LG Optimus L3 review

An entry-level handset that has a less than groundbreaking array of specs

LG Optimus L3 review
The L3 fails to ever get into its stride

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Much like the device's stills camera, the handset's inbuilt video recording functionality is someway off setting the world alight, with a fixed focus lens meaning more detailed or distant aspects of video content can go by unnoticed or simply inaccessible.

LG Optimus L3 review

With poor colour management and a hearty amount of motion blur, video captured with the LG Optimus L3 is uninspiring and appears dated. Far from encouraging you to create your own content, the VGA 640 x 480p video recording capabilities at 24 frames-per-second produces footage that fails to excite and prompt further use.

LG Optimus L3 review

With the lack of an inbuilt flash once again limiting the camera's use as a functional video recorder, settings options offered to you are a minimalist affair, with reducing the image quality and turning the microphone off the only viable options.

Take a look at our video sample taken with the LG Optimus L3 below.