Samsung Galaxy 3 vs LG Optimus One

[jetboy]

^ video-not yet tried
- you have the option of lg keypad as well as android.lg is small but android is good (you can always use landscape mode to write message and android mkt. also have other keypad options,so choose accordingly).
- not yet

Thanks...waiting for the other results ..thanks for providing info about the keypad. Hey why dont you upload a picture of your phone and the pouch you got

@als2

Try BenchmarkPi(from android market) and Benchmark and post the result.

It would be a good comparison between galaxy 3 and optimus one...

Great NainO..that will be interesting.

 

[als2]

LG Optimus one results

Total graphics score: 235.39777
Total cpu score: 232.64512
Total memory score: 193.34158
Total file system: 60.60898

 

[NainO]

^^^ thnx buddy...
Now I know for sure that - optimus one would be a nice choice afterall...

 

[jetboy]

Hey niraj, just performed the test...
here goes the results -

Samsung Galaxy i5801 Scores :
Total graphics score: 26.69 (WTH!!!)
Total cpu score: 205.36
Total memory score: 348.15
Total file system: 39.95

LG Optimus one results

Total graphics score: 235.39777
Total cpu score: 232.64512
Total memory score: 193.34158
Total file system: 60.60898

Yes it speaks up good!!

But what about other scores? the memory score,cpu score and total file system. Is higher better or is it other way ?


Check below link. This surely proves the graphics performance for LG optimus one.
*www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFwApyB9HIs&feature=related

They have tested angry birds, racing thunder 2, nfs shift, winds of steel. I must say all of them play very well

 

[coderunknown]

^^ a modded rom (with task killer & other LG nonsense apps out) will raise the memory score considerably. a XDA forum member has already created a custom rom & its significantly fast.

 

[niraj87]

@ssb1551
The O1 has ThinkFree Office suite, abt which I cant comment as I havent tried the app yet. But, I read a lot of pdfs using the "RepliGo reader", which is the best as it loads the pages much faster than the pdf reader in the Quick Office that came preinstalled in my LG GT540.


@jetboy
Dont worry abt the keyboard at all. There are loads of good keyboards (apps) available freely. The best two are "Better keyboard" and "Smart Keyboard". The smart keyboard gives u some options like keyboards of either iphone/HTC/Android.

 

[comrade]

new score of my G3 after flashing it with 2.2 rom

Total graphics score: 29.37
Total cpu score: 323.7086
Total memory score: 367.58
Total file system: 38.04

 

[Aditya11]

^This is good and even expected. Apart from GPU score, 2.2 Android on G3 is at par with O1. Besides that you also get super excellent music player and a better branding.

 

[socialdistortion]

Finally bought the O1.

Initial thoughts - Touch is sensitive and the screen is quite good for the price. Lots of preinstalled apps which cannot be removed
Been playing around with it and the battery life is pretty good. It can easily last a full day and half with medium usage (However wifi just sucks the battery like anything).

The default keyboards are not quite good. But I have installed swype and it works flawlessly. So far so good

Camera is so-so. If you want better camera, invest in something else

And one thing. Stay away for the LG PC suite... Useless crap.

And best part - a few custom ROMs are already available

 

[gtcdon]

another review of optimus one...
LG Optimus One review - Know Your Mobile India

 

[noobdroid]

Hello All,

This is my first post on this forum so please be little soft on me

Well I was back in LG dynamite days who was unscathed by weather, accidents it was just a flawless piece which would run just under any condition. But the old days have to pass by and to be replaced by new changes.

I am a person who was of opinion investing in mobile is a dead investment though being a good earner nothing urged me to buy a good phone. But something hit me and I was on a rampage to buy a good phone, I started off with a budget 6k but landed buying a 9k Galaxy 5.

Even till the last moment my frnds were asking me to go for G3 but dont know what hit me I wanted to stick with G5. I used and I loved it to d core.

I then stumbled upon this post and I thought going for G3 and so started comparing my G5 and G3 and let me tell you only difference I would say between both of them would be:
1] multi touch
2] larger screen
3] 3mp camera
4] screen resolution i guess [But it really didnt matter]

I dont find anything else better than my G5. Its way better in terms of graphics and matters a lot. I installed angry birds on both G5 & G3 it took briefly 10-15 secs to load on G3 whereas 4-5 secs on G5.

