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Well long time no see XDA Dev's!
i was here ages ago when i had the touch diamond phone, wich is garbage
im now in posession of a iphone 4, but in 1 month i can choose a new phone.
So my eyes are all focussed on the HTC Evo 3d, but also on the samsung 3d phone.
dont think i didnt do my research. i spend 4 hours today watching and seeing reviews and battle's of the phones.
What ive learned, and i really would like your opinion of this list to see if its correct or lies...(and ive never touched one of the phones ever)
-The evo3d does not have alot of depth? (how is it compared to the 3ds?)
-The evo3d falls behind in benchmarks and games compared to the optimus 3d?
so what do you think about this?
Secondly, i really do like the design of the evo3d. the design of the optimus is a bit crappy IMO.
And maybe one of you guys know wich phone will have smoother browsing and games playing?(planning on buying some 3d games.)
and the specs online...
some say the evo has 4gb of internal memory...other say its 1gb.
some say it can only make 2MP 3d pictures. others say 5MP. (and if they are 2mp cant it be hacked?)
and finally ive read that the optimus 3d does NOT has multitouch while the evo has...is that true?
and is it possible to rip the 3d menu of the optimus and put it on the evo3d? that would probaly help me in making a purchase descision, lol!
And are the browsers, menu's ect smooth? because i come from a iphone...and iphone is 100% smoothness. no lag whatsoever.
Thanks for your time! i will also make this topic on the optimus3d side...so i will learn as much as possible
From what I've read the O3D can make 3MP 3D photo's.
I'm not sure about this myself as I haven't had the pleasure of playing with an Evo3D yet but I hear all kinds of stories that the 3D effect on the Evo is indeed less than that of the O3D.
And yes, the Evo falls behind in most benchmarks by quite a bit sometimes. The Evo has 1GB of memory, the O3D has 512MB but so far there's nothing that doesn't run smooth as butter on the O3D.
Browsing feels very smooth, comparing it with my iPhone it's about the same experience I'd say. The standard launcher is pretty smooth as well, though I always use Launcher Pro Plus which runs absolutely great, no lag whatsoever.
As far as multi-touch goes, the O3D definately has true multi-touch. In Touch Tester it tracks all ten of my fingers at the same time with pinpoint accuracy.
I don't think you can extract the 3D menu from the O3D and implement it in the Evo3D. I think as far as content goes, the O3D is the better deal. You have the whole 3D menu thing which is nice, there's 8 3D games to choose from at the moment of which 3 are already pre-installed (as opposed to one demo on the Evo) and the O3D has native support for 3D 720p mkv files.
the optimus 3D has true multi-touch... actually when i tested multi-touch it can detect 10 of my fingers.
as far as browsing goes- the optimus 3d is smoother, go watch phonedog's optimus 3d vs evo 3d comparison. you can notice there how smoother browsing is on the optimus 3d. i have the optimus 3D and browsing really is good
games... there are currently more compatible games on the optimus 3D. LG and gamesloft made a partnership. Gamign on the optimus 3d is really good. cause as we all know it has that dual core, dual channel dual memory. i heard some games runs crap and buggy on the sensation and the evo 3d.
the evo 3d has 4gb built in internal memory BUT only 1 gb is usable. the remaining 3GB is being used by the system..
optimus 3d can take 3mp 3D photos.
currently, there is no known way to port the 3D space apllication to the evo 3D.
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if 3D is what you're after then i can 100% recommend optimus 3D. it has more 3d contents and takes better 3d videos and photos.
thanks guys. well 3d is one of the biggest things im exited about but the design of the optimus 3d is soooo ****ty IMO...
and 1.2ghz of dual core wich can be overclocked to 1.8 sounds real sexy as well.
peacekeeper05, did you also got a hold on the evo 3d at a store to compare or similar?
ofcource the optimus got more 3d content right now....but the display of the evo 3d is better, and i think in the future we will see alot more 3d content.
yep. already had a chance to test personally an evo 3d. my friend has a blog that reviews phones. he's the one that gave me an optimus 3d.
yep evo does run on 1.2 ghz but it is based on cortex a8. a previous generation architecture. while the 1 ghz running on the optimus 3d is cortex a9. giving it a 30-50% boost in performance compared to cortex a8. so don't be fooled by qualcomm's 1.2ghz marketing. and again, it has a dual channel dual ram technology. so the dual processors can easily access ram memory.
and why would you want to overclock your phone? it will only drain your battery epicly fast. overclocking it to insane speeds can bring serious damage to your phone on the long run. the phone was not designed to run 1.8 ghz so overheating will be inevitable.
screen wise, there is not much difference at all really, the screen on the evo 3d seemed washed out after minutes of using it.
about the looks and design, we have our own opinion. the evo 3d looks like a toy because of the two red weird looking cameras at the back
not only optimus 3d has more 3D contents, it has better 3D viewing. it has more depth and less eye straining.
LG will be releasing an application that can convert 2D games to 3D so expect more 3D contents in the future. while HTC still doesn't have any concrete plans about the evo.
