LG P990 Optimus 2X

i am running a custom rom on this phone. and it. outperforms my galaxy s2. love it! (Posted on 25/09/11)

Fantastic phone, iphone 5 killer! (Posted on 18/09/11)

Firstly; the phone CAN have a major flaw, if you're unlucky you get one of the bad ones; The bad ones reset all the time, silently freeze up and need the battery pulled to restart as well as just die battery wise.
Then you'll have to do the warranty dance.

But if you have better luck (or a warranty replacement) you'll hopefully get one of the ones that doesn't do that, and while mine wasn't resetting and freezing it was GORGEOUS, the screen is second only to the Super AMOLED screens on the galaxy S2 and the iPhone 4, and even then only by a hairs width.

The form of the phone fits comfortably in hand and has a weight that feels like you have something more then a simple phone.

The touchscreen is wonderfully responsive and the phone runs so incredibly smoothly with the dual core grunt that the whole experience is improved.

The sound is OK, the inbuilt speaker is passable and the headphone sound quality is higher middle of the range. Call quality is similar with reception being about average.

Battery life for me wasn't so bad (when it was behaving) it wont last two days but if you fail to charge it for whatever reason you can probably stretch it through most of your second day.

The price to spec point is fantastic, unless you get a dodgy one. Though you can most likely get a bad one replaced, it does add trouble to your purchase and trouble has a different monetary price for some people. (Posted on 29/08/11)

very fast, dual core, HDMI port, nice camera! (Posted on 17/07/11)

its an awsome phone for gaming..but still there is need of some improvement.. (Posted on 30/06/11)

The 2x is an example of a gorgeous device run down by rubbish software. The 2x is a powerful phone sporting tegra, which is great for gaming on the go, and the phone is snappy and jumps between apps with ease. But there is no point to a phone that random reboots and freezes requiring a battery pull, and with the 2x this happens daily. When the phone freezes, you become uncontactable for the duration of the freeze, until you remove the battery.

This is a major problem, because the above issues only seem to occur when the phone is left on its own, be it a few minutes, or several hours. During this time, you may think your phone has gone a bit quiet, reaching for you phone only to find that it is completely locked up and unresponsive. This is a general fault that plagues all 2x's - not just unlucky units.

Plenty of news coverage has been had on this issue:
http://ausdroid.net/2011/05/16/lg-optimus-2x-review-ui-video/
http://mobile.engadget.com/2011/05/11/lg-optimus-2x-is-worlds-first-dual-core-phone-necessitating-an/

There is word that a fix is coming soon:
http://www.jizmo.net/2011/05/optimus-2x-random-reboot-issue-may-be-fixed-ill-believe-it-when-i-see-it/

But who knows when. LG have been slack with updates, and not everyone gets updates at the same time, as different firmware is rolled out to different regions and some have priority over others.

To summarise: unless you plan on rooting this phone and putting a custom rom on it (which voids your warranty), this phone is not for you. Do not even consider running this on stock. The experience out of the box is nothing short of terrible.
(Posted on 25/05/11)

I've just ordered another for my wife, after having the phone for 2 weeks myself. You can't get a better phone for the price. Only complaint is battery life which drains quickly, especially if you are tinkering with it all the time. I have just installed Juice Defender which has made some improvement, hopefully I'll get two days charge out of it now. (Posted on 25/04/11)

fast ,good performance.could use a bit more work (Posted on 12/04/11)

Good Work LG. However, improvement can still be make. (Posted on 18/03/11)