Small, white and strong.

LG P970 Optimus Smartphone (10.2 cm (4 inch) display, touch screen, Android OS, 5 megapixel camera) white
I've had some good phones, but the P 970 by LG is really the lucky strike been quintessential. Even from me also ever thought about a few days thoroughly tested LG Optimus Speed ​​with two cores is mE neither better nor noticeably faster.
However, I would like to compare with another no LG LG, but allow me to take this opportunity to not so absurd comparison with two akuellen high-end products, the Motorola RAZR and the HTC Sensation XL. Both I had in hand, and devoured every single test the three candidates - in the meantime hundreds of kilograms of accumulated trade magazines and on the net, because I was interested seriously for all three phones.
At first I thought that one could not compare the three devices miteiander. Surprisingly, that goes very well, because all three, my LG Optimus Black (in chic white) and the latter two reached - for instance - with less difference in the points than expected in the current CONNECT leaderboard a "Good": The LG with 391, the HTC 405 and the RAZR with 415 points.
The greater the differences in price. The lace top phones from Motorola (currently with 433.90 and also here at Amazon right now with 430.00 euro stood HTC are just 200 euros more expensive, without much more to it than a LG Optimus Black can. Mind you, this is my own personal experience, my knowledge of tens of read tests gecheckten videos on Youtube and most of all my personal impression!
Undoubtedly, the two high-end phones from Motorola and HTC have a noticeably higher perceived quality, not for nothing that they belong to this top category. But you do not achieve the quality of the LG Optimus Black in terms of display. Well, the Motorola solves the laboratory better with 540x900 as the Black and the HTC Sensation with each "only" 400x800 pixels. I could hardly detect differences in direct, repeated comparison of all three phones in the business. Besides the fact that the District Court was significantly brighter when fully turned luminosity was than the other two.
Purchase crucial for me was really not the price. I had the LG Phone for 400 euros still perceived as worthy of an award.
Ultimately, gave me the following 3 factors decisive for the previously regretted buying my LG Phones: It has given me most liked the design, was the lightest of the three and it convinced me because it, unlike the HTC Sensation XL and MOTOROLA RAZR has the clearly best handling.
Handling in this sense is defined for me, not least about the (unfortunately ever-growing) size of current smartphone Phones towards mini-tablet.
'Big' is' at least in the area of ​​mobile phone - not always better. Both the HTC and the MOTOROLA have huge, now sadly usual 4.3 inch screens. Big screen when viewing videos, but '
associated with it are automatically Housing dimensions that make use of these phones with one hand impossible.
In contrast, pure 4.0-inch model, such as the LG P 970 narrowly still just as in the area where they can be operated with one hand.
Mind you, just like that.

Best of all in this context (and thus defying the trend towards ever larger displays) is and remains without envy the iPhone 4, 4s respectively with 'only' 3.8-inch screen size.
Apart from the unsurpassed quality (on the Apple OS is debatable) and the world's apparently been popular designs of all smartphones, the iPhone was seen from the handiness forth for me the only conceivable alternative to my LG.
But also seen by the handiness and the beautiful, flawless optics ago. On the pure operating system reduced, would and I'm going to buy an iPhone because of the many, for me unacceptable restrictions on personal freedom I never be able to wrestle.
Should Apple (white man's?) Offer sometime both systems (Android and iOS) in a freely selectable device, then that would be for me and many millions of absolute dream.

But I live here and now and that I have now with the LG Optimus Black found my personal dream mobile phone, is a fact.
That said, however, was not from the beginning, so I give just honestly and candidly to:

At first (as was still under Froyoo) had me some small mistakes before enormously annoyed; so did the phone 'though rarely' hang times (Of course this happens in situations where no man really needs). Only the fact that I had (Read how here and there desöfteren of Android users of all possible manufacturers or heard) Never remove the battery pack and use it to start a re-boot, this circumstance made me not really the killer criterion.
Battery performance also not particularly liked me at first; by refined, partly laboriously herausgegoogelte tricks and accordingly capable Blogs I succeeded, however, quite quickly, to increase the battery life considerably. Optimal she still was not characterized, but when I Latest Phones like the iPhone4s or the Nokia Lumia 800 look at me now in terms of battery endurance, I can still be really happy in retrospect.
Another small minus were occasional slight stuttering in executing apps (especially if they had just started fresh).

That my LG-Phone ultimately really became my personal dream Phone, is unique and alone the update to Android 2.3.4 aka Gingerbread (nearly 14 days ago installed) owe.
No more stuttering, not a single hanger since 'the whole perfomance is clearly stronger and more stable than before with Froyo (Android 2.2).
The speed while surfing or simply just when opening applications is simply hammer moderate. Those who have not tested it myself, will not believe that this phone works with only one processor core. So make surfing and gaming fun.
The battery performance has noticeably improved again. Two days under normal use are no longer a problem. Turn it all the energy-guzzlers off, or I'll have you not even start in the background (goes over apps like Dr. Battery Saver, System Panel and Android Assistant) does my LG with normal use over previously ridiculous little power. Today for example, I took the phone 15 hours and 32 minutes for getting up in front of the loader, conducted several telephone conversations, two mile long SMS sent surfed via WhatsApp and wireless exactly 50 minutes of 'my gauge Battery widget displays still respectable 83 % residual power to.
Again very clear, because you could not believe it: After 15 and a half hours of normal, not excessive use, I had so far a consumption of 17%. When I reflect on it and investing, for example for hours and look at videos in addition times on the phone briefly, then the battery indicator goes sometimes even after only 7-8 hours in the red zone (20% in my gauged Battery Widget).
I find that now exceptionally well, but perform it in the first place and back on the apparently highly successful optimization of Phones by Gingerbread. Anders is not for me to explain.
Would I lose this phone or one would steal it to me, I would buy myself again immediately and without hesitation.

Finally, I can in good conscience give nothing but a strong buy recommendation!