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yep. already had a chance to test personally an evo 3d. my friend has a blog that reviews phones. he's the one that gave me an optimus 3d.
yep evo does run on 1.2 ghz but it is based on cortex a8. a previous generation architecture. while the 1 ghz running on the optimus 3d is cortex a9. giving it a 30-50% boost in performance compared to cortex a8. so don't be fooled by qualcomm's 1.2ghz marketing. and again, it has a dual channel dual ram technology. so the dual processors can easily access ram memory.
and why would you want to overclock your phone? it will only drain your battery epicly fast. overclocking it to insane speeds can bring serious damage to your phone on the long run. the phone was not designed to run 1.8 ghz so overheating will be inevitable.
screen wise, there is not much difference at all really, the screen on the evo 3d seemed washed out after minutes of using it.
about the looks and design, we have our own opinion. the evo 3d looks like a toy because of the two red weird looking cameras at the back
not only optimus 3d has more 3D contents, it has better 3D viewing. it has more depth and less eye straining.
LG will be releasing an application that can convert 2D games to 3D so expect more 3D contents in the future. while HTC still doesn't have any concrete plans about the evo.
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i doubt that converter will be any good...
but for the rest you pretty much made me convinced i need to have the optimus above the evo.
thanks for the experience share!
borgqueenx said:
thanks guys. well 3d is one of the biggest things im exited about but the design of the optimus 3d is soooo ****ty IMO...
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The design is ****ty? Because the evo3d has a red line around the cameras? I personally don't find any difference on the looks of these 2 devices.
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and 1.2ghz of dual core wich can be overclocked to 1.8 sounds real sexy as well.
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You certainly don't wont to do that. I really doubt that it can give more than 1.5GHz but even so you will run out of battery soon enough. And talking about hardware, the 3vo 3d falls back by far. They tried to balance the loss with the 200MHz boost and the 512MB of additional ram but they still fall far behind in comparisons. The only phone that's going better than the optimus 3D right now is the galaxy sII.
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ofcource the optimus got more 3d content right now....but the display of the evo 3d is better, and i think in the future we will see alot more 3d content.
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The display of the evo3d is better overall concerning the colour quality but the 3D performance of the optimus is noticably better.
When it comes to whether the phone is good looking or not, I guess it is more a personal choice. I find the camera buttons for evo 3d is nice but then evo 3d users are already saying that the 2d-3d switching button easily get loose. the 3D button on O3D is a good idea but then that's not really too useful ^^
Talking about OC, I wouldn't bother about OC a phone with dual core. If really needs to OC to get the desire performance, then the phone itself already failed the design.
Also, just need to really look at questions users are asking in both groups E3D and O3D. You will see a greta difference. So far no one using O3D talks about things inside or outside their phone "dropping apart" with the exception of the missing FM radio.
For E3D, there are more than enough compaints and yelling for refund.
Personally I am neither a fan for HTC or LG. But trying to learn from the technical part of the phones, although E3D is running at 1.2ghz with dual core, the way the cpu design is quite strange as it is designed as "until a core is fully utilised, the second core won't be working". I come across a review which stated this. I was puzzled as well until I saw others from the E3D group saying that some benchmarks only report one core being working. May be that is why E3D has much more problem.
On the other hand, reports on O3D is totally the other way. The clock speed is lower but performance is better.
So IMO, although the tech spec for E3D looks better, it still has a lot to polish up before it can be stable. O3D on the other hand, really play safe and release a much more stable phone instead. Personally I think LG is smart on using froyo than gingerbread as many phones on gingerbread ae suffering from battery drain include
Samsung galaxy S/S2 (stock rom). My wife is using a SGS now and I moved back to froyo custom rom(darky's 9.5) to amek sure she is not complaining about battery drain. So I rather wait for a stable gingerbread release from LG without the drain.
In terms of customisation, it will be better off to use HTC thou. HTC is more open on their source for their phones. (samsung is really open).. LG is definitely not that open.
So my suggestion, if you are on the adventurous side, E3D. If you want to stick with a phone without much customizations and tweaks, then O3D
i already see that the obvious chocie is the optimus 3d so far...
i really like the notification led, wich shows if i got a new email or sms, without touching the phone..
and the design is so much better. also a fan of htc sense..
but no, i do not want any trouble and **** with my phone...
i dont care about 1080p or 720p, as long as that doesnt get any lower. I do care about photo's. if the evo makes 2MP pictures in 3d or 3MP, that will also help me alot in my descision.
but i'l wait for the europian version of the evo 3d...if that doesnt chance things according to the first reviews in terms of stability, bugs, 3d functionality...i made my choice.
