Look much deeper and you’re rewarded with a great, 8.9-inch, 1280×768 screen that can be held vertically with one hand. We really love the 8.9-inch size which sits around between the PlayBook and Xoom, however it’s appears designed to be used horizontally.
The screen is the best suited size for watching movies perfectly, ably handling motion in our HD test clips, with detail and sharpness on par with the Asus Eee Pad, if not nearly as good as the iPad 2. Off-angle viewing is respectable, however we did notice that colour balance was oversaturated, with a slight greenish tint which other Honeycomb tablets – like the Motorola Xoom or Asus EeePad Transformer didn’t have, we hope this is due to our early sample model.
Put on either side, the stereo speakers are laughably quiet, very much suited to viewing for one.
Running Google’s Honeycomb OS, the interface is a fun to use. Honeycomb might not be as instantly simple to use as iOS, with a few quirks. Instead of solid buttons you get touch sensitve Android home, back and multi-tasking keys, the latter displaying open applications you can promptly swap between. Nice features include being able to drag apps and shortcuts directly to a homescreen via an overview.
Powered by a Nvidia Tegra 2 processor, sensitive multitouch controls ensure it never feels slow. Multitouch controls work nicely and you also get Flash support, For more serious uses there’s Polaris, which enables you edit Office documents, despite the fact that in portrait angle the virtual keyboard feels a little crammed to use.
Five-megapixel Camera stills are the good -much better than many tablets we’ve seen – colors are all-natural, yet sharp and it deals with high and low contrast conditions pretty well. 1280x720p 30fps video is slick with natural colors if a bit soft, 1080p footage is a bit blocky, but associated audio is loud and clear. We do feel that tablets will not be ideal for shooting video and stills.
As the screen isn’t polarised you can’t actually see the 3D effect when shooting. Rather than choose from four views: Mixed, Anaglyph (you can wear glasses) Single and Side by Side views, along with a depth control. To view the video clip you need a 3D TV or to use the You Tube 3D channel.
3D stills and video are good, not really up to the standard of a camcorder or camera, but that’s not really surprisingly. You can use depth controls to change the intensity of the 3D effect.
Because our sample was very early, we weren’t able to properly text the battery accurately and LG has yet to confirm any information
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