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LG isn’t just bringing 3D to Android with their new Optimus smartphone. Since tablets are the new big thing in mobile, they’re also taking the same hardware and same guts and blowing it up for the LG Optimus Pad.
The Optimus Pad boasts an unorthodox 8.9-inch display boasting a 1280 x 768 resolution that, obviously, is capable of displaying 3D video and still images. A dual-core Tegra 2 chip makes up the silicon guts, along with 32GB of storage, WiFi and 3G, a 2MP front-facing camera and boasting Android 3.0 Honeycomb.
The 3D is something of a disappointment. While handhelds like the Optimus and the Nintendo 3DS achieve glasses-free 3D thanks to a special display, you’ll need stereoscopic specs to see 3D on the Optimus Pad. It’s actually pretty embarrassing, because 3D content shot on the Optimus Pad will be displayed with your standard red and blue anagryph… something any color display can manage.
The Optimus Pad’s titular 3D, then, is accurate only in regards to the dual cameras installed in the tablet’s back. These cameras can be used to capture 3D video and stills, which can then be pumped through an HDMI-put port to a larger display.
To be honest, the Optimus Pad, despite the 3D gimmick, seems like an also-ran to the likes of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 or the iPad. It runs Honeycomb and is doing something interesting with the display — we’ve never seen an 8.9-inch tablet before — but other than that, this looks like the sort of tablet you’ll hear about once or twice before release, then quickly forget ever existed at all.
