Before we dig into my opinion of the phone, I'm going to give a bit of background information. My first and only smart phone before this one was the Samsung Galaxy Indulge. I really enjoyed this phone when I first got it, but the thrill quickly died down, I began to realize and notice the issues the phone had. It lacked a sufficient battery life, it had weird screen / touch / sensitivity issues at times, it had horrible hard-drive space, it had a headphone jack/port that broke within a week, and it had speakers that couldn't match even half of what my friend's speakers were reaching.
I typically only used my phone for a few games, internet browsing when absolutely needed / craved, and when ever I had to text / call. The one good thing I can say about the phone, is that it had a keyboard AS WELL as a touch screen, something I've never seen before on a phone before. So, let's dig into the LG Motion 4G
THE GOOD:
1) It has a 1.5 ghz dual core snap dragon processor, don't let the specs on most websites fool you, this phone ACTUALLY has 1.5, NOT 1.2 ghz! This is the exact same thing as the Samsung Galaxy S3!
2) It has a freaking awesome camera! It may not be top-notch like the S3 or the iPhone 5, but it's definitely up there. The audio quality seems to be better than the S3 from what I can tell! With this it has a front side camera for face time, face-recognition-locks, and the like.
3) It has Ice Cream Sandwich, to be honest I'm not sure if it will upgrade to jelly bean, maybe it already can and I just didn't know about it
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4) It has a headphone-jack that works... at least for now! Seriously, I didn't know how amazing it is to have a music-player! I've had an ipod before but I never listened to music on it, just played games, I went ahead and installed an app called GTunes Music and now have a crap ton of free music that I put on shuffle and work-out to (Working out used to be boring and it felt so long, not anymore!).
5) Great Display overall, even though it does not have the 4.8" screen that the S3 has, 3.5" is fine, especially when you take into consideration the fact the iPhone 3g + 4s have the EXACT SAME SCREEN SIZE! The pixel-quality is pretty low compared to most phones, so this will be one of the "bads" I'll bring up, but it all looks really crisp on the phone, it's not blurry. In fact, you might even pick up this phone and think it's high-def.
6) Very customizable. Perhaps this is part of the Ice Cream Sandwich kicking in, but everything on this phone is so easy to customize through the settings. The home and lock of one Motion 4G can vary so much from another.
7) The speaker on this phone outshines the speaker on the Indulge by quite a bit, but I haven't had it long enough to compare it to other people's phones, so whether or not it's up-to-bar with most phones around this time is unknown to me, but the fact it's better than my previous phone is good enough for me.
THE BAD:
1) This phone is somewhat cheaply made, my main fear was another broken headphone jack/port malfunction upon purchase, I went two years without any music! But instead of that, I had a different problem, a power jack/port problem! It somehow became loose, and I brought it to the MetroPCS store nearby and they said they couldn't do anything to it because they were able to pull a charge with their chord, though they had difficulty at first. So I'm stuck with a phone that has a slightly-bent power jack/port, this isn't a problem, so long as the phone isn't moving around so much whilst charging. But I imagine if I had it plugged into a car-recharger, it would become annoying.
2) Low pixels. 320x480, a lot of the phones now a days have 960x640 screens, and the S3 has a 1280x720 screen, if you held these phones up against it, you could probably quite easily tell the difference.
THE TEST:
I went ahead and ran an app called Quadrant Standard. This app benchmarks phones, and I found that my phone scored around a 5400, according to the charts the S3 scored around a 5700. This means my phone is ~5% off! Now let's be a little realistic though, the Samsung Galaxy S3 has a bigger screen and a better resolution, this means that it is forced to work harder to produce an image, and it has a better battery and camera over all. Due to this, the phone is probably ~30-35% better. Would you pay ~300% more, for a phone that is only ~30% better? I'd hope not.
I typically only used my phone for a few games, internet browsing when absolutely needed / craved, and when ever I had to text / call. The one good thing I can say about the phone, is that it had a keyboard AS WELL as a touch screen, something I've never seen before on a phone before. So, let's dig into the LG Motion 4G
THE GOOD:
1) It has a 1.5 ghz dual core snap dragon processor, don't let the specs on most websites fool you, this phone ACTUALLY has 1.5, NOT 1.2 ghz! This is the exact same thing as the Samsung Galaxy S3!
2) It has a freaking awesome camera! It may not be top-notch like the S3 or the iPhone 5, but it's definitely up there. The audio quality seems to be better than the S3 from what I can tell! With this it has a front side camera for face time, face-recognition-locks, and the like.
3) It has Ice Cream Sandwich, to be honest I'm not sure if it will upgrade to jelly bean, maybe it already can and I just didn't know about it
.4) It has a headphone-jack that works... at least for now! Seriously, I didn't know how amazing it is to have a music-player! I've had an ipod before but I never listened to music on it, just played games, I went ahead and installed an app called GTunes Music and now have a crap ton of free music that I put on shuffle and work-out to (Working out used to be boring and it felt so long, not anymore!).
5) Great Display overall, even though it does not have the 4.8" screen that the S3 has, 3.5" is fine, especially when you take into consideration the fact the iPhone 3g + 4s have the EXACT SAME SCREEN SIZE! The pixel-quality is pretty low compared to most phones, so this will be one of the "bads" I'll bring up, but it all looks really crisp on the phone, it's not blurry. In fact, you might even pick up this phone and think it's high-def.
6) Very customizable. Perhaps this is part of the Ice Cream Sandwich kicking in, but everything on this phone is so easy to customize through the settings. The home and lock of one Motion 4G can vary so much from another.
7) The speaker on this phone outshines the speaker on the Indulge by quite a bit, but I haven't had it long enough to compare it to other people's phones, so whether or not it's up-to-bar with most phones around this time is unknown to me, but the fact it's better than my previous phone is good enough for me.
THE BAD:
1) This phone is somewhat cheaply made, my main fear was another broken headphone jack/port malfunction upon purchase, I went two years without any music! But instead of that, I had a different problem, a power jack/port problem! It somehow became loose, and I brought it to the MetroPCS store nearby and they said they couldn't do anything to it because they were able to pull a charge with their chord, though they had difficulty at first. So I'm stuck with a phone that has a slightly-bent power jack/port, this isn't a problem, so long as the phone isn't moving around so much whilst charging. But I imagine if I had it plugged into a car-recharger, it would become annoying.
2) Low pixels. 320x480, a lot of the phones now a days have 960x640 screens, and the S3 has a 1280x720 screen, if you held these phones up against it, you could probably quite easily tell the difference.
THE TEST:
I went ahead and ran an app called Quadrant Standard. This app benchmarks phones, and I found that my phone scored around a 5400, according to the charts the S3 scored around a 5700. This means my phone is ~5% off! Now let's be a little realistic though, the Samsung Galaxy S3 has a bigger screen and a better resolution, this means that it is forced to work harder to produce an image, and it has a better battery and camera over all. Due to this, the phone is probably ~30-35% better. Would you pay ~300% more, for a phone that is only ~30% better? I'd hope not.