Coming to the loudspeaker part, I installed "Tomcat free" on both the devices. And believe me G5 loudspeaker has a crispier sound than G3. G5 can be heard faraway not G3.

I tried a benchmark on G5 as suggested above by some experienced users and I got 58.FPS as the best my phone can display.

I dont want to falsify anyone here but I tried to install many apps which were on my G5 were not getting installed on G3.
For instance: Raging thunder works really well on G5 where as installation fails on G3.
I did a factoy reset, formatted the sd card thinking it might be causing the problem but the game didnt get installed. Maybe this might have been a problem with the particular piece I was using but a basic app "Ebuddy" was also not getting installed.

I know this post aint a comparison about G3 & G5 but I just gave it thought as G5 aint even considered by anyone. I read in some previous post that someone saying that G3 is better because it is from Samsung and branding & headphone sound mattered a lot. For me G3 failed is terms of graphics / sound.

Well for now I am still going for upgrade and I really hope “Lg optimus one” is lot better than G3 as app2sd it much required.

I will try out LG optimus one very soon and mostly I am going to go for it.

Any test to be done on my Phone G5 let me know as it is with me for very few days.

 

[jetboy]

Hello All,

This is my first post on this forum so please be little soft on me

Well I was back in LG dynamite days who was unscathed by weather, accidents it was just a flawless piece which would run just under any condition. But the old days have to pass by and to be replaced by new changes.

I am a person who was of opinion investing in mobile is a dead investment though being a good earner nothing urged me to buy a good phone. But something hit me and I was on a rampage to buy a good phone, I started off with a budget 6k but landed buying a 9k Galaxy 5.

Even till the last moment my frnds were asking me to go for G3 but dont know what hit me I wanted to stick with G5. I used and I loved it to d core.

I then stumbled upon this post and I thought going for G3 and so started comparing my G5 and G3 and let me tell you only difference I would say between both of them would be:
1] multi touch
2] larger screen
3] 3mp camera
4] screen resolution i guess [But it really didnt matter]

I dont find anything else better than my G5. Its way better in terms of graphics and matters a lot. I installed angry birds on both G5 & G3 it took briefly 10-15 secs to load on G3 whereas 4-5 secs on G5.

Coming to the loudspeaker part, I installed "Tomcat free" on both the devices. And believe me G5 loudspeaker has a crispier sound than G3. G5 can be heard faraway not G3.

I tried a benchmark on G5 as suggested above by some experienced users and I got 58.FPS as the best my phone can display.

I dont want to falsify anyone here but I tried to install many apps which were on my G5 were not getting installed on G3.
For instance: Raging thunder works really well on G5 where as installation fails on G3.
I did a factoy reset, formatted the sd card thinking it might be causing the problem but the game didnt get installed. Maybe this might have been a problem with the particular piece I was using but a basic app "Ebuddy" was also not getting installed.

I know this post aint a comparison about G3 & G5 but I just gave it thought as G5 aint even considered by anyone. I read in some previous post that someone saying that G3 is better because it is from Samsung and branding & headphone sound mattered a lot. For me G3 failed is terms of graphics / sound.

Well for now I am still going for upgrade and I really hope “Lg optimus one” is lot better than G3 as app2sd it much required.

I will try out LG optimus one very soon and mostly I am going to go for it.

Any test to be done on my Phone G5 let me know as it is with me for very few days.

Very well said....Nice tests that you have conducted

 

[Aditya11]

I dont find anything else better than my G5. Its way better in terms of graphics and matters a lot. I installed angry birds on both G5 & G3 it took briefly 10-15 secs to load on G3 whereas 4-5 secs on G5.

Thats odd. It takes 5-8 secs on my G3, (with Android 2.1)

I tried a benchmark on G5 as suggested above by some experienced users and I got 58.FPS as the best my phone can display.

