Actually.
Thanks to its slim LG Android version is a fully featured Android experience when you install the Google Launcher, quite possible. Thanks to the IPS displays the picture quality is better than feared.
If you Google Now uses and Chrome Beta is installed later are virtually all applications sufficiently well used. GPS / navigation system, the DB Bahn Navigator, transportation apps, music Stream apps and video streaming apps (z. B. the South Park) work perfectly. HD video that plays for you. B. with VLC or MX Player, on the other hand sometimes jerky, because of the outdated feature sets the GPU.
Whether commercial apps with corresponding acceleration licenses can rauskitzeln from the PowerVR 531 more, I have not tried.
Internet Surfing makes no fun, however. UMTS and WLAN are sufficiently fast, the resolution, the size, the slightly rough to the touch screen and the processor speed of revenge but then.
But it is quite possible to dasoertliche.de to browse to find a phone number and make a call from the browser, it turns out only more difficult and complicated than on faster, larger devices.
Visiting news websites with rudimentary Responsive Web Design as zeit.de and spon.de succeeds reasonably well, the pages are rendered quickly and are legible. Fun does not make it though.
Webshops such as Amazon and eBay were actually to be served because of the button designs only on the respective apps.
The battery is has a small capacity, the device helps but because of the low resolution and diagonal, compared with more powerful smartphones, to a relatively high range.
The sound of the phone I would call a good call, the loudspeaker is in speakerphone and music / video playback enough, the included headset is reliable, has a satisfactory micro and a good sound.
There are, according to instructions does not support all BT profiles, but so far I have to connect all the BT devices reliably without any problems.
Summary:
Benefits
IPS
Small, unfortunately become rare form factor
Changeable battery
Radio
Robust, very well processed
Good maturity
Neutral:
Resolution
Disadvantages:
Insufficient memory (-..> Limited poss App number considerably, streaming does not make sense without ausgelag cache path)
General Slowly.
Long wait to reboot until the SD card indexed. At the time the device is barely usable.
I would therefore advise the successor device (LG L40) when no LED lamp is required. This device has a dual-core CPU and Android 4.4, which provides a significant speed increase.
The unit has over other devices with similar configuration, except for the IPS screen, not LG-specific advantages. I've had enough, the performance of the device, although I put quite high demands on the equipment and the software (Google Maps, streaming), completely out. I prefer my Sony Z1, when I travel, because of the form factor before.
For me the device, if you configure it right (the right apps uses) a feasibility study is that shows what a lame, tiny Android device, due to the steady Android and App-evolution, everything is possible.