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Hmm, lg is by far the most open. From my optimus one and optimus 2x/g2x experience they had been releasing sources really fast. All of their android phones have unlocked bootloaders and are very eaay to root and hack. Even paul of modaco and cyanogenmod team praised how they love the hackability of LG phones. The only sources that are not being released are from their hardware partners like nvidia who refuses to give the full driver source for their products....
borgqueenx said:
i already see that the obvious chocie is the optimus 3d so far...
i really like the notification led, wich shows if i got a new email or sms, without touching the phone..
and the design is so much better. also a fan of htc sense..
but no, i do not want any trouble and **** with my phone...
i dont care about 1080p or 720p, as long as that doesnt get any lower. I do care about photo's. if the evo makes 2MP pictures in 3d or 3MP, that will also help me alot in my descision.
but i'l wait for the europian version of the evo 3d...if that doesnt chance things according to the first reviews in terms of stability, bugs, 3d functionality...i made my choice.
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Just buy the both of it. Problem solved.
Right now im seeing lots of posts from e3d stating that they have a crooked screen.
peacekeeper05 said:
Just buy the both of it. Problem solved.
Right now im seeing lots of posts from e3d stating that they have a crooked screen.
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On the E3D forums on XDA the 10 top posts are about technical problems, camera issues and button issues That's a bit disappointing since everyone was expecting that HTC would be of a better quality than LG, well I haven't seen anyone compailing about O3D so far
What about htc sense app? Can it be ripped and put on the optimus 3d?
Then i made my choice lol.
borgqueenx said:
What about htc sense app? Can it be ripped and put on the optimus 3d?
Then i made my choice lol.
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It is possible but we need some developers to do that .. so yes,it is possible
borgqueenx said:
thanks guys. well 3d is one of the biggest things im exited about but the design of the optimus 3d is soooo ****ty IMO...
and 1.2ghz of dual core wich can be overclocked to 1.8 sounds real sexy as well.
peacekeeper05, did you also got a hold on the evo 3d at a store to compare or similar?
ofcource the optimus got more 3d content right now....but the display of the evo 3d is better, and i think in the future we will see alot more 3d content.
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^ design of the O3D is ****ty?
you don't know then the truth.... i totaly thought the same, and then I saw it in the store... love at first sight
Masinac said:
It is possible but we need some developers to do that .. so yes,it is possible
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Who should i ask?
Has it been done before with other sense versions?
Frizhideron said:
^ design of the O3D is ****ty?
you don't know then the truth.... i totaly thought the same, and then I saw it in the store... love at first sight
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I can confirm this,phone looks much better live than on photos
borgqueenx said:
Who should i ask?
Has it been done before with other sense versions?
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Right now? No one we dont have developers yet but I think we will see much more developer interest in near future
It has been done with all verions of Sense UI and allmost all phones
Masinac said:
I can confirm this,phone looks much better live than on photos
Right now? No one we dont have developers yet but I think we will see much more developer interest in near future
It has been done with all verions of Sense UI and allmost all phones
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Nice so its only a matter of time? Isnt sense 3.0 already ripped from another phone? Because if i can have it on the optimus3d when im back from holidays in about 25 days my choice is made
I didn't have that high hopes for this phone after currently owning a Galaxy S2 and tried a sensation but sent it back as I thought it was crap.
But have to say the 3D is astonishing as soon as I started to play 3D videos and take them I knew there was no going back to the GS2 as nice as the screen is on the GS2 playing 2D stuff just looks poor, I will warn you the battery life is pretty poor.
I showed lots of people the GS2 and they said yeah its nice phone etc etc, lots of these were Iphone drones as I call them lol, I then showed them the O3D and they were blown away by I think I have finally shown them there life other than Apple products.
If 3D is big for you then this phone won't be a let down but it has issues as i said with the battery life, I was thinking of trying one of the 1900mah extended battery's I have seen on Ebay but it makes me wonder if they can make a good 1900mah battery why didn't LG put it in this phone anyway.
My main worry for this phone is development, even when I got the GS2 on launchthere were custom roms out and the same when I tried the sensation, lots of going on in the development section even though the phone still has a locked bootloader but there is nothing for this, it makes me wonder if its going to be passed over by them.
borgqueenx said:
Nice so its only a matter of time? Isnt sense 3.0 already ripped from another phone? Because if i can have it on the optimus3d when im back from holidays in about 25 days my choice is made
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It's just matter of time...O3D is relatively new phone, and we just have to wait till it gets to all markets,then we will starting to see some developers..currently it is on sale in just few countries and via some online markets...
will CyanogenMod-7 rom work on optimus 3d ? if i install this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1058254 will be ok ?
you can try for us
hahaha ofc ... i will not make the start
do we know when lg will upgrade it official on 2.3 ?
http://pocketnow.com/android/uk-getting-gingerbread-for-lg-optimus-3d-in-october
f*ck ... so i will use CM when we will have it for optimus 3d ...
I don't think they can develop a true CM7 ROM for the O3D unless they strip out all of the 3D components. It would have to be some type of hybrid ROM that has vanilla + 3D components + CM7 features. For me personally, I could live without some of CM7 features. I don't care all that much about 3D, but if it's there I want to be able to use it.
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I don't think they can develop a true CM7 ROM for the O3D unless they strip out all of the 3D components. It would have to be some type of hybrid ROM that has vanilla + 3D components + CM7 features. For me personally, I could live without some of CM7 features. I don't care all that much about 3D, but if it's there I want to be able to use it.