People generally don't use GPU scores to determine budget phone purchase, from what I understand..unless GAMES is what you use MOST on your smartphone. For other graphics effects, including animation and such, OS version, processor speed and memory capacity plays the major part.

I dont want to falsify anyone here but I tried to install many apps which were on my G5 were not getting installed on G3.
For instance: Raging thunder works really well on G5 where as installation fails on G3.

Ranging Thunder works flawlessly on my G3..tested many times. I would like to know which 'many' other apps didn't work on G3.

I did a factoy reset, formatted the sd card thinking it might be causing the problem but the game didnt get installed. Maybe this might have been a problem with the particular piece I was using but a basic app "Ebuddy" was also not getting installed.

Ebuddy works too. Indeed, you seem to have tested on a faulty piece and therefore, other observations from you about G3 cannot be considered as universal.

I know this post aint a comparison about G3 & G5 but I just gave it thought as G5 aint even considered by anyone. I read in some previous post that someone saying that G3 is better because it is from Samsung and branding & headphone sound mattered a lot. For me G3 failed is terms of graphics / sound.

Sound =! Headphones. As of now, the sound quality of G3 is as good or better than Galaxy S. Possibly best amongst all the budget phones, sub 15k.

Well for now I am still going for upgrade and I really hope “Lg optimus one” is lot better than G3 as app2sd it much required.

You can now install FroYo firmware for G3, thereby enabling it for apps2SD.

 

[k4ce]

hello all,

Lost my 5800xm and hence decided to switch to Android and bought the LG Optimus One (henceforth called o1)... tried the Wildfire, X8, G3 and G5 before buying this one ...

My initial opinions:
1. Screen : Conisdering my previous phone has a much higher res screen, I wasnt too impressed with it ... But it beats the cr*p out of G3 and G5 (which are only QVGA) ...
Since this is my first capacitive touch screen fone, maybe I might not be the best judge .. but screen is nice and responsive to touch (with the exception that last row icons dont get selected easily)

2. Mulitmedia:
- Audio : Used it with my fav Sony earphones and the sound quality is gud enuf (using Winamp and not the default player) ... Again, my 5800xm had stellar audio so it is safe to say that the o1 is almost as good
- Video : An absolute treat ... Has played everything that I have thrown at it ... Really impressed

3. Battery Life : i use my fone extensively on Wifi ... It is on all the time .. plus listen to lots of music ... overall, battery life is good ... will definately last one day on very heavy use and two days on moderate use ... My only compliant here is that the phone takes two hours to charge completely

4. Performance: Since my fone is only a week old, have just about 40 downloaded apps .. using all 7 homescreens with widgets and it runs smooth .. Ran the "Quadrant Standard" benchmark and not surprisingly, the results are pretty close to Moto Droid ...

Why I chose o1 over the following:

1. G3 and G5
- Poor low res screen ( only QVGA )
- Only 2.1 (at least officially )
- not really a big fan of touchwiz

2. X8
- Screen size not big enuf
- 2.1

3. Wildfire
- really liked it but QVGA screen is the only deal breaker ... Feels like my old HTC Tatoo with a better camera

Right now, the best android fone to buy IMHO is the o1 ... Bought it for 12.2k (because i returned the 2gb card to the dealer) .. else he was charging 12.4k ...

Using it with a 16gb card and it runs just fine ... Love stock android just fine and not looking to root the fone (not just now, at least) ...

My 2 cents ... If you would like a full review, I could probably put that up (just PM with you request on what to cover) ...

 

[gtcdon]

tech2 rating 4/5

*tech2.in.com/india/reviews/smart-mobile/lg-p500-optimus-one-right-for-the-price/158612/0

 

[Aditya11]

Why I chose o1 over the following:

1. G3 and G5
- Poor low res screen ( only QVGA )

Correction. G3 has WQVGA.

- Only 2.1 (at least officially )

FroYo firmware is available for G3, doesn't matter whether officially or unofficially. People want FroYO mainly for apps2SD, I think, so their purpose is solved. Not even Galaxy S has received FroYo officially, but that doesn't stop owners from trying custom FroYO ROMs. But I can understand if that doesn't fall under your preference.

