LG Optimus L3 Specs

Its price was 125€ ($140) when I bought it. Even for this price, the camera, display, UI speed and everyday usage were unfortunate. I bought it because the options were Galaxy Mini or L3, and this is better than Galaxy. Fortunately, this was 3 years ago, now I have a very recommended phone.

Does the basic staff like making calls seemlessly. UI response tends to slow down when you have many apps installed. The build quality is very good, have dropped it a couple of times but its still ok. Camera a big let down, one of the worst 3.2 megapixels i've ever come across. however the battery life of this phone is very impressive, can easily go jus over 3 days with moderate use.

Picked one of these up on sale for $50. Looks nice, and actually works great. Issues that people complain about like the low resolution screen and poor camera, come on. It's a very cheap phone. What do you expect? The phone looks much nicer then other phones for the price. And gingerbread actually really helps it be quite fast. For what I use it for, unlocking the phone, making a call, writing a text message, or putting on some music, actually feels faster then an S3 on TouchWiz 4.3.

It however is a very durable phone and this is thanks to the touchscreen which is capacitive but actually plastic and not glass. Although it's much easier to scratch, it's pretty much impossible to crack. You can drop this phone all day and not have to worry a bit about it shattering from a 3 foot drop like most smartphones.

Phone creaks, but then again, so does my "quality" Nexus 7. The screen is actually fairly easy to type on, and although the screen is QVGA, keep in mind that this gives it the benefit of more performance and better battery life then HVGA counterparts as it only has half the pixels to power. Also on that note, the battery life on this thing is AMAZING. I haven't been able to kill it in a day of usage. When I'm not trying and just doing my regular usage, I'll end the day with at least half the battery left by the time I get to bed, where my previous S2 Skyrocket would barely last until 4PM with the same usage. Network reception is about average compared to higher end phones, WiFi is noticeably stronger then my S2, but bluetooth range somehow blows away every device I've ever tried. My S2 would start cutting out in A2DP audio streaming in my car when sitting in the back seat. This phone I can stream music over bluetooth, walk three car lengths away from the car, and music will still be playing smoothly without a hitch. Totally blew my mind.

Only thing that bugs me is horrible application storage. 150MB barely fits 5 apps before it's full. This can be solved by rooting and installing INT2EXT, however the idiots at Rogers here in Canada decided they should make a special version of the L3 (LG-E400R rather then E400) that is unrootable. There's also gingerbread, but on this phone, it just flies. Like the Windows XP of android, it's still compatible with most of today's apps, yet runs amazingly on old hardware. And is very stable. Phone does NOT freeze/hang like some people say.