The phone also comes with LG's own In Touch widget, which provides quick visual access to the phone's media library organized by Videos, Photos, Albums, Artists, and Playlists. There is also a Friends widget that compiles all of your phone's contacts with your Facebook and Twitter contacts into one big list.
Another departure from vanilla Android is the main menu, which is organized into categories. The Revolution's phone dialer has a slightly bolder design with larger digits and black lettering on top of white buttons. It also provides haptic feedback when digits are pressed.
As for the virtual keyboard, you can choose between LG's own keyboard or Swype. With the former, you can opt for sound and vibration feedback as well. The LG keyboard works well and offers choices for up to seven languages. Still, we preferred to use Swype most of the time. Unfortunately, there isn't a way to switch back to the default Android keyboard.
It promises average download speeds of up to 12Mbps and upload speeds of 5Mbps. While we didn't quite reach those promised upper limits, we were overall pleased with what we experienced. Browsing was a breeze, and we were impressed by the quality of streaming video as well. Netflix, for example, streams movies and TV shows surprisingly well over 4G, though it wasn't perfect for more details, check out the Performance section. Netflix is certainly a fantastic app to have preinstalled in the phone, especially since not all Android phones support it just yet.
We should also note that due to a Verizon partnership with Microsoft, the Revolution's maps and search functions are powered by Bing instead of Google. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, but it's unfortunate that we're not given a choice. As with all Android 2. The Revolution is certainly quite a strong multimedia contender. It not only streams Netflix videos like we mentioned earlier, it also has an HDMI output that lets you watch videos on your phone on a big screen television.
If you just want to watch videos on the phone, that's not a bad idea either, because the Revolution supports p HD video playback. Together with Dolby Music technology and the aforementioned 4. The rear 5-megapixel camera on the Revolution takes pretty good pictures. Image quality is good, with sharp-as-a-tack photos. Colors did look rather washed out, though. After you take a picture, you'll be presented with an image editor that will let you crop, rotate, resize, filter, and adjust the photo.
The Revolution has a great camcorder as well--it can record p HD video. Other features of the LG Revolution include the standard voice features like speakerphone, speed dial, voice commands, conference calling, and text and multimedia messaging. It can also handle video calls thanks to the 1. You also get Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and GPS, plus a mobile hot-spot feature that lets you share your 4G connection with up to 10 devices, and a 3G connection for up to 5 devices.
Call quality was decidedly mixed. On our end, we didn't notice many problems. There weren't any background noise or distortions. However, we did notice that our callers' voice quality sounded rather digitized. LG Revolution call quality sample Listen now:. Callers on the other hand, experienced mediocre call quality. Volume was quite low, and we were asked to speak up several times.
Our voice also had a garbled quality that they said sounded scratchy and distant. They could still make out what we were saying, but only if we were in a quiet environment.
Speakerphone quality wasn't much better--it made our voice sound even more distant and garbled. Using Ookla's Speedtest. We also managed to stream a few Netflix videos over 4G. However, video quality is a little choppy and not in full HD. Engadget's parent company is now Yahoo Inc. Sign up. LG Revolution root method promises to silence Bing's chime.
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