LG's Snapdragon-powered LU2300 Optimus Q Android handset gets official
By Donald Melanson 
posted April 13th 2010 2:47PM
posted April 13th 2010 2:47PM
This one's been floating around for a while now and just spotted in the wild last week, but LG has finally come clean with its new LU2300 Android handset, albeit in a somewhat roundabout way on its official UK blog. The biggest news is that LG has confirmed that the phone does indeed pack a 1GHz Snapdragon processor and Android 2.1, along with some other fairly impressive specs to match, including a 3.5-inch AMOLED capacitive display, a 5-megapixel camera, built-in WiFi, DivX support and a DMB TV tuner -- that last feature of which likely indicates that this one won't be available over here anytime soon. There's also still no indication of a price or a firm release date, although it will apparently be available in Korea sometime this month or next.
Update: It looks like LG's UK blog may have been a bit too eager to get word of the LU2300 out, as it has now clarified that the phone won't have an AMOLED display and may or may not come with Android 2.1.
Looks good
@TheGM Yes not bad for a LG device. Best I have seen in a long while
@angermeans
Battery life details should be made a standard part of specs.
@TheGM
I must be spoiled by looking at the EVO but this looks thick and a lot of bezel.
@reallynotnick
I agree this baby got back!!!
@TheGM
More phones need to have the brushed aluminum look like the inside keyboard on this.
Its caught on with laptops, but not smart phones just yet.
It looks understated and classy, with some neat touches (like that aluminum) - nice look
@TheGM
After the farce that is the LG Arena, I am never likely to buy one of their devices again, no matter how enticing the specs are.
Before anyone considers getting this, take into account that LG's typical build quality and customer service is frankly appalling (although I accept that at least the software should work properly since it is Android, not their god-awful S Class UI)
@TheGM This is definitely a form factor we need packin' Android in the States. Even though I'm hella partial to HTC devices, LG does make some rock solid product.
Opinions. http://bit.ly/lg-lu2300-series
@mattpez
hence they are LG ([only] Looks Good)
It's too round and phone shaped!
*calls Apple*
HTC should come up with divx support for its phones soon. All its competitors are already on board and the EVO 4G has support for divx already.
@Ipadkiller my Droid types it out as iPhone by itself when using the screen keyboard. Guess the Droid is 'that type of moron'.
@Ipadkiller I believe "iPhone" is built into the dictionary of the HTC IME too.
@Ipadkiller they are tradmarked names dipshit. its not a "politically correct" thing, its a "not being a dumbass" thing.
Why do manufactures seem to always put the d-pad on the right and not the left like a normal video game controller??? I want some faithful NES emu. Am I missing something?
@J D
Hey I'm right there with you, but I guess it's because they want to mimic a true QWERTY (which as you know has arrows on the rightside)
@J D
The android emulators let you flip it upside down so this shouldnt be a problem.
@J D Gameboys have their d-pads on the right.
@dreamerkm Gameboys have dpad on the right? WTF are you smoking. Please to see: http://images.google.com/images?q=gameboy
Where are the Menu and Back button?
Now all we need is US release date and carrier information...
@DaHarder
For sure.
what's the screen rez on this?
HVGA?
Kinda hard to tell, but it looks like it COULD even be 16:9 rather than 3:2
@logicbombde wvga 480x800
U.S. please!!! And just switch out the DMB tuner for an ATSC one please!!!
@Jimi That should be "ATSC-M/H" please :-)
It seems like we never get anything good in the states :
With all the multitude of touchscreen phones flooding the market, I have to wonder: Are these phones selling at all? Is there a website that tracks the sales of various touchscreen phones?
@Center
That's an excellent question. I'm sure the answer is not easy to come by. The mobile industry is still growing rapidly outside of the US but has matured somewhat in subscriber numbers inside the mainland. I suspect that sales of handsets would correlate with contract changes. The telecoms know the numbers but it's privy to investors and buried and distorted by all sorts of analysts and pundits. The rate of handset introductions, especially among Android platforms, may either reflect contract turnovers or new subscribers. It's probably a bit of both.