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Why buy a 3D phone?
I'm glad you asked that. I'm on AT&T and waiting for the O3D to come as the Thrill. It is the best phone right now (ignoring the Atrix for it's locked down-ness). It's a powerhouse, and the 3D is pretty cool I must admit.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1173985
There are enough nice themes and apps to make you think you have sense installed..but i want the real thing...
I know i asked before but want to get more on this subject...after all its only a software launcher??
And since it seems the evo3d gets rooted next week or so, i really want to hear possibilities
Thanks!
Omg...
sense is not just a theme or a launcher, its a total change of android.
the evo 3d IS NOT the o3d so the rom from htc is more or less useless!
if you whant sense then sell your o3d and get an evo 3d and stop asking fkr a useless port.
youl'll see if somebody is bored enought to try a port but till then it's useless to open such a thread.
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Omg...
sense is not just a theme or a launcher, its a total change of android.
the evo 3d IS NOT the o3d so the rom from htc is more or less useless!
if you whant sense then sell your o3d and get an evo 3d and stop asking fkr a useless port.
youl'll see if somebody is bored enought to try a port but till then it's useless to open such a thread.
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Hmmm okay..i dont have either phones its just that sense is a + for htc evo3d.
borgqueenx said:
Hmmm okay..i dont have either phones its just that sense is a + for htc evo3d.
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mhm... why? i mean sense is nice but it doesn't has anything what the o3d doesn't has.
in fact the hardware of the o3d is much better and you'll see in a few weeks there are tonns of nice customroms for the o3d
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mhm... why? i mean sense is nice but it doesn't has anything what the o3d doesn't has.
in fact the hardware of the o3d is much better and you'll see in a few weeks there are tonns of nice customroms for the o3d
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You said it. Sense is nice. So nice that its a selling point for me.
The optimus's cortex 9 and apparantly better 3d view are sexy as well. But the design of the phone sucks imo, doesnt have a notification led and the resolution is fair, but not great, also saw better 2d photos and videos on youtube coming from the evo3d.
So im having a hard time, like i also said in other topics^^
The evo3d gets root as well next week probaly, so you cant convince me with the custom roms, unless it can make the optimus run sense3.0.
Also its stopid that everyone here tries to get me to the optimus side, and at the evo3d forum everybody says their 3vo is better. I knew thiswould happen but it makes making descisions harder. Im glad some people saw both phones and at least now i know the optimus3d does got a better 3d screen.
You will see 2D more than 3D. Sense is a selling point for you so buy the HTC EVO 3D.
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You will see 2D more than 3D. So choose sense.
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Yeah...but still i wonder if i wont miss the optimus 3d capability, wich is better.
I wonder how much it is better though..i dont care about a viewing angle. I do care about clarity.
borgqueenx said:
Yeah...but still i wonder if i wont miss the optimus 3d capability, wich is better.
I wonder how much it is better though..i dont care about a viewing angle. I do care about clarity.
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if sense is really a must have for you, you should buy the htc because it will take some MONTHS to port it to the o3d and maybe it would be still full of bugs.
you could make it yourself a little bit easyer to decide through a professional way:
first of all make a list of all the attributes of your favorite phone for e.g.
processingpower
ui
style
price
camera
display
storage
connectivity
community
support
battery
and so on
sort them by giving them points.
now choose wich phone gets what attributepoints.
and you'll see what phone has the most points!
if its to hard to decide between two attributes you can compare them to all the other attributes
i hope this will help you
Mooks said:
if sense is really a must have for you, you should buy the htc because it will take some MONTHS to port it to the o3d and maybe it would be still full of bugs.
if its to hard to decide between two attributes you can compare them to all the other attributes
i hope this will help you
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He wants both and doesn't want to choose. Which will end in not buying one of them.
For all the noobs, 3d is just for bragging, don't worry about that, I end up playing the 3d games with low 3d settings... and i have the o3d, that said, i would love a sense ui but i think the developers should do it with the 2.3 !
Both phones are nice and fast, maybe battery is the most decisive aspect.
LG we want 2.3 !!!!
I would like to try Sense on the O3D. For me it isn't a choice between phone, but a choice between Sprint and AT&T. Sprint doesn't have service in my area so... That being said, I am only choosing this phone now instead of waiting for the next Nexus because I don't want to wait anymore, 3D gives bragging rights to non-geeky friends, and there is no guarantee the next Nexus device will come to AT&T. I trust that developers will create oodles of ROM's incuding Ice Cream Sandwich. I hope.
jonytk said:
For all the noobs, 3d is just for bragging, don't worry about that, I end up playing the 3d games with low 3d settings... and i have the o3d, that said, i would love a sense ui but i think the developers should do it with the 2.3 !
Both phones are nice and fast, maybe battery is the most decisive aspect.
LG we want 2.3 !!!!
