14 DAY TRIAL // Major carrier Verizon Wireless has just slashed the LG Revolution price to $199.99 with a new two-year agreement, thus turning the device into one of the cheapest 4G LTE smartphones available on the market.
Although the phone's suggested retail price is the same ($599.99), with the new offer Verizon is trying to balance the phone's sales that were not that good, as the Revolution was launched immediately after two 4G beasts, the Samsung DROID Charge and the HTC Thunderbolt.
In addition, the fact that LG Revolution comes bundled with Bing Search instead of the more popular Google Search service lowered the phone's sales considerably.
Customers who wish to give the phone a try should know that the LG Revolution is equipped with a single core Qualcomm MSM8655 Snapdragon processor, clocked at 1GHz.
The phone runs Google's Android 2.2 (Froyo) operating system, but LG confirmed that the device would receive the latest Gingerbread software update by the end of the year.
Even though the Korean handset manufacturer promised that the Revolution would taste Gingerbread some time in the future, there's no telling when this might happen, as LG has yet to disclose any further details.
LG Revolution comes with a large 4.3-inch capacitive touchscreen with 16 million colors, 480 x 800 pixels resolution, accelerometer sensor for UI auto-rotate and proximity sensor for auto turn-off.
It sports an average 5-megapixel photo snapper with autofocus and LED flash, as well as a secondary 1.3-megapixel front facing camera for video calls.
On the inside, LG Revolution packs 16GB of internal memory, as well as microSD card slot for memory expansion (up to 32GB, 16GB memory card pre-installed).
Software-wise, the smartphone comes with a plethora of apps, including Bing Search, My Verizon, Amazon Kindle, Backup Assistant, V CAST Media Manager, Mobile IM, Netflix, VZ Navigator, Rhapsody, TuneWiki, Mobile Hotspot.
