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AT&T adds LG Nitro HD with 720p display to 4G/LTE lineup

By | November 29, 2011, 11:25am PST

Summary: Starting December 4, you could be toting a LG Nitro HD with 1280 X 720 resolution in your pocket.

LG is bringing its high-definition expertise from HDTVs to the Nitro HD, a 4G/LTE-ready smartphone that AT&T will be offering to customers starting this Sunday.

As a phone, the Nitro HD’s AH-IPS (Advanced High-Performance In-Plane Switching) touchscreen is hardly small at 4.5-inch, which shows off LG’s proprietary True HD at up to 1280 X 720 resolution. Its press release promises the Nitro HD’s 500 nit display makes it usable even in direct sunlight but still offers “battery efficiency.”

Beneath the much anticipated screen is a dual-core 1.5GHz processor, 4 GB internal storage, 8-megapixel rear camera, 4G/LTE connectivity, Wi-Fi Direct, DNLA-support for wireless media streaming, as well as a 16GB micro-SD Card. As one of the last phones AT&T will be launching this year, it ships with Gingerbread (Android 2.3.5) but hopefully it will be one of the first to get Ice Cream Sandwich when it’s released.

With the Nitro HD’s large high-res HD display comes a big price tag: $249.99 with a two-year contract to be precise. We’ll find out soon enough if the LG Nitro HD lives up to its hype as it will be unveiled at a press event on December 1 before arriving in AT&T stores and online on December 4.

How much is a HD display on a smartphone worth to you?

[Source:AT&T]

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RE: AT&T adds LG Nitro HD with 720p display to 4G/LTE lineup
awkward hug 30th Nov
@dderss I guess 4.5" is too big for you? Done a lot of market research have you? I'm guessing LG has a different market research division that looks into this before they decide to make a new phone. And guess what? You're in the minority apparently because many big phone manufacturers are making "big" phones. LG, Samsung, etc. Ah it is too bad for you, can't enjoy the large screen size.
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All right, almost 1.5 years later competitors finally able to produce ...
dderss 29th Nov
... devices that match Retina-class resolution. This is good advance and now Apple already has no advantage in this field.

However, these 4.5"-5" devices are too huge to be useful as actual phones, so they only could have limited market. And there is still no competition to Retina in sane 3.5" screen size devices (or even less convenient 4").
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Get yourself a flip phone
Schoolboy Bob 30th Nov
@dderss they have even smaller screens, which you seem to prefer.
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RE: AT&T adds LG Nitro HD with 720p display to 4G/LTE lineup
warboat 30th Nov
@dderss
Firstly, Apple's "Retina Display" was not the first phone with 300dpi type display. Of course Apple would like you to think they invented it.
They also try to claim it is the thinnest smartphone, which it was not.
They also tried to claim the Macbook Air as the thinnest laptop, which it never was.
Does Apple do ANY research when they make these claims?
If these claims result in sales for Apple, do they owe compensation to the company that ACTUALLY have the thinnest product on the market?

Secondly, 4.5-5" is not too huge. If you have not used a 5" phone, you have no idea what you are missing. With a 5" display, you don't feel the need to carry a tablet wherever you go. People hardly use their phones for talking, they SMS, twitter, facebook and ebay on them. May as well have the largest screen you can fit in a pocket. With 5" screen, you can read pages without scrolling side to side.
As for people thinking it's weird holding a 5" phone up to your face for talking, who cares, I'm talking on it and you can't stop me. I feel more like a dick carrying and using a 10" tablet everywhere (and I did that for a while).
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RE: AT&T adds LG Nitro HD with 720p display to 4G/LTE lineup
awkward hug 30th Nov
@dderss I guess 4.5" is too big for you? Done a lot of market research have you? I'm guessing LG has a different market research division that looks into this before they decide to make a new phone. And guess what? You're in the minority apparently because many big phone manufacturers are making "big" phones. LG, Samsung, etc. Ah it is too bad for you, can't enjoy the large screen size.

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