Other than the Galaxy Stellar by Samsung, Verizon also also release on 6 September the Intuition by LG, another Korean company. The slim, pocket friendly Intuition, aka Optimus Vu, is a 5-inch phablet device offering full functionaloty of a smartphone and a tablet. Positioned as a rival to Samsung’s Galaxy Note, LG’s new handset gets a 5-inch 4:3 touchscreen and comes with a Rubberdium pen for precise writing and drawing. users can use the pre-loaded Notebook app to create documents with text, drawings, images, annotations, video and voice clips.
The LG Intuition is powered by a dual-core 1.5GHz and 1GB of memory. The 8 Megapixel main camera has LED flash and is capable of Full HD 1080p video recording, continuous shoting to take 6 shots with one tap, panorama. Users can even use voice commands to take pictures. There is also a 1.3 Megapixel front-facing camera for video chat. The 5-inch phablet supports Bluetooth 3.0, GPS and WiFi connectivity and includes Mobile Hotspot capability for sharing 4G LTE connection with up to 10 WiFi-enabled devices. Its SmartShare lets you share media wirelessly to DLNA-enabled devices. NFC (Near Field Communications) is also included and the Intuition comes with LG Tag+ app and two reprogrammable NFC stickers, which can be used to create and switch between different phone modes with a single tap.
The Intuition is shipped with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich with LG’s custom UI. Polaris Office suite and a range of Amazon apps such as Kindle, Zappos, IMDB are pre-loaded. It is business ready with enterprise grade security, corporate data encryption with Data-at-Rest Encryption (DARE), secure multi-headed VPN for corporate network connections and remote wipe capability. Coming on 6 September, the 5-inch Intuition is priced at $199.99 with a 2-year contract.
[Verizon]