LG Optimus M5e P30, Pedobear's Smartphone

The LG Optimus Me P350  is a teen oriented device. It looks very nice, it’s a compact smartphone that is shaped like a bar of soap and it comes with five colored battery covers so you can change its looks every day. The covers come in grey, pink, black, blue and red. In terms of hardware, don’t expect miracles, is a low end android actually, comes with the Froyo  2.2 Android OS and even comes with a 2 GB micro SD card in the package, so as far as I can say, it’s a cool droid.
As for inheritance, I can say he’s close related to the Optimus One, a very big hit for the Korean company, from which it uses the 600 MHz CPU. The question is if this little cheap droid will meet the expectations in the low end cheap androids market niche. Let’s find out.

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In terms of design, even if it’s a compact device, it’s pretty heavy and not as thin as you might expect from such a tiny device, the design team didn’t put much effort in this baby. It weighs a respectable 130 grams, actually is not much in real terms but it’ a lot for a smartphone which measures 113.5 x 59 x 13.3 mm.
 The LCD display is tiny also, with a diagonal of 2.8 inch and a resolution of 240x320 pixels which means a pixel per inch density of 143ppi.
Anyway, this little fellow, beside its bulkiness, feels very well built and solid in hand.

 The display is a very basic capacitive unit, don’t expect to be flabbergasted in any way, it doesn’t have a great sunlight legibility or a mind blowing contrast, due to its poor resolution it’s not great to look at walls of text in it also. Anyway, it’s a reasonable display for the price bracket, to be honest. Underneath the display we can find 4 capacitive  Android keys, the ellipse-shaped elongated key below them is a very nice feature, it serves multiple purposes like send/end/power/lock. The display also provides haptic feedback which is a nice feature to have on a touchscreen.

As I mentioned at the beginning, the battery cover comes in 5 colors, the back of the smartphone reveals a 3 megapixels camera lens with no flash. On the curved bottom of the LG we find the 3.5 mm audio jack, on the right side a volume rocker and on the left the micro USB port protected by a plastic lid. Overall, in terms of design, the LG Optimus ME is a pretty nice little droid, which inspires confidence and solidity.

 The LG Optimus Me is powered by an Android Froyo 2.2 version which is customized here and there by the Optimus User Interface.  This translates into some refreshed icons, a number of widgets and homescreens and so on.

 The Froyo 2.2 Operating System is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon S1 Single core, 600 MHz, ARM11 MSM7227  Central Processing Unit and 140 MB of RAM, the interface runs decently smooth but sometimes lag is present, this is mainly due to the low RAM on board.
Browsing is possible on this little droid but the small screen and the lack of Flash don’t make it the best tool for the job. Anyway, the display supports multi touch, double tap zoom, nice features for an entry level smarty.
 The LG Optimus Me shines in the connectivity department, it comes fully equipped with 3G, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS, plus an FM radio.
 A full list of  connectivity specs :

CONNECTIVITY
• Bluetooth:
o
 2.1, EDR
o Profiles:
 Advanced Audio Distribution (A2DP), Audio/Video Control Transport Protocol (AVCTP), Audio/Video Distribution Transport Protocol (AVDTP), Audio/Visual Remote Control Profile (AVRCP), Dial-up networking (DUN), File Transfer (FTP), Generic Access (GAP), Generic Audio/Video Distribution (GAVDP), Handsfree (HFP), Headset (HSP), Logical Link Control and Adaptation Protocol, Object Push (OPP), Phone Book Access (PBAP), Serial Port (SPP), Service Discovery Application (SDAP), Service Discovery Protocol (SDP)
• Wi-Fi:
o
 Yes
• USB:
o
 USB 2.0
o Connector:
 microUSB
o Features:
 Mass storage device, USB charging
• Headphones connector:
o 3.5mm
• Charging connector:
o microUSB
• Other:
o Computer sync, OTA sync


For business users, the LG Optimus Me comes with an impressive office suite, called ThinkFree,  which is a complete solution on Android devices for viewing and editing any type of .doc and also for file management.
The 3 megapixels camera is about average, there are some color effects available, the UI also offers white balance, ISO and the said color effects, like Mono, Negative, Solarize, Sepia and Aqua, the pictures are in normal limits for such a 3 MP shooter, the quality is decent, please take in mind this is a fixed focus camera. In video recording, the LG Optimus Me is surprisingly good, the videos are captured in VGA resolution at a fluid 24 frames per second.
The music player and the photo gallery are the industry standard for Android, there are no customizations whatsoever, you can play MP4 video files up to 480/800 resolution and you also have support for DivX / XviD out of the box,which is cool enough.
In terms of telephony, the LG Optimus Me does well, the signal reception is good and the in call sound quality is above average, the volume in the earpiece is pretty loud.
 The battery is a 1280 mAh Li-Io power plant, rated at 7 hours of talktime in 3g networks and a standby time of up to 14 days.
 With this smartphone, the Koreans are giving a clear signal that they are focusing on the low end droid market  as much as they are innovating on the high end phones market, what we have here is a budget phone, a playful youthful design and character, with a nice candy bar shape and bright colors.

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