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Barcelona – Unlike its underwhelming Optimus Pad tablet, LG’s Optimus 3D cellphone is rather impressive. It’s 4.3-inch screen is capable of displaying 3D without the need for a pair of 3D glasses.
The Optimus runs Android 2.2 (which is user-upgradeable to 2.3), and the screen runs at 480 x 800 resolution. This is, according to the rather hopeful person who wrote the spec-card that accompanies the phone, enough for 1080p video. To be fair, this more likely refers to the HDMI-out capability, which will run 3D at 720p and regular 2D at 1080p.
3D can be captured via the pair of cameras on the back, just like the Optimus Pad, but you can also view it right there on the phone. The display works a lot like the Nintendo 3DS, using lens-based trickery to send different images to each eye. The effect is surprisingly convincing, although oddly seems to make the screen seem smaller. While I can become engrossed in a movie on an tablet set a few feet in front of me, to the extent that I forget I’m looking at such a small screen, the 3D display is looked at, rather than looked into. Still, the 3D-ness is convincing, and it will surely be great for gaming.
When looking at the screen from anywhere but close up, it looks like one of those novelty lenticular postcards from a museum gift-shop. This worried me for a moment, but it only happens in 3D mode. When you return to normal phone-use, the screen looks no different from any other.
Like the Optimus Pad, the Optimus 3D is built on a gimmick. And while shooting poor-quality 3D video might be fun, its the games that will make or break this device. And my guess is “break”: Android is fragmented enough as it is. How many developers are going to make 3D versions of their games, just for this phone?
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