LG planning Optimus Big smartphone with 4.3-inch NOVA display

By on Mar 28, 2011 at 5:32 PM
mobile March 28, 2011

LG may soon be chasing HTC in the phones-with-massive-displays market. According to some leaked images and specs, LG has a new phone codenamed “Optimus Big” up its sleeve. The Optimus Big — as its name implies — sports a large 4.3-inch screen, a single-core 1GHz processor, a T-DMB TV tuner, and LG’s super bright and sharp NOVA display. Little else is currently known about the phone, although we can tell from the images that it at least sports a forward-facing camera for video chats. It also very likely runs some flavor of Android and appears that it could swallow the iPhone in one bite. If this thing ever makes it to the United States, and we doubt it will, we hope it comes amped up with some 4G and dual-core goodness. [Via Phone Arena]

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  • http://twitter.com/fullchipdesign Atul

    LG its time for dual core, 2 GHz speeds

  • Anonymous

    Is it me or are all the names for the Android awesome phones getting cooler?

    I mean, Optimus Big? For a guy like me, and most of the members of the Goofan (aka Apple Hater) Nation, with a penis envy, that name is massive win!

    • http://www.droiddoes.com/ Norm

      Norm and Big go together better than mytouch and Norm so this is a win. Plus its DROID so everyone wins.

    • http://twitter.com/gnomehole The Gnome

      If you think bigger = cooler then yea… otherwise, zzzzzzz

      Talk about over compensating for something, Android…

      • Anonymous

        I can’t tell if you’re trying to be funny or something, but what does LG’s design and manufacturing have to do with Android over compensating for anything?

      • https://me.yahoo.com/a/J7Mg.aBrt_zUZAONR5KHn_om4dCMew--#37f81 indio7777

        …I guess that’s why the market for ‘big’ phones is shooting upwards, and why there are rumors of Apple buidling a bigger iphone.

        /compensating for something, apple, and big smartphone users?

        oh please.

  • Scorp

    Who cares….. because another will come out right after this one then another right after that one and they all basically are the same. Slight design differences and they try to differentiate themselves but at the end of the day they are all pretty much the same. They do nothing but eat the sales of each other.

    • Anonymous

      And you enjoy the discounts and top tech. Don’t complain…. FEAST!

    • https://me.yahoo.com/a/J7Mg.aBrt_zUZAONR5KHn_om4dCMew--#37f81 indio7777

      If I wanted to choose between iphones…well, you get the idea.

      I can’t.

  • Anonymous

    “we hope it comes amped up with some 4G and dual-core goodness.”
    What is with the dual core fascination? My single core never has any trouble.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Simon-Yu/100000989859895 Simon Yu

      Future-proof.. just in case, kind of keeps your device up to par longer.. don’t you agree?

      • Anonymous

        Nope the way the cell phone market moves nothing is future proof.

  • http://www.searingarrow.com AlienSix

    1GHz?

    In the year of dual core?

    Um yeah no go

  • Anonymous

    Best Name Ever?

  • http://twitter.com/gnomehole The Gnome

    Wow, might as well put a bag phone in your pocket. This phone says “I’m a geek and don’t care what the world thinks.. now where’s the tape, my glasses need fixing”

    • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR6HpRLyzMY Walter Sobchak

      A lot of us wear contacts now, no tape necessary, unlike your iPhone’s antenna…. Sorry, it had to be said.

      • http://www.droiddoes.com/ Norm

        Walter you know better than that….the hipster apple types wear large black rimmed glasses and skinny jeans. Contacts would mean conforming!

  • Margret

    How is this 4.3″ screen any bigger than my DroidX and all the other 4.3″ screens that have been out for a while now?

  • Anonymous

    BGR (Biased Genius Report), allow me to spare you the task of reviewing this device: The LG BIG (or Grande, depending on your part of the country) is too BIG for our taste since, anything greater than 3.7″ is just gauche and, not to mention, weighs down and hangs through our iPants’ pocket just where our cojones should hang; we found the voice calls to be ‘tinny’ at best, probably due to size; while the NOVA display seemed intriguing to us, we still prefer a true retina display; and, while the phone seemed rectangular in shape, we just could not hold it the way we’re used to holding a phone and were baffled to say the least.

  • e3syler

    still not bigger than the dell streak

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Edmond-Chou/598254704 Edmond Chou

    LG/Samsung needs to stop copying this darn iphone design

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