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well in fact the o3d is faster than the evo 3d. the processor is a little bit faster and with the dualchannel it's much faster. all the test are showing, that the o3d ist even with 2.2 faster than all the other phones with 2.3
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well in fact the o3d is faster than the evo 3d. the processor is a little bit faster and with the dualchannel it's much faster. all the test are showing, that the o3d ist even with 2.2 faster than all the other phones with 2.3
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I agree with you. O3D with 2.2 is already faster than other 2.3 phones. Also the UI is very clean and useful. It actually got all the missing features from samsung touchwiz. For myself I am happy with it. I have used htc desire and aria as well, sense is good and useful, but use up too much resource. So unless a launcher is designed as a general launcher like golauncher, I would not have great hope in a ported launcher for specific brand. As there are specific codes within those launchers.
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I have had this phone for a week and can say i love the idea of 3d but so far roms (no disrespect to devs) have been really poor. phone doesnt come close to the Samsung S2 and HTC sensation XE which i both have.
Am i doing something wrong with O3D or can you guys recommend me a rom to flash.
iv had loads of htc smartphones and samsung but first lg and feel abit lost seems like this forumn is dormant.
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I have had this phone for a week and can say i love the idea of 3d but so far roms (no disrespect to devs) have been really poor. phone doesnt come close to the Samsung S2 and HTC sensation XE which i both have.
Am i doing something wrong with O3D or can you guys recommend me a rom to flash.
iv had loads of htc smartphones and samsung but first lg and feel abit lost seems like this forumn is dormant.
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Hi5 for that..I thought more would come from the development community but nothing..they say LG files are hard to deal with..overallisappointed
Well, the Optimus 3D is not the most popular phone by LG. The Optimus Speed is much more commonly used by people.
I recently switched from the Speed to the 3D (exchanged by LG) and must say that I kind of expected the same variety in Roms as with my previously stated phones, right as you noticed, too. Currently there aren't that much devs on the O3D. But nevertheless they are doing a great job. Just try out the Roms and look which you like most. Currently I am using Thiaizos Rom and I must say I like it the most atm.
I think most people are just a little afraid of the 3D-technics in this phone and do not know if its good or not. And if you do not want the 3D, there are definatley better phones available right know (Mostly related to form factor, not hardware itself).
Additionaly LG is not the most famous smartphone producer...
Fusel Wusel said:
Well, the Optimus 3D is not the most popular phone by LG. The Optimus Speed is much more commonly used by people.
I recently switched from the Speed to the 3D (exchanged by LG) and must say that I kind of expected the same variety in Roms as with my previously stated phones, right as you noticed, too. Currently there aren't that much devs on the O3D. But nevertheless they are doing a great job. Just try out the Roms and look which you like most. Currently I am using Thiaizos Rom and I must say I like it the most atm.
I think most people are just a little afraid of the 3D-technics in this phone and do not know if its good or not. And if you do not want the 3D, there are definatley better phones available right know (Mostly related to form factor, not hardware itself).
Additionaly LG is not the most famous smartphone producer...
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totally right,but I thought due to the 3D thing it would get more popularity,I think the hardware is really great and I compared it to the S2 and minor inferiority found,but still we wish more costume ROMS may support our phone cause I think it deserves such nice device,thanks anyway
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totally right,but I thought due to the 3D thing it would get more popularity,I think the hardware is really great and I compared it to the S2 and minor inferiority found,but still we wish more costume ROMS may support our phone cause I think it deserves such nice device,thanks anyway
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The S2 is one of the if not the best android or phone out there and iv had the iphone 4s lol my o3d s2 and sensation are better than that S2 is awesome tho. some of the mods are soo cool.
for this device id love cm7 with 3d
The 3d features make this phone unique and i love it think the 3d games and vids are awesome.
i guess in the end ICS is coming out so hopefully will help our phone improve
What chance do ROM developers have if LG the hardware maker can not make a decent Gingerbread for this phone. I have personally went back to froyo after having freezing issues, Ghost calls and sms.
I got very close couple times to smashing this useless phone into pieces, I am reduced now to using my Iphone 4 again.
I agree with You guys. I had a S2 and it was great both with orig. firmware, miui and custom roms. Smooth as butter, and always working. Now I changed it for HTC Titan, and it also works great.
But O3D is another story.... Great idea, great hardware and ****ty software from the begining till now. GB is only marginaly faster but still buggy as hell.
I got info from the support that no GB updates are in the work for now. So we are stuck with v21a for qiute some time.
Also the devs are few and not very motivated (except Tiazo), and LG isn`t helping at all.
I realy don`t get it - it looks as if they are shooting themself in the foot???
I think this is my last LG ever! Even thou I have a great 2 year support from my cell phone network I`m goin to sell this stillborn pnone and get a deecent one. Even iPhone is better... lol
Got an unbranded new O3D yesterday, had the chance of selling it to a galaxy nexus, but what about 3D? Can I live without it again? No I cant. 3D is a way better function imo than SGS2's smoothness or even galaxy nexus's ICS. I owned SGS2 and own an ICS phone, both are amazing, I love ICS , but we r getting it sooner or later, but i repeat again, we have 3D and for me it is the best function so far in a smartphone.
