utilities when swiping over 7 home screens. You have the main pillar of ICS such as the notorious Google searching utility along with the ability to create folders. Dock keeps 5 icons by default which is easily customized. You can change or add things by adjusting the screen-swipe effect, scrolling wallpaper, animations and themes.

A welcome addition is Quick Settings menu in the notification drawer. With one simple flip, you can adjust the sound, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS and have handy access to QuickMemo app of LG. You can also add brightness switch allowing you to switch between low, medium and full, which is totally useful considering the lack of auto-brightness which was mentioned before.

You can change or add things by adjusting the screen-swipe effect, scrolling wallpaper, animations and themes.

You can change or add things by adjusting the screen-swipe effect, scrolling wallpaper, animations and themes.

We have to admit that we’re not big fans of the default keyboard designed by LG. it seems to be the modified version of Swype, where you form the words by sliding your finger all over the keys. It works pretty well when you use it that way, but when you’re just entering the text in the old way, it maybe fussy and inaccurate. There’s no option to switch to the incident ICS keyboard, which is a huge disappointment in our eyes.

The driver that launches the app is pretty identical to the old ICS, which you can navigate by swiping along one side of the screen. You have 3 different tabs on the top: Apps, Downloads and Widgets. The parts exist independently, so you won’t be pushed to the next tab once you’ve come to the end; you just have to scroll back to the beginning. We would like to notice you that the Downloads are represents the installed apps, bit the downloaded files – they can be accessed through Downloads app. You can choose to fit a 5x6 icon grid and you can arrange them as your tastes. (To do this, just press the menu while in the launching driver and choose “Show small icons”). However, anyone who wants to classify the apps alphabetically won’t be lucky – you will have to do that manually.

The driver that launches the app is pretty identical to the old ICS, which you can navigate by swiping along one side of the screen.

The driver that launches the app is pretty identical to the old ICS, which you can navigate by swiping along one side of the screen.

Maybe the biggest complaints of us on L9 are the number of the floating software that T-Mobile decides to let in. You have 411 & More, Caller Tunes, Game Base, More for Me (discounting/dealing app), T-Mobile My Account, T-Mobile Name ID, T-Mobile TV and Visual Voicemail. Like most of preinstalled apps, they can be uninstalled and make up precious saving room. As other preinstalled apps including the Amazon app store, Application Manager, FileShare, WildTangent Games, Polaris Office (which can be uninstalled), SmartShare for Wi-Fi Direct connection and Slacker Radio. LG consists of the separate QuickMemo here, which allows you to draw note everything that is on the screen. Default browser includes an interesting 1 toolbar under the navigation buttons which are as normal as Back and Forward along with the Zoom key. If you want, you can hold your finger on the Zoom key and tilt the phone forward to zoom 1 page. We think that’s the way for you to be able to navigate a big webpage with one hand, but it’s a limited use case.

Maybe the biggest complaints of us on L9 are the number of the floating software that T-Mobile decides to let in

Maybe the biggest complaints of us on L9 are the number of the floating software that T-Mobile decides to let in

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