LG Optimus One and Optimus 7Q are third generation phones from the house of LG. Though both devices are from LG, they are running on entirely different platform; one is on Android and the other Windows Phone. There are some similarities among both the smartphones in features, however each are having certain distinguishing features which differentiate one from another.
LG Optimus 7Q
LG Optimus 7Q comes with large 3.5″ capacitive Touch Screen, powered by Windows Phone 7 and 1GHz processor, 5.0 Megapixel 4x digital zoom camera with Intelligent Shot mode.
This is the only WP 7 LG device to include a slide out QWERTY keypad.
Windows 7 features include Outlook Integration, Intelligent Shot, ScanSearch, People Hub, Voice to Text and PlayTo. With ScanSearch – Users can access real-time information about shopping, dining, weather, entertainment and banking, The applications like ‘Play To’, Augmented reality (AR) and Voice to text are available via live tiles on Windows Phone 7 or can be accessed from the LG store on the Marketplace.
The WP7 has replaced icons with tactile in the display.
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Features: • 3.5” Capacitive Touch LCD Screen, 16M Colour TFT, 480 x 800 Pixels • Virtual QWERTY keyboard with Swype • slide out QWERTY keypad • Customizable Home screens • 5.0 MP autofocus camera with LED flash, 4x digital zoom, Panorama Shot • 720p HD Video Recording • Memory: Internal 16GB, 512MB RAM • 1GHz Processor • Bluetooth Version: 2.1 + EDR, A2DP • Full HTML Web Browser with Adobe Flash Player • Wi-Fi hotspot and tethering capabilities • FM Radio • Network support: GSM: 850/900/1800/1900; UMTS 850/1900/2100/GPRS Class 12/EDGE Class 12/HSDPA Speed DL:7.2/UL:5.7 • Dimension: 119.5mm (H) x 59.5mm (W) x 15.22mm (D) • Weight: 185g • Battery: 1500 mAh LI-ion; talktime up to 250 mins, standby time up to 250 hours. . |
7Q is an attractive WP 7 LG smartphone with a physical slide-out QWERTY keypad and a powerful 5.0MP camera. It offers high-quality HD films in HD (720P), play them back on the 3.8” WVGA screen or use the unique ‘Play To’ feature to share them wirelessly with an HD TV.
LG Optimus 7, the other edition of LG Optimus is having many similarities with Optimus 7Q. The only differences are the slide-out QWERTY keyboard (not available in 7), screen size (3.8” in 7) and the slight change in dimensions due to these features.
Android LG Optimus One
LG Optimus One is an entry point Smartphone with superb design, comes with 3.2″ Touch Screen and Powered by Android’s latest OS 2.2 (Froyo).
With Android 2.2 the user can experience full HTML Web Browser with Google Search, Google Map and integrated Social Network Capabilities. With Google Voice the tasks like online search, shopping and music becomes simple and easy. With Google Goggles you can use pictures taken with your mobile phone to search the web, when it’s not easy to describe the search in words.
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Features: • 3.2” Capacitive Touch LCD Screen, 262K Colour TFT, 480 x 320 Pixels • Virtual QWERTY keyboard with Swype • Customizable Home screens • 3.2 MP autofocus & manual focus camera with LED flash, 15x digital zoom • Memory: Internal 150MB user memory + 2GB microSD card included, 512MB RAM, External up to 32GB • Processor: 600MHz • Bluetooth Version: 2.1 + EDR, A2DP • Full HTML Web Browser with Google Search, Google Maps • Integrated Social Network • Wi-Fi hotspot and tethering capabilities • FM Radio • Network support: GSM: 850/900/1800/1900; UMTS 900//2100/GPRS Class 10/EDGE Class 10/HSDPA Speed 7.2 • Dimension: 113.5mm (H) x 59.0mm (W) x 13.3mm (D) • Weight: 127g • Battery: 1500 mAh LI-ion; talktime up to 5 hours (2G) 6 hours (3G), standby time up to 450 hours (2G, 3G); Audio Playback 22 hours and Video Playback 4 hours . |
This candy bar light weight phone comes with a 3.2MPauto/manual focus camera, capable of 15x digital zoom.
Difference between LG Optimus One and Optimus 7Q
Optimus One runs on Google’s Android 2.2 (Froyo) whereas Optimus 7Q is powered by Microsoft’s WP 7. Both Google and Microsoft have done their research well and have produced a very good operating system for mobiles. However, there is an expectation that people will have the feeling for WP7 due to the existing familiarity with Windows OS for PCs.
Windows 7 applications include Outlook Integration, Intelligent Shot, ScanSearch, People Hub, Voice to Text and PlayTo.
Android also has integrated some useful applications like, Google Voice, Google Search, Google Goggles and Google Map.
The explicit differences among both devices are the slide out physical QWERTY keypad and the screen size; Optimus 7Q has larger display (3.5”) and ‘One’ has slightly smaller (3.2”). The display of ‘7’ is also more vibrant and crispier with 16M colours (256K in One) and higher resolution (480 x 800 vs. 480 x 320 pixels).
The other comparable difference is the camera; Optimus 7Q comes with 5.0MP autofocus, 4x digital zoom camera, Optimus One has got 3.2MP dual focus, 15x digital zoom
The processor speed is high in Optimus 7Q (1GHz) and Optimus One has only 600MHz processor.
The short coming in Optimus 7Q is its battery life which is only 4 hours 10 min talk-time. The Optimus One is on a better standing in this regard with a talk time of up to 6 hours.
Optimus 1 is a good choice at an affordable price to experience Android’s latest features on a LG device; Whereas Optimus 7Q is useful for more advanced users.
| The Android Version 2.2 gives added features like JIT Compiler, Automatic Application updates, FM Radio, New version of Linux Kernel, OpenGL improvements, support to Flash 10.1 and Color Trackball.
Windows Phone 7 Mobile operating system comes with attractive user interface with multi-touch technology, on screen text input, advanced web browser, excellent multimedia, search and automatic software updates and integrates with many popular Microsoft consumer services such as Xbox LIVE, Windows Live, Bing and Zune. |
N.B. LG Optimus 7, the sister edition of LG Optimus is having many similarities with Optimus 7Q. The only differences are the slide-out QWERTY keyboard (not available in 7), screen size (3.8” in 7) and the slight change in dimensions due to these features. The battery life also better in Optimus 7 than 7Q.