1. Release this in Sweden.
2. Make it cheap at least less then $550 without contract in Sweden.
3. Make a even huger ad campaign then the GW620 got.
4. Promise that you will release as many updates to newer versions of Android as possible, at least all new versions for 2 years from release date.
5. Make the keyboard awesome, so you can text with lightning speed.
Add all this in to a beautiful mesh and you will have a HUGE hit!
Wow, no Back Button. Who thought that was a good idea?
Give it DVB-T so I can watch TV (real TV) on the go and yeah, Im sold.
Wow, a powerful Android phone with an actually DECENT keyboard, and NO Motoblur or Sense to hold back updates and Google Experience apps?! Color me impressed.
I just hope that if it comes to the US, that it doesn't go to AT&T. I wouldn't want such a beautiful phone gimped with AT&T's bad decisions like replacing Google search with Yahoo! and taking away the Google apps store.
@Elranzer
Thinking the same exact thing...
+ good keyboard
+ no skins
+ nice design
- not coming to the US (or at least not any time soon if the rumor is correct)
:(
I get so sick of hearing about phones that may not ever see the light of day in the US......
Yeah S. Korea is getting all the good Android shizzz lately
@NateDogg blame the carriers, boycott them, do something. I'm not sure what OEM would really want to design a phone for ATT these days and Verizon didn't seem to be doing what it takes to get phones until the droid. I don't know why many companies should've been interested in being relegated to Sprint with their international incompatibility or the #4 carrier who tends to offer less subsidy than the rest.
Market=fail.
Hmm...i can see this becoming one of the first WP7 devices...but..for how much money?
This is a perfect example of what happens when a phone is designed by a committee, rather than a artist(s) with a vision. Its not particularly ugly, nor it is beautiful.
So boring and unispired, just looking at it puts me to sleep.
@blueskyv201 if they had been doing them like really all equal to one another for years and years...maybe. So you better see a doctor, that thing is called narcolepsy and you should get it fixed.
@fast
Apart from the snarky remark, I have no idea what you were trying to say there. I can only assume you were defending the phone and something tells me you are doing it for all the wrong reasons, as many commenters here do whenever a new android phone is announced.
The only thing worse than Apple fanboys are people who defend every product that competes with Apple (HP Slate, JooJoo).
I'm just making assumptions of course, maybe you really do like this phone . . . yeah.
@hated one
there had to be someone that mentioned a fucking iPhone didn't there. Engadget readers can't shut the fuck up for two minutes without mentioning apple. Fucking twat!
@hated one I can't wait for fanboyism to be called out for what it is. Trolling.
engadget, could you try harder to get spectrum info for phones? I know it's not always possible, but it seems like something you _never_ mention, though it's absolutely key for some of us. No matter how nice the phone, I really need it to have both 'US' (actually US/Canadian, 850/1900) and European (2100) HSPA support, or it's useless to me. I can almost never find this info on Engadget, I have to go looking elsewhere for it. Small nit, but thanks :)
Where they going after the "phone should have been released three years ago" look? If so, well done!!
LG has always made high quality phones.This one seems to follow that same route.I really hope to see LG Android handsets make its way to us stateside,I think they will be met with a great fanfare frome the faithful LGer's out there,looking to come Androids way..
@DannyDarko I bet this 5 mpix camera is worlds better then the thing on Moto Droid and N1. My dinky old LG dumb phone had a better camera then the Droid although at 3mpix.
Resolution isn't everything.
I'd really like to see the new android phones with dedicated GPUs. Android just isn't a smooth experience without something with a little more graphical power than the snapdragon processor has. As of now, the galaxy S is the only phone that seems promising to me.
I wish companies that make Android phones would just adhere to the 4 button rule already! Back button and menu buttons are important and very frequently used!
Hey look, another phone with divx!
The Galaxy has had divx for over 4 months now.
Why has no one ported it to any other Android phones yet??