The LG

LG

LG may refer to:*LG Corp., a South Korean electronics and petrochemicals conglomerate*LG Electronics, an affiliate of the South Korean LG Group which produces electronic products* Lawrence Graham, a London headquartered firm of business lawyers...

 Optimus 7 (also known as the LG-E900) is a slate smartphone

Smartphone

A smartphone is a high-end mobile phone built on a mobile computing platform, with more advanced computing ability and connectivity than a contemporary feature phone. The first smartphones were devices that mainly combined the functions of a personal digital assistant and a mobile phone or camera...

 which runs Microsoft's Windows Phone

Windows Phone

Windows Phone is a mobile operating system developed by Microsoft, and is the successor to its Windows Mobile platform, although incompatible with it. Unlike its predecessor, it is primarily aimed at the consumer market rather than the enterprise market...

 operating system. The Optimus 7 is part of the first generation Windows Phone

Windows Phone

Windows Phone is a mobile operating system developed by Microsoft, and is the successor to its Windows Mobile platform, although incompatible with it. Unlike its predecessor, it is primarily aimed at the consumer market rather than the enterprise market...

 lineup launched October 2010, It features a 1 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon QSD8650 processor chip, 3.8-inch LCD TFT

TFT

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 Capacitive Touchscreen

Touchscreen

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, DLNA, 16GB of internal storage, 512MB of RAM and a 5-megapixel camera with LED

LEd

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 Flash and 720p HD video recording capability.

Update issues

Several users reported an error while updating their handsets to Windows Phone 7.5

Windows Phone 7.5

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 via Zune

Zune

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 which only seemed to affect users with firmware versions 1.0.1.12 and 1.1.2.10. Newer versions of the firmware do not seem to have this problem. Certain users have reported the error has been removed after re-flashing their device ROM via an Authorised LG

LG

LG may refer to:*LG Corp., a South Korean electronics and petrochemicals conglomerate*LG Electronics, an affiliate of the South Korean LG Group which produces electronic products* Lawrence Graham, a London headquartered firm of business lawyers...

Support Center or restoring the previous version of their device and updating to Mango again.

Overheating

The Optimus 7 has a high tendency to heat up to a very high temperature while the handset is left running on a certain application with screen time out off, for a long amount of time (e.g. Camera, YouTube, Internet Explorer, Games) or while the handset is charging. Due to the device's metal battery cover, the handset will heat up quicker to a high temperature. The device also has a habit of occasionally rebooting

External links

• Official LG Optimus 7 homepage