- not really a big fan of touchwiz

Understandable. However, one can easily change the look and feel of the same.

 

[noobdroid]

Sound =! Headphones. As of now, the sound quality of G3 is as good or better than Galaxy S. Possibly best amongst all the budget phones, sub 15k.

You can now install FroYo firmware for G3, thereby enabling it for apps2SD.

Hi Aditya,

You are right maybe the particular piece I was dealing with might had some problems.

But Do you really judge the phone on the basis on headphones sound only? I dont think so and I dont agree that anyone here does that too.

I can easily say my G5 would be easily beating here G3 cuz today I tried the "headphone" sound compared both of them G3 has a louder sound in headphones where treble was too high and didnt made a noticeable difference while changing the equalizer. [ Headphone : Sennheiser - PMX 60 if this made any diffrence ]

You may consider me biased as I am using G5 for quite a long time, I had a stranger next to me listen to both the phones and he even stated that G3 was very loud and caused irritation whereas music quality of G5 was better.



Regarding the froyo firmware can you tell me how to do that so that I can try it and see if it does make a diffrence.

- Noob Droid

 

[coderunknown]

with the exception that last row icons dont get selected easily

what last rows?

- Audio : Used it with my fav Sony earphones and the sound quality is gud enuf (using Winamp and not the default player) ... Again, my 5800xm had stellar audio so it is safe to say that the o1 is almost as good
- Video : An absolute treat ... Has played everything that I have thrown at it ... Really impressed

thats nice

3. Battery Life : i use my fone extensively on Wifi ... It is on all the time .. plus listen to lots of music ... overall, battery life is good ... will definately last one day on very heavy use and two days on moderate use ...

ok, so under WiFi how long will the battery last? just a basic idea from your experience as you used it.

and battery really looks good. battery life should increase if some custom roms are tried.

My only compliant here is that the phone takes two hours to charge completely

u kidding? a mobile that last 2days under normal/moderate use charges in 2hrs. what better performance do you expect?

4. Performance: Since my fone is only a week old, have just about 40 downloaded apps .. using all 7 homescreens with widgets and it runs smooth .. Ran the "Quadrant Standard" benchmark and not surprisingly, the results are pretty close to Moto Droid ...

scores please. yes the result should be close after all the original droid didn't used a gigahertz of processor & 1/2Gb of ram. but it was & still is a good choice for the H/W keyboard junkies.

- not really a big fan of touchwiz

if you ask me, i'll kick out Samsung, Motorola, SE & even HTC's customization. steals the feel of using an android somewhat. even LG using some sort of customization.

hope it can be removed by rooting else Modded roms are always avl.

Right now, the best android fone to buy IMHO is the o1 ... Bought it for 12.2k (because i returned the 2gb card to the dealer) .. else he was charging 12.4k ...

yup. those who want 2.2 right out of box, good battery life & the native Android feel.and yes ready sell out 12.5k.

but you lost the drivers that are stored on the mem card

Using it with a 16gb card and it runs just fine ... Love stock android just fine and not looking to root the fone (not just now, at least) ...

yup. stock android is better than the customization thrown in by manufacturers. hope Google in future restrict manufacturers from using their own skins & themes.

BTW from where you brought?

 

[Aditya11]

But Do you really judge the phone on the basis on headphones sound only? I dont think so and I dont agree that anyone here does that too.

Of course not. Thats why I used =! (not equal) sign. However, you are the very first person on forums who says G5 is better in sound quality than G3!! It just might be that you are used to the G5 hearing experience. Quite normal to happen.

Regarding the froyo firmware can you tell me how to do that so that I can try it and see if it does make a diffrence.

Check out this thread: Samsung Galaxy 3 GT-i5800: root, gps fix, upgrading - xda-developers

 

[noobdroid]

Of course not. Thats why I used =! (not equal) sign. However, you are the very first person on forums who says G5 is better in sound quality than G3!! It just might be that you are used to the G5 hearing experience. Quite normal to happen.
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@adi
Ofcourse I agree that I might have been used to hearing experience of G5 thats why I had some stranger listen to both the phones.

regarding the froyo firmware will try that out thanks man..