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Got an unbranded new O3D yesterday, had the chance of selling it to a galaxy nexus, but what about 3D? Can I live without it again? No I cant. 3D is a way better function imo than SGS2's smoothness or even galaxy nexus's ICS. I owned SGS2 and own an ICS phone, both are amazing, I love ICS , but we r getting it sooner or later, but i repeat again, we have 3D and for me it is the best function so far in a smartphone.
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Well it's simple equation man,we are getting ICS and many tweaks and customizations for the O3D like S2 or Nexus(We have enough hardware features no one can deny)..but can those phones get the 3D feature in them?
Noooooooooo..so that's what makes the difference,3D is a revolution and I heard a piece of news saying Samsung is about to produce 3D supported phones..Meaning??=Teased!
all we need now is patience and trying to support each other until there are enough resources that no one can complain..PEACE
Well hopefully when Samsung release a 3d smartphone next year it will be a lot better than the Optimus 3d so we will finally have a good 3d smartphone that works properly.
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Well hopefully when Samsung release a 3d smartphone next year it will be a lot better than the Optimus 3d so we will finally have a good 3d smartphone that works properly.
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I don't understand all this complaining, my O3D has worked pretty much perfect from Day 1 using stock rom, we just received GB update and everything seems to be working fine for me...improved the camera and also released the 3D converter after launch, and LG promised an ICS upgrade too what more do you want.
This phone has better hardware and features than the Evo 3D and is only slightly behind the GSII in performance...looking forward to LG's next 3D phone I will be first in line.
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Got an unbranded new O3D yesterday, had the chance of selling it to a galaxy nexus, but what about 3D? Can I live without it again? No I cant. 3D is a way better function imo than SGS2's smoothness or even galaxy nexus's ICS. I owned SGS2 and own an ICS phone, both are amazing, I love ICS , but we r getting it sooner or later, but i repeat again, we have 3D and for me it is the best function so far in a smartphone.
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3D is indeed amazing but the Optimus 3d isn't the best phone to show it off. As the phone has had so many problems and LG seems to be forgetting the 2d side with bad 2d photo quality and only improving the 3d side doesn't help things.
Once more better 3d phones come out in the future which are better over all then phones functions then hopefully 3D smartphones will become more popular.
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MABManZ said:
I don't understand all this complaining, my O3D has worked pretty much perfect from Day 1 using stock rom, we just received GB update and everything seems to be working fine for me...improved the camera and also released the 3D converter after launch, and LG promised an ICS upgrade too what more do you want.
This phone has better hardware and features than the Evo 3D and is only slightly behind the GSII in performance...looking forward to LG's next 3D phone I will be first in line.
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LG didn't bother to improve 2d photo quality. They seem to have made it worse.
LG didn't bother to improve 2d photo quality. They seem to have made it worse.
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2D photos seem fine to me but I found that a replacement camera app, Camera Zoom FX, made it so much better so I guess the problem is the phones software rather than the hardware.
In regard to others making a better 3D phone, so far LG's 3D comes out best in reviews and so, as other manufacturers have yet to catch up, I would expect Optimus 3D 2 to be best 3D phone next year as well. But it better have 1 GB ram as even I have to admit 512 is not always enough recently.
Dave
3D Rocks
chwads2k8 said:
I have had this phone for a week and can say i love the idea of 3d but so far roms (no disrespect to devs) have been really poor. phone doesnt come close to the Samsung S2 and HTC sensation XE which i both have.
Am i doing something wrong with O3D or can you guys recommend me a rom to flash.
iv had loads of htc smartphones and samsung but first lg and feel abit lost seems like this forumn is dormant.
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I've been really enjoying the 3D functionality of this phone. I'm still on the stock ROM and haven't been worried about alternate ROMs. This phone runs really well.
I also own an HTC Sensation and I have owned a Samsung Galaxy S II.....but they don't do 3D and - for me - 3D is THE reason to buy an LG Optimus 3D phone.
I've had a play with the HTC Evo 3D...and the 3D display on the Evo just isn't as good as the display on the Optimus 3D.
I'm looking forward to the official firmware upgrade. I only install alternate ROMs if that actually ADD value to the device. I've had my fill of broken Franken-ROMs that eat my time.
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I agree with You guys. I had a S2 and it was great both with orig. firmware, miui and custom roms. Smooth as butter, and always working. Now I changed it for HTC Titan, and it also works great.
But O3D is another story.... Great idea, great hardware and ****ty software from the begining till now. GB is only marginaly faster but still buggy as hell.
I got info from the support that no GB updates are in the work for now. So we are stuck with v21a for qiute some time.
Also the devs are few and not very motivated (except Tiazo), and LG isn`t helping at all.
I realy don`t get it - it looks as if they are shooting themself in the foot???
