LG’s Optimus prime-time smartphone

Review: LG P970 Optimus Black. It’s big and it’s black. And really skinny. The obvious conclusion is that LG is going head to head with iPhone with the P970 Optimus Black by eschewing any exterior adornment. LG also clearly decided that it was going to go with one big stick: size counts. The display is BIG and BRIGHT.

Instead of the iPhone’s relatively cramped 3.5”, you get a giant 4” slab of pixelly action. But LG was also building to a lower price-point, so you get 480×800 pixels but only 233 pixels per inch, while the iPhone’s 960×640 gives you 326ppi. 233ppi is not bad, but not even quite up to the better HTC and Motorola Droid phones.

So what do you want? Size or resolution?

Or useful stuff?

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