You'll be familiar with the
LG eXpo and
its specs already -- which include a slideout QWERTY keyboard and 1GHz Snapdragon under the hood -- but we thought we'd go try the handset out for ourselves and tell you what we thought. Construction on this little machine was plenty sturdy to withstand the bumps associated with its unusual shape, while the keyboard slider mechanism had a reassuring feel to it. On the whole our impression was that you've got a middle of the road modern phone with a sales hook that depends on just how into projecting your images you are. Trust us, the sharp and large picture you may hope for from this device is possible only in very limited circumstances -- even a moonlit night seems likely to mess with your enjoyment of the attached pico projector's output. For the most part, you'll have to be content with either watching 14-inch movies with the curtains drawn, or projecting ill-defined naughty pictures on the whiteboard while the teacher isn't looking. Even if neither of those sounds like your kind of thing, feel welcome to peruse the hands-on gallery below.
posted January 7th 2010 12:31AM
the man said "ta-da"
@nextbigthing4 that black lady is useless she didnt have to say that.. its annoying..
@victorvelasco1 The whole commercial is annoying. You'd think that the marketing folks could come up with a better example use for the projector (though I'm not sure what that use would be). But no, we have a few office folk in a break room and one basically says "Durrr, let me turn out the lights and show you a movie trailer!" Yeah, dude, I can watch movie trailers at higher resolution and larger size on my TV or at my computer...
I'm sure the commercial was subsidized in part by Avatar but still...if showing movie trailers to coworkers is the best application LG can think of for their microprojector, perhaps they should reconsider even bringing it to market.
Seems like a classic case of a solution in search of a problem.
I think is so awsome that the fine sprint say "simulation" and "enhanced". Which one is it?
So this is mainly to project graphics and not pictures taken with the camera?
EXIF tells me that you took these photos at f/5.6. Can't you get a better lens or use higher ISO? Some of these images look terrible.
Eh. It looks okay, but this was my first look at the eXpo and it looks pretty nice. But I think I'm definitely going to be waiting for some Android or WebOS action. Hopefully that action will be sooner than later.
I think this phone deserves more consideration from the international community. Let's face it it is a revolution Iphone users.
Every time I've seen something about this phone+projector combo, I can't help but think of the camera phone from Flight of the Conchords...except without the elusive "win" that FotC carries.
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Jenny Craig
Nice looking PHONE ... Can I get one for FREE?? :) ... I will put on BIG LG's logo on my car ...