I think this is my last LG ever! Even thou I have a great 2 year support from my cell phone network I`m goin to sell this stillborn pnone and get a deecent one. Even iPhone is better... lol
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i agree... LG just ****ed it up.
i bought the SGS2 and it's great
A 3d phone but it can't download 3d games from lg smart world 2.3 gb not supported.thanks lg ?
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A 3d phone but it can't download 3d games from lg smart world 2.3 gb not supported.thanks lg ?
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Its because LG is too slow with everything. Worse company so far between the mobile world big companies. In Sweden unbranded O3Ds has not gotten official GB still.
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Hi everyone, I'm considering getting a new phone and I'd like a 3D one...
I'm considering either the HTC Evo 3D or the LG Optimus 3D and though I read a lot about each phone's specs I'd like to get some of you users opinions about their performance...
Considering that I like to constantly update the latest ROMs including CyanogenMod I wouold appreciate any advice you can give me regarding this LG and any pros cons you can think of...
Thanks in advance to everyone!
Have you even bothered to check the topics on this section?
Let me guide you to some:
70 page full of ghost call thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1475351&page=72
Endless ICS waiting thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1577017
Huawei is better than LG thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1609467
The issues thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1600521
The updater and all other LG tools sucks thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1423125
And please take your time and check for buggy ICS ROMs. Ooops. There are no ICS rom for Optimus 3D...
The only good thing? Optimus 3D's 3D capability is better than Evo 3D. But You can not use Optimus 3D as a phone LOL
Now leave us with our problems here and run away! Please run!
Every phine has their issues but i know of lits if people who prefer the lg iptimus 3d thsn evo
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Hi everyone, I'm considering getting a new phone and I'd like a 3D one...
I'm considering either the HTC Evo 3D or the LG Optimus 3D and though I read a lot about each phone's specs I'd like to get some of you users opinions about their performance...
Considering that I like to constantly update the latest ROMs including CyanogenMod I wouold appreciate any advice you can give me regarding this LG and any pros cons you can think of...
Thanks in advance to everyone!
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3D phone ... we dont even consider HTC a 3D phone. There are many better phones (non 3D) than O3D but not EVO 3D
Being 3D frame work not open custom development with 3D is not at the highest level and LG firmware have issues.
People are experimenting with firmware of 3Dmax which have basically the same hardware to work on our O3D. If successful you will be holding in your hands one sweet piece of technology.
kylana0 said:
Hi everyone, I'm considering getting a new phone and I'd like a 3D one...
I'm considering either the HTC Evo 3D or the LG Optimus 3D and though I read a lot about each phone's specs I'd like to get some of you users opinions about their performance...
Considering that I like to constantly update the latest ROMs including CyanogenMod I wouold appreciate any advice you can give me regarding this LG and any pros cons you can think of...
Thanks in advance to everyone!
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As cool_recep pointed out already lots of issues with LG's O3D. Good that you're doing research before buying that's what I do myself. But when the phone is just launched there isn't much information one can get. So i was suckered into buying Nokia N900 and recently O3D.
If i had waited few months like you have done, i wouldn't have made one of the biggest mistakes ever in my electronic purchases in 40 years, of buying this good piece of hardware but with the worst software support and bugs.
So a friendly advice wait just a few more weeks/months to see how the new 3Dmax is doing and if you really want a 3D phone buy it. I wouldn't ever suggest an LG phone ever. Even if it's the last company left making mobile phones i would just keep using my old phone instead of buying anything from LG. This company ignored the whole community of O3D owners for 4 months of constant complaining before even acknowledging that there was some prob like Ghost call on O3D.
Apart from ghost calls issue im happy with my O3D.
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For 3D capability alone, LG wins hands DOWN! HTCs was headache-inducing. If 3D isn't the primary purpose though, something else may be better.
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3D phone ... we dont even consider HTC a 3D phone. There are many better phones (non 3D) than O3D but not EVO 3D
Being 3D frame work not open custom development with 3D is not at the highest level and LG firmware have issues.
People are experimenting with firmware of 3Dmax which have basically the same hardware to work on our O3D. If successful you will be holding in your hands one sweet piece of technology.
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First of all thanks to you and everyone else who so kindly replied to my thread!Your post made me very curious and interested but im confused regarding which phone you're referring to... I do apologise as i've only started to become interested and to get to know mobile development recently so sorry if its a dum question...
sak500 said:
As cool_recep pointed out already lots of issues with LG's O3D. Good that you're doing research before buying that's what I do myself. But when the phone is just launched there isn't much information one can get. So i was suckered into buying Nokia N900 and recently O3D.
If i had waited few months like you have done, i wouldn't have made one of the biggest mistakes ever in my electronic purchases in 40 years, of buying this good piece of hardware but with the worst software support and bugs.
So a friendly advice wait just a few more weeks/months to see how the new 3Dmax is doing and if you really want a 3D phone buy it. I wouldn't ever suggest an LG phone ever. Even if it's the last company left making mobile phones i would just keep using my old phone instead of buying anything from LG. This company ignored the whole community of O3D owners for 4 months of constant complaining before even acknowledging that there was some prob like Ghost call on O3D.
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Yeah I do know what you mean buut i also learnt from my mistakes... I've recently bought a samsung galaxy s plus without doing any research about it and i've got to say that i'm deeply dissapointed with the lack of software development available... Not even CM7, CM9 or Miui yet...
Though i appreciate the efforts of xda's devs who are trying to port it...
O3D is better than evo for sure!
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Answering only your title question "Best 3D phone: LG or HTC?", there is absolutely no doubt that the LG is by far the best on 3D.
The HTC 3D is a joke in comparison.
I've had a LG P920 since just after release date and have been disappointed until recently. My phone always used to restart at random times when it wasn't being used, performance is a little poor compared to other devices I've had and apps have a knack of either freezing or not working such as the camera. The amount of times I missed a photo opportunity because the stupid camera won't take a picture when I press the button to take a picture. This also causes a problem when I want to use the LED flash as a torch as sometimes the flash just won't turn on.
I went for the LG because it had a slightly better camera on it and as I wanted the phone primarily to take 3D photos and videos it was the better option (I regret it now). I've also found the LG lacks 3D content on it where as the HTC I think has a film download app included on the phone.
So I would recommend not getting a 3D phone, wait for the next generation of 3D phones :
Lg optimus 3d hardware is beeter than evo 3D by far.
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I've had a LG P920 since just after release date and have been disappointed until recently. My phone always used to restart at random times when it wasn't being used, performance is a little poor compared to other devices I've had and apps have a knack of either freezing or not working such as the camera. The amount of times I missed a photo opportunity because the stupid camera won't take a picture when I press the button to take a picture. This also causes a problem when I want to use the LED flash as a torch as sometimes the flash just won't turn on.
I went for the LG because it had a slightly better camera on it and as I wanted the phone primarily to take 3D photos and videos it was the better option (I regret it now). I've also found the LG lacks 3D content on it where as the HTC I think has a film download app included on the phone.
So I would recommend not getting a 3D phone, wait for the next generation of 3D phones :
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Thanks for your replies everyone!!!
I wasn't aware of all these issues with the LG... it's a shame coz from my reasearch it seems to have better 3D capability than the HTC, however, that's not worth much if it keeps letting you down...
btw, are there any news of any upcoming 3D phones (or this so-called next generation)?
That would be really great and I'm aware theres a second model from LG coming out soon, the P720, but not sure when or whether it's really worth waiting; from the specs it seems the only thing improved was the CPU from 1000mhz to 1200mhz...
Maybe it will improve on the issues mentioned by FC360 of features constantly crashing...
All feedback is welcome!
Thanks
o3d's/thrill's hardware is one of the best in dual cores !!
it is the best portable media player i've owned, plays every media file you throw at it !
hdmi out is excellent !
almost everyone complains about the ghost calls/messages, but till now i didnt have a single issue with it (v21d baseband) !
it is just the lack of software support that pulls the optimus 3d back !
but ics has been officially confirmed by lg for the optimus 3d !
even we may get ics when it is released for 3d max
which would be much much earlier than the one lg officially releases for the o3d !
kylana0 said:
Hi everyone, I'm considering getting a new phone and I'd like a 3D one...
I'm considering either the HTC Evo 3D or the LG Optimus 3D and though I read a lot about each phone's specs I'd like to get some of you users opinions about their performance...
Considering that I like to constantly update the latest ROMs including CyanogenMod I wouold appreciate any advice you can give me regarding this LG and any pros cons you can think of...
Thanks in advance to everyone!
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More or less an opinion.
Granted; I've only owned the Optimus, but I've owned many other HTC phones before and many smartphones(apple, lg, samsung, etc)
This LG has satisfied me the most out of everyone I have ever had, why? The price. This phone cost me $200 and I get better performance than some people's $400 phones. If you are willing to pay the extra bit of money, hell, get a HTC. But for $200, the O3D is a great phone. I'm in no way denying the ghost call/ghost sms issue, but I personally haven't experienced it owning this phone since release and using stock roms for most of that time. it's got a decent camera, good 3D capability(despite that not being a remote selling point to me) fast processor, and good build quality. Something I noticed when I pickup up a Samsung device 3 times the cost of mine, is it felt so unbelievably cheap. LG has good build quality from my experience.
Not to say the HTC isn't a good phone, because I've liked every HTC phone I've had too, but for the price an O3D cannot be beat.
As for me with no problem with Ghost call etc, I'd go for O3D. If you have a problem with GB, then stick with Froyo.
I think Chainfire3D cannot use on ICS. If that the case, even if ICS release for O3D, I'll stay with current ROM.
I will tell you what i say to my customers.
If you like 3D its ok.
If you dont care about 3D and not gonna use it buy a Samsung.
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exept 3D , the O3D has good performance with custom roms in a common use
I owe an O3D, and im totally satisfied with the hardware (only custom ROM's can make it work properly and smooth) but if you check strictly the stats EVO got better,
1gb ram over 512
540 x 960 over 480 x 800
1.2ghz over 1ghz
But anyways the 3D world on O3D is way lot better